The Atlanta constitution., 1894-03-06

sorry to see that
,ssee, Colonel Patter-
t. because l want to
e is my neighbOr ana
n honest, intelligent,
'ltve. ] do not
= to the matter |
,4bout now If it had not
-.Ienti9ned in this debate. [
ID. to repudiate, so far as / am
1rned, the apology which the gentle
man from Tennessee is said TO have made
for me and my sort in responding to
Mayor Hewitts speech in New York lately.
II have here what purports to be Il report
Of Colonel Patterson's speech.
II viii read few extracts from it. After
stating that the southern representatives
in congress were generally opposed to the
financial views of New York he went on to
make these remarks.
Hard to Reconcile.
He speaking in New York and
confess it is right hard for man to
maintain the parity between speech that
is acceptable in New York and one that
would be acceptable TO his constituents in
Hartman county, Tennessee. Q1auShterD
"He said: For more than twenty years
every state platform has contained Il 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 Baptist, the
Catholic OF the Presbyterian, without ever
reading the Bible-is one because his
father was. So these doctrines nave Be
come q part of the democratic belief srere
and these fellows nave followed them blind
ly. LaughterD was III the same cond:-
tion when / went to congress. (Laughter.)
| believed in free silver and lots OF other
things.
=" But soon soon 3esan negan TO to ,o}5. study
snip Of Grover C, Cleveland: who IS
nave piloted the ship of state through these
stormy times, I learned the correct prin-
ciples of sound currency. Great laughterD
+ ha cont
democrats and they love their country
Il thank him for that" said Mr. Allen.
He says further: They have simply fol-
lowed tradition.
Likely to Get Tangled.
"Ah. gentlemen, let me tell you that
when YOU separate yourselves from the doc
trines of democracy which you have learn
ed 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. Qaughter)
81 confess, Mr.. Chairman, that 1 have
been brought up to believe in some of these
things by tradition. but unlike my friend
from Tennessee, Colonel Patterson, l studied
public questions before l came to congress.
Qaughter)
Il came here because I had studied them.
Why He Is There.
'"That is why my people selected me out
EIilNt 'iiN
to congress to school, as colonel Patterson
seems to have been sent. u-aughter)
"They sent me here to maintain ard car
ry out as far as ! could the great demo-
cratic principles that they Eac received from
their fathers and | nope ny The help OF
God and the constituency in the first con-
gressonal district of Mississippi, to do it.
daughter and applause0 Colonel Patterson
says further: Mr.. Carlisle says that he does
not mind having the seigniorage coined. If
that bill becomes g, law it means disaster.
1t may be mistake. 1t is only the last gun
of a retreating army. The men in New Y York
who dread free silver are unnecessarily
alarmed
"And elsewhere, he says: IF the bill to
coin the segniorage passes. it is merely to
let these southern ars so off the field of bat
tie with their side arms Qaughter)
"N1r Chairman, we have asked no terms.
We have not asked to be permitted to car
ry off our side arms. We have not asked to
fire the last gun of a retreating army. 80
far as | am concerned [ do not believe that
the retreat has begun at all. do not belleVe
that we are yet ready to capituate ON this
question.
Has NO Apology to Make.
'Now, [ want to say a word for Colonel
Patterson as he is not here to say It for
himself. | desire, so far as l am concerned,
to repudiate the gentleman's apology made
for me. | owe no apology to the people OF
New York; ] 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 a very rigid account for an
after-dinner speech at q banquet Why, sir,
1 recollect not long ago, I went to BAN