The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-31
BY A LARGE MAJORITY.
The Vote Was 240 For and 1O9 Against Tremendous Vote For Re-
 pea1ers.
Bland's Free Coinage Proposition Re
 jected by Vote of 225 ,o I23.

| biAnUs rFeS OOtubbe ffDputiiioD tst- jected by Vote of 225 ,o 123. WASHINGTON, August 28.-In speaking of the great debate which closed in the house Saturday, an | experienced observer notes the su- periority in generalship manifested on the side of the "repealers." He says:
 "Mr. Bland used all the best speakers in the earlier stages of the battle and, although his opponents never let their side fall I behind at any stage of the debate, Mir. Wilson held back in overwhelming array his best speakers who followed each other at intervals throughout the day hurling at the opposition eloquence, facts and arguments that have over whelmed them even if they reserved all their best men for the last day. As it was but one MT. Bland put up during the entire day and evening attracted any particular attention, and that was the humorous Mir. Allen, of Missis- sippi, who was entertaining, but not convincing. Even Mr. Bland, himself, when he arose to reply to the great speech delivered by Mir. Cochran received only slight attention from the floor and gal. leries.
 It is almost pathetic to see the old man, broken in health, who has given the best sixteen years of his life to the Tree coinage cause, and who everybody believes sincere in his ideas of finance, standing there in the face of inevitable defeat talking to thinning galleries and empty chairs on the floor that had been filled but few minutes before by throngs who listened in wrapt at tention for nearly two hours to every word that fell from the lips of the great New York orator.
 Mr. Wilson's forces included ex. Speaker Reed of Maine, Mr. Cock ran of New York, MT. Wilson, him self, Mr. Boutelle of Maine, and Messrs Tracey and Fellows of New York. It will be hard to get to- gether a stronger array of speakers on the monetary question in the house. It will probably be a long time before an opportunity is afforded for listening to such list of speakers on the same side of any question.
 On the same day Mir. Bland op- posed to this array Mir. Dearand of Missour Mr. Williams of Illinois, Mir. Allen of Mississippi, Mr. Bland himself, Mir. McMillan of Tennessee, MT. Fithian of Illinois, and Mir. Hudson of Kansas, men who for the most paIt are little known, and who compared very unfavorably with the men they were put against. It was, for the most part, like an swering cannous with pop-guns.
 GLANDS SUBSTITUTE DEFEATED,
 WASHINGTON, August 2S.--The leaders of the house attracted the usual amount of attention as they came upon the floor.
 Mir. Reed came in at II 20. His form towering above all of his as- sociates on the floor, and being particularly noticeable because of his suit of Kent icky tow, enlivened by deep red four in hand scarf. General Tracy and Mir. Bland
 were busily engaged in conference
 with their lieutenants preparing for the decisive count of votes.
 Lofe Pence, the enthusiastic
 Populist from Colorado, was earn estly assured by Amos Cummings, of New York, that the end was not yet despite the apparent defeat of the advoeat ss
 of free coinage.
 l Bourke Cockran dld not appear until after the speakers gavel fell,
 but Messrs. Harter, Ray ner and Tom
 c. Johnson, anti-silverites, beamed
 with anticipation of victory.
 When the speaker com.
 manded order at l2 o'clock nearly every seat in the hall was filled with
 unmistakable evidence of general
 and individual interest of the matter
 in hand.
 Chaplain Hadaway prayed briefly
 and in voice inaudible at distance
 of more than ten feet from his desk
 He asked for the especial gift of
 wisdom and judgment 10 rightly
 settle the great question before the
 house.
 After the reading of the journal
 MT. Weaver, of New York, ap-
 peared before the bar of the house
 on the arm of his colleague, Gen.
 Tracey, and was sworn in by the
 speaker.
 A resolution contained in the or.
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