Question For Democrats

Speak'.ng of the vote on sugar, eve ry denKcrat except Senator Hill yot Lag lor it, tliO New York Sun says Tliii loss to the government by that vote on tsugar mny bestated briefly : By the extensión of the bounty $12,3UO,00 By tne poátponemeut of the duty on ruw sugar . 30,000.(X' Total 42,:ïOU,W Can .pol'.tical cowavdice go iurther9 Can personal limniliation be Oteepe or disgraoe more lasting ? Senator Hall wrote to tlie president of a democratie club Éi N. Y-, city as foUaws : ■■Au Locóme tax feature has no proper legitímate place iu a tarUf reform bil!. It engenders and embarrasses au honust, equitable revlfeion of our tai-iff luw-, which was expected, ii not desired by tlie citizens of all parties. llie luntortunate effort to incororapte it in the pending measure lias dflnyi'd . tpeedy dlepotition of the tarit'f f-ubjeit amd induced a surrender of noaily every correct and consistent principie npon which ti, tariff reform measure slionld be based. It is elfear tJnat it would not be adoryted by congress If senators would vote accordins tothoir owntoncientious convictlon , ratlier than in pursuance of a dkker and i contemptr la comp omiso .ouni ed npon nio principie, and tolerated only as a miserable makeshift or exoused omiy as a teonporary oxpedieait." For this BOTC oí our democratie contemporarie?, who think the income tax teature i go!ng through, severely CTiticlse tlie astuto leader of the Xi-v ïork democracy. But they will swa low it 11 in good ttone when in 189 they are boonding him at tlie head o tlielr tiïket.