Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-08
POLITICAL POINTERS.

second term than In a first.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Mr. Cleveland is worried about
how to approach the subject of in
creasing the revenues of the gov
ernment, in his annual message to
Congress, and no member OF his
Cabinet has so far been able to
suggest any satisfactory solution
of the trouble. If he ever thought |
the present tariff would produce
enough money, which is very
doubtful, he knows now beyond
the shadow of a doubt that it will
not. OF course he knows, as ev-
erybody else does, that Congress
will legislate On this subject re-
gardless of his recommendation,
that knowledge does not help him
any. He knows also that unless
the democrats propose allowing
the presidential election to go by
default it is absolutely necessary
for that party to make some def
mite declaration on the subject,
and that as the official head of the
party he ought to make it i'll his
message to Congress. For him to
recommend raising the needed
revenue by amendment of the tar
iff law would be to acknowledge
the error of the Democratic party
and himself on the tariff question.
That he will not do, whatever he
may think. Nothing is left then
but to recommend an increase in
internal revenue taxes and in the
number of articles subject to such
taxation, or both. He knows that
no recommendation in that line
will be popular, and it is not
strange that he should be wor-
ried.
, There is but one opinion among
Republican senator's and members
of the House who have been heard
from. That is, that if the admin
istration gets the money it needs
it will be through amendments to
the tariff law, placing certain ar
ticles now free of duty, which en-
ter into active competition with
similar articles produced in the
United States, upon the duti-
able list, and increasing the du-
e ties upon other articles of foreign
production, the low duties upon
S which now cripple a number Of
b American industries by reducing
e the output of our mills and facto-
S ries. 1t has been said that the
Senate will not pass snch amend
ments if adopted by the House
and that if it did Mr.. Cleveland
would veto them. Well, that il
for the Senate and Mr.. Cleveland
to decide. The House is Repub
lican, as is the country, and it i:
going to legis!ate on Republican
lines, and if its legislation fails t.
become laws the people will be ap
pealed to and they will see to it tina
after March 4, 1897, there will b,
a Republican Senate and Presi
dent as well as a Republican
House.
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& The $25,O00 a year which Dol
NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan, il
said to receive from the brewer.
because of his supposed influence
with Mr.. Cleveland and his conse
quent ability to look out for tn
brewing interests is in danger o
being cut off. Mr.. Dickinson ha
been sat upon by Mr.. Cleveland il
a manner that indicates the loss O
whatever influence he may hav,
had with the administration. Mr.
Dickinson undertook to have twt
: of the new gun boats authorized
i by Congress built by a Detroit firm
e notwithstanding the treaty of 1S1i
4 with Great Britain, which prohib
its either government building wal
3 ships on the great lakes. Secreta
t ry Herbert turned Mr.. Dickinson
down; he appealed to Mr.. Cleve,
land, and now Mr.. Cleveland has
turned him down, 1t remains to
, be seen whether the brewers will
also turn him down.