Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-06

time first took my seat in the senate, I
go back, and what do find ?not the Same
| men but the seifsame
POLITICAL MEASURES
are being pressed that were pressed then.
The men have changed; the measures
have not changed at all [applausel, and
to-day, what do they do? They tried
war; they undertook to shoot this govern
ment to death llaughter] and they failed.
They undertook to capture Washington
with arms in their hands, but they did
not capture it. But today they have
captured Washington. TLaughter And
| to-day, while they cannot threaten again
to shoot the government to death, they
say, "unless you allow us to rule this ma
ton, we will starve the government to
death" Laughter and applause.
The national life and the national
honor are in a greater peril, to-day, than
they were in 1857 greater peril | say, to
day, both the national life and the ma
tional honor. They said then, unless VIC
can rule this nation we will ruin it; and
they say
THE SELE-SAME THING
to .day-unless we can rule this nation
we will ruin it. The issues are the same
to-day. Now, to-day, eight millions of men
who were so recently in arms against
this government, absolutely rule and
control the whole legislation of your
government Through caucus dictation,
tie eight millions of white men of the
south control the whole legislation of
this government One man in Wiscon.
sin, whom | will not name, the whole
cation was proud of, for he seemed to
exhibit manhood, although democrat
laughter, and cries of "Bragg,"] and he
didn't stand out, though. But by caucus
dictation he humbly surrendered, and
even his name is forgotten laughter.
But these men say we want purity of
elections, men who occupy their seats on
The floor of both houses of congress, by
FRAUD AND VIOLENCE,
by shot guns and tissue ballots; Sc men,
bers of the house occupy their seats up
on that floor without one single solitary
man for constituency laughter; 36
members of the house occupy their seats
as representatives of the colored race, in
violence of the law; for that law express.
ly says, that when any race or class of
men are disfranchised they shall not be
represented upon that floor; and yet the
80 members who occupy their seats upon
that floor occupy them iii violation of
law, and through fraud and violence.
Twelve members of the senate occupy
their seats in the same way; and thus
they hold the control of both the senate
and the house of representatives.. And,
HOLDING THAT CONTROL,
they turn around and say, "you rascally
republicans. we will make you obey such
1o1x-
government to death" [Applause.]
If this vast audience will pardon me
for one single moment. | would like to
make a correction. Certain papers in
Chicago have misrepresented me on one
count in my Indictment against the dem
ocratic party in congress; and with your
permission, I will be very brief, for !
intended to make no allusion to this.
Cries of so on.l In the fourth count in
my Indictment [ said that
ARRAIGNED THEM
the democratic party-for having at.
tempted to damage the business interests
of the country by forcing the silver coin
in circulation at less value than it rep
resents, thus swindling the laboring man
and the purchaser by compelling him to
accept S. cents for a dollar, and thus en-
rich, the bullion owners at the expense of
the laborers. Four millions OF dollars a
day is paid for labor alone, and by thus
attempting to force an S. cent dollar on
the laboring man, you swindle Him daily
out Of 5000, O00 Twelve hundred millions
OF dollars are paid yearly for labor alone,
and by thus attempting to force an So
cent dollar on the iaboring man, you
swindle him out Of $1S0,00O,C00 year;
the amount which the producing class
would lose, is absolutely incalculable.
Now, Mr.. President, it will be seen that
[ made no allusion whatever to any legis-
lation that preceded this present session
of Congress, and it will likewise be seen
that [ arraigned them for attempting to
do
THAT WICKED THING.
was Inexperienced. Now let those
who say / was in the wrong, tell me
whether they are in favor of the original
Warner bill, which placed the free coin
age OF all the silver that the world mi ght
present, to be coined at the mint of the
United States. The very moment you
issue those silver certificates, you do
away with bi-metallic tender; the very
moment you issue those silver certificates
that are worth IS cents Oh the dollar, that
moment the laboring man, the raiser of
wheat, the producer Of every product, re.
ceives So cents and no more, and gold be-
comes mere article of traffic To-day
the labOring man can take gold or silver
or bank notes or treasury notes-and it is
perfectly immaterial which he takes. Do
away with these and he must take silver
coin whether he would or not.
A DIsTING UIsHED CITIZEN OF WISCONSIN,
who has been making a great ado upon
this same question, applied to one of your
judges-I am talking now about Wiscon-
sin-to know whether he would not join
in this silver amendment. He took the
bill and looked it over. Says he, "with
one amendment, [ think will join you"
Says the friend, what's that 90 Said he,
that every man who makes a legal ten
der of thousand dollars in payment of
note shall give mule to carry it away
with" Laughter. You will understand
that thousand dollars weigh sixty
pounds; ten thousand dollars, six hun
dred pounds; one hundred thousand dol