The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-27

SENATOR BROWN.
i've CLEAN of social humor in his brown
ish hazel eye as to make one mourn its
absent fellow, and his tone is mild,
sympathetic indeed, rather than aggres-
sive. Nor is he overwhelmed to support
his bucolic character by denying himself
any of the good things of life, his quar-
tiers at 1914 Massachusetts, avenue, N.
W, being in the fashionable section and
in general style quite up to the sena-
torial standard. His WEAKNESS was SO
apparent when I called on him that I
began an apology, but he insisted that
talking rested him and straightway be-
gan the medicine with great fuency.
Senator TiIIman Interviewed.
f'Well, if you could see my mail, "
said he, ''you wouldn't wonder. can t
get over the country idea that one ought
to answer personal letters, but 1 see to-
day that I must surrender. Why, my
stenographer couldn It half do it. Now
that com ments ON my speech are COM
ing in couldn't even dictate answers.
The tone of the letters I receive would
astonish you. They come from business
men of the highest standard, bankers,
merchants, lawyers, farmers, and the
burden of them all is: Thank God,
somebody has made a beginning at
hurting out the truth There has been
too much mum business. I doubt if
there ever was a man in public life SO
generally and thoroughly detested as
Grover Cleveland is just now. And a
funny feature of it is that many who
denounce him still hold to a belief in
his honesty. In fact, the people seem
to think that Cleveland is honest, just
as-well, as you might say they thought
Andy johnson was. The trouble is he
is SO biased in the wrong direction that
his supposed honesty does more harm
than another mans rascality would.
From the start until now he has done
exactly as Wall strSet told him to.
There are those learned senators talking
about foreign affairs and actually be-
heving that they are deciding the mat
ter, but the whole question of peace or
war will be decided by Wall street.
but to your main question. You
must first take notice that when you
last travelled in South Carolina we were
in the trough of the sea, so to speak
in the depth of the reaction which fol-
lowed the overthrow of carpetbag rule.
You know how that is in politics.
shove the thing too far one way and it
will next go too far t'other way. Well,
the machine got everything in its power,
and the situation was so bad that we
couldn't stand it any longer. Every fell
low began the fight about his own par
ticular grievance, but it was an all
round fight to restore power to the peo-
pie. Now you may call it Tillmzn and
anti-Tillman, as they do down there, or
reform and conservative, or farmer
against old aristocrat, or whatever you
please-names don't help or hurt me-
but in effect it's the same old fight
which has been going on ever since his
tory began and always will, reckon.
Power slips from the many to the few.
The machine rules, and then the people
have to fight to get back their rightful
power.
No Waste of Sentiment.
81 went square at it-every white
man to have a voice in conventions and
no courthouse clique. It is an interest
ing fact that there has been with us no
formal division of the party. We are all
Democrats. Ny first speech in that cam
paign was on the agricultural college
that the farmers should have their own
separate institution. 1 hold that men
should be educated to get living and
not to go into professions that are al
ready overcrowded. OF course the fight
over the educational question soon drew
on general fight over all other ques-
tions, including railroad taxes and many
other steals. The federal courts were in
voked, and some of our sheriffs were put
in Jail, but we beat them at last and
collected the tax, and the people have
the benefit of it. We got the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college at j ohm G.
Calhoun's old home and the Winthrop
Normal and Industrial College For Wo-
men at Rock Hill, and now we have the
dispensary liquor law, and we are going
to get several other good things. You
must remember that our fight is ex-
tremely practical-no waste of senti-
ment We save the farmers money and
give every man a voice in the govern
ment."
''But what about the negroes? Are
they making progress?"
well. the negro is a transp1anted
child, child of the tropics, and not to
be understood in a hurry. You must live