Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-21
TELLER'S THREAT.
The Senior Colorado Senator
Emulates His Colleague.
NOTABLE FEATURES OF HIS SPEECH

The President Charged with Using Pat
ronage to Defeat Free Coinage-A Bolt
OF Four States Predicted, which Sam
ders Repudiates, So Far as Montana Ia
Concerned "A Senator's Reason for
voting to Gust Young-Powderly Pro-
tests Against q Removal - OficiaI
Notes.
WASHINGTON, April 21-Teller occupied
| the attention or the senate yesterday IN a
| long speech on the silver question, which
was principally notable for following the
course of his colleague and attacking the
president and the Republican party. He
said we had fallen on evil times, and were
told that the silver question was not of so
much Importance as to have certain men
OF one political party or the other elected
president for the ensuing four years He
asserted that the federal patronage had
been used to influence the house of repre-
sentatlves, which otherwise would have
mad smajority sufficient to pass free
coinage BILL And Democrats had been in
dnced to vote against it because 1t was
feared that If free coinage was passed the
great state of New York, with more presi-
Dental votes than any other state in the
Union, would go Republican.
An Argument for silver.
lie traced and ascribed the low price of
wheat arising from the successful compe-
tltlon OF India to the demon citation of
silver IN the United States in 1873 The
INDIAN shipper could buy wheat in Bonn
bay at 81 20 bushel in silver, ship it to
England at IA cents additional, making
81. "a, and sell it in the British market at
80 cents in gold. The American shiuper.
receiving the same price. found his 80 cents
worth here 90 cents and no more. The In
dian shipper, with his 90 cents in gold,
could buy an ounce and third of silver
which he could put into rupees at 81 3S an
ounce, and thus his ounce and third of
silver would yield him in the currency of
India Sl.S5 or Sl.90, and the S1.S5 had
the same purchasing power in India that
1t had thirty or 100 years ago.
Was Down on the Force" IsilI.
referring to some charges that the
force bill was beaten by the silver men
In accordance with deal" with the
Democrats on free silver ne denied it, and
said he had opposed the bill from the
first. Two years had now elapsed In the
interim he had read that bill over twenty
time, and he repeated that if it were now
presented to him as party support or
party dismissal he would not vote for the
bill for more infamous bill never passed
through the doors of the senate He then
turned round and charged that the ep-
ponests of free silver had engaged in
deal with the anti-force bill men by which
the silver bill was TO be side acked
Another Attack on Harrison.
Teller claimed that the Republican
platform of 1888 was a free coinage plat
form and was so understood in the silver
states, where it raised high hopes. When
the silver men came back to congress in
December they were met by a proposition
for the purchase of silver and making the
United States conduit through which sill
yer could pass into India, and this was all
there was of it. The silver men were told
by the friends of the administration that
if they did not choose to take that they
would get nothing, and they preferred to
get nothing. They made fight in the
senate for free coinage and won, but lost
in the other house through undue and i'm
proper executive interference