Republicans The Greater Laggards

For weeks, and months in tact, republican organs have been ringing the changes on the inexcusable and unheardof delay of the democrats in passing the tariff bill. Their mouthings are as bypocritical on this subject as they are on the infamy of democratie surrender to the sugar trust. Let the record be exarained for light on the subject. The democrats took up the consideration of the tariff with the opening of the regular session in December. Early in February the bill passed the house. It then went to the senate where it was amended and passed early in July. It then went to conference and was accepted by the house on the i3thof the present month. The repnblican congress began the consideration of the McKinley bill at the beginng of the long session and did not perfect and pass the same until the first of October. They were assured by their organs that this long delay in passing the measure would lead to defeat. But even this did not rouse them from their lethargy. They consumed six weeks more time than did the democrats. And this not withstanding the fact that the re publicans had a united and harmon ious majority and were legislating in the current of all tariff enact ments of the preceding thirty years, instead of in opposition thereto, as was the case with the democrats. The democrats certainly have the best of it on the time question. Let us hear no more howl and cant over the tardiness of the democracy in. passing the tariff bill.