Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-18
The Peoples Eyes open.

The Peoples Eyes open.
The ,scent ruling Of Speaker Criso,
in favor IF the Con mifiee If Rnhs
brought down upon the SPEAKER head
severe and bitter Pronunciation from
members Of Congress Of his own , arfv
who character zed tie ruling az tvtarni-
eal and outrageous Tx Speaker Reed.
nj reception tphdrrc] him in Was
insion. few days after the decision was
rendered BY Speaucr Crisr. in ringing
tpee,h in defence ~ he polio, honesty.
and fpirness Of the Republican majori
Of the Fifty 6rd Congress said:
"Ouly one year aco last Frilav on
one short wear ago--on March the 4'h.
1871 had occlsioD 70 address an al
gust assembly 10 the pr-'ence "f mary
spectators. The Republican party ba
been subjected in the election just before
10 the severost reverse but one in all lis
history. All that partisan mali ,e could
do had been done Reproach. clamor.
fseriminAEion and derisive erithet were
at high tide on every shore, and SCENE
10 be rolling landward still.
II venture1 then. and to that audi
tnee, to- express my mistaken confidence
hat time would do Justice to the House
Of Representatives Of the Fifty-6rst Con
gress. and that the verdict Of history
the only verdict worth recording would
place the men Of the majority on the list
of those who had done the State some
service.
with all nv faith, however. | did
not dream that the verdict would he 50
sw #. SO sure, and so complete. But
history in this age Of the world, and in
This land Of surprises. does its work for
the living as in old days it used to do
for the dead.
Time has not yet justified all that
we did, but the catalogue is already
large. and every day brings it's just ad-
ditions Since the new House came
into being, the majority have shown how
incapable they are to cope with tariff re-
vision. Unable to make warp and wool
If their own. they have confined them
lives to trying to shoot helcs through
The cloth we have made.
Disabled by prejudice and passion
from adopting, in its entirety the admi-
rable system of rules left them by their
predecessors. they have reused cries of
shame from their own party by the ruth
less manner in which they have surpass-
cd even their own false description of
our acts.
There remains but one solitary shred
Of foundation on which they based their
outcrles and reproaches Of two wears ago.
and that remains there in defiance of the
opinon-the unanimous opinion-of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
''Our works do follow us. Only two
years ago these men connected the name
of VIM Mckinley with every derisive
epithet and every t,rm Of reproach -
Elected since then governor of his great
State by the greatest majority Of recent
times, he has lived to see returning
prosperity justify his work and crown
him with honors.
The charges Of extra 1oeance and
waste are in like fashion falling to the
ground All the rest Of the country
will soon know it as well as YOU know
it. In the District Of Columbia. where
you have seen that the only attempt to
reduce expenditures has been on items
like that on streets whereby the growth
of the nations capital will be impeded,
and like thai on school books. whereby
are iessencd' the chances Of education Of
the children of the poor. Meanwhile
the Republican party, emerging from its
temporary >.a..s's.ssse. shifting
face TO the future, now az ever the enc
hope of progress of the people of the
Uuited States