The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-17
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Referring to the, late election. Mr.
Vest said that the people had been told
that if Mckinley was elected prosper
ity would shine upon the country and
confidence would be restored. Had
prosperity Gomez he asked. Had pros
perity been restored? Tt had not been
restored, and what was the result? The
people were buying neither domestic
nor foreign goods. Did senators ex-
pect that by increasing tariff rates
more money would be put into the
pockets of the people? Did senators
expect that they would give TO the
people greater ability to buy by in
creasing their taxes? Speaking of
Secretary Carlisles estimate of the
amount of money in circulation, Mr.
Vest characterized it as "A moss
grown lie,' and he declared that the
only relief which could he given to
the country-as much as it might be
derided, or as much as he might be
charged with being ''lunatic. an anar-
chist and a repudiator Twas giving
more money to the country. No
country" he continued, emphatically.
can be prosperous with an increasing
population and a decreasing volume of
money. You have now got a system
country This issue cannot be smothered
by abuse and ridicuIe. The man who
thinks that this last election has ended
the struggle is untitled 10 leglSlatei Tor
a free people. He knows nothing about
the great popular impulses and the
heart throbs which go through the peo-
pie of this whole union. If we are
anarchists or lunatics, when we ask
that the mints be opened to the free
coinage of silver. then this country is
lost, because there were 6,499. 900 Amer
lean freemen who stamped themselves
as lunatics and anarchists at the cleo
ton in November last William j.
Bryan, this Boy Orator, who has been
caricatured and slandered and ridi-
culed, polled Al lilo per cent of the en-
tire vote, and the Mckinley popular
majority was barely 100000 in a poll
of over $4,000, 900. If there be in this
country over 100000 anarchists and
lunatics, and enemies Of the country's
welfare. God help the republic and free
institutions, We are lost.
BUT IT IS A VILE SANDER.
The men who voted for Bryan are hon.
est and patriotic, and law-abiding, and
we do not propose TO be ridiculed out
of what we believe right and just We
are for equality. We want no monop-
oily, no class legislation, no exclusive
bounties. This system of gold stan
dard is the vilest monopoly ever main
tanned in the brain of a mortal man. /
do not care to say more of the last
election than that in my opinion it was
a parody on popular government and
on free institutions. l am curious to
know what will be the result of the
investigation proposed under the reso-
luton of the gentleman from Nebraska
Mr.. Allen. l would like to understand
why. in the great and growing state
of Texas and others in the west. there
has been no increase of population in
four years. while in the old and finished
and completed states of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois there has been an enor-
nous increase, such as was never
found before in any census of the
United States. l am constrained to be-
ieve that the senator from New
Hampshire. Mr.. Chandler. was correct
when he declared. that the st. Louis
convention was honeyrofnbed with cor
ruption, and that the delegates were
bought and sent there for the sole pur-
pose of nominating Mckinley. This
was no mere ebullition of zeal, for the
senator from New Hampshire. after
wards. in deliberate letter. reiterated
the charge and declared that every
word which he had uttered in regard
TO the composition of the St. Louis
convention was true. The average
American citizen. when he hears from
such high Republican authority that
the convention which nominated the
candidate of the Republican party was
procured by money and that the dele
gates were sent there by the use of
money. are very apt to continue TO in
Guire how the stream which comes
from so corrupt a source can be called
pure.
Mr.. Aldrich (Rep. r. L.. contro-
verted some of Mr.. Vests statements
as to the prosperity of the American
wooden manufacturers. and declared
there never was a time when that in
dustry was so depressed and unsatis-
factory. Petitions, he said. were COM
ing to the senate every day imploring
congress to give relief to that indus
tr---
At this stage of the discussion the
morning hour expired and the unfin-
ished business-the immigration bill
was laid before the senate. The tariff
discussion, however. having been fairly
started by Mr. Vest, was continued
and was participated in by Senators
Frye (Rep. Me): Mills, (Dem. Tex);
Vest. Oem. MOI, and Mitchell, (Rep.
| Ore).
/ DINGLEY BILL DEAD.
In the course of it Mr. Vest spoke
/ OF the Dingley Dill as being dead ana
consigned to the tomb of the Capulets;
while to an allusion as to President
/ Cleveland being the leader to the sena-
/ tor from Missouri (NIr. Vest), immedi-
ately interposed the correction No,
sir no: our former leader" Gaughter)
Mr.. Mills created a laugh by describ-
/ inS how, out of his coat, the cloth of
which was manufactured in New En-
| gland, he had drawn several long hairs
which had been worked in as a sub
stitute for wool and the hilarity was
| increased when Mr. Gear (ReD. la.
suggested that the horse hairs had been
put in by the tailor to stiffen the col
/ lar.
! Mr.. Gear also denounced the state
ments of Vest and Mills that domestic
wool had gone up in price since wool
was placed on the free list and said
that in Iowa wool which had sold at
from 10 to u cents a pound under the
! Mckinley act had been selling this
year at II cents d pound.
Mr. Chandler. (Rep. N. HI. also took
a hand in the discussion. II the Ding
ley bill were, as Mr.. Vest had said, in
the tomb of the CaDulets, why. he
asked, should time he wasted in talking
f, about it? When Senator Aliens reso-
luton for a committee of inquiry
should be before the senate it would
be his (Mr Chandler's) pleasure and
duty to define his position in connec-
ton with the proposed investigation as
to the use of money in the late cleo
ton.
Mr.. Allen asked Mr. Chandler
whether it was the settled purpose on
! the Republican side of the chamber