The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-26
RANDALL'S CAPITOL VIEWS.

Question-CockreI's Greet Speech on F.
nances--A Railway Monarch from tn,
Northwest.
Special to the Augusta Chronicle.
Senator Hilps speech was an adroi
ono, and his criticism of tho Third
House Resolution appeared, to my
mind, correct grammar, law and logic
but the people seem to prefer tho man
who, on this Cuban question. takes q
decided stand on the main issue and
not on dialcctica] construction. This
was exhibited in tho galleries. Hill
had written out the concluding pass
ages Of his speech and read them sono-
rously. They were very 6no and elO-
qucnt, but somehow, perhaps because
OF his critical attitude, did not strike
ire. Preparations were made to in
tcrccpt applause, but net q responsive
plaudit was vouchsafed. BY the way,
the traditional threat from the prcstd-
ing ofliccr to clear the galleries, under
certain circumstances, is a perfunctOry
menace. The applause sometimes,
perhaps hnbitually, begins in reserved
galleries, but nobody prctends to dis
turb tho (avorites thcro. Colonel
Bright, the Sergeant-at-Arms of tho
Senate, said that all spectators must
be treated alike, and that no poor man
need be dragged out of the public gal
lery rs II to be the scapegoat for high.
class offenders in galleries set apart
for the nobility"
| 1t is reported that educated Cuban
do not join the insurgents, but, "go
to the United States" Many OF them
! presumably keep up the war on Spain
from friendly shore, where they cs-
cape the hardships of the field. Dur
ing our Confederate war thero were
not q few such persons at Nassau and
Bermuda, living like fighting cocks,
making money, and advising the wool
hot soldiers to die in the last ditch
No doubt every cause engenders such
uphclders, and it may be that they are
just as useful at q distance as they
would be in the front Of battle.
The rival Republican Presidential
makers appear to be accusing one an
other OF using money presumably in
the purchase OF delegates especially
from States that are no. apt to furnish
an electoral vote. [ once saw gang
of men, at the polls, everyone Of whom
had been probably purchased, as D)nn
F'latt used to say, disreputably
cheap" and they are bore aloft ban
ner with this proud device: 1--WE
Can't Be Bought" Perhaps they
were what Simon Cameron called
honest rascals "-they stayed bought.
Mark Hanna and William Pitt Kel-
logg are having q controversy on this
huckstering subject. 1t is very anus
ing and would make an excellent ap-
pendix to Hon. John Sherman's ac-
count OF General Russell Alger and his
winning ways. 1t would be droll if
Southern delegates at ST. Louis help ped
force an Objectionable candidate upon
the Republican party. The same
| trouble may be arprchcnded at Chica-
go, when hopelessly Republican States
Try to nominate a man distaStcful tC
Southern and WcAtern Democracy.
Senator COcIlrell's speech on the Ii
nanci.l question is a great one and
cannot be successfully answered. 1t
shows how the Republicans, when Eos.
ter was Secretary Of the Treasury, in
vited ShylOck, here and abroad, tC
exchange paper for gold. Tho docu-
ments proving lit were presented by
Senator Cockrell for the first time.
The most amazing thing to NE is how
darlngly men in authority ignore the
| law and actually defy it; and another
astonishing thing is how zealously
many good people uphold them in such
transactions. There has never been a
day, as Senator Cockrell circumstan-
italy shows, that tho Treasury could
not have been lawfully protected
against foreign and domestic gold
gamblers, without issuing single
bond for the enrichment of ShyIock. .
And yet we are supposed to have a
model administration and we may be
asked to help nominate the man who
follows Republican precedent like Mr..
Carlisle does Mr.. Foster, and who has
prevented the election Of Joe Black
burn in Kentucky. In event OF such a
likely contingency, am satisfied that
MIR. Carlisle, if nominated, cou.d not
carry his own State much less com
monwealths farther South.
The greatest railway man of the
West and one Of the greatest in the
world is James j. Hill. His road, the
! Great Northern, is vast and solvent.
Mr.. Hill is in Washington and there
| has been OF late no more notable ar
rival, for fow men anywhere can match
him as an intellectual force and encr-
getic developer OF immense projects in
honest fashion. He has accumulated
many millions Of dollars with clean
hands. Years ago, when q rising
young man, he was waited upon at an
eating house by ayoung woman, who
attracted him by her beauty, grace and
modcsty. He made her acquaintance
and proposed marriage at some future
| tlmc. He knew that q prOmi ncnt Ca
reer was before him involving wealth
and high position, SO he had n loving
conference with the girl, and she, like
the sensible woman she was, agreed
to his propositions. At his expense,
she was educated in the very best
manner and fitted to be the wife Of q
prince. She became the wife Of a real
"lord Of the creation" and was, and is,
his proudest possession. There is not
a better woman or one more cited iOr
her commanding station, and very
touchingly beautiful is the tri oute her
husband paid her before an Imposing
throng, q few months ago, when nc
handed over to Archbishop ireland
deeds to magnificent university
builL and endowed by himself and his
devoted spouse. While | write this,
am aware that tho papers OF q recent
date contained an article showing how
q lieutenant in the United States
Army, one OF the prize men from West
Point, had been virtually driven from
the service because he dared to marry
tho honest daughter Of subaltern
When Senator Tiilman gets his pitch
fork ready for abuses in tho army, he
NAV remember this Incident and com