The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-09-12
A Southern Senator's Sensible
Remarks.

White House, where he had been in
vited TO attend conference, lis not
}, prejudiced against those Democrats
who are opposed to his financial policy
as far as il has been announced; and
he IL fully aware Of the extent OF this
opposition in the West and South.
He believes that the wisdom Of first
repeating the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, which has been
NO greatly denounced by the business
men OF the country, and which was
explicitly promised by the Chicago
platform, will be SO apparent after the
entire financial policy of his admins
tration shall have been made public
that all divisions will soon be forgot
ten. The first step to be taken is, m
his opinion, to stop the purchase OF
silver; but he bears no ill-will to-
wards those who differ with him, be-
lieving that they are as honest in their
belief as he is in his. The only rea-
son that he has not announced the
financial policy of his administration
is that it is not yet fully determined
upon. Mind you, it is no task of a.
day, week, or month to reconstruct
the financial system of country of
S5,000,000 people, which has been
growing from bad to worse under
Republican legislation, until 1t is today
as bad as it could well be, and finan-
cM reform has become the most ur-
gent necessity Of the time. Grover
Cleveland has proven himself to be a
man worthy to be trusted, and can
see no reason why every Democrat
should not repose the most implicit
trRss in him in this emergency, even
if tneir personal opinions do differ
from his as to means to be used to
reach the desired end--the restoration
Of prosperity to the country at large,
not to few favored men, but to every
body. am, and have always been,
what is known as silver man, but |
,<shalI unhesitatingly vote for the un-
conditional repeal Of the purchasing
Seiause OF the Sherman silver law"
The House added amendment after
amendment to the new rules reported
by the committee on Rules, until they
stand as adopted almost the same as
they were in the last House. Theo-
retically no Democrat finds any fault
with the liberality with which the
rules treat the right OF the minority,
y but there is reason to fear that when
the tariff bill, the bill for the repeal of
the Federal election laws, and other
measures against which the Republic
cans will be disposed to fillibuster,
gets before the House they will be
found too lenient towards the minori-
ty. tits an old and true maxim that
ssthe devil must be fought with fire"
Msk many think that it would have
been wisdom to have followed the
precedent set by the Republicans in
the Fifty first Congress and have made
hhe rules stringent enough to control
theminority whenit was desired.
"Much ado about nothing" is all the
talk about the votes in the Senate this
week. With twenty Senators absent
the silver Senators defeated Senator
Voorhees, on two propositions--oDe to
go into executive session while Sena-
tor Stewart was making his long
speech, and the other to adjourn. The
rkyotes have absolutely no significance
as far as the final result is concerned.
The situation stands precisely as 1t did
befbre---the bill will be debated rea-
s0hable time, unless an agreement is
reached setting time to vote, and
then an attempt will be made to force
q vote. To say how that attempt will
result is merely TO express an individ-
ual opinion or to make guess.
49,
Since President Cleveland made an
address at the opening of the Pam
American Medical Congress. now in
session, there has been decided "let
up" on the silly stories about his being
.<sn bad health, stories which never had
any better foundation than the ina
ginations of their disseminators.
~**
Senator Morgan, of Alabams, this
week introduced concurrent resolu-
tion for the appointment Of joint
coa31hittee on finance, 10 be composed
Of seven Senator'S and seven members