Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-10-13
The Senate Debate.
THE ABSENCE OF A CLOTURE RULE
IL THE SALVATION or SILVER.
ssSilyer Dick" BANDS Traducers Seer.
ed-Champ Clark Refuses Pat
ronage-N0rten Ii Jeai.
Gus OF Bryan.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
WASHINGTON, d. c., October 81
have received inquiries from home ask
ing why the debate In the Senate can
not be closed. or, rather, WHAT rule pre-
vents it. No rule prevents it; on the
contrary it is the absence of . cloture
rule that Is saving silver and this coun-
try on the one hand from the domina-
ton of gold and Wall street on the 9TH
or hand. From time out of mind there
has been no rule in the Senate to close
debate, thus allowing the advocates of
either side to talk as long as they want
to talk. In the absence of q cloture
rule there is no way Of limiting the
debate and thereby reaching a vote
unless the ilibustering minority is q
very small one and becomes tired out.
The absence of q cloture rule is all
that saved this country from feeling
the workings of the Lodge Force bill.
The absence of a cloture rule is now
saving the money of the people from
being stricken down at the behest of
those who hold the gold. The Sher-
man law will never be repealed uneon-
ditionally; the people will have silver
in some shape before this thing ends.
I want to record a prophesy right here
paste it i'm your hat. If Cleveland
ever signs a bill that repeats the Sher-
man act it will be- bill that places the
white metal on a better footing than
that upon which it now rests.
The Sherman law did not cause the
panie-the recognition and coinage of
silver never did cause a panic. Brad
street says that business is looking up
and all the world says hat the panic
is over, and yet the Sherman law lie
still on the statute books.
read in the LEDGER the other day
a special from a Republican correspon-
dent at Lebanon, Mo-, to a Republican
paper in st. Louis, the Globe-Demo-
crdt. I showed it to Mr.. Bland, who
was referred to in the dispatch as a
boiler. He gave it the lie, and justly.
There Is not a better Democrat in the
United States or a truer friend Of the
people. He declined to eat at the pie
counter. He has always been siiver's
first and best friend and in order to
stand by his convictions and right he
had to forego the pleasure of being
smiled upon by Mr.. Cleveland. The
congressman who voted for uncondi-
tional repeal are getting patronage;
those who hastily slid from the silver
to the anti-silver side are getting it in
big hunks. Missouri may well be proud
of her unpurchased Democrats. Right
well did the Columbia Herald say:
"Grand oldMissouri! There she stands,
unawed by power and interrupted by
federal patronage. Her record on sill
yer is as clear as the ring of the dollar
of our daddies. Her Democracy is as
true to the platform as the needle to
the pole. No son of the soil can say OF
this imperial commonwealth as Lowell
did of his own state:
Massachusetts,, God forgive her,
She's a kneelin' with the rest.'"
/ have committed those words to
memory;there is much in them; to read
those lines and know that they are
true makes me prouder than ever that
I am a Missourian and a Democrat.
not claim to be a prophet or "the
son of a prophet" but I will venture
the assertion that tariff reform will be
blocked effectually in the Senate and
that the next important question to
come up will be that of foreign immi-
grafton. 1t is a serious question and
ifnot settled satisfactorily to the peo-
pie another know-nothing party will
be liable to find its handspring in that
failure to satisfy.
The Capitol, a paper published In
Washington, recently had a story to
the effect that Champ Clark was offer
ed patronage for his vote by the Presi-
dent and that his only answe was to
turn on his heel and walk out of the
august presence.
I see that Bryan has been repudiat-
ed by the Nebraska State Democratic
Convention; this is not because the
Democrats land the rest of the people,
for that matterl of Nebraska do not
like Bryan and indorss him. The con-
vention was packed. I know what ]
am talking about. ]. Sterling Morton,
Secretary of Agriculture, is response.
BILE for it. He hates Bryan and STEAL
Gus of him. Bryan overcame a Repub.
lican majority of over 5000 in the first
district. He could not have been elect.
ed without the aid of Populist votes.
For this reason Cleveland gave Nor
ton the control of the patronage Of
| Bryan's district and Morton stuffed
the convention hall with men who
wanted jobs under Uncle Sam. Those
men received letters telling them to
| be at that convention.
have a young friend here who was
given a place by Morton. He is from
| Nebraska. Heis the nephew ofone Of
Missouri's ext Governors. He was Bry'
ans friend in Nebraska and still il
| He told me that he could not even
/ praiseBryan in the presence Of friend
of Morton, else he would lose his jot
when 1t would reach Morton's ear
Bryan will succeed Henderson in the
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