The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-03-13
TOOK OUT AFTER CLEVELAND.
Congressman Hartman Calls Him to Task
for the Mission Talk,
The Presidents address Taken as an IN
suit 10 the West-Need a Mission
airy at the White House.

WASHINGTON, March G.-Ail interest
! in the house proceedings yesterday was
completely overshadowed by a sensa-
tional attack made upon the president
/ by Mr.. Hartman of Montana, who felt
himself personally aggrieved by Mr.
/ Cleyelaud's utterances at the Presby-
terian home mission meeting in New
York on Tuesday, and who seized the
opportunity allowed by the latitude of
debate on appropriation bills to repel
the idea that the western states were
| the home of evil influences. Mr.. Hart
man sent to the clerks desk and had
read the following extract from Mr..
Cleveland's address:
The liberation of evils and Indifference to
Outstanding and eleYating agencies, in the
new states of the west, which if unchecked, de-
velOps into badly regulated municipalities, cor
Tupt and unsafe territories and undesirable
| states
"Whateyer may be my individual
opinion of the president" said Mr..
Hartman, "matters not. Tt would not
be proper for me to state it here. For
the high Office of the president Of the
United States have q supreme regard.
The legitimate functions of that Office
are limited to those enumerated in our
constitution. Under the constitution
and laws 7 deny the right of the chief
executive to wiiIfulIy and wantonly, in
public address or otherwise, insult any
of the citizens of any state of the re-
public over whom he has been called
to preside.
II deny the constitutional authority
of the president to give utterance in
public address to sentiments favorable
or adverse to proposed legislation pend
ing in our house Of congress. When
the president made tie foregoing re
marks, he knew there was pending in
congress bills for the admission of GER
tain territories into the union of states.
He had been advised that a majority
Of the citizens of those territories were
antagOnistiC to his peculiar financial
and economic views, and under the
cloak of a supposed purely religious
address, before a religious organization,
and with gross improperly, and for the
purposes of preventing the achieve
ment of the rights of statehood to
which they aspire and are entitled, be
| gave UtteFance, as chief executive, to
this unfounded SANDER against those
citizens and states of the republic,
whose interests he is sworn to protect
and uphold.
"The percentage of crimes in those
states and territories will not reach
that in the state of New York, where
the president seems to think all virtue
reside. The per capita of wealth of the
citizens of our state exceeds that of
any other state in the union, save one
Our educational facilities are equal to
those Of any section of the union, and
if some Of the patriotism of the people
of the west had been possessed by the
president and his friends, the citizens
of this republic would not have beer
called upon to witness the nationa.
humiliation of hauling down the Ameri
can flag at Honolulu, of begging the
bankers of Wall street and Great Brit
ain to save US from financial ruin, anC
under the behest of the powers behind
the throne, of denying to the oppressed
citizens of Cuba the recognition which
the dictates Of humanity aud common
right demand. It is true we do not gel
our patriotism from Wall street, where
the president gets his. 1t is true none
of our citizens have possessed tina
particular style of patriotism which
would enable them to save by thrift
and strict economy FIVE times as mucI
as their entire income amounts to, an(
it is also true that the patriotism o
these corrupt and unsafe territorie
and undesirable states has never ye
been able to rise to that lofty plane o
= supreme wisdom and virtue whi3h en-
ables those who claim to occupy it Il
justify the sale Of 3O-year government
bonds of a year ago for S1O4, when tina
very day 1O-year bonds we're selling a
slC6. On behalf of the citizens of thu
states and territories thus slanderet
and maligned by the chief executive,
here and now Fepel the insult and re
spectfulIy suggest that the creates
need Of this country for the work Q
the missionary, the schoolmaster ant
the statesman will be found at tb
White house"
Not To Be Triasd With.
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