Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-09

Colonel" Martin. the Cowboy Orator,
Wrestles With the Tariff
Copy7ieh, 1885, by the California Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May Sth-There was a
nigh old" time at the Capitol tonight.
Not only was there a good attendance on
the Hoor, but the galleries were simply
Jammed. The cause of all this excitement
was the announcement in the daily press
that Colonel +. n. Martin, the long
haired member from Texas, would o-ate
on the tariff
Springer was in the chair, and although
he did all in his power to preserve order,
anG threatened several times 10 have the
galleries cleared, his gavel and his throat
were alike unavailing. The reception was
such as has not yet been given to any one
on either side of the chamber. AS early as
seven o'clock the galleries began to fill up
and before eight o'clock the aisles we're
hlled and many were out in the halls. un-
able to get any nearer. When the man
widely known as the Colonel" arose and
was recognized by the Chair, he was
greeted with
PERFECT STORM OF APPLAUSE,
Which lasted fully five minutes. Martin
took 1t as coolly as he is reported to have
faced the muskets of the North in the late
war He bowed his Acknowledgements in
an easy manner which put something of a
damper on the audience, who evidently
had come prepared for lots of fun. but if
Martins coolness and off-handedness sur
prised his audience, they were more COM
pletely
TAKEN ABACK BY THE SPEECH
He,made, and before he got through he
had convinced all who heard him that he
was by no means fool. Almost every
sentence uttered by Martin was received by
loud and long applause.
He wanted to know why it was that the
two great parties in Congress were divided
on the question of the tariff. Because, he
SAID, that individual interests were in
volved, showing different statement for
almost every case, and such diversified
interests must necessarily clash. "Why
not, then" said Mr.. Martin, "let each State
regulate its own tariH, because the protection
under which we live is protection for the
manufacturer at the cost of the working
man. lApplause.l am opposed to pro-
lection loud applause], and am in favor of
working loud and long applausel on both
sides. [Cries of Bravo, old man II The
laboring man consumes infinitely more
than the capitalist. Why not, then, con-
sider the laboring man first? Now, who
suffers from the boarding of this money at
the other end of Pennsylvania avenue {?
Why, the laboring man. 1 am laboring
man myself.
AM LABoRING NOW.
More applause.] We Democrats are for
the people, and we enter this next cam
paign to carry-mark my word Ito carry
Kansas, Michigan, Iowa and all the West
ern States against the tyranny of protection.
Old California will prove to be old heroic
California. She has her quicksilver and
gold for the Mills bill, and will go Demo
cratic"
sMoTHERED IN ROSES.
As he sat down the place fairly rang with
applause and cries of Bravo" and "Vote /!
Voter In the midst of it all two pages
entered carrying huge basket of flowers
and placed them on Martins desk. Every
one enjoyed it, but Martin seemed the hap
piest of all.
Hopkins of Illinois, Chapman of Michi-
gan, McAdoo of New Jersey, Richardson of
Tennessee and Stockdale of Mississippi also
spoke.