The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-06
GROVER SCORED.
His New York Home Mission
Speech Attacked.
Hartman of Montana Defends
the Wild West.
THE HOME OF EVIL.
New York the Wickedest City
in America.
Mr.. Cleveland Should Have Re-
membered That.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The House
yesterday wrang1ed about four hours
over the salaries of United States
marshals and the other features of the
amendment to the legislative approprl-
alton bill to abolish the fee system In
the cases of United States attorneys
and marshals. Interest in that DEBATE
was completely overshadowed by
sensational attack made upon Presl-
dent Cleveland by Mr.. Hartman, Re
publican, of Montana, who felt him
self personally aggrieved by Mr.
Cleveland's utterances at the Prespy-
terrain Home mission meeting in New
York on Tuesday, and who seized the
opportunity allowed by the latitude OF
debate on appropriation bill to repel
the idea that the Western States were
the home of evil Influences. Mr.. Hart
man sent to the clerks desk and had
read the following extract from MI
Cleveland's address:
The liberation of evils and indif-
ference to Christianizlng and elevat-
ing agencies in the new states of the
West, which, "if unchecked, develops
into badly regulated municipalities,
corrupt and unsafe territories ana IN
desirable states"
Whatever may be my individual
opinion of the president" said Mr.:
Hartman, matters not. It would not
be proper for me to state it here. For
the high Office of president of the
United States I have supreme re-
gard The legitimate functions OF
that Office are limited to those emu
merated in our constitution. Under
the constitution and laws deny the
right of the chief executive to WILL
fully and wantonly, in public address
or otherwise, insult any of the citizens
of any state of the republi over which
he has been called to preside.
1.-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 ex-
ceeds that of any state in the Union,
save one. Our educational facilities
are equal to those Of any section OF
the Union, and if some of the patriot
ism 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 nag 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 behind the
throne, ot denying to the oppressed
citizens of Cuba the recognition which
the dictates of humanity and common
right demand. (Applause) 1t is true
we do not get our patriotism from
Wall street, where the President gets
his. Iaughter). 1t is true none of
our citizens has possessed that partic-
ular style of patriotism which would
ena BILE 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"
1T is also true" continued Mr..
Hartman, resuming, "that the patriot
ism of these corrupt and unsafe ter
ritories and undesirable states has
never yet been able to rise to that
lofty plane of supreme wisdom and
virtue, which enables those who
claim to occupy it to Justify the sale
of thlrty-year government bonds of a
year ago for 1O4 when that very day
ten-year bonds were selling at Jog.
On behalf of the citizens of the states
and territories thus slandered and
maligned by the chief executive I here
and now repel the insult and respect
fully suggest that the greatest need of
this country for the work of the mis-
sionary, the schoolmaster and the
statesman will be found at the White
house. daughter and applause.)
This closed the incident.