Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-07
WOLCOTT ROAST|vE,
The Inconsistent Senator
Charges the Silver De-
feat to Two Sources.
HARRIS0N'S MAGNETISM
Furnishes Sport for the Gallery, but
Not for the Statesmen.
BLAINE GETS ALL THE APPLAUSE.
Fear of the Cloture Rule on the Bland Bill
Stops Filibustering.
BLAINE GETS ALL THE APPLAUSE.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON A CANDIDATE
IrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

to-day was remarkable, principally for its
very inconsistent and somewhat impudent
attack on President Harrison. The ex
tremity of Mr.. Wolcott's logical alteration,
manifest throughout his effort, may be illus.
trated b. his declaration in one breath that
the silver bill had been put to sleep in the
House of Representatives and would not be
resuscitated and in the next that the pres
ent administration is to blame for crushing
silver legislation. He did not explain the
secret OF the Presidents power over the
great Democratic majority in the House.
Senator Wolcott is a very interesting
gentleman. His voice is almost as big, his
vocabulary almost as prolific, his speech
almost as fluent, and his avoirdupois almost
as great as that of Mr.. Bourke Cochran, of
New York. He is SIX years older than
Cochran, and now A, but his intimate re-
lations with the people and manners of the
wild and woolly West" have worn of
nearly all the veneering of politeness which
makes Cochran SO pleasing in his treatment
of an adversary.
Wolcott Shocked the Senate.
wolcott is rough and blunt to an ex-
treme and his unqualified abuse of the
President to-day was a great shock to the
dignity of the Senate Others have said
things equally severe, but they have said
them in the language of the parlor rather
than of the rural stump. To the galleries,
however, Mr.. Wolcott was circus. His
vigor, wit, sarcasm, volubility and impu-
dence were rare treat to the disinterested
frequenters of the funereal Senate chamber,
and to-day the galleries were full, the word
having been passed around that Wolcott
would "speak out in meetin''
The audience evidently had an admixture
of anti-Harrison Republicans and free silver
Democrats. Wolcott's abuse of Harrison
seemed to be very acceptable. A sarcastic
allusion to the Presidents magnetic"
qualities tickled everybody immensely, for
if there is one thing that Harrison con-
spicuously lacks it is magnetism.
Harrison a Good Summer Friend.
Everybody knows him as a cold, unim-
pressionable, interpretive man, beside
whose iciness Senator Sherman is positively
tropical. Mr. Wolcott's illusions to Blaine,
bringing him in direct contrast to Har-
rison brought applause from all sorts of
people in the galleries 1t was evident
that with them, as with the whole country,
there is no name which seems so close to
the patriotic heart as that of Blaine.
But the Senator's remark that Harrisons
denomination seemed inevitable, as, since
Blaine's letter of declination, stno man
of greater stature than the present
incumbent had been found willing to
stand'' was received with silence by the
galleries and with many frowns among the
Senators. 1t was not clever remark. 1t
was crude and coarse and against both the
critical and the popular Judgment of the
President Mr.. Blaine is dear to the heart
of the people because he seems to be the
most conspicuous and truest type of the
keen. shrewd, aggressive American.
woIcott's Sarcasm Misplaced.
Mr.. Harrison has not touched the popular
heart because he lacks the ardent and ap-
proachable qualities which seem to mark
the best type of Americans. But no one
here who is ingenious, Democrat or Repub-
lican, attempts to belittle the great intel
lectual stature of Mr.. Harrison. He is
generally given credit for finer and less
variable mental poise clearer discern
ment of the safest methods, and an abler
treatment of all public questions, than
almost any other man who has occupied the
White House.
Had Mr.. Wolcott confined his sarcasm to
those personal characteristics which make
Mr.. Harrison unpopular, and which,
whether they are properly subject for
discussion or not, are much discussed in
making up estimates of the man, he would
have had his audience with him; but even
those to whom these repellant qualities are
uncomfortable, in the interests of Justice and
fair play frowned upon the Senator's vulgar
and ill-placed allusion to what he esteemed
to be smallness of the intellectual stature of
the President.
Filibustering Tactics Ended.
The sun which set last evening upon such
determined filibustering by the Republicans
against the free wool bill, on account of
Speaker Crisp's bad treatment of Mr.. Bur-
rows. rose this morning in so fine an at
mosphere of health and peace that it was
found impossible to continue the war, Mr..
Burrows is a man who cannot hold spite.
The Speaker to-day permitted him and
Mr.. McMillin to talk across the desks TO
each other without interrupting them, and
the two leaders arranged 10 occupy three
quarters of an hour on each side in discus
SION of the first section of the bill and then
to take a vote.
A deeper reason, however, why the Re-
publicans did not care to carry the war
farther and force the report of a cloture
rule was because they knew the free coin
age men were lying in wait for such
movement to force the inclusion of the
Bland bill ID the operation of the cloture.
There will probably he no serious inter-
ruption Of the progress of the tariff bills,
but the silver Democrats vet talk agrees
lively of tilibusterlng against all other legis
lation until they force tine House to agree
to final vote on the Bland bill
Colonel Sheppard Not a Drawing Card.
Neither Congress-at-Large nor the
Worlds Fair Commission, which riyes its
immediate ear to the matter now seem to
be greatly interested in the earnest effort of
Sabbaarians to shut the doors of the Ex-
position on the Sabbath by legislation.
Even the expectation OF visit and sermon
from Colonel Z. Z. Sheppard failed to bring |
more than two or three OF the committee |
together to-day, and the address of a repre- |
sentative of the National Religious Liberty |
Association attracted more attention than |
that OF the great editor who advertises his |
PAPER by the eccentricity of publishing |
every day a quotation from the Hebrew |
Scriptures or the New Testament. The op- |
ponents of Sunday opening want pro-
vision in the appropriation bill that the |
money shall be available only upon an |
agreement of the Fair managers that the |
gates shall be closed on the Lords Day. |
Though President Harrison is very devout |
churchman, he made no such suggestion in |
his late message in regard to the appropri- |
alton.
Congress Won't Interrupt the Fair. |
Casual expressions which have come to |
nv ears from many members of Congress |
hint at pretty general opposition to Con- |
gressional meddling with the religious |
phase of the subject, and also at a belief |
that hundreds OF thousands of visitors whose |
time and money will be short should not be |
shut out of the building for one whole day |