The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-26
REEDS SIDE PARTNER.
senator sherman Again Takes a shot ai
Tree silver Coinage.

PITrsBUKG, Oct 25.-Four thousand
people gathered in the city hall tonight
10 listen to an address by Senator John
Sherman on the issues Of the campaign.
In the course Of his speech, Senator Shef-
man said:
"There can really be hut two great
parties. There are sometimes people
who think they are a little better than
their ncighbors go OF 10 roost by them
selves ON some side issue, and call them
selves a third party. | have had more ex-
pericncc in political life than some Of my
hearers, and never saw any good come
out Of third party yet, We are oil re-
publicans or all democrats in the general
meaning Of the term, because We are
all In favor Of form of government la
which all powers rest with the people.
To reform their names does not signify
anything, we must Judge Of the parties
precisely as we would judge Of men, aud
judged by this test, the two parties that
now stand before the people Of the coun-
try, one is like heaven, aud the other like
hades.
"ln lsos the people Of the United States
trusted the republicans with theirpolitical
power. Now, the first power was the
power 10 appoint the officers Of this great
government Of ours; and that power, in
stead VI being a strength 10 any party, is
a weakness, aud upon that basis nearly
all the public men who fall in public life
by the waysidc, fall by the exercise Of
that patronage.
81 say 20 you now, II had the power j
would not allowA member Of congress 20
recommend any man for any Office what
ever. | would take from your political
agents all the power that is invested In
them 10y tue common custom-not by the
laws; | would take from them all that
power, and | would not even allow a
member Of congress To recommend post
masters because il is an element Of weak
ness. II weakcns the members OF the
house and the senators, and IL makes
trouble and creates quarrels. |
think the time will soon come
when the republican party will
be agreed in that great reform; when a
law wall be passed separating entirely the
appointing power from tho law-making
power"
After reviewing the stormy scenes In
the early part Of the session, and the
important measures passed after the rules
were adopted, and after presenting q
strong plea for the soldiers, Senator
Sherman took up tho Mckinley bill.
"A measure he said, (which makes
free n greater amount Of the products OF
foreign countries in our own country than
any tariff bill Of ancient or modern
| times.n
Referring TO the assertion OF some
democratic orators, that we cannot pro-
ducc sugar. the senator said: II am
as positive as | am Of my existence that
within ten years from this time we can
produce every pound Of sugar that Is used
in this country. We have put duty on
tin plate equal 10 and a little more than
the duty on sheet iron, and we will manu-
facture IN this country within five years
OF this year $4,000 tons bf TN. plate and
we will make the tin cup so cheap that
nobody will growl hut the democrats
In conclusion the senator said: "In
1850, in the good old democratic times,
our money was the meancst ever devised
by man, and would not pass from one
part Of the country 20 another. Now our
money travels all over the world. Then
we were thir,l-class power, jeered and
laughed at. aud when the war com
mcnced-the last legacy Of a demodratic
administration-and kings and emperors
were watching for the decay and falling
TO pieces Of this great republican govern
ment, which was tottcring TO its founda
tions, the eyes Of the European countries
were watching the last days Of ths
great republic. Now, thank God
and the union soldiers, thank th,
American people, this country of our
has risen far above and beyond all fear'
Of this kind, and now the peoples Of nj
these empires aud kingdoms are looking
eagerly and ankiously for the good tim,
coming when they can copy our institu
tions and enjoy the republic as we do il
this country. Then the days Of empires
and kingdoms will have passed and gon,
and then government OF the people, 20
the people and by the people will inur'
forever upon earth"