Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-13

speech was listened to closely by the
Senators, and that the unusually
crowded galleries were highly enter
tanned by alternate amusement and
tragic earnestness, The speech was
said to be different from anything
ever heard in the Senate, and, on the
whole, the Senate was not pleased
with it, 1t did not expect to be
pleased, and when it became known
that the doughty South Carolinian
would speak there were suggestions
as to what should be done with him.
In general, the Senate resorts to one
OF three ways in managing a recall
citrant speaker, fresh from the peo-
pie. The first and most approved
plan is to snuff him out by coldness
and dlsdain, and the suggestion which
appears to proceed from everywhere,
that Senatorial courtesy requires that
the new man be deferential, and that
Senatorial courtesy requires that he
be not heard in any considerable
speech until he has warmed his Sena-
torial seat for long while The Sec
ond plan, effective in the majority of
cases in which the first fails, Is to give
him rope, let him speak, encourage
HIM to speak when there is nothing
pressing aud while the correspondence
and social duties Of older Senators
receive their personal attention. The
third method is to get the new Sena.
tor financially interested in some Of
the many schemes which will be
greatly affected by Congressional
action. The first plan failed with
Tillman the second and third are get
on trial.
Editorial comments have generally
been severe in their condemnation Of
the speech IL is called butal, al
though its brutality" was 80 framed
as to transgreSs none of the Senate's
rules of decorum. 1t has been COM
pared to some of the satirical ar
fragments bv which ex-senator Ia.
gals added to his fame. But the
comparisons have brought out quite
as many contrasts as similarities with
the Kansan's oratorcal carvings. In
gals cut with the keen edge of poll
ished satire and did it so handsomely
that half the world applauded. Till
man slashes with the rough edge of a
sickle, making unbeatable wounds.
His thrusts are 80 furious that none
cares to enter the arena with him.
Just what to do with Tillman, the
country seems scarcely to know, and
it is almost equally uncertain what
Tlllmsn will do with the Senate. It
is not forgotten that he met in open
fight, in South Carolina, and worsted
the most alert, daring, unsCruplous
and resourceful political foe in the
world, VIZ, the liquor power. With
all its resources Of rough heelers il
could not bully him. with all its
money it could not buy him; with all
its cunning it could not outgeneral
him; with all its cool assurance It
could not disregard him. tits evident
that in the new. line Of battle he is no
inconsequential upstart.
His arrangement was not OF the
President alone, but Of his party as
well, and with it he threw in the re-
publican party for good measure. He
might have had considerable endorse
ment had he been silent as to one of
the great parties. Had he claimed
lnfallibility for one il would have
praised him even though he used
saw instead Of lance upon its oppo-
nent. He has scored the money
power" the President, the democratic
party, the republican party, and he
already had the eternal enmity Of the
whisky party, But he is Senator;
he will have to be endured. He ia
able aud he is IN doubtedly sincere.
The only thing left for those who dis
like the course aud iDh1o1co of such
man 10 to stand at safe distance
and call him names.
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