Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-09-27
SENATOR STEWART.

There has been nothing Of late years
that can compare with the rambling and
Indecent speech made by Senator Stewart
OF Nevada In the Senate Monday, on the
resolution offered by him barely forty
eight hours before that the coordinate
branches OF the government must be main.
tained.
Senator Stewart is a silverite, and as no
has already seen that silver is doomed, nc
makes one grand attack-one last charge
in support OF a lost cause, and strikes at
the bright and shining mark of the op-
posing forces, the President himself.
II has often been remarked that when
an attorney has bad case he abuses the
attorney on the other side. And we are
thoroughly reminded of this when we
read the speech OF the Senator from the
wild and wooley West. His speech was
rambling because he saw at to drag in
about everything that by stretching the
imagination might be called pertinent to
the subject under discussion; and IL was
indecent because 1t was an insulting, un-
called-for and personal attack on the
President, the highest official In the land,
the most respected, tne most revered. II
the Senator had no regard for the man, he
should have had fJr the office, and kept
bis wild ideas of decorum in restraint.
In the first place, the Senator finds fault
with the small purchase OF silver. The
treasury statements show the pure base OF
silver at what was offered at the market
price. 1t makes little difference what the
cost OF production IS; II you want to sell,
you must sell at what is offered. And yet
the Senator, In disregard OF this law OF
trade, wants the government to pay fair
price over aud above the cost o. produc-
ton without regard to the market price.
This is a new way Of doing business.
Perhaps II such law as this could be
worked into all trades We would be very
much better OF. We will never see any
thing Of the Kind till the millennium.
Such an attack, and alleging such 8
cause, Is utterly idiotic. His speech from
this point on, was equally as senseless and
disconnected. II the Senator hid just come
from the mad house his rawlings could
not have been worse. The Senator re-
marked that the President had no very
exalted opinion OF either House OF Con-
gress. That is nothing wonderful. II il
is true, the President does not stand
alone. The reason Is there are so many
Of the Stewart kind in each House thai
make people disgusted with them. They
are the little, shriveled, meager, hopping
though, loud and troublesome insects o
the hour.
This delay that the Senator and his III
are causing is damned by everybody. /
is causing untold trouble and the stagna
tion OF business. The time has gone b.
when the nickle-in- slot machine tha
the Senator has played with SO long Wi
work, and the Senator means now I
"bust" things In true Western fashion.
The President, as a fnancier, is ava
and beyond this Nevada product. Thi
attack will do no harm, but only sho,
how helpless and hopeless a.csse the I'll
verites have got. The President cours
is to be commended, and we would rathe
trust ourselves to such Ignorant" Presi
dents as Washington, Jackson, LiDcol
and Cleveland than we would to n
Stewart stamp Of statesmen with the
multitudinous fsllscies and apparent pit
falls.