Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-02

TIE lola Register, a paper edited b!
Senator ChaIlie Scott, president of tn
State Republican League, makes con
siderable noise about the league anC
covenant entered into by sixteen re
publican free silver senators, in thil
strain:
Senator Teller has openly announced
that sixteen western senators have
signed written agreement TO the eff
feet that they will not allow any tariff
legislation to pass unless coupled with
I = silver measure that meets with theiI
APPRECIATION. There Is patriotism fol
you! A Ditiful little minority band
ing themselves together hhe pirates to
hold up legislation that the majority
demands and that the country de-
mands, in order to force measures that
the majority Ia the Senate do not want
and that the country does NOS demand.
Do these senators believe IN Fepub-
lican form Of government II 50, how
do they justify their attempt to compel
minority rule? The chances ara that
everyone Of these sixteen men would
be personally enriched by the passage
of The silver legislation they demand.
And yet they insist that the country
shall believe that they are the only
true patriots in the Senate, and that
all the other members Of that body
are the tools of the money power"
nd Fn
protest against their course in any free
silver paper. Suppose that there were
only fifteen sound money senators, all
the others being for free silver, and
that these fifteen .sNould serve notice
chat they would not allow even the
most important legislation unless there
was coupled with it single gold
standard law. What a howl there
would be my countrymen!
The above Jirade proceeds upon the
suppOsitiOn that fealty TO party is su-
perior in political ethics to duty to
country. No one outside the republi-
can party is demanding tariff legisla-
ton, and that is all that these senators
propose to tie up. No one can say that
these senators do net represent the
will of the majority Of their constitu-
ents, nor has anyone any more right to
suppose they are acting from sordid
motives and for personal gain than the
bank and corporation presidents of the
eastern States, who clam0r for less
money that the interest return on
their bonds and notes may be enhanced
These senators are sent by their re-
spectiVe States to make their presence
and influence as effective as possible,
and they appear TO be doing it very
we'll. Furthermore, the United States
Senate is made by the constitution the
peer of the House, and what right has
any pestiTerous editor to designate it as
a minority withou. attacking the con-
stitution, or applying the structure Of
this term alone to the party as organ
lied in the Senate, instead of the
whole Senate, It's well known there
is good majority IN the Senate fer
c'ree silver. If it is only a family
row the Register is complaining of,
very well, let them settle that As they
may. b.! if it assaults the action Of
these men, as it appears, as unworthy
OF high citizenship, it is worthy of a
protest. 1t may be foolishness for
these men holding such opinions to
still cling to the party organization
which opposes them, but if they have
erred, that is the only place. But by
the way, whether they stay with the
party organization or not, it is practic-
ally certain that republican tariff
bill in this Congress or the next cannot
get the support of the senators from
these States, be they the present ones
or newly elected men. How then are
the republicans TO carry their tariff bill
past the Senate, into law, even if they
should succeed in electing president
and majority in the lower House or IN
both houses.