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

The Peoples Eyes open
The recent ruling NJ Speaker CrisH'
in favor Of the Con miiiee ct knts
brought down upon the SPEAKER head
severe and bitter Remuneration from
members of Congress Of his own arfv
who characterized tie ruling ~ tvrarn'-
cal aud Outrageous FIX Speaker Reed
at reception tehdcrcd him in Was
insiou. few days after the 'lccision was
rendered BY Speauer Crisr. in ringing
tpeesh in defence NJ the polio, honesty.
and fairness Of the Republican mHjori'v
Of the Fiftv-ir Congress said:
Only one year ago last Frilay on
one short year ago--on March the lh.
1871 had occ ,siou 70 address an al
gust assembly 10 the presence Of many
spectators. The Republican party hal
been subjected in the election just before
TO the severest reverse but one in all its
history. All that partisan malls could
do had been done. Reproach, clamor.
fscrim;nstion and derisive erithet were
at high tide on every shore. and SCENE
TO be rolling landward still.
II veuture1 then. and to that audi
snee. To- express my mistaken confidence
that time would do justice to the House
Of Representatives of the Fifty-6rst Con-
rress, and that the verdict Of histtry-
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 81
swift. so sure. and so complete. But
history in this age Of the world, and in
this land Of surprises. does it's work for
the living as in old days it used to dc
for the dead.
Time has not yet justified all that
we did, but the catalogue is already
large. and every day brings its just adj
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 WOO
Of their own, they have confined them.
elves to trying to shoot heles through
The cloth we have made.
Disabled by prejudice and passion
from adopting, in its entirety. the admi-
Table system of rules left them BY theiI
predecessors. they have reused cries o.
shame from their own p1rty by the ruth
less manner in which they have surpass.
cd even their own false, description o.
our acts.
There remains but one solitary shred
Of foundation on which they based theil
outcrles and reproaches of two yesrs ago
aud that remains there in defiance of the
opinion--the unanimous opinion-of the
Supreme Cour. of the United States.
''Our works do follow us. Only two
years ago these men connected the name
of VIM. Mckinley with every derisiv.
epithet and every t,rm of rerreach =
Elected since then governor of his grea
State by the greatest majority of rccenl
times, be has lived to see returning
prosperity justify his work and crown
bin with honors.
The charges Of extra y'eance and
waste are 10 like fashion falling to tn,
ground. All the rest Of the countr,
will soon know it as well as VOC know
it. In the District of Columbia, where
you have seen that the only attempt tt
reduce expenditures has been on item,
ike that on streets whereby the crowti
of the nations capital will be impeded
and like that on school books. whereof,
are lessened the chances Of education q
the children of the poor. Meanwhil,
the Republican party. emerging from it,
temporary disaster. turns its shining
face to the future, now as ever the on,
hope of progress of the people of th'
Emitted States