Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-11
LYING AND SAUCY.
The Way Teller Characterizes
the Metropolitan Press.
HE DOESN'T PUT 1T JUST THAT WAY.

But Says That the Molder of Public Opfn-
ion Is 'Mendacious and Impudentr-
Feigned Astonishment and Indignation
at Recent Alleged Telegram from the
President - The New Arrival at the
White House Quite Distinguished.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-At the very out
set OF his speech on The repeal bill in the
senate Teller opened on the press. He
sad that senators were lectured, ordered
to proceed with hot haste against the
senate's traditions, Snd the motives of
those senators who Offered with the edi-
tors impugned. He should do his, duty
not deferred by newspaper attaches or
chamber of commerce appeals He read
an editorial in the New York World, in
the form of n letter to himself, in which he
Was told that his state had too much repre-
sentatlon in the senate. Other metropoli-
tan journal, had devoted much space to
this point. This question had been settled
by the fathers Of the republic, and he re-
ferred to Rhode Island and Vermont as
states that had less than half the popula-
ton OF Colorado, as reply to press filings
at that and other western states.
Pressure on House Members.
He defined that the public at large had
demanded the repeal of the Sherman act,
and referring to the action of the house on
the repeal bill quoted Washington dis
p itch to the New York Herald which
spoke of the pressure which the admins
tration WAS to exert on the house and
senate for the passage of the repeal bill
He was told that the Herald was supposed
to speak by authority on all these subjects.
He did not know what the opportunities
OF the Herald correspondent had been for
Obtaining the information which he pro-
fessed to have got; but the statements in
that organ of the executive had gone with
out rebuke, without any qualification,
without any explanation. and therefore,
with the presidents approval
Quotes More Newspaper Facts
Teller next took up the New York Amer
lean aud read a dispatch from its Washing
ton correspondent stating that the negotia-
tions for the surrender of the silver Demo
Gratis in the senate were at an end; that
the administration insisted on uncondi-
tional surrender; that Senator Vest was
now the angriest man against the admin
istration that could be found in the coun-
try, and had threatened to Ioin in delay
ing action and that Senator German was
SO convinced that the vote could not be
taken soon hat he was going to take his
family 10 the Chicago exposition tor for
night. He said that he would yield the
floor to any senator whose name was men
toned in the rticle.
Vest Concludes to Make a Statement.
Vest did not avail himself Immediately
OF the offer; but after few remarks made
by Teller he rosa and said that as II matter
of course the senator from Colorado did
not expect any of the senators mentioned
to make a deliberate reply TO such news
paper squibbs. "Oh, i do not, said Tel
Ter. "Of course not" said Vest. THAT
would exhaust the time of the senate and
the strength of each senator in it, want,
however, to make one statement, lest my
silence should be taken as consent to such
statements, irresponsible as they are "
He then said that he knew nothing of the
alleged ultimatum, nor did any of his as
sociates and concluded as follows: LAS
to what is stated in regard to my action
about delay, it is simply and uncondition-
ally false and the product of newspaper
imagination melted by newspaper ri
valry."