Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-02-07
VOLUME XXXVI.-NUMBER l2
CLEVELAND SCORED.
AN AWFUL ARRANGEMENT OF THE
DEMONSTRATION.
Ex.GOv. Tillman, of south caro-.
lima, Creates a SensatiOn-StrOng
Charges Against the President In
Regard TO His Financial Policy
Hints al Dishonesty.

! lima, Creates a Sensation-StrOns
Charges Against the President In
| Regard TO His Financial Policy
Hints al Dishonesty.
No one man ever shook up tht
United States Senate so thoroughly
as was done on the 23d ult. by Till
man, the South Carolina firebrand
who has kept quiet for two months
but who evidently has been storing uI
venom all the time.
The old heads of the Senate were
shocked and mortified by the freedom
OF his language, and yet the curiosity
to hear him "roast" the President was
so great that almost every seat was oc.
cupied on both sides Of the chamber
and the galleries were packed.
The Ex-Governor of South Carolina
is much younger looking man than
most people imagine him 10 be. He
looks like an ambitious student in the
senior class of law school trying a
case before a moot court. At times
he becomes excessively wrought up,
and is often disposed to act out his
speech.
Some OF his sentences will 60 down
into the history of the Senate. For
instance, Tillman did not hesitate to
say that many of his colleagues did
not know when to stop in making
speeches and talked in a circle, I" like
a kitten following its own tail"
1t was when he came to discuss
President Cleveland that TiIIman
reached the height of his virulence.
He described the scene in what he
pronounced the Pammer" House,
where "All the demons in he'll were
collected in one group shouting for
Grover" As he went on Democrats
and Republicans alike shuddered as
he spoke of the President as THAT
bull. headed and self-idolatrous man
who holds the reins OF power" He de-
clared furthermore with much solem.
nifty that Grover Cleveland was the
last President the Democracy would
ever elect.
He concluded his speech with the
prediction that this country would yet
wade through seas Of blood and emerge
either q despotism or such a democ'
racy as was intended to be created by
the French revolution.
Although provided with manuscript
he began extemporaneously. He saie
he would use plain Anglo-Saxon. the
language OF the common people, fol
he Was one OF them. He spoke bitterly
Of the essay-reading INDUCED in b,
Senators. He referred to the state
ment of the Senator from Ohio (Sher
man) that the silver question hat
been thrashed out. "Yes, it had beer
trashed out by the spectators, bu
not by the farmers. As farmer, h
would thrash it again, taking up tn
whole subject ON pitchfork, ready, i
need be, to uncover the manure likel,
to be found"
"Mr. President" the Senator said
at is not saying too much, and
feel warranted in charging that tn
derangement in our financial affair
and all this cry about sound none,
and maintaining the honor and credi
OF the United States are ell part Ant
parcel OF . damnable scheme Of rob
berry, which has for its object, first, tn
utter destruction OF silver as none
metal; second, the increase OF til
public debt, the issue of bonds payabl
in gold, and third, the surrender t
corporations OF the power to issue al
paper money, and give them monoK
oily of that function"
Tillman referred to the enactmen
r OF the Sherman silver law in 189(
I and in this connection said: 9Th
: silver Republicans Of the West VIII
had deserted the silver Democrats {
the South and accepted the comprt
mise offered by Senator Sherman, ma
take warning as to what faith or tru'
} they can put into any utterances
actions OF the Senator from Ohio {
TO legislation in regard to our finance
The time for another Presidential ele'
!, ion approaches. They must unde
stand that the election OF any man
the Presidency who would veto FRI
Coinage bill means defeat. 1t mear
more-it means continued disaster
our industries and increased pover'
to the masses of our people. Und
the Sherman law there was dimin
q ton of the amount of free gold in
gradually decreasing scale, but n
enough to cause any alarm. Durir
the entire year Of 1891 and the enti
year of 1892 there was approximate
;. as much gold as there was duriI
D. 1884 and 1885.
ID eff the secret history OF the ye
y. 1892 shall ever be written il will d
close the fact, which cannot be Prov
now, but of which l have not &
i slightest doubt, that the gold ring
, New York, which embraces nearly
the bankers in the Eastern and MidG
States, and the stock gamblers OF W.
street, controlled the Presidential mol
/. tinations of both the Democratic a