The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-20

Some Senatorial Opinions.

i somc Senatorial Opinions.
Senator VOORHEES, last week vots
square against the coinage OF silver. ur
Z on an amendment offered to tho renes
> nl'l oy Senator PETER. Voting viii
Voorhee were IL Democratic Ssnator'
and lot OF Republicans, while a. ,ins
nim voted IL Democratic and the Pom
= Lists aud 2 Republicans. T.
y senator Martin, the Democratic sena
tor from kansas. made come telIin.
points he read tho newspaper report'
;. OF the meeting between Secretary Ca
Isle and the New York bankers at ths
; house OF President Williams. Of ths
! Chemical national bank, and eaid thsI
the reports we're convincing testimonv
that the panic had been made to orde.
and had been manufactured expresslv
Tor the occasion. II had two purposes
lone 'orce the government To issns
0onos' ana oneto destroy silver a.
money metal.
One Of tho picturesq 10 expressions
was that the crack OF the slave driver's
wnip had been transferred from South
Carolina to New York and Boston.
where II came from lot of cold blood !.
ed Shylocks, whose proteges and ances.
tors Shakespeare had found and immor.
talIzed. Others Of them were: nj
never knew one Of your great finsuciers
10 know enough 10 last over Sunday. II
never knew one Of them TO make pro.
phecy that proved tros except IL wss of
the character and kind now under de-.
liberation, where they have deliberately
gone to work and by bold, bad, crimi.
nal conspiracy, brought about the con.
ditions cf which they are complaining !"
i don't know anything about the Dol. \
tiles Of this paper. do not kn o that
any one else does. am told tn q Il r. :
sort OF mugwamp- = neither ish nor
fiesn nor good smoked herring"
Mr.. Martin said that be regarded the Z
repe bill ss 90 BAT, 90 wicked, 90 crueI.
90 remorssless. 90 unjust, that he felt I
)ustine In res0rtiug 10 every coustitu.
fionsl right to defeat Il He would do !
20 ITO the last instant OF recorded time u
An be added that three. .fourths OF
me Democratic party believed a. he
In another section Of hia speech Mr.. :
Martin declared bis belief that n the
question Of the unconditional repeal Oft
no Sherman act were submitted 70 the !
people Of the United States, there would /
70 majority Of millions sgaiust Il.
''Unfortunately." ssid Mr. Martin.
'bsnkers, their dependents, their bench. b
neu. their hirellngs, their Hsssians and ID
u the classes OF men depending upon q
hem for living, have eavored TO 3
ontroi the trade and traffic and com. C
nerce OF the country. You hear their d
oice. They throng the corridors offo
bic capital. They ere heard In tho b,
ommittee rooms, whispering their
olden stories In our ear. But there
'ill be day Of reckoning. The plain tb
eople, the men who work and labor. ce
'ho sweat and toll will yet DO heard. ev
nd when that day OF reckoning comes Il
who hath stood In the way OF their -,
Ill. will be crushed % bet cen the up. er
Dr. and nether mill stones. They will Or
> powdered 10 DEATH" lei
would substitute for The National iii
lnking currency, gold and ailver, the II,
institutional coin OF the country.
ould not have the Treasury converted
to junk shop for anything = wheat be-
cotton or barley, o. beer and hence lac
have never favored the purchase ofIgr,
YER bullion or the Issue OF silver certi. be
'ates or gold certificates. I would 70 'sh,
ck to the Democratic system OF issu. us'
8 promises to pay -greenb backs - % asl
ey wore issued under the sdministrs. cd
IN Of Mr.. Van Buren," In