The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-30

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leader and champion of the 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 up
in the apostacy from their principles
of the two other Secretaries from the
South in the Cabinet of a President
who has so disgraced the name of
Democracy.
The South bows it's head in shame
at this exhibition Of moral cowardice
and despises the renegades; but l
must remind the Senator from Massa-
chusetts that there is as yet only moral
turpitude 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 mobilier steal, or ColfaX
scandal, or Belknap bribery charge
able to any Southern man. Let him
remember these things and keep back
his sneers and taunts."
The Senator contended that if there
has been one idea more persistently
and prominently presented to the
American people by President Cleve-
land than any other, it has been the
iniquities of the tariff and the demand
for its revision In season and out of
season, with 'damnable iteration" he
had sung this siren song in the ears
of the farmers. In this connection he
quoted from messages of the Presi-
dent of 1887 and 1883, and said he did
it for 1.-THE purpose of pointing out the
evolution of a tyrant and showing the
transition from conscientious law
abiding chief magistrate to an AFRO
CANT and obstinate ruler who ignores
the law and issues bonds at will, and
issues them under a statute that is
subject to the suspicion that it was in
tended to be temporary and limited in
it's application instead of comforting
discretionary authority. He not only
issues them, but does it secretly, with
his law partner as witness to the con-
tract, and has created the suspicion in
the minds of millions of his country
men that President of the United
States can use his high office for pri-
vate gain"
"He differs with the Republican par
ty only in the one particular, of the
tariff, and on that he has blown hot
and cold as his pet hobby, and will go
down in history as the most gigantic
failure of any man who ever occupied
the White House. all because of his
vanity and obstinacy'
'fo make good this charge" Mr.
TilIman argues, that when President
tn IN
1893, and could have called the houses
(both Democratic for the first time
since the war; to carry his policy into
effect, he did not call AN extra session
to give the tariff reform to the people
but instead called Congress together
to stop the coinage of silver. The
President had waited until the object
lesson of the panic, manufactured to
order by his fellow conspirators, had
swept like a cyclone over the country
prostrating all business enterprises
and industries and the newspapers had
howled in chorus III the ears of the
people the coinage of silver was cause
OF the monetary crisis"
Discussing the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law,
which followed, he said: Democrats
and Republicans We'd with each other
in the furtherance of the policy which
had been formulated and steadily pur-
sued by the Senator from Ohio, and he
has the proud satisfaction of knowing
that he has brought the party which
he so hates to it's knees and has lived
to see many of his old antagonists en-
listed under the banner of monopoly
and class-priyileges. They sit at his
feet and acknowledge his leadership.
when the Senate met there was an
acknowledged majority of men open
and outspoken in their determination
TO stay by the white metal and they
were elected on that issue. But the
process of debauchery began. Vote ac-
cording to my viii or you viii have no
Offices Vote according to my Will and
if pour people do not like it / will take
care of you The newspapers rayed
and abused the Senate. Bankers telc-
graphed and wrote. Chambers of Coma
merce passed resolutions, and slowly
the Senate yielded. In 30 days the
deed was done and the chains We're
rivetted on the wrists OF the millions.
Did the raid on the Treasury stop?"
Discussing then the tariff bill, which
passed in the regular session follow
ing, he said:
1T is true the President did not sign
it and allowed it to- become a law With
out his aproval.B But here again we have
spectacle of charlatanry and hypo-
critical assumption of superiority to
his party which has always marked his
career. The tariff law which he re-
pudiated as unworthy, involving par
ty perfidy and party dishonor' is the
sheet anchor to which he clings."
And again, referring to the Presi-
dent; If he was honest at the start
(and | am willing to grant that much)
his association with Wall street and
his connections with wealthy men has
debauched his conscience and destroy
ed all sympathy with the masses"
The Senator then referred to the fall
in the prices of all form products. The
mpoyerishment Of the farmers had
destroyed, he said, their ability to pur-
chase on the one hand while the de-
creased prices of their products OF ex-
port in European markets had left our
debts for imports and interest on obli-
cations abroad unpaid. Hence the eA-
mort of gold To meet these obligations.