Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-08-12

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cannot and will not directly deny, is:
That without the aid of the free silver
party in the present Congress the Re-
would never have been able
to pass the Dingley bill. 1t takes both
the Senate and the House to pass a
bill. When the Dingley bill passed
the Senate it vas composed of eighty
nine members, forty-fve being a ma
jority, and if every Republican of that
body had been present and voting or
paired, it would then have lacked two
of a majority. And there were pres
emit voting and paired in favor of the
bill forty-six Senators. Below is sub
mitted a correct analysis of the vote
in the Senate on the passage of the
Dingley bill, which the "candid" and
courteous" editor will not deny so
long as he has as much respect for the
truth as he had for Mr.. Cleveland up
to the time it became perfectly under
stood that no n could enjoy the
emoluments of office under the late
National Democratic administration
who failed to come up to the Jeffer-
sonian standard of honesty and eff
cheney.
The new tariff is nominally the
work of the Republican party. In
fact, it could not have been passed
without the aid of the free silver Sem
ators.
On the final vote in the Senate for
the conference bill there were forty
affirmative and thirty negative votes
cast. There were seven pairs. There
were three Senators present and not
voting and two Senators absent and
not paired. Two of the forty affirma-
tive votes were cast by the free silver
leaders-Jones and Stewart, of Ne
vada. The one Democratic vote given
in its favor was that of the free silver
Democrat, McEnery, of Louisiana.
Among the seven pairs Mantle, free
silverite, was paired in favor of the
bill. The three Senators present and
not voting we're Allen, Butler and
Teller-al advanced free silver men.
The two Senators who were absent
and not paired were Kyle and Petit
grew, both radical free silverites.
If Jones, Stewart and McEnery, the
free silver men who voted affirma-
lively for the bill; Allen, Butler and
Teller, the free silver men who did
not vote at all, though present in the
chamber; Kyle and Pettigrew, the
free silver men who were absent and
not paired, and Mantle, who was
paired in favor of the bill, had cast
their votes against it, the result would
have been the defeat of the measure
by a vote of thirty-seven for and
thirty-nine against it.
The sound money Democrats all
voted or were paired against the bill.
1t is evident where the responsibility
for its passage rests.
Neither is it true that every So
called regular Democrat in the House
voted against the bill. The dispatches
from Washington when that bill
passed the House stated that some of
them voted for it.
In arranging the schedules as
amended in the Senate time and again
supporters of the Chicago platform
of 1896 voted for protection and de-
Tended their action as being consistent
with that platform. Senators Tillman,
Clay, Bacon, Laurens, McEnery-all
regular Democrats-did it.
Any man who writes such articles
as the editor of the Inteltigencer lately
writes and defends ON the subject of
the tariff, If he means what he writes,
can only be in favor of a protective
tariff, and in this he is in perfect ac-
cord with the policy and the platform
of the free silver party and utterly at
variance with the Democratic policy
heretofore.
He has a perfect right to change
his views on that or any other sub
ject, if he does SO honestly and from
a conviction; but he has no right to
desert a principle and misrepresent
and question the motives of those
who are consistent and remain true
to that principle for principles sake,
because they will not be led or mis-
led by him over to his new and strange
anti Democratic doctrines.
The "little handfur' is not only
diminutive in his eye, but for that
reason alone is contemplate as we'll.
Men who stand by their convictions
and are ready and willing at ali hazards
to maintain them never have the good
opinion of those who stand covering
before prejudices thought to be pop
ular and who, in their pusilanimous
seIfishness, would rather embrace
error than run the risk of popular
dtsfavor by fighting for the truth.
Such politicians may in justification
of their desertion of principles for the
time being pervert the facts of his
tory, but the day is not distant when
the good sense and honest instincts of
the Democratic masses will, as has
been the case before, put all such pol
iticians to shame.
The question is not whether others
are engaged in courteous discussion.
The editor made the statement that
MIR. Cleveland pursued a policy of
high duty on manufactured goods.
This / have completely refuted by
facts indisputable, and in bringing
facts to my aid it has been discovered
upon the tariff question the edi-
position is as uncertain as his
facts and it resolves itself largely in
to q question of veracity between
formerly and now. He may
and scuffle es he will, but 80
long as men respect the truth, he will
be unable to successfully pervert
the facts of history.
1t has been said of his class of poli-s
that in 1896 they undid every
thing they had done in their political
lives before, and going before the
country in that campaign told the peo-
pie that everything that they had ever
told them before upon the political
issues were falsehoods, and it seems
from the result of the campaign that
noNpfo ha1;auaI thar ~ tho,r