Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — THE CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE]

THE CAMPAIGN

Cleveland and the South—Who Is Responsible. Tue President and the Southerners Chicago Inter-Oeean. - The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche makes a double-leaded prayer to its readers that, they, all and singular, shall forever cease from complaint or abuse of President Cleveland, and shall join with it in continual laudation of his great and glorious policy. For, says our Southern friend and con temporary, “What is the'matter with Grover? Isn’t he all right? Hasn't he done the square thing by the South? Isn’t Eustis, of Louisiana, Ambassador to France? Isn’t McKenzie, of Kentucky, Minister to Pern? Isn’t Porter, of Tennessee, Minister to Chili? Isn’t Coruth, of Arkansas, Minister to Portugal? Isn’t Hoke Smith, of Georgia, in the Cabinet? Isn’t Herbert, of Alabama, in the Cabinet? Isn’t White, of Louisiana, on the Supreme bench? And hasn’t Grover the Great and Cleveland the Good made all these appointments. .of Southern men? What more, beloved friends of the South, do you want? Isn’t this a good showing? Let us give thanks.” Thus, in effect, pleads our esteemed friend and contemporary.

Not for this world in one entire chrysolite would we exceed the courtesies of debate. But we are constrained to say that our contemporary is talking through its hat. The Southern Democrats are not complaining of Cleveland that he has failed to honor and to reward certain members of certain “first families.” The Southern Democrats—the plain, tax-paying, ballot-casting part of them, we mean—are expressing considerable want of affection, or even of esteem, for “first families.” They are of opinion that “first families” have had their inning, and that the plain people, who hitherto have been kept running after the ball, ought to have a chance at the bat. This is what is the matter in the South just now, and, in our mind, it is a very healthy sign that it is what is the matter. The ranlcand file of the South are dissatisfied with Cleveland because he has done nothing that they wanted him to do. They demanded “free and unlimited coinage of silver,” and Mr. Cleveland has shown himself to be the extremes! of all go,ld standard Presidents. They demanded the suppression of trusts, and Mr. Cleveland has intrigued,and bullied, and traded most shamefully for the passage of a tariff bill that is framed for the special benefit of trusts. They inherit the old love of the Monroe doctrine and the old hatred of royal governments on the American continent’ that gave romance and sentimept to the old-time Southern filibustering expeditions against Cuba. Mr. Cleveland has been the affectionate champion, of the negro-blooded Queen of Hawaii. These area few of the causes that make Mr. Cleveland unpopular with the plain voters of the SoAth. His appointments of a dozen, or of a Bcore, of members of “first families” are not regarded as atonement for his failures. In point of fact, the President is all right with the Southern oligarchs, and because he is all right with them he is out of t.jui.P with the Southern people, who a .re beginning to assert themuahes against the oligarchs.

The Real Culprits., Indianapolis News. Much has been said regarding the treatment of Senator Voorhees by certain Republican Senators by habitually compelling hi-n vo show his ignorance regarding the pending tariff bill, or the latest bill witha 400-amendment attachm|ent. These Senators, Aldrich, Chandler, Hale, Teller and others, have been censured for bear-baiting Voorhees. True, they have done so every day for two weeks, and tt is very reprehensible. But these Republican Senators are less giilty of offense to the statesmanship and information, or rather misinformation, of Mr. Voorhees, than such Democratic colleagues as Gorman, Brice, Smith and others who are responsible for the 400 amendments. His associates and party friends led off

in putting Mr. Voorhees intheattitude of ignoramus-in-chief in the Senate. When Mr. Aldrich declared in the Senate that another tariff bill was being prepared, Gorman, Brice et al. put Mr. Voprhees up to denying that anything of the sort was being done. Accordingly, with that affluence of flamboyant epithet for which our Senator has no equal, Mr. 1 ’Voorhees denounced the " Aldrich statement as preposterous. Two" days later the 400 amendments to which Mr. Aldrich referred were printed as the amendments of Mr. Vobrhees’ committee. Therefore, these Democrats were the men who humiliated Mr. Voorhees before the country as being the chairman of a committee who is not consulted, apparently, by other Democrats as to j what his coinmitee shall put forth, |as its work. After Mr. Voorhees had t defended ad valorem duties, these men Changed most of them to specific duties. After he had declared ! that the bill which he reported was a perfect measure as far as it went, these schemers reported 400 amendments in his name. Compared with such humiliation by Democrats thc r assumption of Republicans that Mr. Voorhees had some accurate infor- 1 mation regarding the measure is mere badinage. To be asked why, after advocating an ad valorem system, Mr. VoorheeJ ‘turned his bill into one of specie duties is annoying, but annoyance is trivial compared with the humiliation which Gorman, Brice et al. have ponred upon our Senator by placing upon his head the cap and bells and exhibiting him to the country The. Democrats who are running the Senate in the interest--of- 4he trusts seem, not to appreciate thv quality of Mr. Voorhees’s statesmanship. He has no knowledge of facts like tariff schedules. He has learned that misinformation is more effective in influencing the Indiana Democracy than information. Consequently he has the most extensive and valued stock of misinformation that an overdeveloped imagination caji produce. He may not be informed on tariff schedules, but in that statesmanship which consists in assailing the money power-in the Senate and in hanging monopolists like Carnegie in campaign speeches in Democratic counties away from railroads and telegraphs, he has no equal. He has covered a large part of Indiana with the graves of monopolists and Wall street. He has raised the prices of farm products in Indiana 50 per cent, every year during the past two decadhs —in the minds of the “onegallus” Democracy of Indiana. To-

day Democratic papers in Indiana have/nailed his name to their masts as the next Democratic presidential candidate, as those in Missouri have hoisted the name of Richard. Parks. Bland; And this Indiana Democratic statesman and leader is he whom Democratic associates in the Senate have deceived into publishing himself to the country as the bluej ribbon ignoramus of the period. The ex-Empress Eugenie has been engaged pn her memoirs for many years. As soon as a page is written it is placed under lock and key, and not even her most intimate friends ever see it. The work is not to be published until twenty-five years after her death. The ex-Empress uses in writing a penholder which is ornamented with diamonds. It was used by the fourteen representatives in signing the treaty of the peace of Paris in 1856. and was given- to the ex Empress as a memento.