The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-28

counters on the floor, his congressional
life was not marked by success. He in
troduced u dozen bills. but not one Of
them passed or advanced beyond the
initial stage. These bills are character
istic OF radicalism to the last degree.
One Of them was for the sub-treasury
plan, an early ignus fatus Of the Popu-
lists, now discarded and not found In
the platform just adopted. Another
bill sought to do away with the gold re-
serve and turn It into treasury as cash.
Watson chafed over the delay in Sc
curing attention for his bills. Most Of
them went to the ways and means COM
mittee and were pigeon-holed
He was one OF the strongest advocates
for an investigation Of the Pinkertons.
and 1t was during the discussion Of q
resolution to this effect that he used the
following languages: I'VE are on the eve
of a social outbreak. We are at the
crisis Of our republican government. In
few months 1t will be decided wheth-
er we have a government Of law and
order. whether peace can be maintained
by the constituted authorities or
whether each side will arm itself with
tue uedullcSt WedpOI VI utSti iuStioh ohu
fight out their grievances"
Upon another occasion. All FOOLS day,
"a very appropriate time). Watson made
an onslaught on Mr.. Bryan, the Demo-
cratic nominee for president. The tar
in bill was under discussion and Watson
was seeking to show that the Republic
cans were not honest in advocating
Protection. while the Democrats We're
equally dishonest In their advocacy of
revenue reform. He took Bryan as the
type of Democratic tariff reformer, and
this is what he said Of him:
Now my friend from Nebraska in his
brilliant speech formulated the Demo-
cratic platform in such attractive col
ors that he was loudly applauded upon
the Democratic side. What was the
platform? After all the force of his
logic, after all the splendor of his rhe-
toric, after all the driving in the direc-
tion of free trade, the gentleman shirked
the issue when he got to the actual
enunciation OF the results OF his own
logic. He announced his ideal Demo-
cratic platform-nOt a platform you
would have. but platform you should
have---a platform you could have IL a
man were sitting quietly 10y his fire at
night with his feet in his slippers, cigar
in his mouth. Il hot toddy by his side.
nothing to disturb him, and ideal Dem
ocratic dreams in his head. Now, what
was that platform? II is very pretty;
IL hes all the vague charms Of the
undeiined: it has all the boundless
beauty of landscape that has no
limit. He says this phrase. tariff for
protection. is the only thing of which
he complains. Hc says, in effect ! do
not object to it if Ii does by indirecttcn
what the other says it should do direct
": but ! object to u tariff which says
in plain words what II is meant to do.
There was much laughter on the Re-
rublican side Watson quoted some OF
Bryans glowing sentences, and then
ADDED:
THAT is beautiful. 1t Is like the ClG
fish trap, with one mouth down the
stream and the other up. and it catches
'em a-coming and a-gwine. Great
!aughter)
Watson gave many evidences of how
the United States senate might be con-
Quoted, in case he became vice presi-
dent. One of his first speeches in tn"
house contained bitter denunciation
of the senate. He said:
I'VE know that the very concentra-
tion Of power, the concentration of cap
ital, the concentration of privilege
which we are fighting, is enthroned and
intrenched in the senate of the Unit ed
fnto No sGfllllv lpnv
it. Every great corporation of this land
has its agents. its attorneys there 20
defend its interests. Every great rail-
| road has it's owners and its attorneys
there. You strike the oil company. and
their champions are there. You strike
the manufacturers of the country, and
their champions are there. And so We
are confronted by the United States
senate as the very type Of concentrat-
ed privilege, of aggregated wealth, and
centralized power, and we might AS
well expect to sail without leave under
the frowning fortress of Gibraltar,
loop-holed and armored from base to
summit, as to pass the distractions
which are presented to our progress
there. 1t would take the rod of Moses
to strike the waters Of relief out of that
rock"
And this is the man whom a certain
class Of people in this country want to
elect as presiding officer OF the senate
of the United States, and who in case
Of the removal by death or otherwise
of the president would succeed that Of
fetal as the head Of great nation:
Such biatherskites ought to be ostra-
clzed by all decent iaw-abidins and
patriotic citizens. The American peo-
pie can be trusted to defeat any man
of Tom Watson's stripe and low cali
Der, and they will do it at the polls on
Nov. next. w. r, b.