The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-19

He Tears the Republican Majority III Con-
gress Limb From Limb--Thc Republi-
can Administrations Hypocrisy Shown
Up-The Surplus Dissipnted and De-
hciency Crcated--Thc Force Bill An
alyzcd -S11O,OOO.OOO for Pensions.
Congressman Harry st. George Tucker
spoke to a crowded house at the Opera
House last night for over two hours.
At o'clock Chairman Thomas, of the
city committee, introduced the speaker,
who said: 81 have come to present the
claims of your honorcd representative
in Congress, Paul c. Edmunds. None
is more faithful and honored than he.
have sat with him in Congress unpar
alleled in history, that has disregarded
all public decency and the Constitu-
ton. l can tell you about the admins
tration of President Harrison, which
came in with boom, and is going out
with a bOomlet. and which has become q
stencil in the nostrils of all decent poo
pie.
81 can tell you how man named
Tanner was appointed commissioner of
pensions, and every man who wore
blue coat was putting his arm in the
treasury, when his resignation was
, asked for. and Raum, who succeeded
him, is undergoing an investigation Of
his conduct.
when the money power has asked
for anything it has received recognition.
When the farmers and laboring people
ask for relief they are thrown aside in
the committee room. and the monopo-
lists consume the time. The session
just closed was controlled by conspira-
tors against the rights of the people.
IL am Il Democrat from the sole of my
feet to the crown of my head, and you
that know me, know that am Demo-
crat because believe the principles of
| tho Democracy are right"
This sentence was delivered with a
| force and emphasis that caused Mr..
| fuckers collar, which was rather large.
to come unbottoned. Taking it and his
cravat off and throwing them on the
table he said: 81 have got hold of one
| of Tom Reeds collars, and won't wear
it, tremendous applause.)
when we met in Congress there was
a surplus in the treasury of 500, 900, 600,
but when Congress adjourned there was
a deficiency of $4,000, 900. Mr.. Della
mater, the Republican candidate for gov
ernor in Pennsylvania, thanked God
| oAoo hC OOiOhBCO " DdItJ GlluU COulu
| get rid of the surplus that troubled Mr..
| Cleveland 80 much. l would rather
thank God that belong to party that
would spend only so much of the peo-
pies money as is necessary to pay the
expenses of the government"
Mr.. Tucker referred to the provisions
of the bankruptcy bill, the passage of
which he said was the only logical ac-
ton of tho House at it's recent session
He also thoroughly discussed pension
legislation, and said he wanted to re-
mind every Virginian that he had a
pensioner strapped to his back and was
paying from SIS to $40 annually to help
support him. president Garfield
said he, 'apologized for his vote for an
| appropriation of SIS, 900, 600 for pensions.
saying that was the high tide, yet
, under the pension appropriation passed
! by the recent Congress we now pay
| $40, 900, a largo fraction of it to
bummers and descrters who never smelt
! POWDER
| While Mr.. Tucker was discussing the
! pension bill some fellow in the rear of
the audience began to interrupt, when
the crowd yelled Take him out" which
was promptly obcyed. Taking up tho
| Mckinley bill, Mr. Tucker continued
In this matter of taxation | stand
on the platform of equal taxation for
all and special privileges to none, and
| the man who does not like that expects
| togct something out of the government.
The policy of our Government that
must make it strong is one that makes
all taxation equal. Take away the feel
ing of men that they are equally treated
with their fellow citizens, and you de-
| prive them of liberty itself. You all
know what taxation means when the
! sheriff comes around"
Il do. said someone in in the crowd
'for he took my COW the other day"
Mr.. Tucker brought down the house
by saying: Il congratulate the cow
lie went ON to attack the theory of
the Mckinley bill repeating Mr.
Blaine's assertion that 1T does not
open market for bushel of wheat or
pound of meat" and treated Blaine's re-
| ciprocity scheme as an admission that
tho theory of the bill is wrong.
"What the Democrats want is free
trade, and just and equitable distri-
| theory and practice is equal privileges to
none and special favors to few"
lie discussed the tariff at some length
and gave convincing exposition of the
| position of the Democratic party on this
question. He then took up the Lodge
election bill and recited its provisions
in detail, bringing out its possible effects
with remarkable force and clearness.
MIR. Tucker was a member of the com
mittee to which it was REFERRED and he
stated that the bill was never read in
the committee room, and that it was
written by John Davenport n ward
heller of New York. and Mckinley and
Lodge confessed that they were ignor-
of TO, ,,;.