The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-11
RESENTS AN INSULT.
Congressman Hartman, of Mon.
tana, Replies to One of Growers
Bad Breaks.

Mr.. Hartman sent to the clerks desk
and had read the following extracts from
Mr.. Cleveland's address: THE tOlera-
ton of evils and Indifference to Chris
thanking and elevating agencies" in the
new states of the West, which, eff un-
checked, develops into badly regulated
municipalities, corrupt and unsafe terri
tories and undesirable states"
Whatever my individual opinion of
the president" said Mr.. Hartman, mat
tiers not. 1t would not be proper for me
to state 1t here. For the high office Of
president of the United States ! have a
supreme regard. The legitimate func-
tons of that Office are limited to those
enumerated in our constitution. Under
the constitution and laws I de-
ny the right of the chief exc
cutive to wilftlly and wantonly, in
public address or otherwise, insult any
of the citizens of any state of the repub-
lie over whom he has been called to pre-
side. deny the constitutional authority
of the president to give utterance in pub
lie address to sentiments favorable or ad-
| verse to proposed legislation pending in
congress. When the president made the
foregoing remarks he knew there were
pending in congress bills for the admis-
sion Of certain territories into the Union
of states. He had been advised that
majority of the citizens of those terri
tories were antagonistic to his peculiar
financial and economic views. and under
the cloak of supposed religious address
before a religious organization, and with
gross improperly and for the purposes of
preventing the achievement Of the rights
of statehood to which they aspire and are
entitled, he gave utterancc as chief exc
cutive to this unfounded Islander against
those citizens and states of the republic
whose interests he is sworn to protect
and uphold. ....s
The percentage of crime in those
states and territories will not exceed that
found in the state of New York, where
the president seems to think all virtue
resides. The per capita of wealth of the
citizens of our state exceeds that of any
state in the Union save one. Our educa-
tional facilities are equal to those OF any
section of the Union, and if some of the
patriotism of the people of the West had
been possessed by the president and his
friends the citizens of this republic would
| not have been called upon to witness the
national humiliation Of hauling down the
American flag at Honolulu, of begging
| the bankers of Wall street and Great
Britain to save us from financial ruin,
and under the behests of the powers be-
bind the throne, of denying to the op-
pressed citizens of Cuba the recognition
| which the dictates of humanity and CON-
mon right demand (applause). 1t is true
| we do not get our patriotism from Wall
| street where the president gets his
| (laughter) 1t is true none of our citi-
zens has possessed that particular style
| of patriotism which would enable them
| to save by thrift and strict economy five
| times as much as their entire income
amounts to- and it is also true that the
patriotism of these corrupt and unsafe
territories. and undesirable states have
never yet been able to rise to that lofty
plane of supreme wisdom and virtue"
ut is also true" continued Mr.. Hart
man, resuming, that the patriotism OF
| these 'incorrupt and unsafe territories
and undesirable states has never yet
been to rise to that lofty plane of SUI
preme wisdom and virtue which enables
those who Calm to occupy 1T, to justify
| the sale of thirty-year government bonds
of year ago for 104, when that very day
ten-year bonds were selling at 116. On
behalf of the citizens of the states and
territories thus slandered and maligned
by the chief executive, here and now re-
pei the insult, and respectfully suggest
that the greatest need of this country for
the work of the missionary, the school
| master and the statesman will be found
at the White House." daughter and
applause)
This closed the incident.