Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-05-13

saying this do not propose to connect my
self with either of the anti-debt paying par
| ties of Virginia. Neither of them, rs |
think, are up TO the standard of right, and
West Virginia is quite as much a delinquent
as the 'mother of States" The honor OF
States is State right. Let them guard it.
| The political and personal grievance is that,
whereas the Senator from Virginia voted for
Hancock, and was once q democrat, he IS so
no longer. If he really belonged TO their
household of faith, why did they move heav-
en- and earth, to say nothing about II name
less place, to defeat him when he was a can
didate for Senator? MIR. President, nobody
| knew better than the so-called Bourbon
democracy (and copy words best known in
| Virgnia) that the Senator from Virginia
| 'trent out from them because he trds not Of
them" Ask Randall or Hewitt. Ask Bar
mum, to whom the Senator from Virginia
might well have said
''Falr sir, you spit on me me Wednesday last:
You spurnd me such day; anohes time
| You calld me-dog; and for these courte-
I1llend you"-no,hingi
| But in the present case suppose for mo-
ment that the Senator from Virginia had
changed his party relations, even unexpect-
edly changed them, would that be any
crime Such examples are very numerous
among members of all parties. Among
others, Bell of Tennessee; Summer and
Banks Of Massachusetts, and Dixon OF Con
| nectlcut-
The Democratic party have had some ex-
perience in trying the lash over the backs oil
some of their associates for presuminS to
differ upon any points in their constantly
shifting quadrennal platforms, but that ex-
| perience does not appear to have taught
/ them fOrbrarancp greater wisdom,
Henry A. Wise, q name as much distin-
guished as any other in Virginia within the
last half century. was elected to the House
of Representatives in 1888 as jackson
Democrat, and yet from tho outset he Oppos-
ed the leading measures Of President Jack
son and while he served until 1884, he was
| for the last six or seven years one of the
brightest ornaments of the Wing party.
Then, joining the Tyler guard, OF which
| Caleb Gushing was one, he relapsed, becom-
ing d "TippecanOe and Tyler too" sort Of n
Democrat, and was sent by President Tyler
as minister to Brazil. Did anybody charge
that bargain had been made with MIR.
Wise? Nevertheless the question of what
party he would help or hinder from the very
beginning to the end was as much the sub
| ject of Democratic speculation and anxiety
as has been that of the junior Senator from
Virginia The offense of Mr. Wise did not
prove objectionable, for the Democrats
afterwsrd made him governor and have
no doubt they would do equally well by
Senator Malone tomorrow if he would only
consent.
John P. Hale was elected as 4 Democrat
from New Hampshire to the twenty eighth
| Congress, and renominated for the twenty
ninth, but, his views concerning the annex
ton of Texas not being on the keynote OF
| . tir laaA RanHtn1fA
was presented, and thero was no choice.
The Legislature OF the State soon after, or in
| 1916, elected Mr.. Hale to the Senate, where
he served many years, a constant thorn to
those who had attempted to consign him TO
| Coventry The Democratic party
was never supposed to have added
much to its political capital by its ostracism
and warfare upon Mr. Hale. 1t remains to
be seen how much they will gain by abuse
of those who will not acknowledge perpetual
allegiance to Its chieftains.
| Calhoun is another conspicuous example
among American statesmen of those who
have found reasons as plenty as blackjer-
ries' for leaving one party aud JOINING
another. MIR. Calhoun entered the House
of Representatives in 1911, and, next TO
Henry Clay, was the leader of the war party
in 1872 lie was the author of the protec
tive tariff of 1916, and became secretary oil
war under President Monroe. serving i'll the
same cabinet with John Quincy Adams
| lie was elected Vice President, serving dur
| ing the term of President Adams from 1875
to 1929. But he then left Clay and Adams
and Joined his political fortunes to those of
General Jackson, and was again elected Vice
President, serving until he quarreled with
Jackson, and resigned in 1882. In 1929 he
persuaded the Legislature OF South Carolina
| to pass the historically notorious resolution
THAT any State in thu. Union might annul an
act of the Federal government There
upon General Jackson used such energetic
and effectual measures to nullify South Caro-
lima notification that Mr.. Calhoun left the
Jacksonian Democracy, resigned the Vice
Presidency. and having been elected to the
Senate, acted with the opposition through the
remainder of the first and through all OF the
second term of General Jackson. He intro
| duced the bill for the charter OF the United
States bank in 1916, and again in 1884 bill
| to extend the charter for twelve years, but IN
| 1887 he appeared as the adversary OF the
| bank and about this time having reached
the conclusion that victory on the part of
the Wings would mot inure 10 the benefit
of the South, he once more changed his par
| ty relations by working harmonionsly with
| the Democratic party. Often stripped OF
some public influence, he yet never failed,
turn which way he would, to secure the de
votion of his own State 10 his political for
tunes Time has annihiated his later thco
| ries, but will never wholly destroy his great
ness, for he was intellectually tower OF
strength to whatever party that gained his
alliance.
John Quincy Adams was elected as Fed
eralist to the United States Senate from
Massachusetts,, and served from 1903 until
lS0S, when he was defeated and resigned,
but he turned out to be SO much OF II Demo-
crat rs to he appointed by a Democratic
administration US minister 10 Russia, and
held that position from 1909 until 1914, and
then became member of the cabinet. along
with Mr.. Calhoun under MIR. Monroe, from
1917 to 1926 After being President. he
was elected in 1883 to the House Of Repre-
sentatives as Wing. In these changes it
has never been imputed to him that he
brought disgrace upon his State. The only
| charge of bargain ever made was touching
his appointment of Henry Clay as Secretary
of State, and the Senator from Kentucky
| mir. Beck knows that charge WAS most
| foul and should have been Tepented OF III
| dust and ashes, for the Senator from Ken
lucky was Il devoted follower like myself ol
| Henry Clay long after that date. Let me
tell the Senator from Kentucky that the
embryo charges made by those who are
willing 10 wound, yet afraid 10 strike the
Senator from Virginia, and which are to
come forth full-fiedged on the musings ~
Virginia are IN my Judgment rs i,oi u'iou"'nu ,s
and eallihinious rs ,nose wnch eH.a.'r ,.nt' t,'
Indignation oi the senator i.1'Ii ~ 1i,,'
anu ihine' wheh m'a'ie asi''is. 81 iley y, H'E, D.
iiahhpai liahii,n' was .,',' ', ,oii,
resch'a'i'e from Maih,' i" ,i'c ro', am, 1StS
Congresses, anu e,trieu 10 'iiG , 'eiiste :" ~
anu re-eiecteu Ill io1i ~ l,'liiJ' lr ~
iore @ MS icfi,, eAilci u.
Io1o' al a''lieienou % " 'n' Ii,' ',,,i,ar ~
ana ever since mas nc''i i iea'',is 'ien ' W
the kepubilcan party out no man mas ''i
leit the Senatc win more oi tue col'.n.i
spect ana esteem OF ms ishoM Glow oeii'i'o,s s't ~
all parties thai Sen'.to' lliiihn VS. ,,1
when ne oiu adieu To liie oeia'e vi '"e i''