Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-13


at the November election must soon be
made up. Enough is already In the
record to shape those issues fairly and
intelligently. The fate of every promi-
nent measure brought before the pres
ent Congress has been determined, or
NAV be predicted with certainty. The
policy and conduct of the President
has been developed sufficiently since
his fortuitous accession to power to
enable the people to Judge of both.
The Legislature of Ohio is passing
into the deserved obscurity from
which it came. And, locally. the his
tory of the administration of public
affairs in this county is so notorious
that no ono can he ignorant Of 1t.
In all these relations the Republican
party has been In undlsputed power,
and is responsible for the way In
which such power has been exercised.
In passing judgment upon this ques-
tion the people will not take Mr..
Dicks convention conclusions as TO
how this responsibility has been met.
They will prefer to take the facts at
first hand, instead of having them
filtered through the optimistic strainer
of man whose election is SO well as
sured that his statements cannot be
challenged so ms to affect the result
as to him. And it Is to be remcm-
bered that Mr.. Dick has been openly
at variance with the administration
In caucus on the Cuban tariff question:
while his own loudly proclaimed policy
OF securing justice in Southern cleo
tions. at first by his own consent
degenerated into the inoffensive type
of proposed committee of invcstiga.
sion, which In turn was incontinently
kicked out of sight, after being vainly
used as bait TO entrap Southern
Democrats into II support of the beet.
sugar extortion. So that he stands
as himself discreditlng the majority
OF his party upon n crucial question:
and of being discredited by it upon Il
policy which the Republican platform
In Ohio last year declared was one
of absolute justice.
Turning then to the history of the
present Congress, as it Is known to be.
what has the majority done or omitted
to do, for which 1t should be called
to Judgment by the people? Upon
the footing of party promises and the
keeping of them, what shall the ac-
counting be?
1t promised the admission to state
hood Of such Territories as should be
fitted for that condition. From the
debate now going forward In the
House 1t Is clear that the promise Is to
be broken, and for partisan reasons
alone.
II promised to do justice by Cuba
What the measure of that justice Is
so far as trade relations are concerned
has been brought to It's notice by th'
executive, and Is everywhere wei
known and admitted. But for month";
the few men who shape the Legislation
of the country, and permit or deny, n
their will, rs passage, have becl
twisting and scheming with tn
avowed Intent of seeing how sean
measure of right they might dol
out 10 the starving Cubans, and yc
mako the people think their promis
had thus been. kept. And finally
when the unwilling majority IL, th
lower House, proddcd by the cNccl
tive. gave n relief too small to be O
saving value TO the professed object
OF 1t, it was sent to the Senate wit
the absolute forcknowlcdge that
could not pass TINT body at all, as
mover will
1t promised the practical inaugur;
tion of the building of an intcroccan
canal,-an act confessedly of vita
consequence If We are to reach out fo
the world trade which our resource
and enterprise entitle MS to have. an
OF which the Republican party boast
itself the especial guardian, 1t is no.
as certain MS anything well can l
that the present Congress keel. .haule
by competing lobbies, and being itse
the creature of special interests, wi
pass no measure to put this grel
work In process of operation
This Congress has resolutely deniC
avery measure looking to a lightenr
OF the burdens of the tariff systeI
II even refused It's own Mr. Babco,
the right to so much as introduce h
much-vaunted measure to put the OF
put OF the steel trust on the free list
Notwithstanding the enormous div