Show A Very Stupid Bluff BId Tom Reed ought to to have learned that this is too big a a ac c country for even his monumental impudence tc to frighten with v a bluff When Mr Reed says that the democratic party dare not disturb the tariff tt in view of Tuesdays Tuesday's elections he says in effect that il it dare not execute its commission from the people people dare dare not fulfill its twenty-times-repeated twenty pledge now that it for the first time has the power As we said yesterday the he democratic party dare not fail fall to reform the tariff Nor has it an any disposition to shir shirk its d duty ty Mr Reed has developed a wonderful wonderful won wen respect for for- forthe the will of the people since he crowded a force bill through the House after his party had been rebuked and defeated by majority in Congressional el elections j in which its record was the direct issue TI The tariff was not and could not have been an issue in the elections of Tuesday 1 he republicans in Ohio and Iowa used it as a scarecrow as usual But in the last two states the republican republican lican plurality was but little In excess of Harrisons The only Congressman el elected anywhere was wasa a democrat in Michigan The democrats lost no legislature that will elect a Senator Nowhere was there a vote cast that can by any possibility affect affect the reform of the tariff which h the present Congress and Administration were elected t to parry out S The fight was over that that S issue was closed last year By a a majority of oi in 1890 and over over 1400 in fl 1892 directly upon this as the m main in issue of the election electron the people decided in iii favor favor- of tariff i reform th through tariff tari ui reduction It Itis Itis Itis is i imputing cn childishness e i 9 or worse orse to the people to they were yere frightened from their deliberate purpose before the bill which they lad had Had tw c demanded was even draft drafted d. d Th The election lection of r republican publican state officers in a half a q states stales did not reverse the verdict of t the nation Tariff reform is needed It has been decreed It has beer been prom prom- It must come om It is coming Q ing N y Ne York World |