The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-02
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The extreme republican newspapers viz
[ tuaiiy charge that those Of the republican
| senators who do not favor the force bill
have entered into an agreement with the
/ democratic senator's TO defeat that bill and
the closure resolution in the interest of a
bill TO make the coinage Of silver free.
They cannot sustain this charge, and they
know they cannot. The republican sena-
tors who are Outspoken in their opposition
to the force bill are Quny, Cameron, Stew
art, Walcott and Teller. There are others
who do not regard the bill with favor, and
may vote against it If they have an oppor-
tunity TO DO SO.
1t cannot be said that either Quay or
Cameron is in favor Of the free coinage Of
silver. They represent the sentiments of
the capitalists Of the eastern cities, and the
weight of public sentiment in those cities is
against free silver coinage. Teller, Stewart
and Walcott are undoubtedly in favor Of
making the coinage of silver unlimited.
They represent silver producing states and
their constituents are urgent in their de-
maRds for unlimited silver coinage. These
senators, therefore. as far as silver is con-
cerned, are dong only what they believe TO
be for the best interest Of their states.
But they have made no agreement with
democrats relative to the force bill or free
silver coinage bill They are opposing the
force bill for the reasons which they have
given on the floor of the Senate. They do
not believe that such bill would be for the
good Of the country. In his speech the
other day--a speech that waI listened to
more attentively by senators and the CALLER
les than any other that has been delivered on
the force bill-SeDator WalcotJ said that he
did not believe in legislation that would in
terrupt the progress Of the south-a prog
ress SO remarkable as to attract the atten-
ton Of the whole country-and he
declared that in his own state
the white people would not permit the
Chinese TO get the upper hand in publ C
affairs, and he would not therefore aid the
blacks in getting the upper hand in the
south.
The republican newspapers which attack
the republican senators who refuse TO assist
in carrying out the republican partisan
programme cannot understand, apparently,
how these senators can have views different
from those which the bloody shirt senators
express. If they would think a little
they would see that these senators
are not controlled by feelings
engendered by the civil war. The war
feeling is a thing Of the past with them,
and they are now influenced by what they
believe is for the best interests of the
whole people. They are able to see, and
frank enough to say, that the force bill is a
the interest of the whole country, out with
the hope that it will enable the republican
party to retain control of the government.
They know, though they do not say so,
that the p-etense that the purpose
of the bill is to give the
blacks free ballot and
fair count is a sham, because the
very men who are most earnestly advocat-
ing the bill have never protested against
the discrimination against the blacks in the
division OF the spoils of office in the north
ern states.
No, the republican senators who oppose
the force bill have not entered into a con-
spiracy to defeat that bill and pass a free
coinage silver bill, but it is quite certain
that the senators who are urging the
passage of the bill are playing hypocrit-
ical part, bsoause they are pretending to be
deeply concerned for the welfare of the
blacks, when, as a matter Of fact, they are
striving for partisan advantage.