The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-07

lowed them Dllndly. lLaugater. L
was in the same condition when I went
to Congress. [Laughter.1 believed
in free silver and lots Of other things.
Isl suppose the gentleman has ceased
to believe anything now. Laughter.
'"But ] soon began to study these
things, and under the leadership of
Grover Cleveland, who is the only man
in the country who could have piloted
the ship of State through these stormy
times, learned the correct principles
of sound currency. LGreat laughter.
These other men of the South are true
Democrats and they love their country.
II thank him for that" said Mr.. Allen.
"He says further: They have simply
followed tradition
LIKELY TO GET TANGLED.
"Ah, gentlemen, let ME tell you that
when you separate yourselves from the
doctrines ofDemocracy which you have
learned and held from the time you
were born up'to the present; when you
cut yourselves loose from the proud
traditions of that party and set out to
study under some new prophet, you
are very liable to get tangled in your
Democratic harness. lLaughter.]
II confess, Mr.. Chairman, that I
have been brought up to believe in
some of these things by tradition, but
unlike my friend from Tennessee, Col.
Patterson, T studied public questions
before I came to Congress. Laugh
teri
"I came here because I studied them.
WHY BE IS THERE.
"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.l
They sent me here to maintain and
carry out the great Democratic princi-
pies that they had received from their
fathers, and I hope, by the help Of God
and the constituency in the First Con-
gressional District Of Mississippi, to do
it. Laughter and applause.1 Colonel
Patterson says further: Mr.. Carlisle
says that he does not mind having the
seignioragc coined. If that bill be-
comes law it means disaster. It may
be a mistake. 1t is only the last gun
of retreating army. The men in New
York, who dread free silver, are unne-
cessarily alarmed
"And elsewhere, he says: IF the bill
to coin the seigniorage passes, it is
merely to let these Southerners 60 of
the field of battle with their side arms.
[Laughter.l
"Mr- Chairman, we have asked no
terms. We have not asked to be per-
mitted to carry off our side arms. We
have not asked to fire the last gun of
retreating army. So far as ! am con-
cerned, I do not believe that we are yet
ready to capitulate on this question.
HAS NO APOLOGY TO Ma q
"Now, I want to say word for Co1-
onel Patterson, as he is not here to say
it for himslf. I desire, so far as I am
con eerned, to repudiate the gentle
mans apology made for me. I owe
no apology to the people of New York;
I do not propose to make any; and I
do not propose to have any made for
me. But I do not think any man
ought to. be held down to very rigid
account for an after-dinner speech at a
banquet. Why, sir, I recollect not
long ago, I went to banquet IN Balti-
more, where everything was so good:
where I was surrounded by 80 many
rich men, that by the time it became
my turn to speak I felt so well I ad-
dressed them as Fellow capitalists.
[Laughter.]
"Being aware of the influences sur
rounding banquet, if I were not per-
fectly familiar with the abstemious
habits of my friend from Tennessee, l
would have thought on reading this
speech that he had COTTON somewhat
under the same influence that another
Tenpnesseean did that a travelling man
told me about.
The story was about a ragged, seedy,
hardlooking fellow, who learned that
the travelling man knew his brother
living in Kaufman County, Texas. The
Texas brother WAS we'll off and the
Tennesseean asked the travelling man
if he ever saw bis brother again to tell
him that he was hard up and that if he
was ever going to do anything for him
that was the time. Under the influ-
ence of two or three drinks, however,
things began to brighten with him,
and the last the travelling man heard
from him was a request to tell his
brother in Texas thatif be wanted any
thing just to draw on me- Laugh
ter.
Now, under the influence of one
of these New York banquets," said
Mr.. Allen, "with all they have to eat
and the Accomplishments, one feels by
the time that speaking begins like tel
ling the rest of the world to draw on
him. Laughter
WOULD NOT QUOTE A ABANoCETsPEECH.
"Therefore. I, on my own mo-
ton, would never quote a banquet
speech on anybody, because l do not
think it exactly the fair thing"
In conclusion Mr.. Allen said:
II would that I had the eloquence
of the chairman of the committee on
the ways and roeans-Mr. Wilson, of
West Virgina-in his last appeal here
for the passage of the Wilson tariff bill.
I would like to invoke the Democratic