The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-15
Showing Their Disappointment.

! The republican papers, having failed in
/ heir efforts TO prevent the passage Of a
! arif bill, are now showing their disap-
| pointment by attacking the President.
/ The New York Press, the most offensive
/ OF all the republican papers, because Of
/ its practice of purposely ignoring facts,
/ speaking of the action of the House in
| deciding to acceptshe Senate bill. says.
Mr.. Cleveland's course is more than a
humihating surrender II is an uumis-
taxable admission that his lofty pretenses
Of solicitude for principle" were sham
and humbug IL IS a confession that his
sonorOus p.atitudes which were echoed
with enthusiastic plaudits by the cuckoo
press had behind them nothing whatever
except the plan to brighten the Senate if
possible, and if not 10 throw down his
arms, drop the standard ne had raised
with such a flourish of trumpeJs and ignO-
miniouslY run away from the men whom
he had denounced publicly as rascals and
traitors.
1t was expected that the republican
papers would make a display of their
wrath by trying TO make it appear that
the President played a double part in the
tariff business. He is a shining mark,
and they hope 10 make political capita
" 0lLLlltlE tAlNll fCAlDl44Ouo oildAto IL tAts
And the fact that the people pay no at
tention to their utterances increases their
wrath. The President has the confidence
Of the country in a remarkable degree.
Nothing his political enemies say of him
does him any harm.
He did not, as alleged. favor the Sen
ate bill No one of the senators who
were called upon by Senator German
when the latter delivered his remarkable
speech attacking the President-a speech
from which all unkind illusions to the
President were eliminated before it was
printed in the Record-said he did. Sen
ators, unlimited, went to the white house
TO consult with him, but he did not tell
them he favored the bill. When the
Senate had passed the bill he condemned
it. because it was not the kind of a tariff bill
the democrats were pledged to pass The
whole country agreed with him and APP
plauded his letter to Chairman Wilson.
The charge that the President directed
the House to accept the Senate bill is I'M
true. The leader of the House, Mr.. Will
son, stated that the President did not in
terfere with the couferees on the tariff
bill and did not express any opinion as to
the course the House should pursue when
it became evident that the conference
would not result in an agreement. The
best information is that the President did
not privately attempt to influence either
House in respect to the bill He
openly condemned the bill passed by the
Senate and he hoped the Senate could be
ind 70 a.
amendments it had tackled on the bill
1t is not known that he approves of the
action of the House in accepting the Senate
amendments. 1t is reasonable, however,
to suppose he does The democrats could
not have made greater mistake than to
have adjourned congress without having
passed a tariff bill of some kind.
The agitation in behalf of tariff reform
will 90 on until the country gets the kind
of tariff it wants. This congress may not
put sugar and coal and iron ore on the
free list, but the people will elect con-
gross that will take away the means the
sugar trust has of robbing the people and
will give manufacturers free iron ore and
coal. MIR. Cleveland has been consistent
throughout the tariff contest, doing what
he could to lessen the burdens of the peo-
pie and they will continue to have con-
fidence in him.