The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-18
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IRsY's MAIDEN EFFORT.
A Threat Against Tariff Reform, and Wig
oeous Dsnunciation OF the President.

IRsY'S MAIDEN EFFORT.
a Threat Against Tariff Reform, and Wig
o-ous Dsnunciation OF the President.
The following is the United Press
report of Senator Irby's first speech
delivered in the Senate last Wednesday:
Smiths speech was followed by one
from Irby, of South Carolina, against
the bill. He was opposed toit, he said,
as man, q senator and Democrat.
He believed in Democratic principles
rs he did in the Bible. Hard on the
Bible" said a Republican Senator in
an undertone.
The people of South Carolina, Irby
said, did not propose to be driven out
Of the Democratic party oy any sell
constituted leaders Of the Democratic
party. They had beeG honestly op-
posed to the nomination of Cleveland,
and were now honestly opposed to the
bill. In his brief remarks to-day he
proposed to draw the line of denarca-
tion between the Democratic party and
the administration methods OF to-day
20 plainly that never again should they
be confronted. His manhood revolted
against the idea Of settling great
National question by the test of physi-
cal endurance. That was both humii-
ating and futile. Representatives Of
Republican States had foisted upon the
Democratic party a nominee who did
not represent it. That was unjust, un.
fair, undemocratic and irregular, and
now it was fagrantly wrong for that
nominee to use the Republican party
TO pass law that meant ruin and de-
s'ruction to the palmer and poorer
class Of the South and the West.
The people of South Carolina wanted
. revision Of tariff, but they were will
ing that that and other public questions
should be relegatsd to the rear for a
quarter of 8 century rather than to see
the financial question settled in the
manner proposed by the administra-
ton. He knew that he represented
the people Of South Carolina when be
declared, as Democrat, that he would
not be eoerced. He despised the pat
ronage which had been so ruthlessly
withheld from 80 per cent. of the hon.
est Democrats of his State. If it were
found necessary to overpower Demo
Gratis with Republican votes in the Sen
ate, he dared to tell Democrats that
they could not revise the tariff. He
did not say this as threat; he said it
with reluctance and deep regret. If
the Democratic administration ruth
lessly and by the aid of Republican
votes overrode the wishes of South
Carolina on this repeal, he for one
would not follow the leader one step.
AS for himself, he would not accept
any compromise short of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver on g ratio
of Is to !, or the complete habilitation
Of silver as money metal.
In conclusion, he appealed to the
Democrats, supporters of the repeal bill,
to halt, as they loved the Democratic
party and its glorious history, as they
loved the priceless boon of civil liberty.
"Eait," he said, "I have. given you
fair warning; and if the Democracy be
now divided, the entire responsibility
must rest upon you." ISome applause
in the galleries.
ANOTHER VIEW OF 1T.
Especial to News and Coulier.]
WASHINGTON, October Ex-senator
Irby made sensational speech in the
Senate to-day, denouncing Cleveland,
and alleging that the President was
nominated in Chicago by delegates
from Republican States. He appealed
to tru- u; nrrrats To halt in th,'i mad
career "f trying to force throuy4 IN
democsati'. measures with the aid Of
Repub. .ican votes. He served notice on
the Senate that he, as the representa-
tive Of the true democracy of South
Carolina, would oppose tariff reform
and other Administration measures, if
unconditional repeal passed.
His remarks created CONSERVATION
among Senators and aroused some .ap-
plause in the galleries.
Il In the great struggle for sound money
now in progress in the Senate both Of
the South Carolina Senators are arrayed
sgainst the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman Act. The debate Of to-day,
which promises to continue TOR an in
definite period, furnished q pretext for
Senator Lrby to make his maiden
speech. AS it was the first time the
'.janior" Senator from the Palmetto
State had addressed the Senate since
be became member of that body there
was more or less curiosity on the part
Of bis Senatorial associates to ''size him
up"
Standing st his own desk, to the ex-
treme right of the Vice Presidents
desk, he read a carefully prepared
speech, which would have been more
appropriate on the stump in South
Carolina than in the chamber Of the
United States Senate.
In denouncing the proposition to re-
peal Internationally the Sherman bill
he dragged in all Of his long pent-up
displeasure with the President. His
denunciation of President Cleveland
was not couched in polished sentences,
but it was sufficiently sensational to
cause murmur of surprise to sweep
over the Senate. he further on aston
isheG his hearers by threatening to dis
regard the pledges of the Democratic
party and oppose tariff reform if the
pending bill should pass. he declared
that his position was in harmony with
the true Democracy Of his State.
His utterances p!aese2 the sensation
alists in the galleries sufficiently to
provoke some applause, but on the
whole the impression he made will not
place him among the leading debaters