The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-02-13
uneuardedly Told the Truth.


The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun says
1T is an indisputable fact that the percentage Of
exports of manufactured goods has been rising
steadily and rapidly, until now 1t is more than
one-fourth of our total exports"
This cannot be possible Mr.. Cleveland
said that the tariff bill under which this steady
and rapid rise in the exports of manufactured
goods represented Democratic perfdy, and
the San started out to take the political heads
of German, Harris, Brice and other Senators
who were largely instrumental in formulating
its schedules.
In an unguarded moment, this correspon-
dent. Who under instructions from the home
Office, lampooned these Senators, particularly
Mr. German, and dealt in both sarcasm and
falsehood, now tells the readers of the Sun
that under this hated tariff bill that the per-
centage of exports of manufactured goods
has risen steadily and rapidly, until now it
is more than one-fourth of our total exports. .
Not only was the Suns Washington cor
respondence full Of vituperation and falsehOod
concerning the present tariff bill, but its edl-
toral columns we're similarly loaded. The
stuff the Sun printed was the offspring of hate
or ignorance. We are inclined TO believe it
was mixture of both.
Neither Mr. Wilson, whose name the House
bill bore. nor Mr.. Cleveland seemed TO have
had any practical knowledge of tariff sched-
ules They had theory, and because the bill
as made up in the Senate did not conform to
this theory, each lost his temper. Cleveland
wrote an indscreet letter to Mr.. Wilson, and
Mr.. Wilson, with no more discretion, gave
the letter to the public in speech in the
House. After the Senate bill had passed both
houses Mr.. Cleveland let it become a law
without his signature. and wrote another s;n-
discreet letter, this time to Mr.. Catchings, OF
Mississippi, and this was given to the public.
The actions of Mr.. Cleveland, Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Catchings, extolled by the daily press
Of the East, coupled with severe denun-
Citations of the tariff bill, as n result OF
democratic perfidy," served to divide the
party to such an extent that the Republicans
swept the country, including such former
Democratic strongholds as Maryland and Ken
lucky And now one of the journals that
helped to accomplish the overthrow of the
Democratic party and the establishment III
Maryland of the worst ring OF corrupt poliil-
clans the state has ever known, tells its read
ers that under the present tariff law, which
was used as a club to hit certain Senators on
the head, that ''the percentage OF exports OF
manufactured goods has been rising steadfb
and rapidly, until now it is more Than one
fourth of our total exports.
With this admission of peridy by The
San will Democrats ever put faith in il againi
Its sole object in the whole matter was to de
feat Senator German for reelection. and to dc
this it was willing to turn the state govern
ment and that of Baltimore city over to the
Republican party The Sun had a perfect
right to fight Senator German, but it had nc
right to use unfair means and falsehood. And
it can continue to fight him, as it has right
to do. The ADVOCATE is simply warning
Democrats not to be again deceived by i
upon the tariff and currency questions The
SIN, in reality is the organ Of greed and ava
rice in this state, with no more interest in the
people than to get all out of them that is pos
sibIe and to deceive them into falling into its
schemes