The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-30
SENATOR TILLHAH HEARD FROM
His Dramatic and Sensational
Speech Yesterday.
In Hfs Advocacy of the Free Coinage OF
Silver He INDUCES In Torrent OF In
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the President and
Secretary Carlisle bitterly, and Makes
astounding Statements with Great
Direotness.


from Mr.. Tillman, the new Senator
from South Carolina, furnished two
stirring events in the Senate to-day,
The majority resolution on Cuba, pre-
scented by Mr.. Morgan, ssks the Presi.
dent to urge Spain to grant belligerent
rights to the insurgents. while the
minority report, offered by Mr.. CAM
eron, directs the President to take steps
toward securing from Spain the com.
plete independence Of Cuba. Both reeo-
luttons went to the Senate calendar.
SUCH torrent of inveotive has sell
dom been heard In the Senate as that in
the speech OF Mr.. Tlllman. Veteran
mem bers OF the body charsc serized the
speech as one OF the most remarkable in
the history OF the upper branch of Con-
gres5. II abounded in statements of a
sensational character, arrsigninp Presf-
dent Cleveland, Secretary Oharlisle and
other men in high places. There was a
dtrecsness OF statement and dramatic
manner of delivery which awed floor
and galleries. The gestures Of the Sem
ator were used frequently in acting his
words. AZ one point he made pro-
found salute and tipped his hat to
1890 A~ASS az tho AuduCkhl VlCtOt OK
quarter OF century. The galleries
were moveI alternately to applause snd
laughter. Pausing for q sip of water
amid roars OF laughter he remarked: "I
seldom wet my whistle while L. speak;
atill you can't run wind mill on
water"
The next moment there WAS q hush
through tho chamber as the Senator
applied such names as Judas" to
member Of the Cabinet, or character
lied the President in auperlatiye Bit
terness. At times the Senator'S voice
sank to whisper, as, for instance,
when he gave warning Of the approach
OF popular revolution and commun-
ism and the marching on Washington
OF o host with rifles in their hands.
Again his voice resounded through the
chamber and the outer corridors as he
called Senators and members Sow.
ARDS. for not resorting to impeach.
ment.
Me- Tlllman began by saving he
would use plain Anglo-S Saxon. the lam
guage of the common people, for he was
one of them. He spoke bitterly OF the
essay reading INDUCED in by Senators.
he referred to the statement of the
Senator from Ohio (Sherman) that the
silver question had been thrashed out,
saying: Eyes, 1t had been thrashed by
the SPECTATORS, but not by tho far.
mers." As farmer he would thrash It
again, taking up the whole subject on q
pitchfork, ready, ii need be, to uncover
the manure likely to be found.
"Mr. President" he said. sit is not
saying too much, and 1 feel warranted
In charging that the arrangement
In our finances and all this cry about
sound money and maintaining the
honor and credit of the United Stntes,
are all part and parcel OF damnable
scheme of robbery, which had for it's
object, first, the utter destruction of
silver as money metal; gecond, the
increase of the public debt by the ia.
sue OF bonds payable in gold, and third,
the surrender to corporations of the
p2wer to issue all paper money and
give them monopoly of that functio
He said: IF the secret history of the
year 1892 hall ever DO written, it will
disclose the fact, which cannot be
proven now, but of which I have not ths
slightest doubt, that the gold ring of
New York, which embraces nearly all
the bankers In the Eastern and Middle
States and the stock gamblers of Wall
street, controlled the President ial nom.
nations of both the Democratic ard
Republican parties and had an under
standing with the managers, or with
both the candidates themselves, in re-
gard to what policy should be pursued
towards our finances.
"Instead Of endeevoring to stem the
tide of ruin and redeem the pledges of
the Democratic party to give the people
relief, President Cleveland lent aid and
comfort to the conspirstors by his utter.
ances and official actions in continuing
the policy OF his predecessor"
I'm the entire history of this coun-
try 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 debauched
the civil aervice by making appoint
ments only of those whose sponsors
would surrender their manhood, and,
with bated breath, walk with submis.-
stve head in his presence"
In discussing the "honest meaning"
OF parity OF gold and silver In the Sher.
man 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 Treasury, Who
should have resigned his office rather
than submit TO the dlotRtion Of be-
sotted chief, would have paid out silver
to protect the Treasury from the gold
gam blers and bond grabbers, as the law
and his oath OF office required. But.
alas, the old breed of Southern states
men like Calhoun, who, after 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 ON Masss.
chusetts feels warranted in INVITING us
with the decay OF Southern statesman
ship and charging US with dishonesty.