Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-11-21
SILVER SENATORS.

There seeme to be some dimculty ln 60 dividing senators of the United States into political factions as to pres ent clear majority to support the ad-
 ministrstiou's policy. The most san- guine calculations leave good deal to chance. There is one element in the calculation, however. that does not seem to have been sufficiently consider ed. That is what may be termed the element of fair play. When president and congress are elected the result should be considered by the minority as as the verdict of the people. Factioue opposition for party advantage should
 be considered as a contrsvention of the law of submission to the will of the majority. The new administration should be supported or opposed on its own grounds of public policies.
 How can its policies be known and con- sidered if com binstion is formed to prevent it's proposed messures from
 being enacted into laws?
 There seems to be an impression that a com bination of silver republicans can
 be effected to prevent @ revision of the tariff in accord with the principles of
 the party which elected Mckinley. Sii-
 yer republicans who contemplate enter ing into such 6 com 5ination should bear iu mind that a defeat of 8 repu blican tariff bill will injuriously affect the suc- cess of any financial policy the presi- dent-elect may have formed. One of the measures upon which Mckinley bases his promise to restore the finance of the country to healthy condition IS the enactment of c tariff which shall supply the government with needed revenue. If the president is thusrt- cd in this purpose, how can he be held to the fulfllment of bis promise? If, on the other hand, the administration is supported in its policy, it may be held responsible for the failure of its policy, if it should fail. An opposition party cannot prove it's clsim to public confid- encs by showing its ability to prevent the administration from carrying out its policy. Its hope of success must lie in the failure of the administrators measure to restore or promote national prosperity. The party which appears as the opponent of national prosperity is doomed to defeat. Good times cannot come to one party without coming also to the other. And the masses of the people care more for good times than for the success of this or that party. At the best, 8 party organization Is but 8 means to attain ap end. The so-called silver senator who stands in the way of the enactment of tariff ls@ which the publican party considers essential to the success of It's financial policy will be held to strict responsibility. What he m-y do with an election pending and wust be may do after the election has gone against him are quite different things. Of what use to submit an issue 10 the people if those who submit do not consider themselves bound by the result?
 Senator Teller said in sn interview with the Boston Herald, published more than a month before the election, that if Mckinley were elected he and his sil- Yer republican associates would regard the verdict ss binding ss we'll in respect to the tariff ss to free silver coinage. If Senator Teller and his silver associates stand by this declaration of purpose there will be DO trouble about passing 8 tariff bill ID accord with the republican policy of the last thirty years. There is at present deficiency in the revenue of from s6,OOO, 900 to Ss,0OO,OO0 8 month. The deficiency revenue must be supplied from some source, and the party in pow er should decide from what source.