The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-09

ram believed that on the democratic side
there was no division of opinion as 70 tine
proprietv of an executive officer consulting
the representatives of the people on any i'm
portant OCCASION and especially before tax
ing steps which might bring about rupture
between this country and Great Britain 1t
did not lie well in the mouths Of those mem
bers. who were representatives, of the people,
TO criticize an executive officer for asking
their Judgment before exercising the extra
ordinary powers conferred upon HIM in the
stress of strained International relations.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
The gentleman from Illinois had charged
the representatives of the government in
treaty negotiations with a distinct act of
BETRAYAL of American rights, and had said
there was an unwritten postscript to the
tire ", and that the postscript was an
agreement between Secretary Bayard and
the Canadian minister. He hai said that
the introduction of the Mills bill, and the
vote by which II was passed, vas part of
conspiracy of betrayal, secretly entered
into and carried cut with dlSSimula ion, and
al1-ost with treason To charge the Presl-
dent with having negotiated a treaty and
trying 10 hoodwink the people into
the belief that il was for
one purpose, while the Canadians
were told that il was for another; with
treating the United States with dssimula-
ti0n and extending confidence with the
Canadian envoy. with letting the people
learn the true character Of the treaty from
declarations in the Canadian parliament,
iris was 10 charge the President with some
thing eraver shan treason, with a crime
Which had no parallel il the history of the
executive Office Of the United States.
IT'S ONLY BASIS.
charge rested h. would take the gentleman's
own speech. In it the gentleman had in
co.porated certain remarks made by Sir
CaarlaS Upper. TO the effect that in a con
versatiOn between him ami Secretary Bayard
Secretary Bayard had declared that he be
Ieved in reciprocity of code with Canada,
and that a settlement of the vexati us
q 1cstious would facilitate that consumma-
ton. Did not the gentleman him
self (Mr. HIT say that he favored
Canadian reciprocity? Was the gentleman
from Illinois privileged to say on this floor
what Secretary Bayard could not say in
Because Sir Charles Upper
had seen fit to argue in favor of the treaty
on the basis of what Secretary Bayard had
said, the house was told that the Mills bill
was an evidence of conspiracy in which
the President took the leading part, aud
that the majority of the House of Represen-
tatives was delivered over by an executive
Sc to his own country, untrue to his
trust and that, too, without the executive
the consideration unusually ex-
tended to a traitor as the price of his
treason.
NOT INCLINED TO CLAW.
If the administration loved the British
government so much did not the gentleman
zee that in this surrender of America, the
President had s2wn the seeds of conflict
among the purchases There was no man
who loved England who wanted to precipi-
tate a quarrel upon her. The British lion
might like to roar, but for many years he
had shown no disposition to claw. APP
plause AID laughter.l If the proof of the
gentleman was good, it would be found that
Ia tie passage of the Mills bill, the House
had not only sold the country to Canada,
but all around the globe, leaving the pur-
rhasers TO struggle over t e security of the
pu chase. The administration of President
Cleve' and, the motives which prompted his
official acts needed no explanation TO
the country. Applause on the democratic
SIDE The gentleman f.om Illinois knew
that they needed no explanation, because
the people believed them TO have been
prompted by patriotism, and inspired by
love of his country. [Applause.l
CAN'T FOOL THE PEOPLE.
It would not do at this stage of the cam
paign to attempt to manufacture cam
paign plumber of this character,
beca Sc the people knew how to
test its sincerity. Significant applause
on the republican side.l He regarded that
applause with pleasure. He knew to what
if referred, and he adopted the declaration
of the gentleman from Missouri (O'NeilD
that the message was a campaign document
and it was great one renewed applause
on the republican sidel because it appealed
to the intelligence and patriotism of the pc ,
pie Applause on the democratic side1 whom
the President trusted and whom the gentle
man on the other side appeared to distrust
and whose Intelligence they thought they
could bamb)oz'e Applause on the demo-
cratic side.] The gentlemen need not be
mistaken about the effect of their assaults
The sheer they levelled at the President was
but thin disguise for the respect they felt
for him. Applause and laughter on the
democratic side
CLEvELAND's LUCK.
The gentlemen on the other side saw that
the President had reached his present de-
gree Of success mostly by luck, but they
would not assert for an instant that it was
enc mpassed by dishonor and the republi-
can senators would declare that never, dur
ing his i cumbency. had they bean able to
invade lis privilege ard prerogatives. APP
pllu-e on the democratic side The gentle
men on the other side might say that Presi-
Ut Cleveland was not a great man. No
one would dare deny that he was an honest
man and he was great man in
the ewes of the country not
because ne was the possessor of
qualities which lifted him above all others,
but because he was noble type of the
American citizen II the land The republi-
cans hal their uncrowned king. They ad
tArir shepherd Of tie people. He had so
mG1y titles that the mind was confused and
paralyzad in the contemplation of his great
ness, but before the American people and at
the ballot box he had been vanqmsued by a
simple type of Ameri an citizen-Grover
Cleveland. [Appla"se on the democratic
sidnl
PROOFS OF HIS GREATNESS.
1t would not do to say that a President
who did no act for which his supporters
blushed, was wanting in greatness. If one
who had risen from the humblest station TO
the greateat, who had risen by force of
virtue Lderisive laughter on the republican
iIdel, and rot by sacrifice of il, who had
walked in the free SUNLIGHT of publicity,
VINO after four years Of administration
found himself renominated by the
spontaneous voice ofh is party, who
lad never held q trust when those who
CO fided 1t 10 HIM had not sought to extend
lis term of service, who welded by the
confidence Of the people power far great r
than that with which the constitution
clothed him, who found n party leader
whom he had vanquishcd. WHO, now united.
fed prudently il not inglOriOusl, from all