The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-21

I'm the entire history of the country the
high Office of president has never been SO
prostituted. and never has the appointing
power been SO abused. Claiming to be the
apostle Of civil service reform, he has de-
bauched the civil service by making ap-
pointments only Of those whose sponsors
would surrender their manhood and with
Lated breath walk with submissive head in
his presence. With relentless purpose he
has ignored his oath of office to uphold and
obey the law, and has paid out gold in
stead Of coin and issued bonds to buy more
gold, by both actions overriding the law
and giving no Heed to the interests of any
hut moneyed friends-I might say his own
ers or partners.
A Besotted Tyrsnt.
while to this besotted tyrant coin has
come to mean gold alone. he cannot by his
mere ipse dixit change the law of this land
and pervert the plain meaning of the Eng
liSh language.
'.The repeal Of the Sherman law, it was
asserted, which was the first point Of at
tack of the 'unholy alliance was only ac-
complished through the aid and in con-
junction with majority Of the republican
senator's.
This democratic president accomplished
what was not possible for any republican
executive under the circumstances to have
brought about A change of the party in
power had left large number of offices in
his gift with which to buy votes"
In discussing the honest meaning" of
parity Of gold and silver in the Sherman
law. he said:
1.-The object was to have them assist each
other, to hold silver up by holding gold
down, and an honest secretary of the treas
ury, who should have resigned his office
rather than submit to the dictation of be-
sotted chief, would have paid out silver to
protect the treasury from the gold gam
blers and bond gamblers, as the law and
his oath of office require. No wonder the
senator from Massachusetts, feels war
ranted in twitting US with the decay Of
southern craftsmanship and charging US
with dishonesty. He charges 1t, how
ever, in another connection, and as aiding
and abetting this Judas from Kentucky.
who, after brilliant career of 20 years and
more as the leader and champion of the sill
yer forces, has in his old age come to this
pitiful pass. And then to think that the in
dictment thus brought against a whole
section should have SO much color of
truth and of fact to back 1t up in the
apostasy from their principles Of the two
ether secretaries from the south in the
cabinet of a president who so disgraced the
name Of democracy!
1.-The south bows it's head in shame at
this exhibition of moral cowardice and de-
spises the renegades."
Prostituted the Presidency.
The senator commended that If there has
been one idea more persistently and prom
inently presented to the American people
by President Cleveland than any other it
bad 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 president Of 1887
and 1883. and said he did it for 1.-The pur-
pose of pointing out the evolution of a
tyrant and Of showing the transition from
q conscientious, law-abiding chief magis-
strate to an arrogant and obstinate ruler
| who ignores the law and issues bonds at
| will, and issues them under q statute that
| is subject to the suspicion that 1t was in
| tended to be temporary and limited in its
| application instead of comforting a dis
| cretionary authority. He not only issues
| them, but does 1t secretly, with his law
partner as q witness to the contract and
| has created the suspicion in the minds Of
millions OF his countrymen that president
| Of the United States can use his high Office
| for private gain.
He differs with the republican party
| only in the one particular Of the tariff, and
on that he has blown hot and cold as his
let hobby, and will go down to history as
| the most gigantic failure of any man who
ever occupied the white house. all because
| Of his vanity and obstinacy.'
To mako good this charge, Mr.. TiIlman
| argued that when President Cleveland
| came to power in March. 1893, and could
| call the senate and house, both democratic,
for the first time since the war, to carry
his policy into effect, he did not call an
extra session to give tariff reform to the
people, but instead called congress to-
Gether to stop the coinage of silver.
Discussing the repeal of the purchasing
power Of the Sherman law. which followed.
| he said:
| Democrats and republicans Wed with
| each other in the furtherance Of the policy
| which had been formulated and steadily
pursued by the senator from Ohio.
when the senate met there was an
acknowledged majority Of men open and
outspoken in their determination to stand
| by the white metal, and who were elected
| on this issue. But the process of de-
hatchery began. and slowly the senate
| yielded. In 80 days the deed was done and
the chains were riveted on the wrists of
| the toiling millions. Did the raid on the
| treasury stop?
| Discussing then the tariff bill which
passed In the regular session following. he
| said:
1T is true he (the president) did not sign
| 1t, and allowed 1t to become a law without
| approval. but here again we have a spec
| tncle Of charlAtanry and hypocritical as
| sumption of superiority to his party which
| has always marked his career. The tariff
law which he repudiated as unworthy, in
| volving party perf1dy and party dishonor'
Is the sheet anchor to which he clings."
And again. referring to the president: "If
| he was honest at the start land am willing
! Wall street and his connection with wealthy
| men had debauched his conscience and de-
stroyed all sympathy with the Masses
| Further on. in discussing the gold Ques-
| ton. he said: "Rothschild and his Ameri-
/ can agents graciously condescended to
come to the help Of the United States treas
| ury In maintaining the gold standard which
has brought this ruin, and only charges
| q small commission Of ten millions or So
Great God! that this proud government
| tie richest, most powerful on the globe
should have been brought to SO low a pass
that Q London Jew should have been ap-
| POINTED its receiver and presumes to pat
ronixe us!
THE responsibility Of providing revenue
| and looking after the solvency Of the treas
ury, which rests with congress-, has been
usurped by the president. Why Is he not
impeached?
1.-THE encroachments Of the federal ju-
dietary and the supineness and venality-
| corruption, I may say-of the representa-
| tive branches OF the government are causes
| Of deep concern to all thinking and patriot
&c men. We are fast drifting into govern
Ment BY Injunction In the interest Of MOI
nopolies and corporations. and the su-
preme court. by one corrupt vote, annuls
an act OF congress looking to the taxation
| OF the rich.
Industrial Enslavement.
'The struggle from 1861 to 1856, which
drenched this fair land In blood. was TO
emancipate 4.0oa0o black slaves We arc
l fast approaching . condition which Win
place the collar q Industrial bondage
around the necks OF ten times that many
white slaves = day a. rockonmg W1l1
oeno un1eog those = - lokGo10 ~ oe1
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