The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-11-02
Capital Notes.


the PETERS, the Aliens, and various
other wind bags that make up the
United States Senate. When will it
ever end? That has been the ques-
tion that has been agitating the
country. The trouble is that these
men are doing more to injure the
cause of silver, as money, than if they
would allow unconditional repeal to
pass. Let us look at the matter
plainly. If unconditional repeal
should pass, and there should be
nothing done to make use of silver as
money, and it was found that some
thing should be done for silver, the
people at the next general election
would elect President and a con-
gress that would carry out their will.
The silver advocates make use of the
assertion that if this bill passes it
will be the end of silver as money in
this country. If that is true and if
the people will accept any such con-
ditions then it is proof that it ought
to go. They will right any great
wrong that congress might inhict.
The same is true in relation to free
coinage of silver 1t ought to be tried
and if disasters follow the people
will elect congress which will repeal
the law. Let us try these experiments
with our currency. First repeal the
Sherman law and if we do not get
along we'll, then pass free silver law.
An incident of the debate is of es-
pecial interest to the people of Mime
sofa. It might appear that in the
sparring match between Washburn,
of Minnesota, and Morgan of Alaba-
ma, that because Morgan had the last
word, he had the best of the argu-
-ment. But it was in Morgan's time,
and he could, of course, have the last
word. Then he ran it down to the
old absurdity of a personal encounter.
"Pistols and coffee for two," an old
ante-bellum day argument was the
climax Of Morgan's talk. Of course
it was absurd. i have yet to see a
southern man, either in the House or
Senate, when he is getting the worst
of some argument, and when he
loses his temper, who does
not throw himself on "the code." All
thoughtful men regard him as an ass
for making such an exhibition of him
self. The day of the southern bully
has gone for all practical purposes,
though he will not, during this gener-
alton, refrain from making his bluffs.
Everybody realizes that Senator
Washburn acquitted himself with
dignity, when the Alabama ex-Con-
federate began his bluster about right,
as to continue farther would be ridi-
culous.
I am told that Commissioner
Lochren has been performing the
great feat Of marching up the hill and
now is marching down again. Mean,
while the deserving soldiers are wait
ing for their pensions. In order to
ferret out fraud, which could not be
found, nearly the entire force of the
pension office was engaged. Now the
same force is engaged in restoring to
the rolls the names of the men who
were suspended.
Maj. Baldwin worries more than
any man from Minnesota in Congress.
If constituent writes and complains
about something he has done, he
writes long reply explaining This
keeps him busy and does little good.
Constituents will always complain
and it takes an expert to explain.
Capt. Lemon, the we'll known pen
sion attorney of this city, who has
come in for more abuse than any
man outside of public life, in the
Democratic press, because he has
been instrumental in getting pensions
for Union soldiers, tells me story of
Lincoln that I do not remember to
have seen in print. 1t was after the
wilderness and Capt. Lemon, who had
been wounded, was stationed here in
Washington. There. followed series
of victories by Grant in the campaign
before Richmond. Petersburg was