The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-09

statesman 70 do suoh an act as he had chargedf
The administration Of President Cleveland, the
no explanation to the country. democratic APP
plause. The gentleman from Illinois knew
that they need no explanation, because the peo-
pie believe them to have been prompted by pa
triotism and inspired by love of country. lap
plause.l 1t would not do. ut this stage Of the
campaign. to attempt to manufacture campaign
thunder of this character, for tho reason that
the people knew how to test its sincerity. lSig-
nifcant applause on the Republican side. He
regarded that applause with pleasure. He knew
to what it referred, and he adopted the declara-
ton OF the gentleman from Missouri Mr..
ONeilll that tho message was . campaign
document. and It was great one because 1t
appealed TO the intelligence and patriotism OF
the people Democratic applausel, whom the
President trusted and whom gentlemen on the
other side appeared to distrust and whose in
telligence they thought they could bamboozle.
Democratic applause. Gentlemen need not
be mistaken about the effect of their assaults.
The sheer they leveled at the President was but
Democratic applause. Gentleman on the 9TH
er side would say that the President has reached
his present degree of success mostly by luck,
but they would not assert for an instant that it
was encompassed by dishonor, and
Republican Senators would declare that
been able to invade his privileges
and prerogatives. Democratic applause
Gentlemen on the other side might say that
President Cleveland was not q great man. No
one would dare deny that be was an honest
man, and he WAS q great man in the eyes of the
country. not because he was possessor OF quail
ties which lifted him above all Others but be-
cause be was a noble type Of the American citi-
zens Of the land. The Republicans had their
uncrowned king. They had their shepherd Of
the people-he had SO many titles that the mind
was confused and parayzed in the contsmpla-
ton Of his greatness. But before the American
people, and at the ballot-box he had been van
pushed by the simple type Of American citizen,
Grover Cleveland. democratic applause. 1t
would not do to say that q President who did no
act for which his supporters blushsd was want
ing in greatness. IL man who bad risen from
the humblest station to the greatest, who had
risen by force of virtue [derisive laughter on
Republican sde] and not by sacrifice Of it, who
hao walked in the full sunlight of publicity:
who, after four years of administration, found
himself renou mated by the spontaneous voice
of his party. who had never held trust when
those confded it to him had not sought to ex-
tend his term Of service, who welded, By the
confidence OF the people, power
Constitution clothed him, who found
that the party leader whom he had vanquish.d
when yet untricd. now fed prudently, If not in
eloriously, from q renewal OF the conflict; who
had no ambiguous acts TO defend or unwise
epistolary expressions to explain-if this man
which should be encouraged on Democratic soil
Loud and long applause on Democratic side. /
Instead of ephemeral, dazzling qualities which,
among unthinkipg men, went to make up great
ness, give him as Democrat the strength and
the dignity. the virtues and the intelligence Of
the President who WAS in the White House. OF
the Democratic candidate who would be in it for
four years more.
AS Mr. Cochran closed the Democratic side
burst into enthusiastic applause and he was inn
mediately surrounded BY party friends eager to
offer concentrations
Mr.. Bayne, of Pennsylvania. said the Presi-
dent had ample power under the act of March,
1887, to secure American rights. What does he
want with more powerf Why, that he might
throw on to the Canadian railways traffic
amounting to perhaps s50,000,0o0 and take 1t
away from New England railways And mem
Der of the Kitchen Cabinet a director of the
Canadian Pacific, and a man whose fortune
would be advanced by the gift of that traffic,
came here and made four hours speech in
The message OF the President WAS
nothing more than effort to
create q diversion from the tariff issue and in
favor of some new issue which the administra-
ton sadly needed at this time, but which would
not rescue 1t from the oblivion and defeat which
awaited it in November. The President had
not. in his opinion. pursued . 6ignifed and
proper course. He believed that the bill should
not become law, and he proposed TO vote
against 1t. He believed that it was y campaign
makeshift, ana he did not propose to vote TO al
low the President to ruin our railway
system aud throw the employees out OF work.
The gentleman from Michigan Mr.. Chiomanl
had rudely replied, whom asked question, and
had said that the nearer man approached .
diplomatic in appearance the nearer he was to q
fool while the nearer he approached q diplomatic
iu substance the nearer he was to q knave. He
Mr. Baynel had read Chipman's autobiography
from the Congressional Directory, showing that
be had participated in the making Of an Indian
treaty, and invited him TO classify himself. In
conclusion he asked whether the Presidents
strait was so sore--his offsnse great-that he
had called for defense ut tho hands Of the great
est criminal lawyer in New York.
The debate was continued by Messrs. WcAcoo,
McMillin, Farqunar and Seney.
Mr. Henderson, OF Iowa, charged the Prssi-
dent with dishonesty in sending In his message;
he was tri1ing with tho American people.
American citizens-l5 900 fshermen-had been
outraged; they asked that their enemies be
treated in the same way as they had been treat
ed. The present war head of this Nation stood
paralyzed and silent The ears would protrude
through the hide. If Grover Cleveland was the
great type Of American citizenship God have
mercy on the country! He Mr. Henderson, would
not touch upon that moral type. He never had.
The curtain which had been drawn so carefully
around that moral type by eloquent and gifted
men he would not raise his hand to touch. he
WOulo De klrQ. but ne cpaleuSeQ Inc DemO
Gratis to tear down the curtains round the life oil
the Republican candidate, Benz. Harrison. [AD
plsuse on Republican side. 1t would stand in.
spection, public aud private. Grover Cleveland
might be the Democratic type of American
morals aud American citizenship but for him
Mr.. Henderson, be would not point the youns
men Of America to him as a model misses on the
Democratic sidel; TO the man who, now bursting
with war spirit bad hired substitute when the
land Was in battle.
Mr.. McMilin--Where WAS Blainei
Mr.. Henderson, disregarding theinterruption,
proceeded, declaring that the model American
for &C, 900 900 Americans was Benjamin Harri
sop. Loud applause on the Republican side
Mr.. Csruth, OF Kentucky, said that any ons
listening to Mr.. Henderson would imagine tina
the outragss on American fishermen were Of re
cent date, instead of happening during Re
publican administration.
The debate having ceased, Mr.. White, of New
York, moved to recommit the bill to the com
rnittee on foreign affairs. with instructions t,
strike out the first section, but the motion wa
lost without q division.
The bill was then passed--yeas, la; nays, f.
the negatives being Bsyne, Dalzell, Lind an,
White, of New York.
Adjourned.
Yellow Fever.
JACKSONvIIIr Fla SAINT n