The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29
"Great GOdw He Says, Can tn
Country Survive
Such a ScOundrel in the Execu-
tive Chair.
The People Coming to Washing
ton With Rifles Before Long.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga most tre-
mendous sensation was created in the
senate this afternoon by the speech of
Senator Tillman on the pending bond
bill. Tillman was in fine voice, and as
his body swayed back and forth his mar
vellous personality seemed to pervade
the whole chamber.
At 2 o'clock Mr.. Tillman took the
floor. The galleries filed quickly and
the senator was accorded close atten-
tion. He moved from his rear seat to
one in the front row Immediately in front
of the presiding officer.
Although provided with manuscript
he began xtemporaneously:
"Mr. President" the senator began, sit
is not saying too much and feel war
ranted in charging that the arrangement
in our finances and ell this cry about
sound money and maintaining the honor
and the credit of the United States are
all part and parcel of a damnable scheme
of robbery which had for its object, first,
the utter destruction of silver as a money;
second, the increase of the public debt,
the issue of bonds payable in gold, and
third, the surrender TO corporations of
the power to issue all paper money and
give them monopoly of that function"
Senator Tillman referred to the Sher-
men silver law in 1890, and in this con
nection said: "The silver Republicans of
the west who had deserted the silver
Democrats of the south and accepted the
compromise offered by Senator Sherman,
may take warning as to what faith or
trust they can put in any utterances or
-E& . ha
legislation in regard to our finances.
"The time for another presidential
election approaches. They must under
stand that the election of any man to the
presidency who would veto free coin
age bill means defeat 1t means more.
it means continued disaster to our indus
tries and increased poverty to the masses
of our people"
Under the Sherman law" he con-
tinued, there was a diminution of the
amount of free gold in a gradually de-
creasing scale, but not enough to cause
any alarm. During the entire year OF
1891 and the entire year of 1892 there
was approximately as much gold as there
was during 1884 and 1885.
Secret History of 1892.
"If the secret history of the year 1892
shall ever be written it will disclose the
fact, which cannot be proven now, but of
which have not the slightest doubt that
the gold ring of New York, which en-
braces nearly all the bankers in the east
srn and middle states and stock gamblers
oil Wall street controlled the presidential
nom n ations of both the Democratic
and Republican parties and had an un-
dsrstanding with the managers, or with
both the candidates themselves. in regard
to what policy should be pursued to-
ward our finances.
"They contributed money to the boom
ing of SiE Cleveland as the onIv available
Democratic candidate and thew abnsad
and ridiculsd every other Democrats as.
epirant
There was plain evidence to show
that the president himself had weakened
on the question of tariff reform aud the
financial plank was cunningly drafted so
as to satisfy both gold and silver men
with the intention that it should be inter
preted if Cleveland was elected
as meaning the cessation of sill
yer coinage and the forcing
OF gold standard upon the people.
w neither the scheme was agreed to bv
Ine president in person or not, and
"henter he bound bimself in plain terms
OF nor Will perhaps never be known.
His course has been answering in