Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-01
1iOSby ". Daniel.


have just read the open letter OF
Major Daniel to Capt. Page McCarty
and heartily agree with him in all he
says in commentator of the conduct
of the southern people during the re-
cent disturbances. Major Daniel him
self took credtable position i'll sus-
tanning the President in the emergency
though it is to be regretted that be
tried to impair the credit to which be
is entitled by Offering resolution con-
demning Pullman for not submitting TO
arbtrators the question whether he
should run his works at a loss, or close
them. How many employers of labor
in Virginia would do such thing, and
why shouldn't Pullman have the same
liberty as other people? In attempting
to make political capital out of the dis
orders OF the times Major Daniel has
sunk the statesman ("hich his brilliant
talents entitle him to be- into mere
party politician. He contrasts the peo-
pie South with the riotous North and
declares that the CoXeyites all come
from 1.-The hot-beds of protection To
the doctrine of protection, or what he
calls paternalism in government he at
tributes all the socialistic movements.
Ii is true that Coxey and his followers
are from the North but so far from
being protectionists they are Just the
reverse Of it. Henry George, their
great apostle (who denounced Cleve-
land for using L. 5. troops to suppress
the insurrection) is an avowed free
trader, and so are all their rep
resentatives in Congress, Peiler,
Alien, Pence and Company. When
Coxey was before the Police Court III
Washington Pence volunteered TO de-
fend him. Coxey is now a populist
candidate tor Congress on free trade
platform. Pefler offered a resolution in
the Senate condemning the President
for squelching the rioters, and Major
Daniel and most of the other Senators
sat down on PETER. Senator Hill op-
posed the tariff bill that passed the
Senate with the income tax, on the
ground that it was "Corey bill" In
1892 it is understood that Hill, vino
said 81 am q democrat" was Major
Daniels choice for President | am
glad he didn't get him. think it can
be shown that there is more affinity be-
tween Major Daniels favorite theories
and Coxeyism, thar the republican doc
trine of protection. CoXey wants the
government to issue an unlimited sup
ply of money. Some years ago Major
Daniel was a greenbacker (as We're
most Of the Virginia politicians, and it
is hard to see the difference between
CoXey and a greenbacker. The Coyey-
ties and populists are all one and the
same people. In the recent riots in
California the populists were open in
their demonstrations of sympathy with
the rioters, and so was the leading
democratic free trade papers of San
Francisco. The platform Of the popu-
lists is free trade and free silver" |
believe that is Major Daniels. Chica-
90. where the riots began, is a
democratic city-it is not "the hot
bed OF projections" but Of anar-
chy. Illinois, Colorado, Kansas,
Missouri, Indiana, and California,
where the disturbances were the most
serious-all voted either for Cleveland,
or Weaver. In some of those States
the democrats and populists fused the
anarchist governors OF Illinois, Colorado
and Oregon are product of this coali-
ton. have never yet heard of a re-
publican and populist fusion. Major
Daniel thinks the riots were the results
of the teaching of protection. Now,
when the insurrection was at its height
in Sacramento, Debs telegraphed to his
lieutenant there that the denomination
of silver was the real cause of the
trouble. Major Daniel is both demo-
crat and silverite: so is Debs. Be-
fore he become an autocrat as head Of
the a. Il. L. Debs was a democratic
politician in Indiana. Dan Voorhees,
will vouch for him. Weaver published
a letter in defense of the strikers.
Weaver is free trader silverite so is
Major Daniel. During the riots at the
Carnegie iron works in 1899, Senator
Palmer, of Illinois democratic free
trader and anarchist), openly avowed
his sympathy with the men who were
engaged in murder, arson and robbery.
He said dixie Major DauieD that pro-
lection was the cause of it all. In n
certain sense II WAS, ana so was Co.
lumbus. II he hadn't discovered Amer
lea the primeval forest would still be
where there are now smoking furnaces:
and five had not had protective tariff
there would have been no Carnegie
steel works and riots. You may re-
member that there was an investiga-
ton of the condition of the poor
Carnegie employees, for whom so much
sympathy had been expended, and ii
was discovered that the leader of the
strike lived in more luxury than any
one in Alexandria, and that the lowest
paid wage Garner got a larger salary
than circuit judge in Virginia. II
there were any natural affinity between
the republican doctrine of protection
and Coxeyism it is hard 10 see why all
the democratic Governors in the West
are Coxeyites, and why it is that the
latter always fuse with the democrats
The conservative democrats of Oregon
were so much disgusted with this al
lance at the last election that they
voted the republican ticket
Then, what about Tillman? That
crowd (that banished Wade Hampton