The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-03-07

pudist.d by Aller, but the Apoloslse is
Excused tor Cluse-Ples for Pa riot
ism
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2s-In the
course of his speech in the House today
Representative Allen of Mississippi
said: Twas panied beyond meas sure TO
read few days ago in The public press
that Hon. Abram 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. (Laugh-
ter.) No, that is g revelation to me. l
had never suspected that was not as
great as these men, until Mr.. Hewitt
said so. Uauguter)
Mr.. Bryan: Maybe e0oes not know
you personally.
Mr.. Allen: That is the trouble. He
does know me personally. That is
where it stlngs. Iaughter) 1t is ut.
terly without excuse. The truth IS, /
regard Mr. Hewitt's remark as some
what personal to me, because was TO
have spoken at the very dinner at
which be delivered this speech. (Laush-
ter.) And one of the great obstacles ID
my meeting the approval of Mr.. Hewitt
Is that while Mr.. Hewitt is one of the
best of men when be is asleep, he IS
troubled some with insomnia. (Great
laushter.)
Ihave one consolation, when shlnk
of myself and the great majority OF my
colleagues from the South having In
CURED his displeasure, and that conSo-
lation grows out of the fact that hay
ing known Mr.. Hewitt for some years
and haying talked with him freely, l
have never known any man OF set OF
men who entirely met his approval,
except Mr.. Hewitt himself. Naugh-
ter.) If he had liyed in the days when
common scolds were ducked, Mr.. HeW-
lit would have been drowaed before
this. Qaughter)
Mr. Chairman, the people OF the
South have had great deal to endure.
I shall not refer to the fact that they
passed through a terrible war for I think
that has been referred to here once De-
fore. Laughter)' But sir, they have
had a great deal to contend with since
that time. They have had drought,
cyclones, simoons, epizootic in the
horses, tuberculosis in the cattle, chol-
era among the hogs and the chickens
they have had various diseases and pes
tilences, they have seen their crops
depreciate, they have had to contend
with mortgages when they ehaa no
money to pay them, but throughout all
these trials and tribulations, they have
exhibited something Of a brave and
courageous spirit; and now, Just to
think that the one thing cherished
NEST of all others, the one sustaining
prop that they had amid all these dis,
asters, the idea that Mr.. Hewitt ap-
proved them-to think that that last
prop is taken away, and that, after all,
Mr.. Hewitt does not approve them.
Oaughter) Why, gentlemen, rather
than have had this cruel disaster come
upon my people, [ would have paid a
silver dollar out of my own pocket.
Gaughter.) ----
Mir. Chairman, I am sorry to see that
my friend from Tennessee, Col. Fat
terson, is no. in his seat, because L
want to say a word to him. He is my
neighbar, and my friend. He Is an
honest, intelligent, hard working rep
resentative. | 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. SIM
ply wish to repudiate, so far as am
concerned, the apology which the gen
tieman from Tennessee Is said to have
made for me and my sort in respond
ing to ex-Mayor HeWist's speech IN
New York lately.
have here what purports to be re-
port OF. Col. PatteIson's speech. l VIII
read few extracts from it. After
stating that the Southern Representa-
tives IN Congress were generally op-
posed to the financial view OF New
York, he went on to make these re-
marks. He was speaking III New YORK,
and I confess it IS right hare for man
to maintain the parity between speech
that is acceptable in New \ ork and one
that would be acceptable to his con.
stituents in Eardeman county, Ten
nessee. daughter 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 with
out question. They believe it. They
are bound to believe it, just as the Bap-
tist, the Catholic, or the Presbyterian,
without ever reading in the Bible, is
one because his father was. So these
doctrines haye become a part of the
Democratic belief there, and these fel-
lows have followed them blindly.
Laughterl l was in the same condl-
tion when went to Congress. (Laugh.
teri 7 believed in free silver and lots
of other things" Isuppose the gentle
man has ceased to believe anything
now. Naughter.) but 1 soon began
to study these things, and under the
leadership of Grover Cleveland, who is
the only man in the country who coulo
have pioted the ship Of State through
these stormy times, I learned the cor
rect principles of souLd currency.
(Great lapghter) These other men OF.
the South are true Democrats and they
love their country" thank him for
that, said Allen. He says further:
"They have simply followed tradition"
All! gentlemen let me tell you that when
YOU separate yourselves from the doc
trines of Democracy as you have learned
and held them from the time you we're
born up to the present, when you cut
yourselves loose from the proud tradl-
tions of that party and set out to study
under some new prophet, you are very
liable to get tangled in your Democratic
harness. daughter.
confess, Mr.. Chalrmas, that l baVe
been brought up to believe in some Of
these things by traditions, but unlike
my TREND from Tennessee, Col. Patter-
SOD, ! studied public questions before I
came to Congress. Laughter) came
here because, I had studied them. That
is Why my people selected me out and
sent me here. They did not send me to
Congress to school, as Col. Patterson
seems to have been sent. Laughter.)
They sent me here to maintain, and
carry out as far as I could, the great
Democratic principles that they had re-
ceiYed from their fathers, and hope by
the help of God and the constituency IN