The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-02-07

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HE AID
me Rresident Called ssBesotted Tyrant,''
ard secretary Carlisle ssJudas from Ken
tuckyr-Wan street scored n Another
Era or Bloodshed Predicted.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-Senator Ben
Iillman OF South Carolina spoke upon
the silver substitute for the bond bill
IN the senate to-day and made the oc-
casion the opportunity for an extreme
arraignment of the administration and
Of those Republicans and Democrats
who have, in the past, thrown their
influence toward the upholding of the
gold reserve.
Senator Iillman began: ut is not
saying too much, and / feel warranted
In charging, that the arrangement in
our finances 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 robbery, which had for its
object, first the utter destruction of
silver as a money metal; second, the
increase of the public debt and the is
Y of bonds payable in gold. and,
third, the surrender to corporations of
the power to issue all paper money
and give them q monopoly of that
function.
IF the secret history of the year
1892 shall eve be written, it will dis
close the fact, which cannot be proven
now, but of which / have not the
slightest doubt, that the gold ring of
New York, which embraces nearly all
the bankers in the Eastern and Middle
states and the stock gamblers OF Wall
street, controlled the Presidential
nominations of both the Democrats
and Republican parties and had an
understanding with the managers, or
with both the candidates themselves,
in regard to what policy should be
pursued towards our finances. They
contributed money for the booming Of
Mr. Cleveland as the only available
Democratic candidate, and they abused
n ridiculed every other Democratic
aspirant.
In the entire hlstory,of this coun-
try" continued Mr.. Tillman, the high
office OF the President has never been
SO pr~ostituted, and never has the APP
pointing power been SO abused. Claim
Ing to be the apostle of civil service
reform, he has debauched the civil SER
vice by making appointments only of
whose sponsors would surrender
their manhood, and, with bated
breath, walk with submissive head in
his presence. With relentless purpose
he has ignored his oath Of Office. to
uphold and obey the law, and has
paid out gold instead of coin and has
issued bonds to buy more gold, by
both actions overriding the law and
giving no heed to the interests of any
but moneyed friends-I might say his
owners or partners.
while to this besotted tyrant coin
has come to mean gold alone, he cam
not by his mere 'ipse dixit' change the
law of this land and pervert the plain
meaning of the English language.
The repeal of the Sherman law, it
was asserted. which was the frstp Dir
OF attack OF this 'unholy alliance
was accomplished only through the
aid n in conjunction with a majority
OF the Republican senator's.
4gGA& = DCA4OSA IN IcSlucuI aCcOIu
plished what a not possible for anu
Republican executive under the CIR
cumstances tc have brought about.
A change of the party in power had
left a large number of offices in his
gift with which to buy votes
MR.. CARLISLE, JUDAS FROM KENTUcKY''
In discussing the .'honest meaning
of parity Of gold and silver in the
Sherman law, he said: 1.-THE object was
to have them assist each other, to hold
silver up by holding gold down, and
an honest secretary of the treasury,
who should have resigned his office
rather than have submitted to the die
tatlon of a besotted chief, would have
paid out silver to protect the treasury
from the gold gamblers and bond
gamblerAs as the law and his oath
required. No wonder the Senator
from Massachusetts, feels like twit-
ting US with the decay of South
ern craftsmanship and charging us
with dishonesty. He charges it, how
ever, In another connection and as
aiding and abetting this Judas from
Kentucky, who, after a brilliant ca
reer of twenty years and more as
leader and champion of the silver
forces. has, in his old age, come to this
pitifnl pass. And then to think that
the Indictment thus brought against
q whole section should have SO much
color Of truth and OF fact to back it up
in the apostacy from their principles
of the two other Secretaries from the
South in the cabinet Of q President
who has SC disgraced the name Of
Democracy.
ssThhe South bows it's head inssliame