The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-02-07

hood, aud, with bated breath, walk
with submissive head in his presence.
With relentness purpose he has Ignor-
ell his oath of office to uphold and obey
the law, and has paid out gold instead
of coin and issued bonds to buy more
gold, by both actions overriding tho
law and giving M heed to the interests
of any but his moneyed friends
might say his owners or partners.
while to this besotted tyrant coin
has come to mean gold alone, he can
mot by his mere 'ipse dixit' change the
law of this land and pervert the plain
meaning of the English language His
Republican partners in crime, who set
the unrighteous and unlawful example
which he has SO pcrsistently followed.
and encouraged him in it to the ut
most extent, cannot escape tho con
demnation of the honest stworking bus
mess men of the country a. equal
partners in his guilt.
The repeal of the sherman law, it
was asserted. which was the first point
Of attack of this ''unholy alliance" was
only accomplished through the aid
and in conjunction with u majority Of
the Republican Senators.
This Democratic President accom-
piishci what was not possible for any
Republican executive under these cir
cumStanccs to have brought about. 4
change Of the party in power had left a
large number of Offices IN his gift with
which to buy votes.
Ia discussing the honest meaning"
of purity of gold and silver i'll the Sher.
man law he said:
"The object was to have them assist
each other, to hold silver up by holding
gold down, and m honest Secretary of
the Treasury, who should have resigned
his Office rather than submit to the die
tation of besotted chief, would have
paid out silver to protect the Treasury
from the gold gamblers and bond gam
hlcrs as the law and his oath of office
required. But, alas, the old breed of
Southern statesmen like Calhoun, who,
after n life spent in the public service,
had To be buried ut ntpublIc expense and
his debts paid by the State of South
Carolina, il no more! No wonder the
Senator from Massachusetts, feels war
rnntcd in twIttlng us with the decay
of Southern stutcsmnnship and charg-
ing us with dishonesty. He charges
1t, however, in another connection and
rs aiding and ubetting this Judas from
Kentucky who, after II brilliant career
Of twenty years and more as leader and
| champion Of the silver forces, has, in
his old age, come to this pitiful pass
And then to think that the Indictment
thus brought against q whole section
| should have SO much color Of truth and
Of n,t 10 1Nnn Il in, -.
! from their principles of the two other
Secretaries from the South appointecs
of II President who has SO disgraced the
2ume of Democracy.
The South bows its head in shame
Mt this exhibition of moral cownrdice
and despiset the renegades; but | must
| remind tho Senator from Mnssachu-
setts TINT there is as yet only moral
turpitude and treachery to be charged
against these men. The Southern
| Congressman and Senators who came
here poor are still poor. Thcy have
not become IniliiOnnir,n. like some Of
! their Northern hrethlyn; and there is
no CIe.rt M,ht'!Hr steal, or Colfax
scandal, or Bclknap bribery charge
able to any Southern man. Let him
remember these things and keep back
his sncors and tnunts.
Discussing the Wilson tariff bill. Mr..
Tillmnn said: 1t is true he did not
sign it, and allowed it to become law
without approval. But here again We
have Il spectre Of chur!utlnry and hvp-
ocriticnl assumption of superiority to
his party which has alw US marked his
career The tariff law which he rcpu-
-