Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON SenatorsMorgan and Pugh Are
 Being Criticised. SILVER CRAZE DYING OUT And These Gentlemen Seem to Be Ignorant of
 Ls the Fact. WHAT 7s EVENING STAR HAS TO SAY The D5S cracy Simply Occupying an Old R p Ground of the Enemy, and
 With the Enemy's Consent
 Is and to Its Profit.
SILVER CRAZE DYING OUT
EVENING STAR HAS TO SAY

| Ls and to Its Profit
 Washington, Nov. A.-(Special Corre- | spondence )-The action of Senators Nor
 gan and Pugh in proceeding with their
 stumping tour in Alabama in the face
 of what number of newspapers are pleased to term the recent defeat of sil- | yer in the elections is causing much com ment here. Of course the papers who see nothing but defeat for silver in the recent elections are the same who are
 continually crying that the silver "craze" Is dying out, and yet the old corpse is always live enough to be killed every election. They are the same pa pers who look upon the recent demo- cratic Waterloo as a vindication of the course of the administration and the same who overlook the fact that Virginia and Mississippi, the two states where democracy triumphed elected legisla- | lures that will send free silver advocates
 to the United States senate, and the only | states in which the presidents policy | failed of indorsement.
 The Evening, Star, an administration l paper published here and hating an ad- 1 vocate of silver as the evil one hates | holy water, in speaking of our senator's course tells the views of the majority | of Alabamians in Washington in man. ner so clear that l have been constrain- ed to give it place here. It makes ex- cellent reading and abounds with much | sound sense and logic:
 | Tt is approved in some quarters and | condemned in others, but in all quarters | alike 1t has led to the expression of views that plainly show the desperate straits into which the national democracy has | been driven.
 l L. tzfk ,7o A. | stand on? The question Is sweeping
 one. Nor Is 1t at all confined or solely ap- | piled to the next presidential race. That,
 on the contrary, is almost conceded in | advance to the republicans. But after
 that-and assuming that the republicans
 do win-what, In the language. Of popa=
 lar singing comedian, Is the poor man.
 the poor old democracy to do?
 "The situation Is summarized thus as
 showing the difference between the party
 now and in 1893, when 1t was restored 10
 powef. The election of 1892 was carried
 on platform declaring for bimetallism strong enough to catch free coinage votes, and for revision of the tariff that would completely eliminate the principles
 of protection. The democratic congress | elected received thus most specific in- | structions from the people. But with | what result? The repeal of the purchas- l ing clause of the Sherman act at the pres l ident's suggestion, which left silver with | out support of any kind, and the passage | of tariff bill stuffed to the covers with | protection of every kind. The democracy | today, therefore, 1t is insisted, is dis | tinctly in line on these two vital ques-
 tions with the republican party. Small | difference might be disclosed as to de- | tails, but none whatever as to the prin- l cipleS. The republicans are for sound money and for protection, and were first | in the field. The democracy is simply oc- l cupying an old camp ground of the ene- l my, and with the enemys consent and to
 its profit. It has therefore been repudi- l ated.
 This, 1t is explained is what Is moving | MT. Morgan and MT. Pugh in their pres
 ent course. The democracy must have
 something of it's own to stand on and to fight for. They claim that 1t has that,
 by repeated professions and repeated con-
 gressional votes, in free coinage. It must
 therefore remain true to silver. even in
 the face of the defection which MT Cleve-
 land has organized and now leads. It | the country wants gold policy and
 protective tariff it will turn to the party
 and ought to turn to the party which in
 all of it's history has applied and ad-
 vanced these two things. It will not, and
 1t should not, turn to the party which,
 until the past few years, had always op-
 posed those things, and still, as they hold. | opposes them in It's majority membership. | MT. Cleveland himself cannot persuade tt
 to accept from his hands as the leader of | the democracy what 1t expects to receive | only at the hands of the republican 1ead- | CTS.
 Tt Is in this way that those democrats | who applaud the Alabama senators justi- | fly their course. They attribute the recent
 disaster of the party to what they charge
 is the false attitude in which 1t has been | placed. The country, they claim, can be l brought to approve of both bimetallism l and a low tariff, but not by a juggle, or
 unrepresentative leadership. The democ- | racy must not attempt again to blow | hot and cold. It cannot hope to beat the
 republicans on their own ground. The
 adjuration, therefore Is to get together | under the old standard renew the pledge
 to the old principles, refuse all dick. CTS about office, and remain contentedly | and courageously on the outside until | an undisgused as well as an undoubted 1 victory has ben won. Other victories, l it is pathetically admitted, turn to ashes | on the lips"
 There has been number of prominent l democrats from Alabama in Washington l this week, and while all of them have | been here on personal business, still who can tell what bearing the getting togett- | CT of so many members of the deuoc- | racy from the state with prominent dem ocrats located here may have upon the | campaign.
 Col H. c. Tompkins. chairman of the democratic executive committee. is at- l tending the session of the supreme court. Colonel Tompkins, while not an nIl-
 nounced candidate for Senator Pugh's seat, still 1t is said by his friends that | he Is more than apt to be heard from be- l fore the light is over,
 | Hon. Thomas H. Clark, secretary of the state executive committee and speak | CT of the last house of representatives. | reached Washington Tuesday night. | Mir Clark has many friends here who | gave him hearty welcome.
 | Hon. Scott Sayre, a prominent Ala
 bamian and member of the legislature, | is in the city. There are few men. who | have represented their county in the leg l islature of Alabama, of more ability