Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-02-01
SENATOR TlLLMAN'S SPEECH

atod a sensation in washington. 0ucn
a torrent of invectives has seldom Eeen
heard in the Senate. The veteran
members of that body characterized
the speech as one Of the most remark
able in the hi-tory of the upper branch
of Congress. 1t abounded in state
mems of a sensational character ar
raigning President Cleveland and Sec
Rotary Carlisle and other men in high
places for attempting to DESTROY silver
as money.
There was a directness Of statement
and a dramatic manner of delivery
which awed the floor and galleries.
Gestures were used frequently by the
Senator in uttering his words. At one
point he made a profound salute and
then tipped his hat 10 Sherman "as the
financial victor of the last quarter Of
a century," The galleries were moved
alternately to laughter and applause
Next there was a hush through the
chamber as the Senator applied such
names as JUDAS to a member Of the
Cabinet or characterized the President
in bitter terms.
At times the Senator'S voice sank to
a whisper, as for instance when he
gave warming Of the approach of a
popular revolution and coz munism
and the marching on Washington Of
a host with rifles in their hands
Again his voice resOunded through
the chamber and the outer corridors
as he called the Senators and mem
impeachment
He said he would use plain Anglo
Saxon, the language of the ccmmOn
people, for he was one of them. He
spoke bitterly of the essay reading in
dulged in by Senators. He referred
to the statement Of the Senator from
Ohio Sherman that the silver ques-
ton had been thrashed out. Yes, it
had been thrashed out by lthe specu-
Iators, but not by the farmers. As a
farmer, he would thrash it again. tax
ing UP the whole subject on a pitch
fork, ready, if need be. to uncover the
manure likely to be found.
"Mr. P1esident,' the Senator said,
sit is not saying too much, and [ feel
warranted in charging that the de
rangement in our financial affairs
and all this cry about sound money
and maintaining the honor and credit
of the United States are all part and
parcel of a damnable scheme of rob-
berry, which has for its object, first, the
utter destruction of silver as a o
metal second, the increase of the pub
lie debt, the issue Of bonds payable in
gold, and third, the surrender to cor
poratiOns of the power to issue all pa
per money and give them a monopoly
of that Junction.
Tillman referred to the enactment
of the silver law in 1890, and in this
connection said "The silver Repub-
licans of the West who had deserted
the silver Democrats of the South and
accepted the responsibility of provid-
ing revenue and looking after the sol
vency of the Treasury, which rests
with Congress, has been usurped by
the President Why is he not i'm
peached?
"The entertainments of the judici-
ary and the s]upineness and ~venalitv
corruption, [ may say-of the repre-
sentative branches of the Government
are causes of deep concern to all
thinking and patriotic men. We are
fast drifting into a government by
;ni, no+iar IN Tho ptoro,t oP ,oo,o~o
lies and corporations, and the Su-
preme Court, by one corrupt vote, an
nuls an Act of Congress looking 10
the taxation of the rich.
THE struggles from 1861 to 1865
which drenched his fair land in blood
was to emancipate 1900. 900 black
slaves. We are fast approaching a
condition which will place the collar
of industrial bondage around the
necks of ten times that many white
slaves. A day Of reckoning will come
unless there is no longer a Just God
in Heaven, and when it does come,
woe be to those who have been among
the oppressors of the people. The pre-.
sent struggle is, unfortunately, too
like that which preceded the late civil
war, inasmuch as it is sectional. The
creditor and the manufacturing States
of the North and East have grown in
ordinately wealthy at the expense of
the producing class of the South and
West, and are urging this policy with
the besotted blindness of Belshazzar.'
1t was easy to see, the Senator said,
in conclusion, that the struggle for