Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-14
rARIEE Ip. AGAIN.

our Democratic. free-trade contempt
raries that were duped into boiling the
! Chicago platform by representations that
Sound money" and national honor
were the overshadowing issues with the
! Republican party in the last campaign
might az well prepare 10 take their taFlh
medicine Ike little men. one by one the
Republlcan organs are letting all other
questions drop. pressing the tarih TO the
front. and throwing off all disguise as
10 the fact that tariff legislation Is to
take precedence Of everything else. our
free-trade contemporaries aforesaid will
be permitted to take the medicine IN
broken doses. II the Dlngley bill can be
pressed through the present Congress. II
not. and the Republicans control both
houses OF the next Congress, Il will, they
may rest assured, be administered 10
them I'm one huge, double-dlstilled nau-
seous draught. prepared by an extra ses-
sion Of Congress, that will be called for
the purpose.
The New York Heralds Washing
ton correspondent holds that the enact
mcnt OF tariff legislation during the APP
preaching session Of the present Congress,
or in the next Congress, promises 20
be a difficult matter for the reason that
the complexion Of the Senate on the pro-
tective issue IS uncertain now. and It
is also uncertain what will be the COM
plexion OF the next Senate on the issue.
Much, regarding the incoming Senate. says
this correspondent. win depend upon
whether the Republlcan-Populist fusion in
North Carolina elects n Republican or
a Populist TO succeed Senator Pritchard,
and whether the Kentucky Legislature
elects Secretary Carlisle or n Republi-
can to succeed Senator Blackburn.
The Herald's Canton correspondent,
however, who is nearer 10 court, admits
that as q starter. tariff legislation is
shaping along the Dngley-bill lines. and
significantly adds that United States
senator's like to be on good terms with
an incoming administration. and it will
cost them nothing If they take a passive
part and cease to be obstructionsts.
But what Is more significant Is that the
New York Press, the recognized head
fugleman Of Mckinley. continues to ex-
press confidence that the Dingley bin can
be gotten through the present Congress,
and I'm a way counts noses on the ques-
ton. In its confidence It Is Independent
to the point Of declaring that it does
not propose TO go on any begging tour
for he votes of the four mutineers Of last
session. who afterwards left their party
viz, Mcssrs. Teller, Mantle, Cannon,
and Dubois Surely considering the po-
sition of the Press as par excellence tho
exponent Of McKinleyism, II would not
talk that way, unless it had important
inside information. we are told I'm some
quarters that there IS a difference of
opinion among the leaders Of the Repub-
lican party as TO the advsability Of any
sweeping revision Of the tariff. and that
influential men among them. like Senators
Quay and Sherman, are I'm favor Of putting
through the Dingley bill, with probably
some slight notifications. at the approach
ing session, so as to remove the necessity
for more revenue and prevent any radi-
cal action by the next Congress. That
sounds very pretty, but any Democrat
or "sound-money" man who may be
caught by such assurances viii be worse
fooled than the papers that bolted the
Chicago platform on the financial issue
If the Dingley bill passes the present Con-
gress it Will be simply the beginning Of
the end-an effort TO educate the public
and mould hold-over senators for worse
that IS to come.