St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-24
AN ASSAULT ON CLEVELAND
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Cleveland in writing his letter to
CHAIRMAN WILSON"
de handed to Mr.. Blackburn and had
the Kentucky senator read the extract
from Washington's farewell address
about the encroachment of the execu-
tive upon the powers of congress- as
subyersiye of the principles Of the re.
public.
He referred to the great political ex-
element attending the Hayes Tilden
controversy and the fear of the concen-
tration of the army at Washington.
Forms OF law had averted that catas-
trophe. There should be, he went on.
no further concentration of power.
Conference committees should be free
from outside influences. 1.-The liberty
of tue senate should not be invaded"
he said in
THUNDERoUs TONES,
though thousand hirelings write US
down and traduce u.s."
The president, he continued, had said
1t would be- dishon0rable TO tax coal and
iron. The house, parrot-like. repeated
the cry. Men who set up high stand
ards" said the senator. SHOULD come
to US with clean hands,"
He urged that the house, IL it had
been consistent. would have placed all
raw material on the free list, and de-
MED that it was in accordance with
Democratic platform declarations TO
place coal and iron on the free list. and
declared that the Democratic platform
did not demand free raw material. MI.
German gave the history OF the conven-
ton OF 'SS and reviewed the platform of
'92 TO prove this position. He quoted
from Cleveland'S letter after his nomi-
patton in 1872. when he declared for
'freer" raw material
Revertipg again to the duty on coal,
Mr.. German argued that 40 cents ton
was purely
A REVENUE DUTY.
Free coal, he said, would give to a
single foreign corporation all the coal
trade from Boston north. Free coal
would not benefit any man or woman in
the country. Who demands il? he
asked. The professional. the theoreti-
cal tariff refofmer said it would cheaper
the cost Of manufacturing, yet mathe-
matically free coal would not give the
New England manufacturer more than
three-fourths Of one per cent of manu-
featuring. There was but one great
concern on the face Of the earth that
wanted free coal. In Nova Scotia there
was deposit of coal as broad and as
rich as any on the face OF The earth.
The government of Canada had coll
trolled it. Five years ago the dominion
go yernmentwas induced to change its
policy. The small leases were wiped
out. The Canadian Pacific, that great
artery Of Great Britain. together with
men from the United States, asso-
ciated themselves together and Sc
cured nlnety-nine- year lease Of
those coal fields ON condition
fhaffhnU m Tn ho q ion
treasury IL cents ton royalty. Ii coal
were free, the Coal of Neva Scotia
would displace that of the United States
in New England, and the treasury of
Canada would be enriched by money
that ought to go into the treasury OF the
United States.
God knows we have enough trusts"
said Mr.. German. Il will never con-
sent to allow this mammoth foreign
corporation to invade Our territory and
take the substance away from our peo-
pie"
Mr.. Germans reference to the sugar
question was in the following words:
MIR. President, there is only one
other serious proposition. as / under
stand 1t. involved in this controversy,
and that is the subject of sugar. Our
friends on the other side. with
GREAT GENERALSuIP,
saw the weak point IN our line from the
beginning. In the construction of the
Mckinley bill they made free sugar the
pivot so that they might increase the
duties on their own wares and the out
put OF their own factories. They at
tempted 10 secure free sugar by fighting
us when we attempted To repress their
Mckinley act, outwitting us by going
back and putting upon the dutiable list
an article which they put upon the free
list. They managed it we'll They
know how TO stir up the animosities and
the feelings which are natural with
us against duties ON anything what
ever. They used the press of their
party to charge all sorts of bad
motives against the men who were in
favor OF putting sugar on the dutiable
list. 9hey twitted us upon the floor,
and you found 1t upon the streets. You
had scarcely gotten into the eonsidera-
ton OF the bill before they wanted to
investigate US and see whether we were
not selling out TO a trust The men
who made the trust became suddenly
yirtuous for the purpose of killing our
bill. They managed il so astutely that
the bill really lost many honest men
inside and outside of this chamber.
There was battle between the two
sides. You have conducted it. if not
upon the highest plane, as we'll as a
Modoc Indian ever conducted a cam
paign. Laughter That you demoral-
lied some OF our forces and made them
run to the bomb-proof house where
they might be safe is true. |
have seen honorable men denouncing,
or rather correcting, in the papers the
horrible statements which have been
put forth 10 demoraliZe them, and it is
not natural that they should have done
SO. But the minority of US are accus-
toned TO shot and shell, but have never
yet f1lnched because we knew that, no
matter now diStastefdl it was TO US per-
Sonally, the votes of the Louisiana SEN
atorS were necessary TO US. We knew
more than that, that a fair duty on
sugar was the first consideration to the
treasury. Your legislation has left US
bankrupt. until we have been COM
PEELED TO sell bonds. We DO not intend.
when we get our bill through, to in
crease the bonded debt. Ii we do not
get our bill through, that may and
probably will happen.
Then reverting to the president he
said: mir. President, l speak Of the
president of the United States with
nothing but
THE KINDEsT FEELING.
81 hayeinever in my life had anything
but the kIndest feeling for him. | be-
lieve he is one of the most remarkable
men ever in public life in the last fifty
years IN any civilized country on the
face of the globe. To elect him the
first time he was candidate | gave INV
constant. unremittlng labor. | stood by
him when he had but few who had the
moral courage to walk through the slime
and filth and uphold him. l supported
his nomination Tor the second time.
though not agreeing with the policy of
his declarations in the message of
1887, and l stood by my friend, the
senator from Ohio (Mr. Bricel. who
gave to the nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
land his substance and his time and
everything that man can give to serve
great Gauss. l stood with him from
the beginning of the campaign to the
end. | was not in favor of Mr.. Cleye-
lands nomination in 1922. as a matter
of policy, but l stood, with the dis.
tinguished senator from Ohio (Mr.
Brice) and the distinguished senator
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