Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-07
CORRESPONDENT OBJECTS
To Language Used by the RegIster-Hs
Has His Own News on the Senatorial
ElEnnhInn

To Language Used by the Register-He
Has His Own News on the Senatorial
Situation
CHARLES TowN, w. VA, October 4.
To ts Editor Of the REGISTER:
SR:-I have been a constant reader
of the REGISTER and a subscriber and
friend ever since its present manage
ment and ownership. But / must say,
by way Of friendly criticism, that your
zeal for the administration and its
favorite measure, the unconditional re-
peal OF the Sherman silver bill, is Sc
ducing you Into the use Of ill-cOnsidered
and Incorporate language In denuncia-
ton Of those Democrats who are con
siStently opposing the complete demon
e~tizatiOn OF silver. In an editorial In
yesterdays paper you style the great
Southern Democratic leaders in the
Senate as silver Buccaneers" Now,
let US inquire who these Senators are
whom you d~enounce as buccaneers"
There are thirteen Southern States,
represented by twenty-six Democratic
Senators; Of these only six have declared
In favor Of the VoOrhees-Wilson bill.
AL OF the rest are opposed to the I'M
conditional repeal, and have declared
either for free coinage or a compromise.
The six mOnometallists are Senators
White, Pasco, Gordon, Mills, Lindsay
and Camden-six, all told. The re-
naming twenty are the Senators who
have held the South sOlidly Democrat
lie, and 70 whom Mr.. Cleveland Is in
debted for his two Presidential terms;
they include such men as Morgan,
Vance, Pugh, Vest, Cockrell, Butler,
Call, Harris, Daniel, Hunton, George,
Blackburn and many other illustrious
statesmen, without whom the cast Of
the Democratic party would have been
the play OF Hamlet" with the Prince
of Denmark omitted. These are the men
whom you %denOunce as buccaneers"
Theygre the same men who defeated
the Force bill by the same tactics which
they now, under the guarantees OF the
Constitution and the immemorial priv
iieges Of the Senate, propose to bring
to bear against the destruction Of
silver as cuTrency-a measure
hardly less disastrous 20 the South than
the Force bin itself. But YOU go a step
further, aud plainly intimate you con-
currencs in the revolutionary advice
given by the Philadelphia Record and
the Baltimore sun TO the Vice Presi.
dent: namely, that he, as President Of
the Senate, should declare cloture, after
tae Senate itself had voted it down!
Suppose Vice President Morton had
followed such advice, and declared clo-
ture 10 debate on the Force bill, and
passed that measure by his own fiat,
substituted for the voice of the Senate,
would you not have denounced such &C
ton as u|SurpatiOn and treason?
Aud yet such is the revolutionary
step which you aud the Record and the
Baltimore sun are advising the Vice
President TO take!
Fortunately, your advice will be vain.
Stevenson is a Democrat. he Is,
moreover, q constitutional lawyer, and
a patriot. He may be safely trusted to
maintain the integrity and dignity Of
the Senate and to abstain c%erefully from
|usurpltion and treason.
Tue solution Of this question, as 1t
seems to me, is not very difficult o re-
mote. Instead of the Voorhees-W Wilson
bill we shall have, in spite OF Presiden-
tial opposition, the repeal OF the Sher-
man act accompanied by substantial leg
islation 70 favor Of silver, in lieu Of mere
palaver and empty declaration. Mark
nv prediction. J..