Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01

language and by an orator Of the
commanding power and the well.earncd
right to tell thcm that Mr.. Hewitt
possesses. With the spectacle of the
House of Representatives frittering
away day after day, under the leader.
ship-God save the marli-of such a
crank as Bland, in the abortive con-
sldcration of schemes for "coininG the
seigniorage," after the paralyzing fnan.
cial lesson of last summer--a measure
OF insanity that, thank Heaven, could,
under no conceivable conditions, escape
a Presidential veto, even should it
manage to get through both houses-it
was time for such man to publicly dc.
plore in language that the nation cannot
avoid hearing and pondering the dc.
cadence of craftsmanship that could
descend to the serious consideration of
a proposition to "coln a vacuum, even
worse than that-a negative quantity on
the other side" II was time for South.
ern Congressman, inflicted with the
bugaboo of Populism to the misrcpre-
sentation of the southern people, to be
told that they must learn that "public
credit cannot be maintained until all
concerned realize that there is no royal
road to value" 1t was time that they
were reminded that the Senators and
congressman who have not learned this
elementary truth are "as pigmies com
pared with the intellectual giants"
whose memory has made the South
proud of her former sons.
1t was time, also, that the fallacy that
positions on the supreme bench are to
be dictated by such little local politi-
clans as now misrepresent the great
state Of New York should be dealt with
in the robust words;
1t must be recognized that the Supreme
Court bench represented the whole United
states, and that everybody had right to
demand that it be filled without regard to
politics or locality. Ii is not a football
for ward politicians to kick about from
one end of the United States to the other.
such men as Calhoun. Benton, Reeves and
crawford would have resigned their high
positions in the Senate and gone home in
sackcloth and ashes rather than abandon
n principle such as this to man without
character or worth, and who had no right
to speak for the great State of New York.
1t was time for the unpalatable truth
to be told that the course of Southern
Congressman and Senators, on the silver
question, on the judiciary question, and
in the petty dallying of some of them
with regard to items of the Tariff bill,
was the result of Grass ignorance" and
that there was mo greater enemy Of tho
public interests than the fool who
stepped in where angels feared to tread"
Of course much that Mr.. Hewitt said
is equally applicable to those Republi.
cans of the Chandler-H oar- Higgins
stripe who were disloyal enough to the
teachings of true craftsmanship to take
advantage Of partisan opportunity to
aid with all their power in making the
Supreme Court the football Of ward
politicians. But he was speaking to
gathering composed mainly, if not
wholly, of Democrats, and he spoke to
them as one having authority. And he
spoke words that will be heard all over
the land. 1t was speech that will
help amazingly to clear tho air, and In
its utterance Mr.. Hewitt has rendered
the nation great public service.