Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-03-20
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whether used the phras, "hon.
money" accurately or not. Ihl @u.
other question The charge thai an
puted something of drgenrracy or its
honor to the present representatives Of
/ the South on this floor, ~ compared 50
/ their predecessors, | absolutely nruy
/ have read the language, So hirli o'.
/ stand. aEE
/ Mr.. TILLMAN. am vrrN Lltd iru..l
to have the senator withdraw any ST.
/ imputation
Nj HoAR lido not With 1s. 1905. ed.
never made any
MIR. TILLMAN. 1t is question ui ..
Interpretation of your language. anu
interpreted in the way lrivr. aud u
called upon 10 answer il III the way |
did.
MIR. IIOAR. If the senator will pardon
me, propose to put my own lntcrpreta
ton on my own language, and suppose
the honorable senator from South Car.
lima will accept my assurance of What
myself meant by it
Mr.. TILLMAN. | do. exonerate the
senator from any intended insult to the
Southern people, but we want to put our
Interpretation on the English language
as to what "hOnest" means. The word
honesty" if you will pardon me, as
applied to money nowadays means that
those of us who favor silver are dis
honest. We deny it. The country has
had silver since It's birth as a part of its
constitutional money up to 1873. Since
the days of Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob the two metals have been money
until within the last twenty five years.
will go on, and | hope | Will not
tread on my aged friends toes any more
Laughter. 1t seems impossible for
1, 70, int ic al AZ
without Massachusetts getting hold of
her. This time South Carolina got hold
of Massachusetts, il seems. Laughter
He charges dishonesty. however, i'm
another connectiOn--as the alder and
abettor of this Judas from Kentucky,
who after brilliant career of twenty
years and more rs leader and champion
of silver forces, has 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 Of truth and of fact to back it M,
in the apOStacY from their principles OF
the two other secretaries from the South
in the cabinet OF Il president who has 50
disgraccd the name of Democracy.
The South bows its head in shame at
this cXhblbition of moral cowardce and
despiseS the renegades: but | must re-
mind the senator from Massachusetts
that there is yet only moral turpitude
and treacherY to be charged against
these men. | would not have said this
if the senator had chosen his language
more carefully. II is here, however.
ard i'm it must 20. The southern CON
grcsSmen and senators who came here
poor are still poor. They have not be-
> come millionares like some of their
f northern brethrcn: and there is no Credit
liobilier steal. or CofaX scandal, or
Belknap bribery chargeable to any
southern men. Let him remember these
) things and keep back his sncers and
| taunts.
So. if the senator wants to charge the
southern people, through their repre-
= sentatives here with being dishonest, or
! if he does not want to chorge them with
it and chooses to withdraw the imputa-
ton today, let him remember these
facts before he again makes such a
: statement.
, TO repeat, Mr.. Tillman says:
mo wonder the Senator from Massa-
, chusetts feels warranted in twittting us
, with dishonesty"
MIR. HOAR: 81 made no such intima-
ton. said in sub
stance, speaking wholly of the change
of opinion. what has become of the old
southern statesmen who were the champ
ions of hard money.
:, had not the remotest idea that there
5 was any degeneracy or inferiority in the
7 present southern statesmen as compared
change of opinion"
o Here is exactly what Mr. IIoar said
taken from the record:
What has become of the old Demo
: cratic party: What has become of the
u old craftsmanship of the South: What
ever else we may have to charge against
: the people of that section III times past.
d, if we have anything, one thing until
u lately it always STOOD for, freedom from
= debt, economy of expenditure, and
!. sound and honest money, gold and sill
yer. New, am sorry To say, with some
honorable exceptions, the craftsmanship
of that part of the country seems to have
abandoned all three. e. freedom from
debt, economy of expenditure and Soai'
e 0Hd honest money.
This last charge. if true. should be d
It serious one, and it would certainly seen
to the ordinary mind to include charge
g of dishonesty. But Mr.. IIoar assures
"a us that it does not. And therefore II
d follows that it makes no difference il
= Mr.. IIoar's opinion of mans honesty
or character whether he wants what Mr.
IIoar calls Sound and honest money
If or not. Then the words "sound anC
honest must be miSapplied. In othel
!, words, Mr.. IIoar admits that he made al
# insincere and misleading speech, on
V subject of vital interest to the nation
IS a thing that any man really fit to be
y senator could not do. 1t is because o
,e such ncompetency and dishonesty "A
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