Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
on our ReguIar CorrespOndent.

A144dLCO 4OSAoloDOlO VI Lib
State in one of the most powerful and
interesting speeches he ever made In
the Senate. He ripped the million
aire monopolists from stem to stern
in series of as brilliant and clear
cut invectives as were ever delivered,
on the floor of the Senate, and it was
simply impossible for the officials of
that body to keep down the applause
which constantly burst forth anew as
the Senator made point after point,
each more telling than the last against
the present condition of things in this
country, which he said eve are ac-
customed to speak of as the land of
the free and the home of the brave,
and which will soon be the home of
the rich and the land of the slave"
Referring to the late election he
SAID: It was neither a democratic
victory nor a republican defeat. It
was a great uprising independent of
and superior to both political parties.
It was a crisis that may become a.
catastrophe. It was a peaceful revo-
luton" Speaking of the free coin
age of silver, he said: 81 have not
the slightest doubt that a great ma
jority of the people, irrespective of
party, are in favor of the free coinage
of silver and have been for the past
fifteen years. They have been palter-
ed with, in a double sense, and their
will has been thwarted, defed and
CONTEMPORARY trodden under foot.
Warnings and admonitions have been
plenty in this debate, but I will say
to those who are arraying themselves
against the deliberately expressed
Judgment of the American people,
will say to the Senate, to the House
! and to the Executive-that there will
come time when the people will not
be trifed with on this subject. Some
time the people will elect House of
Representatives a Senate and a Pres
ident who will carry out party pied
ges and execute the popular will.
The political power of the nation has
been transferred from the circumfer-
ence to the center, and the people of
that center are unanimously demand
ing free coinage of silver" No speech
delivered in the Senate during the
last ten years was more attentively
listened to than that of Mr.. Ingalls,
who is at all times an interesting
speaker, but on this occasion he seem
fairly afre with his subject, and pre-
dictions are being made by both his
friends and enemies-both classes are
numerous this speech will send
: him back to the Senate.
In spite of the extraordinary efforts
e of the administration to defeat it 6
d free coinage bill as substitute fol-
d the Financial bill was adopted by the
I Senate by a vote of 80 to 81. Find
f ing it impossible to defeat silver leg
islation a determined attempt was
Il made at the last moment to get the
: support of the free coinage men for {
. compromise amendment. Senator
German was the active head of this
Z movement which is believed to have
been the result of an agreement be
n tween HIM and the antl-silver repub
licans, but it was no go. Silver wal
king for the time being, and RICH
royalty was the regal sceptre main
n tanned
o Will it, can it be passed by thu
= House? is the question everywhere
1t is a question much easier asked
than answered. It is generally ad
= mitted by even the staunchest anti
silver men that at least three-ffths o
the members of the House are strong
~ in favor of free coinage, and ye
there is a doubt of the bill passing
- that body. Why? Because it is il
- the power of Speaker Reed and tn
Q committee on Rules, of which he. i
II the dominating spirit, to prevent tn
- bill ever reaching a vote In the House
= and of course it cannot pass wIthOu
- being voted upon. There is a hope
however, on the part of the silver pee
pie that Mr.. Reed may not see fit t
S, -ise his power, but SO far as
t. CON loarn # &c based upon rather III
! stable foundation-Mr. Re- fs oislk
le of Mr.. Harrison and his willingness
y to allow the bill to pass in order
9 compel the President either to vet
Ie it or to go back on his oft expresse
opinions on the subject, believing thu