Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-31
JUNCTION with majority of the Republican


senators.
"This Democratic president accomplish
ed what was not possible forany Republl-
can 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
the parity Of gold and silver in the Sher-
man law, be 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
treasury, who should have resigned his
office rather than submit to the dictation
OF besotted chief, would have paid out
silver to protect the treasury from the
gold gamblers and bond robbers, as the
law and his oath Of office required. But,
alas, the old breed of Southern statesmen
like Calhoun, who, after a life spent in the
public service, had to be buried at public
expense and his debts paid by the State, OF
South Carolina, is no more. 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 it, however,
in another connection and as aiding ana
abetting this Judas from Kentucky, who,
after brilliant career OF ~ years ana
more us leader and champion OF the silver
pitiful pass.
"The South bows it's head in shame at
this exhibition OF moral coWardlce ana
despises the renegades ; but must remind
the senator from Massachusetts that there
is as yet only one moral turpitude and
treachery to be charged against these
men. The southern congressman ard
senators who come here poor are stlll
poor. They have not become mllllonalreS
like some OF their Northern brethren and
there is no credit mobilier steal, or Col
fax scandal, or Belknap bribery, charge
able to any Southern man. Let him re-
member these things and keep back his
taunts."
The senator said that if there has been
one idea more persiStently and prominent
ly presented to the American people by
President Cleveland than any other, 1t has
been the iniquities Of the tariff and the
demand for its revision. In season and
out of season, with "damable 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 lSSS, and said he did it for the
purpose OF pointing out the evolution OF
q tyrant and Of showing the transition
from conscientious, law-abldlng chlei
magistrate to an arrogant and obstinate
ruler who ignores the law and issues
-
statute that is subject to the suspicion that
it was intended to be temporary and linn
tied in its application, instead OF confer
ring discretionary authority.
HE not only issues them, but does 1t
secretly, with his law partner as witness
to the contract, and has created suspl-
cion in the minds of millions of his coun-
trymen that the 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 taTlli ana
on that he has blown hot and cold as his
pet hobby, and will 60 down in history as
the most gigantic failure Of any man who
has ever occupied the White House, all
because of his vanity and his obstinacy..
"To make good this charge Mr.. Till
man argued, "that when President Cleve-
land came into power in March, 1888, and
could have called 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 re-
form to the people, but instead called con-
gress together to stop the coinage OF silver.
He. the president, had waitediuntil the
object lesson the panic made to order by
his fellow conspirators, had swept like a
cyclone over the country, prostratlng all
business enterprises and industries and the
newspapers had howled in chorus in the
ears of the people that the coinage of sill
yer was the cause OF the monetary crisis"
Discussing the repeal OF the purchasing
clause 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 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
enlisted under its banner sit at his feet
and acknowledge his leadership.
when the senate met, there was an
acknowledged majority of men open and
outspoken III their determination to stand
by the white metal and who were elected
on that issue. But the process ofdebauch-
cry began. Vote according to my will or
to my will, and if your people do not
like it I will take care ofyou.' The news
papers raved and abused the senate. The
bankers telegraphed and wrote. Cham
berS OF commerce passed resolutions, and
slowly the senate yielded. In ninety days
the deed was done and the chains were
riveted on the wrists Of the toiling mil
lions. Did the raid on the treasury stop :?
Discussing then the tariff bill which pass
6u III lue regular SeSSlOH lOllOWlnS, lie
said lit is true he (the president did not
sign it, and allowed it TO become a law
without approval. But here again we
have a spectacle Of charlatancy and hypo-
critical assumption OF superiority to his
party which has always marked his Ca
reer. The tariff law which he repudiated
as unworthy, involving party pertidy
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 1 am
willing to grant that much) his aSSocia-
ton with Wall street and his connection
with wealthy men had dehauched his
conscience and destroyed all sympathy
with the masses"
The senator then referred to the fall in
the prices of all farm products. The i'm
poveriShment of the farmers had destroy
ed, he said, their ability to purchase on
the one hand, while the decreased price of
their products of export in European
markets had left our debts for imports
and interest on obligations abroad unpaid.
Hence the export of gold to meet these
obligations. In this connection, he said
in part:
"Rothschild and his American agents
graciously condescend to come to the help
Of the United States treasury in maintain
ing the gold standard which has wrought
the ruin and only charges small commits
sion of l0,OOO,OOd or so. Great God ! That