New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-05

backs and Treasury notes the option sol
having Government pa per cashed in colo
orssilver, and, as ali demanded gold, the
gold IN the Treasury rapidly ran down
The financial papers took up the cry o
the country going to silver basis ane
the first pr,monitory breeZes Of the pan
lc of 1898 swept over the land and thu
conspirators fomented it by every posi-
BILE means.
The Senator quoted from Preslden
Cleveland Is response to the committee
that notified HIM of his nomination thu
last time, and declared there was Meth
in it to warrant one to expect that tht
leader of the Democratic party would
ignore the platform and treat with con
tempt the trusted ieutenants whom the
people had sent to the national Capt.
toll to assist in shaping legislation. 'The
language would lead us to expect the
very reverse. How many, he asked, Of
these reasonable expectations have been
met?
Whose advice has he (the President,
recognized? None but that Of the boot
ticks and sycophants VINO have craw]eo
on their knees for the crumbs of patron
age and betrayed their constituents for
the offices in his gift.
In the entire history Of this country
the high office of President has never
been so prostituted, and never has the
appointing power been SO abused.
Claiming to be the APOSTLE of civil SER
vice reform, he has debauched the civil
scrvice'by making appointments only of
those whose sponsors would surrender
their manhood and with Dated breath
walk with submissive head in his pres
ence. With relentless purpose he has
ignored his oath of office tt. uphold and
obey the law, and has paid out gold in
stead of coin and issued bonds to buy
more gold, by both actions overriding
the law, and giving no heed to the inter-
ests of any but moneyed fr;ends-I might
say his owners or partners.
While to this besotted tyrant coin has
come to mean gold alone, he can not by
lis mere ipse dlxit change the law of
his land and prevent the PLAN meaning
If the English language.
The repeal of the Sherman law, which
vas the first point Of attack of the 'un-
,oly alliancc,' was only accomplished
Trough the AID and in conjunction with
majority OF the Republican Senators.
This Democratic President accom-
,llshcl what was not possible for any
Republican, Executive under the circum-
tances to have brought about, A change
If the party in power had left large
number of offices in his gift with winch
o buy votes.
In discussing the ''honest meaning" of
parity Of gold and silver in the Sherman
aw he said:
The object was to have them assist
Zach othel, to hold silver up by holding
yold down, and an honest Secretary of
he Treasury, who should have resigned
lis office rather than submit to the die
alton of a bcsottcu chief, would have
oad out silver to protect the Treasury
rom the gold gamblers and bond gamb-
crs, as the law and his oath Of Office re-
}uirc. No wonder the Senator from
Massachusetts feels warranted in twit-
ing us With>1hr decay of Southern states
nanship and charging us with dishones-
y. He charges it, however, in another
and as aiding and abettlng
his Judas from Kentucky, who. after a
brilliant career Of twenty years and more
Is the leader and champion Of the silver
forces, has III his old age come to this
pitiful pass. And then to think that the
Indictment thus brought against whole
section should have so much color of
truth and Of tact to back it up n the
apostasy from their principles Of the two
other Secretaries from the South in the
Cabinet OF u President who 50 liscraccd
the name of Democracy! 3
The South bows its head in shame at
this exhibition of moral coWardicc and
dcspises the renegades.
The Senator contendcd that il there
has been one idea more persistently and
prominently presented to the American
people by President Cleveland than any
other 1t had been the iniquities Of the
tariff and the demand for it's revision.
II, season and out of season, with "dam-
nable iteration," he had sung this siren
song III the cars of the farmers. In this
connection he quoted from messages of