The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-03-19
THEY DEFY The
PARTY LASH
Five Patriotic Republicans ssna-
tors Pu. Country Above Party
Senator Teller Mak-s
So Ringing Speech
SHOWS UPSHERMAN'SF

the issa- square Ib- .orrnp, Esrv sii-
Can Party h.. Inough Good Ia % to
Mako Split.
"lnfamy vii! pursu- yuur uSm- even
after you sr- in the grave shouted
senator Teller, Rep OF Colorado, ON
the Senate door, shaking his fng-r at
Senator Sherman while he spoke.
This Was the termination Of 4 con
troyersy between Republicans ia the
senate chamber on February -. over
4 discussion Of the tariff bill.
The goldbug Republicans who had
stood with Cleveland and the guldbus
Democrats in refusing To vote FOR Tree
silver 1r To do anything for the relief
Of the people, moved Ia take up the
tariff bill and tried TO whip the silver
Republicans into line. Five Of the
Western Republican Senators had re-
fused 10 bow 10 The goldbuG party lash.
This astonished and enraged IA. gold
men.
John sherman had jus; d.uouuced
the free coinage of silver a. dishon-
est proposition and insiuuaied that its
advocates were inspired 10y dishonest
motives, their object being Ia cheat
their creditors. sherman boldly De-
Wal GU III ltkbG Di Ghlu q,
casting oil ali his meek and mock
phrases about bimetallism. lie insin-
uated that with larg. production OF
gold in Colorado, Teller would be- left
in the lurch in the near future, with
no constituency 10 back him in hi.
demand for the reconciliation of sill
yer.
This gave Teller his opportunity.
He said:
"The Senator from OHIO cannot di.
vert me by his old silver speech, the
same one he has been delivering for
twenty years. the same one I have
heard so often before" Mr.. Teller de-
clarei that the definitions Of bimetal-
| lism by Mr.. Sherman were erroneous,
| were contrary TO those accepted at
State and national conventions, con-
| trary 10 the accepted understanding
Of France and other foreign countries
The Republican party should not be-
stultiiied," said Mr.. Teller, "hy the de-
| ceptiOn and fraud OF the 'buuko' game
of the Senator from Ohio and gold ad-
vOcates.
"t Mess the American people plant
| themselves upon the double standard,
| that will maintain not only the equity
OF contracts but the stability of prices,
We cannot have prosperity, for it is the
only thing that will bring to this coun-
| try prosperity and progress, that will
put an end to the discomfort that is
rising up in every part of the country
that gives you Democratic majority
one year and Republican majority
the next, and probably Populist ma
jority the year after. Our safety lies
IN honest, sound money, made up OF
the two metals that have been i'm use
from time im;nemUrial. He who say:
! | am dishonest because | advocate thi.
L. either dishonest himself or ignoran,
OF the history and the condition of the
world; he is ignorant of the fact tina,
| silver money mas always been the
money Of mankind, the money tina;
has touched more hands of toll thar
the gold dollars, the money that ha.
done infinitely more to move the wheels
of progress than all the gold that ha
ever entered into the circulation of th,
world.
"Mr. President, we will not discart
silver. 1t may be that for time tn
advocates of the so-calied sound none,
may deceive the people. They cannO
do it always. They cannot do it long
If the Republican party puts itsel
:. under the lead of the Senator from
Ohio and adopts the gold standard i
will be a.party of the past, and tn
glory and splendor of its achieve
ments will be obliterated and destroy
ed in the infamy of that transaction
> and" here MIR. Teller paused an
shaking his finger directly in the fac
of Mr.. Sherman, which was ghastl
t white while his own was livid wit
) rage, lie hissed these woris-''infam
!, will follow your name even after so
are laid in your grave
The excitement in the Senate wa
intense, and, to add to the dramatic in
terest in the incident, the galleries al
8 plaaded the fierce assault of the Coli
3 RADIO Senator.
D.. Senator Carter followed the fgi
: against the tariff bill. His being chai
man of the national Republican con
mittee made the matter more interes
: ing. He referred to financial and tari
= legislation favored by the administr
! ton. He paid his respects to the X
publican Senators and Represent.
e tives who operated with the DEM
C cratic administration to bring abol
r the repeal of the Sherman silver la
}. and in speaking of the suggestion
4 the President that the greenbacl
|, should be retired, said: Again v
:, hear the Republican magpie chatte
\ horde of Presidential aspiran
= rushed to political suicide yellir
:, sound money The press of New Vol
e City leads the procession. Sour
r money is its cry, and under the GOV,
J. Of this cry the President prOtects
r himself and his administration fro
80. s.. 81 d. ~
a Iniuuitous transaction in public fina
I ces the world has ever known" refe
70 ring TO the repeal of the purchasir
If secret bond deal"
" Senator Carter then proceeded
# show that the Republican party ma'
~ the people believe that il favored fr
coinage as well as protection, and sa
= that those out West who all the
wears had supported. protection for c
81 benefit of the Eastern manufacture
as did not propose to continue to suppo
D. it aud the gold standard at the sar
a. time. He said that the West and
2 the great agricultural and wealth-pl
ducing portions Of this country we
lmore interested in more me ney q
an honest financial system than in {
tariff.
lie then called attention to how
- Eastern manufacturers were now abb
~ ing and villifying him and others "
'n were standing up for the interests
ne his own people as bad as the Britt
Id goldbugs. In concluding he said:
On "If it shall occur that this sensel'
az crusade against Republicans who
ie- lieved in good faith in the Minneapo
re platform when it declared for bimet
ism as well as protection, shall be c.
ried to such an extent as may result
the adoption of President Clevelan
or scheme bY the st. Louis convention
We submit that Republican success will
en- rendered utterly impossible. II
,es platform of 1896 announces to
NO country that the plank on bimetalli
al. adopted at Minneapolis was delusi
ka fraud and q snare, it would be jus
we'll for the Republican party mo-
Continued ON Fourth Paga,