The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-07
ALLEN ON HEWITT.
Private John, OF Mississippi, 1soasts Abram
in Elegant Style-Laugh is on the Scold-
ing Ex-Mayor-Mr. Patterson, OF
Tennessee Comes in for Share
OF Kidicule.

First Congressional District of Missis-
sippi, made good speech in The House
to-day. BANDS bill to coin the seig-
niorage was up for discussion. Mr..
Allen got the floor and proceeded to
make fun of Abram Hewitt's speech
before the Southern Society in New
York. Mr.. Allen took occasion to
touch up his brother member, Josiah
Patterson, the member Of Congress
from Memphis.
The speech was full of good hits and
kept the House in spasm Of laughter
At the same time the speech had a
good ring to it and it expressed the po-
sition of the great majority Of the
Southern members, who stand for the
free coinage of silver and gold and in
sist that they have as much right to
frame financial policy for this gov
ernment as the New York bankers,
who assume to know it all when it
comes to National finances.
Mr.. Allen said:
II was panied beyond measure to
read..a few days ago in the public press
that the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, of
New York, did not regard me as great
as Calhoun, Slidell, Soule and some Of
the rest of those men who preceded
me. ILaughter.J
"Now, that is a revelation to me. [
had never suspected that was not as
great as those men until Mr.. Hewitt
said se." Laughter.
Mr.. Bryan-Maybe he does not know
you personally.
Mr.. Allen-That is the trouble. He
does not know me personally. That is
where it stings. Laughter.
ut is utterly without excuse. The
truth is, regard Mr.. Hewitt's remarks
as somewhat personal to me because
was t. have spoken at the very dinner
at which he delivered this speech.
Laughter Now, I have laid awake
many a night trying to meet Mr.. Hew-
tits approval-[laughter]-and one of
the great obstacles in my meeting the
approval of Mr.. Hewitt is, while Mr..
Hewitt is one of the best of men when
he is asleep, he is troubled some with
insomnia lGreat laughter.I have one
consolation when think Of myself and
the great majority of my colleagues
from the South having incurred his
displeasure, and that consolation grows
out of the fact that having known Mr..
Hewitt for some years and having
talked with him freely, I have never
known any man, or set of men, who
entirely met his approval except MIR.
Hewitt himself. Laughter
"If he had lived in the days when
common scolds were ducked Mr..
Hewitt would have been drowned long
before this. Laughter.
WE HAVE HAD MANY TRIALS.
"Mr. Chairman, the people Of the
South have had a great deal to endure.
/ shall not refer 10 the fact that they
passed through a terrible war, for be-
lieve that has been referred to here
once before-lL Laughter but, sir, they
have had great deal to contend with
since that time. They have had
drought, eye ssimoons, epz0otlc IN
the horses, sis in the cattle,
cholera among the sssssgs and the
chickens, :hey have hal various dis
eases and pestilences; they have seen
their crops depreciate; they have had
to contend with mortgages when they
had no money to pay them, but
throughout all these trials>and tribula-
tons they have exhibited something of
brave and courageous spirit; and now,
Just to think that the one thing cher
ished most of others, the one sustaining
prop that they had, amid all these
these disasters, the idea Mr.. Hewitt
approved them-to think that that last
prop is taken away, and that after all,
Mr.. Hewitt does not approve them.
| [Laughter.l
"Why, gentlemen, rather than have
had this cruel disaster come upon my
people I would have paid silver dollar
out of my own pocket. [Laughter.] L
REPUDIATEs JosIAH's APOLOGY.
"Mr. Chairman, l am sorry to see
that my friend from Tennessee, Colonel
Patterson, is not in his seat, because I
want to say a word to him. He is my
neighbor and my friend. He is az
honest, Intelligent, hard-working re-
preventative. I do not know that l
would refer to the matter am going
to talk about now if it had not already
been mentioned in this debate. /
simply wish to repudiate, so far as l
am concerned, the apology which the
gentleman from Tennessee is said to
have made for me and my sort in re-
spending to ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech
in New York lately.
~ have here what purports to be a
report of Colonel Patterson's speech.
II will read a few extracts from it.
After stating that the Southern repre-
sentatives in Congress were generally
opposed to the financial views of New
York he went on to make these re-
marks.
HARD TO RECONCILE.
"He was speaking in New York, and
I confess it is right hard for a man to
maintain the parity between speech
that is acceptable in New York and
one that would be acceptable to his con
stituents in Hardiman County, Tenn.
Laughter.l