Dodge City times., 1890-05-02
The aississippian.s Speech.

April 26. A number of quotations
were made by Mr.. Allen from the say
ings of various prominent Republicans,
relative to their estimate of President
Harrison, and their view Of the way in
which the G. o. P. is being run by
Benny and his PARISHES. Below We
give few extracts;
Now, sir, l read an extract from an
open letter to the President q hope he
has received it, although have net
heard Of any response to ip by Mr..
Henry C. Lea, one of his supporters IN
the election, and who has expressed to
the President his disappointment at
his failure to live up to his promises.
Here is part of what Mr.. Lea says
to him:
Look back, now, and reflect upon
your work. You have sedulously de-
voted yourself to the distribution of
patronage, you have turned out nearly
forty thousand democratic Office hold
ers, and in this ignoble business you
have filed vacancies thus made by Civ
ing recognition to the worst element In
the party. You have thus degraded it
to the lowest level, till it no longer de-
serves or enjoys the public confidence,
and its interests, as well as that Of the
ration, demands its publication by de-
feat. You have earned for it the de-
nunciation of the Hebrew prophet:
"The heads thereof Judge for reward,
and the priests thereof teach for hire,
and the prophets thereof divine for
money; yet will they lean upon the
Lore and say, Is not the Lord among
US? none evil can come among US.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be
plowed as field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps" But it needs 10 pro-
phet to foretell the result.
No MI. Chairman, it needs no pro
phet now. We have been hearing the
result for the last two or three weeks
all the way from Rhode Island to Mon
tana- Laughter and applause on the
democratic slde.] 1t Is not a matter
of prophecy now, sir. The returns are
coming in, the people are being heard
from; they find they were deceived,
and from all over the country the glad
tidings are coming that they are going
back on the party Of fraud and false
pretense-Ohio, Rhode Island, Iowa,
Indiana, everything going Democratic.
But l want to give you some more
Republican testimony to show you all
something about the estimation in
which the President is held by his own
party associates.
l heard the other day of disting-
uished Senator from State whose
farmers are now burning their corn
[laughter], and it was not Senator
Plumb either [laughterJ, who said
when he went to one of the depart
ments to get friend of his appointed
to an Office out West he was told by
the head of the department that it
could not be done; and he asked why.
"Well," he says, ''the president has a
friend in your state that he wants to
put in the place." The senator stop
ped and scratched his head, and said:
"Well' that is all right if he is sure of
it, but am pretty well acquainted in
that state, and if he has friend in the
state 1 do not know him." Laughter. !
l was coming up the street the other
day with prominent republican and
7 said to him, how are you getting on
with the administration? "Oh, don
ask me that, Allen; don't ask me that.
I have reduced my opinion of that bus
mess to poetry, and this is it:
John Wanny runs the Sunday school,
| Levi runs the bar,
| The baby runs the White House,
And, damn it, here we are.
[Great Laughter
Ihope the committee will be in or
der, Mr.. Chairman, I want to proceed
with my remarks. Renewed laugh
teri Mr.. Chairman, this thing is
growing serious. All l have said so
far will vouch for.
There is another report going around
here that I am not going to vouch for,
either; but it is said that one of the
leaders of this house on the republican
side, some time ago, in social converse
ton with democratic friend, said to
him: Sit down here and tell me the
biggest lie you can think Of. The
man he said it to is supposed to have
some capacity in that line. Tne dem
ocrat sat down by him and begun by
saying: ''Harrison' administration is
great success" ''Sir," said the re-
publican, ''you might have studied a
whole year and couldn't have beaten
that [Great laughter.]