The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-08
ALLtN TO HEWITT.
THE MISSISSIPPI HUMORIST TAKES
HIS INNING.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-In the
course of his speech In the House today
Representative, Allen of Mississippi
said: I was panied beyond measure to
read few days ago in the public press
that Hon: Abram Hewitt of New Y ork
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 a revelation to me. l
had never suspected that L was not as
great as those men, until Mr.. Hewitt
said so. (Lauguter)
Mr.. Bryan: Maybe he does not know
you personally.
Mr.. Allen: That is the trouble. He
does know me personally. That is
where 1t stings. Uaughter) 1t Is ut.
terly without excuse. The truth is, I
regard Mr.. Hewitts remar'. as some
what personal to me, because was to
have spoken at the very dinner at
which he delivered this speech. (Laugh-
ter) And one of the great obstacles in
my meeting the approval of Mr.. Hewitt
Is that while Mr.. Hewitt Is one Of the
troubled some with insomnia. (Great
laughter.)
have one consolation, when think
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 hav-
Ing known Mr.. Hewitt for some years
and having talked with him freely, I
have never known any man or set OF
men who entirely metshis approval.
except Mr.. Hewitt himself. Naugh.
ter) IT he mad liyed in the days when
common scolds were ducked, Mr.. Hew-
lit would have been drowned before
this. Iaughter)
Mr.. Chairman, the people of the
South have had great deal to endure.
shall not refer to tile fact that they
passed through terrible war for think
that has been referred to here once be.
had 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 theSchickens-
they have had various diseases and pes
tilences, 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 tribulations, they have
exhibited something Of brave and
courageous spirit; and now, just to
think that the one thing cherished
most 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.
Uaughter) Why, gentlemen, rather
upon my people, [ would have paid a
silver dollar out Of my own pocket.
Uaughter)
Mr. Chairman, am sorry to see that
my friend from Tennessee, Col. Pat.
terson, is not In his seat, because /
went to say a word to him. lie is my
Neighbour and my friend. He Is an
honest, Intelligent, hard working rep
resentative. l do not know that [
would refer to the matter am going
to talk about now, IL 1t had not already
been mentioned in this debate. sim
ply wish to repudiate, so far as am
concerned, the apology which the gen
tleman from Tennessee Is said to have
made for me and my sort in respond
ing to ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech in
New York lately
have here what purpOrts to be a re-
port of.Col. PatteIs0n's speech. will
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 Oh to make these re
marks. He was speaking in New York
. and confess 1t IS right hard for man
to maintain the parity between a speech
that is acceptable in New York and one
that would be acceptable TO his con.
stituents in Hardeman county, Ten
nessee. Uaughter.) lie said: "For
more than twenty years, every State
platform has contained a 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 II. 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 q part Of the
Democratic belief there, and these fel-
lows have followed them blindly.
Uaughter) was In the same condl-
tion when Lwent to Congress. Oaugh
ter) I believed IN free Silver and lots
OF other things" l suppose the gentle.
man 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, l learned the cor.
rect Lrlnc1p!es OF sound CURRENCY
(Great laughter) These other men Of
love their country" l thank him for
that, said Allen. He says further,
"They have simply followed tradition y
Ahl gentlemen let me tell you that when
you separate yourselves from the doc.
trlnes Of Democracy as you have learned
and 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 to get tangled in your Democratic
harness. Uaughter)
confess, Mr.. Chairman, that have
been brought up to believe in some of
these things by traditions. but unlike
my friend from Tennessee, Col. Patter-
son, studied public questions before I
came to Congress. Uaughter) I came
mere because, 1 had studied them. That
,1s why my people selected me out and
sent me here. They did not send me to