Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-30


 allowed it to become law without ap- proval. But here again we have a spec tacle of charlatanry and hypocritical as-, sumption of superiority to his party which has always marked his career. The tariff law which he repudiated as unworthy, involving party perfidy and party dishonor, is the only sheet anchor to which he clings."
 And again referring to the president:
 If he was honest at the start q am willing to grant that much) his associa- ton with Wall street and his connec- tions with wealthy men had debauched his conscience and destroyed all sympa- thy with the masses"
 The senator then referred to the fall in the prices of all farm products. The impoverishment of the farmers had de- stroyed, he said, their ability to pur- chase on the one hand. while the de- creased prices of their products for ex- port in European markets had left our debt for imports and interest on obliga- tions abroad unpaid. Hence the export of gold to meet these obligations. In this connection he said in part:
 "Rothschild and his American agents graciously condescend to come to the help of the United States treasury in maintaining the gold standard, which has wrought. the ruin, and only charges small commission of $10,000 900 or so. Great God, that this proud government, the richest and most powerful on the globe, should have been brought to so low post that a London Jew should have been appointed it's receiver and presumes to patronize usl'' r-
 Other extracts are as follows:
 'The responsibility of providing reve- nue and looking after the solvency of the treasury, which rests with congress, has been usurped by the president. Why is he not impeached? Because he is car rying out republican politics and the ma jority in the house of representatives feel safe and believe that they are cer- tain to elect the next president and ob- tain control of the government. They are willing to load down the incompetent or dishonest democracy q say the incom- petent and dishonest democracy with the odium of the misgovernment, to lend their help by acquiescence in wrong do- ing. The policy is to do nothing, to pre- serve masterly inactivity, and only ob struct where relief could be given.
 The encroachmentS of the federal ju- dietary and the supineness and venality- corruption, I may say-of the representa- tive branches of the government are causes Of deep concern to all thinking and patriotic men. We are fast drifting into government by injunction in the interest of monopolies and corporations, and the. supreme court, by one corrupt vote, an- nuls an act of congress looking to the. taxation of the rich"
 The money changers are in the tenn. pie of our liberties and have bought the sentinels on guard. It may be too late God grant 1t be not so, but that this great republic can only be saved from the miseries of revolution and internecine strife in the near future by its citizens casting aside blind allegiance to party and marshalng themselves under the banner of Jefferson's democracy and Lincoln's republicanism, determined to ftnr 1,1 1fa it was left to us by the fathers"
 In concluding the senator said:
 "A day of reckoning will come unless there Is no longer a just God in Heaven, and when 1t does come. woe be unto those who have been among the oppressors of the people. The present struggle is un- fortunately too like that which preced- ed the civil war, inasmuch as it is sec tional. The creditor and the manufac- turing states of the north and east--those which have grown inordinately wealthy at the expense of the producing classes of the south and west-are urging this policy with the besotted blindness of Belshazzar The old shareholders of the south were not more arrogant or more determined. The sordid despotism of wealth, to use the apt phrase of Justice Brown, is alrady felt throughout the land" 2
 From the opening sentence of the speech down to its close MT. Tilman comma anded the keenest attention and cu- riosity of a numerous senate and crowded gallery. His attitudinizing and mannerisms caused much amusement. With his left hand pressed against his side and with the printed slips of his speech Qrom which he frequently stray ed) in his right, he wheeled around in a circle, facing the galleries more frequent ly than he faced the chair. At the point where he was denouncing President x,1 1,A bay I; T speech and lapsed into a description of how he came to Washington to witness MT. Cleveands first inaugura ton and had exposed himself for four hours on the plaza of the capitol in order to par tieipate in the jollification over demo- and democratic house, and he exclaim cratic president, a democratic senate ed dramatically: God forgive me for being such a fool"
 Laughter and applause broke out in the galleries, which the presiding officer (Mr. Faulkner tried to suppress, and this caused MT. Tillman to apostrophize the chair, saying: 'If you let me down into the bog and quagmire of having mo- body to applaud when I speak I suppose will get used to it after while'
 Subsequently, he got into colloquy with MT. Hoar as to an expression of the latter upon the decadence of southern statesmen. and when MT. Hoar said he would look up the record to justify him. self MT. Tillman said that he would wait, but that he would not wet his whistle'' because wind mill could not be run by water (Renewed laughter)
 MT. Tillman said that he would ap- pend to his speech that infamous con- tract with Stetson" Che syndicate con- trac), also an extract from the demo- cratic year book of 1888, showing the pur- chase of bonds with that surplus which used to keep this man awake at nights daughter.)
 And it must be authentic he added, looming as 1t does, from the democratic national committee. I just want to put the two cheek by jowl you know, in jux- taposition."
 Coming once more to denunclation of the president, Mir. Tillman- snapped out the question to republican senator's: Why have you not impeached him?"
 MT Hawley replied that the last con- gress was democratic.
 'I have already paid my respects to the last congress" MT. Tillman said, land had hoped better things from the congress which the people have now sent here. But you are all of a kind-cow- ards, tools of monopolists. (Sensation.) He is not impeached because he is carry ing out the republican policy"