The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-21
OHIO WAS RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING.

II the ohio convention was radically
outraeeously infsmously wrong concern
Ing money it was sound 20 the core re-
specting the election Of United States sem
ators by the people Speaking TO the
proposition Mr.. Clark, of youngstown,
said:
"Who has n claim on the United States
Senate for Nfc?' and the audience shout
cl I'm response, mo one no longer
is II the question" continued the speaker,
i'm impaSsiOncd tones, when a senator IS
10 he elected. What are his talents, What
service has he done the state? The only
issue is How much is he worth? Ia
this RepuhliC is "A mans head TO Doe meas
ured by the length of his purse? Is It
not ,ime that this question rise above
men and above party DO you not
know that the United states Senate las
become "A rich mems club that it Is the
ltstug-place of trusts and combiuce2
that i'm ii the Sugar Trust has raised
its 1ydra-head, and. in the name of the
community Of trusts. has seized the De
mocracy by the throat. and compelled il 10
stand and deliver
This speech was received with the
greatest applause and when, after its
delivery. one of the ring politicians tried
10 stlve off the conventions Judgment
and asked won't YOU defer judgment
for year, the convention answered as
ONE man with a mighty shout. NO.
Tie convention was ready to denounce a
corrupt Senate in the most emphatic
terms possible. when the man who had
been relied ON as the soul OF the move
mcnt Mr.. Thomas l.. Johnson. took a
course that can hardly be described other
wise than as dcsertion. When asked If
he endorsed what Mr.. Clark had said. he
replied:
II have no ul feeling toward. or sus-
picion Of, Colonel Brice lie is my friend
and am counted I'm his circle lie visits
my house. and visit his and ] hone we
VIII long continue to do 50. | don't be-
lievo mat me bought his seat In the United
States Senate. and / have said so time
and again. Nor do / believe the tariff
hill just passed was the best biz for the
country. but az the same time | believe
that colonel Drice thought so, and that
he voted for it honestly
What a case Of the birth Of a mouse
when a mountain had been IN labor, Who
i'm the Senate is so entirely the representa-
tive Of those who purchase their seats
there as Calvin $. Brice? Who, in the
whole movement to change the Consti-
tuition. aimed at so much as at him?
What twaddc. on such an occasion. and
with such an opportunity before him. for
Johnson to break out with his muling and
pulling about his intimacy with Brice and
visiting at his house, and his believing that
Brice's course towards the tariff bill was
honest! II the Sugar Trust did not ex-
ercise its baleful influence on that bill IN
part through Brice II did not exercise
any such influence at all. and all the
American people know perfectly well
what the facts about that are
Mr.. Clark's speech should be read bv
every American. He spoke the truth
when ne said that 1.-The United States SEN
ate has become a rich mems club: that
It is the resting-place Of trusts and COM
bines; that in IL the Sugar Trust has
raised its hydra-head. ana in the name
OF the community Of trusts. has seized
the Democracy by the throat. and com
PEELED IT to stand and deliver" This is
not exaggerated language. 1t is the IT.
eral truth. and the Senate OF the United
States. a. to-day organized Is the men