Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-10-28
lie lNNoceNTs eerRAYep.

THE lNNOcENTS BETRAYED.
In all that has been said in and out Of
the Senate. about courtesy, no one has
explained or vindicated the absence Of
courtesy exhibited by the slverite
minority.
According to the ordinary rules of
courtesy those men would not have
talked when they had nothing to say,
much less would they have compelled
other persons to listen to them The
minority claimed the protection Of Sen
atorial courtesy to be discourteous to the
majority. Not only so, but they made
speeches which would be discourteous
even in a bar room.
Senator Stewart has said things about
President Cleveland, which the Senate
ought not TO hear Senator Butler was
abusive and offensive; Senator Nor
gan initiated the manners and
speech of bully. These things
we're not courteous in themselves.
They offered an opportunity for inter
ference, even if the majority or the
Vice President. did not wish TO stop the
dilatory debate. They were not stopped,
but worse still, those Democratic
Senators-compromis Of themselves
and Of the platform-never interposed q
word Of defense for President Cleveland
or Secretary Carlisle. They sat through
it all TO the disgust of the country and
the humiliating qualification of them.
selves.
After all of this, after the country has
become, in certain sense, nauseated
with the silly spectacle of respectable,
grave old men sitting there for eight
weeks in the helpless insanity of a self
imposed inactivity, they suddenly turn
and whine that Carlisle has betrayed
them; that Cleveland is perfdious.
That is too bad. They had no means
Of knowing that Carlisle was in favor of
the unconditional repeal, specified by the
platform, of the Sherman Silver Purchase
law; and, they actually believed that
Cleveland owned stock in silver mine.
Hence, they we're astonished when word
came that neither one of those Democrats,
both Of whom subscribed to the platform,
on which one Of them was elected to the
highest office in the world. declaring that
the silver law should be repealed, would
agree to continue to buy silver bullion.
They thought that Cleveland. and Car
Isle too, would be only too glad to show
their reverence for Senatorial courtesy
and their willingness to yield to the
reasonable demands of the modest and
struggling silver miners.
It is pity that those innocent babes
should have been so dreadfully deceived.
Cleveland, however, is such trimmer,
he had said so many pleasant and favorable
things about silver, that they had right
to expect that he would agree to expend
$50, 0O0,0 600 more of the peoples money,
out of a depleted Treasury, TO buy more
Of 1t. They could not expect any less
than that. They could not imagine that
Carlisle would betray them; that Cleve-
land would deceive Carlisle.
How sad the shock; how rude tn,
} awakening.
Poor innocentsl The sympatheti,
! heart of the country bleeds fol
them.
Aud yet what have they been doing
Fave they not been betraying and de-
ceiving themselves Have they not beer
3 msking so many apes and asses o
themselves in listening helplessly t,
that silver drivel under the pretens
- that Senatorial courtesy" was sucl
I an awful and profoundly sacred Coz
and Magog of beast that the minorit,
might abuse its worship TO insuffsrabl
indnity, while the majority could no
Q use it, save it or protect it,
It really be true that Clevelau,
e set trap and caught those insan
r worsh ipeis of a fetch. he deserve
credit If he could have sent some oil
e woman into the Senate with slipper {
d spank lot of grown daft. self-coniirme,
I imbeciles. the country would not hav
T dlsapproved or regretted
o What does the Senate deserve iron
n Cleveland2 How the Senators expec
u anything but contempt and ignominy-
body of grave Legislators which imag
q ines that It must listen to Stewart an
e Jones and Teller aud to the insuiIeI
II able PETER, even. as long as those mel
choose to usurp the right 10 talk an
e claim the privilege of stopping the pro
e gress Of the maiorty-is a mystery be
: yond the comprehension of plain man
a who Is not a Senatorial courtief.
2 IL is difficult to conceive where pity
/ commiseration, sympathy or respect cal
II come in for the Senators, especially 70
the compromisers.
( ACTOR EMMETT ARRESTED In GOTHAM