The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-28
DISGUSTED.
A Candid Confession Good for
the Soul.

The Democratic Organ BoiIs Over,
The democrats carried the election
in 1892, and elected Cleveland upon
the pretenSe that the tariff was the
great issue; and that, if they got
power, they would wipe out all ''pro-
lection" The democratic organ of
Minnesota the st. Paul Globe, in it's
issue of March q, confesses that a
fraud has been practiced on the
voters. 1t says:
1.-THE senate finance committee has
reported to that body the tariff bill
on which it has, with much wet-nurs-
ing by the prOtectiOniSts in and out
of the senate, been incubating for
weeks. The free trade egg, laid at
Chicago, has been pushed out of the
nest, and democratic congress has
Matched a f,tll.tedged protectionist cuckoo
The sugar trust, the coal and ore and
steel trusts, the sole leather trust
and all the nefariOuS brood of trusts
are each and all of them safely
sheltered under the wings of this
audaciOuS cuckoo bill.
Now, Messieurs Democrats! you
fellows down in the ranks; you men
who threw your hats and shouted for
joy when the Chicago convention
cOurageOusly drove the cuckoOS off
at last the platform expressed your
sincere convictions, what are you 60
ing to do about it? That is the queS
tion the republicans are asking with
sneers on their lips, and that is the
question which German, Hill, Muir
ply, Brice and that crowd of fellows
are asking you with as cOck-sure a
brutality as Tweed felt and showed
when he asked the same question of
the citizens of New York City.
Are you going to sit Supinely by
and see your brave promises torn in
tatterS and trampled in the dust by a
few traitOrOuS democrats? Are you
going to bear in silence the jibeS of
our opponents? How do you like to
have them read with sneering lips
your Chicago plank and then ask you
if this bill is the redemption of it?
After all these years of hearty and
vigorous denunciatiOn of protection,
are you going to wallow in the hog
wash of Pennsylvania prOtectiOniSm
merely because a lot of corrupted
senators label the wallOw demo-
cratic?
And you, gentlemen in the house,
what are you gong to do about 1T!
Will you eat your humble pie? Will
you let this useless house of lords
usurp your prerogative of framing
revenue bills, and force protective
bill on you? viii you, with weak
cowardice, after the bill comes from
conference, say that 1T is the best
you can get, and swallow it: And II
you do, will you dare to face your
constituents and tell them that?
Will you dare to take the stump and
defend this miserable abortion?
What will you say to those thousands
of republicans whom we led to believe
that we were sincere and trust
in that confidence, when they ask you
if this bill redeems the pledges which
induced their votes? How can you
convince them that you will do any
more or better another time?
1t makes one sick at heart, thiS cOoc-
ardice, this betrayal of a great cause, the
cause of greater freedom for men;
this cruel waste of all the efforts OF
the years: this shameful retreat from
great opportunity
But while the Globe thus avows
the fraud practiced on the voters it
at the same time persists in continu-
Gus abuse of the Populists. 1t says
that which can only drive democrats
away from their own party, and then
abuses the only other party which de-
tends the right of the people. What
iS tho Ohiect9 IT looks very much as
if the game was to drive its own
votes into the republican party,-for
they have no where else to go. If
the democrats have deceived and
"betrayed" the people, and the Popu-
lists are utterly abominable, then
the only refuge is under the wing of
John Sherman and Wall Street. Is
that what it is coming to? l.. ID.