The morning times., 1896-01-30
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and champion OF The SILVER forces, mas, IN
his old age, come TO this pitiful pass. And
| then TO think that the Indictment thus
| brought against a whole section should have
| so much color or truth and of fact to back
| 1t up in the apostasy from their principles
OF the two other secretaries from the South
| In the Cabinet OF "A President who has 50
dissraced the name or Democracy.
THE South bows its head in sliaiiie at this
| exhibition OF moral Cowardice and d.sIises
the renegades: bu, must remind the Senator
from Massachusetts that there is a yet only
| moral turpituie and treachery to be charged
against these men.
The Southern congressman and Senators
who came here poor are still poor; they have
not become millionaires like some OF their
Northern brethren. and there is no credit
III obiiier steal, OF ColfaX scandal, or
Belknap bribery chargeablc 10 any South
ern men. Let him remember these things
and keep back his sneers and taunts."
Further TN in the speech Mr.. Tilman
said THE responsibility OF providing
revenues and looking after the sUlyency uf
the Treasury which rests with Congress. has
been unsurped by the President. Why is
he not impeached- Because he is carrying
out Republican policies. and the majority in
the House of Representative feel safe and
believe that they are certain 10 elect the
next President and obtain control "f the
government. They are willing to!oad down
the incompetent or dishonest Dcm"cracy VI
say the Incompetent and dishonest De-
mocracyl with the odium of the misgoy-
ernment. to lend their help ny acquieSccnce
in wrong,ioing. The policy is d" nothing
tu preserve II mastery inactivity and only
obstruct where relief could be given.
QUOTED LINCOLN
''But there is many a slip betwixt the
cup and the lip. and in this dark ana dis
NAL hour the words OF Lincoln. the great
and noble maTtyr-Lincoln. whose Repub-
licsnism was Democracy OF the purest type
compared with that of Clcveland-come
like n promise from the grave. This great
est American of the nineteenth century. said:
You can fool all Of the people part OF
the line: and yuu can fool part of the people
all of the time: but Won can never fool all or
the people all of the time Unless that
grand inspired pledge to which he corse-
Grated his auditors at Gettysburg is to he
forgotten and cpme tn naught, that govern
ment of the people. by the people. for tie
people shall not perish from the earth. the
pss,Ii,. must shake off their letharsy and
arouse themselves
Mr. TiInIan rclsted an anecdote OF John
Randolph OF Roanoke, TO whom lady mace
an e!oqucnt appeal in favor OF Greeks then
in revolution against the Turks. waving
his hand In the direction OF lot OF negro
children around the house, the eccentric
yiryinisn said: Madame, the Greeks are
at your Doors" and with how he roCe or
So Mr. Til!nian would say to the Senator
from Maine tMr. Frye, and 10 Tie other
Senators who stood here as exponerts or
the creed which would ensiavc the Anieri-
can people by the oonsunimation or the
scheme to which they are committed;
The Armcnians are here at your DOORS
Incvery city and hamlet and county Of these
United States they can be found. and 1
warn you they will not lie held down for
all time by the Turks who now oppose
them.
From the opening sentence of the speech
down to its close, Mr.. Tillman commanded
the keenest atteni ion and curiosity OF
numerous Senate and crowded gar
leries With his left hand press
ed against his side and with the
printed slips OF his speech from which he
frequently strayed). in his right. he wheel
ed around in a cree, fscirg the galleries
n,orc frequently tfan he faced the chair
At the point where he was denouncinG
President Cleveland he abandoned his pre-
pared speech and lapse into a description
of how he came to Washington to witness
Mr.. CIeveIand's first inauguration and had
exposed himself for four hours on the plaza
OF the Capitol in order to participate in
nannnrntic Drpsl
dent. "A Democratic Senate and Demo
cratic House, and he exclaimed, dramat-
icsliy:
God forgive me for being such fool-
EVERYBODY LAUGHED.
Laughter and applause broke out in the
galleries, which the presiding officer-Mr-
Faulkner. OF West Virginia-tried TO sup
press; and this caused Mr.. Tillman to apos-
trophise the chair. saying:
IF you let me down into the bog and
quagmire of having nobody applaud when
speak. suppose 1 will get used TO it after
q while"
Subsequently he got into n colloquy with
Mr. Hoar. Rep. Massachusetts, as TO an
expression of the latter upon the decadence
OF Southern statesmen. And when Mr.
Hoar said he would look up the record TO
Justify himself. Mr.. Tiiiman said that he
would wait. but that he would not wet
his whistle" because wind mill could not
be run by water CRenewed laughtcr.l
Talking of the Sherman act Mr.. Tillnan
exclaimed: Il would take my bat off to
him as do now typicaIly. tsJiitinG the action
to the word) as the victor of victors in this
financial conflict of quarter of 4 century"
a and
to his speech THAT infamous contract with
Stetson. the syndicate contract. also an
extract from the Democratic year book
of SSS, showing the purchase of bonds
with that surplus which used TO keep this
man awake at nights. Uaughter-) And
1t must bc authentic" he added, coming
as it docs from the Democratic National
Committee. (Laughter.) just want to
put the two cheek by jowl, you know, in
iuxtapos itinn."
Coming once more TO a denunciation OF
the President, Mr. Tnlman snapped out
the question to Republican Senators:
''why have you not impeached him."
Mr.. Hawley. Rep. Connecticut. replied
that the last Congress was Democratic
81 have already paid my respects TO the
last Congress" Mr.. Tillman said. ''and
hoped better things from the Congress
which the people have now sent here. But |
you are all of kind-cowards. tools OF
monopolists- tSensation-) He is not i'm |
pcached because he is carrying out Repub- |
lican policy
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