Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-03-07
CARTER MAKES A KICK
Objects to Being Called a Traitor
to Party.
Contends That the silver Senators
Have Nothing TO Apologize for
--Just as Patriotic ms the
Gold Men.

" @NCAis 49, I" D'sf
rep, Pennsylvania, presented the petit
ton OF the Glass Blowers Association
| OF the United States ana Canada urg
ing the re-enactment OF the free coinage
laws at the ratio of IL TO i. The army
appropriation bill was reported and
placed OIL the calendar.
Mr.. Allen. pop, Nebraska, offered a
substitute for the pending Cuban reso-
luton. IL authorizes and requests the
president To issue "A proclamation recog-
nlzing the Independence OF the republic
Of Cuba. He asked thai the resolution
lie ON the table.
Mr.. Allen referred to the vote yester-
day on taking up the tarifr bill and the
sta made 10y Mr.. Morrill,, rep.
Vermont. and others thai the tariff bill
WAS dead and said that the populist
votes. added 10 the ~ republican votes
In the senate, would carry the house
tariff bin by a majority OF 8; and the
populis: senators would give their votes
for Il II the republican senators would
vote for the addition to Il OF a free coin
age substitute. He introduced and e n
to the clerks desk a bill in that form.
The bill was ordered to he printed as an
amendment to the house tariff bill.
Mr.. Lindsay. dem, Kentucky, offered
an amendment i~ns;ruciing the commit
tee on finance when IL reported the tar
IN Dill back, to do so with a provision
striking off the duty or 10 per cent on
sugar and the additional one eighth OF
] cent per pound on refined sugars. This
amendment practically places all sugars
on the free list.
MIR. Carter, rep. Montana, then adj
dressed the senate in explanation Of his
vote against taking up the house tariff
bill on the 18th Of February.
Carter, rep, Montana, In the
course OF his speech complained
that four members of the
senate. including himself, had been in
dicted by he leading journals of the
cas-; and pronounced guilty OF treason
to the republican party, without trlal.
Against this Judgment he set up he
fact that the house tariff bill, which
they had helped to defeat. was al vari-
ance with all past professions OF the re-
publican party on the tariff question.
III is admitted" he said, that the
house bill Is not and was not Intended
To he an expression by the party OF It's
views. 1t has been and Is now distinct
~ asserted that IL Is not a republican
measure.
II IL "A measure to meet an alleged
emergency which the chief executive
officer Of the ma ton. stou,ly asserts does
not exist at all. The party then is in
tine attitude Of forcing uncalled for re-
lief upon a reluctant democratic admin
is;ratlon."
Aside from this. Mr.. Carter contended
hat the method employed was serious
~ objectionable. IL built upon exist
ing law as IA foundation. The Wilson
tariff bill has been everywhere on
demned by republicans as VIGOROUSLY
inequitable and unjust. 1t assumed to
protect the manufacturers and cast the
producers OF so-called raw material
throughout the country into open COM
petition with cheap labor everywhere.
The pending bill now proposes to make
this injustice more glaring. Certain re-
publlcsns of mature Judgment. wide re-
fearch and unquestionabl integrity Of
purpose had urged the party 10 undo by
law the mischief brought about by law
This element in the parry was know as
the free silver element. Recently GER
tain self-constitu;ed censors OF party
sctlon had been pleased TO denominate
such republicans as c~onspirators
Naih ~ PhptAt "thAs ~ -
saPs pssaa seEo ~ .sa insbas s2sm g. relieve
They had been advised shat their states
were noe needed In republican columns
4 the candle judgment OF honest
men, salt Mr., Carter, II leave the de-
termination Of questions relating TO
the fidelity of republicans in this senate
to their party principles. The republic
cans alleged to have ROY recreant
- 80. t.. .. ,f-.l.lA. aglptal the ~
fort of the administration to strike the
last silver coinage law from the statute
books, they resisted the passage Of the
Wilson bill: they resisted the issuance
OF bonds in The time of peace: they re-
sisted the contraction OF the currency
by the retirement of the ~greenbaek ana
they no resist an inferential violation
OF the principles Of the republican par
~ platform, by resisting approval OF
horizontal tariff revision. adj valorem
duties and the Wilson bill.
"on protection and bimetallism," he
said. "as the basis OF the economic and
financial policy OF the country. the
whole west Is united. The party which
accepts the one n ridicules the other
cannot expect support from the people
OF That section OF the country"
MI. Carter concluded as follows:
"The maintenance of the unity and in
tegTity Of the republican party Is OF
ov~ershadowing importance TO the u
try. In the midst Of the prevailing
chaos Of theories on public questions.
we owe IL to the past and to the future
to stand firmly by our proclaimed prin-
ciples. without evasion. mental reser-
walton or purpose to deceive. The pend
ing measure born under the passing ex-
element OF a manufactured war cloud.
woul do the country no good. but 1t
would do the party great injury by
making IL share responsibility for the
gloom which appeared and will depart
with the administration"