The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-28
ALLEY SCORES BEWITT.
The witty Missis,ippian Also Has word
f. Judge Patterfon.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. A.-Ourins
his speech in the House of Representa-
tiveg to-day John Allen, Of Mississippi,
tool, occasion 10 reply 10 the attack upon
southern statcsmanship, made by ex-
Navor Abram $ Hewitt at the banquet
of the Southern Society i'm New YORK re-
Gently.
He had been pained, he SAID 70 ieath
that he was i'm disfavOr with Mr. be"ltt,
but he was consoled with the hno~ledbe
that Mr.. Hewitt had never approved any
body but himself. lie sain 'nat II ,ne
punishment of ducl,ing for common scoids
had been i'm vogue in recent years. Hewitt
would long ago have been drowned Ihen,
referring to the subsequent speecn or Mr..
Patterson, Mr.. Allen saii'
A word 10 Colonel Patterson.
.Nfr Chairman. / am sorry TO see that
my friend from Tennessee, Colonel Pat
terson. is not I'm his seat because
want 10 saw a. word 10 him. lie Is my
neiphbor and my friend. He is an hon
est. intelligent, hard-worling representa-
five do not know that ! would refer 10
the matter / am going to tax ABOUT
now. if il had not already been MENTION
ed in this debate ] simply wish u re-
pudlate so far as / am concerned thc
apologv which the gentleman from Ten
and nv sort I'm responding to eX-Mayor
Hn,vitt's sDeech i'm New York lately. l
have here what purpOrts 10 be report
of Colonel PattersOn's speech. 1 VIII
read a few extracts from lt. Atter
stating that the Southern representatives
I'm Congress were generally opposed to the
financial views of New York, he went
on TO make these remarks. lie was
speaking in New York, and / confess IL
is right hard for a man 10 maintain the
parity between a speech that Is accep-
table I'm New York and one that would
be accountable to his constituents In Har-
diman county. Tennessee. Uaushter)
"He said: For more than twenty years
every state platform has contained
plank for the free coinage Of silver. These
men have been brought up to believe IN
it without question. They believe IT, they
are bound to believe it, just as the Bdp-
list the Catholic, or the Presbyterian,
without reading in the Bible, is one be-
cause his father WAS. SO these cpcirinfs
have become part OF the Democratic
belief there, and these fellows have iol-
lowed them blndly. Iaughter) / was
in the same condition when ! went to
Congress. Q.aughter) l believed in free
silver and lots Of other things. i suppose
the gentleman has ceased TO believe any
thing now. Gaughter) But ] soon be-
gan to study these things, and, under the
leadership Of Grover Cleveland, who is
the only man I'm the country who could
have piloted the ship Of state through
these stormy times, ! learned the correct
principles Of sound currency. V6reat
laughterl These other men of the South
are true Democrats. and they love their
country
Il thank him for that" said Mr.. Allen.
"IIe says, further: They have simply
followed tradition
Graduated. then Came Ia Congress.
"Ah. gentlemen, let me tel you that
when you separate yourselves from the
doctrines Of Democracy, as you have
learned ana held them from the time You
were born up to the present, when You
cut yourselves loose from the proud tradi-
tions OF that party and set out TO study
under some new prophet, you are very
liable 10 get tangled in your Democratic
harness Oaughter) l confess, Mr..
Chairman, that l have been brought up
to believe I'm some Of the things by tra-
dition, but, unlike my friend from Ten
nessee, Colonel Patterson, I studied public
questions before 1 came TO Congress
Q-aughter) / came here because l had
studied them. That Is why my people
selected me out and sent me here. They
did not send me 10 Congress 10 school, as
Colonel Patterson seems 10 have been
sent G.aughter) They sent me here 10
maintain and carry out as far as l could
the great Democratic principles that they
had received from their fathers, and
hope. by the help of God. and the con-
sttuency of the First congressional dis
trct of Mississippi 10 do IL. daughter and
applause)
"Col. Patterson says further: Mr.. Car
isle has said that he did not mind
having the seigniorage coined. II that bAl
becomes q law il does not mean dis
aster II may be mistake. 10 is only the
last gum OF retreating army. The men
in New York who dread free silver ere
unnecessarily alarmed.
And elsewhere ne says: If the bill TO
coin the seigniorage passes it is merely
TO let these Southerners 40 of the field
of battle with their side arms Uaugh-
ter)
"AIr Chairman. we have asked no
terms. We have not asked 10 be permitted
to carry off our side arms. We have not
asked to be permitted 10 fire the last
gun of q retreating army. So far as
am concerned. / do not believe that the
retreat has begun at all. / DO not be-
lieve that we are yet ready 10 capitulate
on this question.
Apologies for His Friend
"Now. l want TO say a word for Colonel
Patterson. as he is not here to say il for
himself. 1 desire, so far as l am con-
cerned, 10 repudiate the gentle mans apol-
ogy made for me. l owe no apology 10
the people of New York; ] do not propose
TO make any. and do not propose 10 nave
any made for me. But ] do not thinh
any man ought TO be held down to very
rigid account for an after-dinner speech
at a banquet. Why, sir. ] recollect not
long ago / went 10 a banquet in Baltimore,
where everything was so good, wnefe 1
was surrounded by 50 many rich men,
that by the time IL became my turn 10
sneak / felt so well l addressed them as
'fellow-capitalists. Gaughter) As ! am
aware of the influence surrounding pan
ouet. II 1 were not perfectly tamiiiar
win the abstemious habits OF my friend
Of Tennessee. / would have thought on
reading this speech that he had gotten
somewhat under the same influence that
another Tennesseean did that traVenns
man told me about. The story was ABOUT
!, ragged seedy. hard-looking fellow, VINO
learned that the travelling man knew his
brother living IN Kaufman county. Tex.
,chc Texas brother was well on, ana the