The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-30
TILLMAM AND HIS PITCHFoRK.
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the ruin, and only charges a small COM
mission of ten millions or so. Great Cod
That this proud government, the richest.
most powerful on the globe, should have
been brought to so low a post that
London Jew should have been appointed
its receiver, and presumes to patronize
US"
other extracts are as follows: '"The re-
Sponsibility of providing revenue and look
ing after the solvency of the treasury,
which rests with congress, has been usurp-
ed by the President. Why is he not inn
peached2 Because he is carrying out
the republican plan, and the majority in
the House of Representatives feel safe
and believe that they are certain to elect
the next President and obtain control of
the government They are willing TO load
down the incompetent or dishonest demOc-
racy q say the incomp and dishon-
est democracy with the odium of the
misgovernment TO lend their help by &C
quiescence in wrong-dOing.
THE policy is to do nOthing-to pre-
serve a mastery inactivity, and only OBJ
struct where relief could be given.
THE encroachments of the federal jul
dietary and the supineneSs and Venality-
corruption, | may say-of the represent
alive branches of the government, are
causes eau of deep concern to all thinking
ing into government by injunction in the
interest of monopOlies and corporations,
and the supreme court by one corrupt
vote annulS an act of congress looking
TO the taxation of the rich.
The money changers are in the tenn
pie of our liberties, and have bought the
sentnels on guard. 1t may be too late.
God grant it be not so; but this great re-
public can only be saved from the mis-
cries of revolution and internecine srite
in the near future by its citizens casting
aside blind allegiance to party and mar
Shaling themselves under the banner of
Jenerson's democracy and Lincolns re
publicanism, determined to restore the
republic to the form in which it was
left to us by the fathers"
In concluding, he said: "a day of reck-
a just God in Heaven, and when it does
come woe be unto those who have been
among the oppressors of the people. The
present struggle is, unfortunately, too
like that which preceded the late civil
war; inasmuch as it is sectional. The
creditor and the manufacturing states Of
the north and east-those which have
grown inOrdinately wealthy at the oX-
pense of the producing classes of the
south and west, are urging this policy
with the besotted blindness of Belshaz-
Ear The old Shareholders of the south
were not more arrogant or more deter
mined. The sordid despotism of wealth /;
to use the apt phrase of Justice Brown,
is already felt throughout the land"
From the opening sentence of the speech
down to its close, Mr.. Iillman command
ed the keenest attention and curiosity Of
a numerous Senate and crowded galleries.
His attitudenizing and his mannerisms
caused much amusement With his left
hand pressed against his side and with
the printed slips of his speech from which
he frequently strayed) in his right, he
wheeled around in a circle facing the
galleries more frequently than he faced
the chair.
At the point where he was denouncing
President Cleveland he abandoned his pre-
pared speech and lapsed into a descrip-
ton of how he came to Washington to
and had exposed himself for four hours
on the plaza of the capitol in order to
participate in the jollification over a dem
ocratic President a democratic Senate and
a democratic House, and he exclaimed
dramatically: God forgive me for being
such fool"
Laughter and applause broke out in the
galleries. which the presiding officer (Mr.
Faulkner) tried to suppress, and this caus-
ed Mr.. Tillman to apostrophize the chair,
saying: IF you let me down into the bog
and quagmire of having nobody applaud
when speak, | suppose will get used to
it after while"
Subsequently he got into a colloquy with
Mr.. Hoar as to an expression of the lat
ter upon the decadence of southern states
men, When Mr.. Hoar said ne would look
up the record to justify himself, Mr.. Till
man said he would wait, but that he
would not Wet his whistle because a
windmill could not be run by water" (Re-
newed laughter)
Mr.. TiHman said that he would append
to his speech that infamous contract
with Stetson" (the syndicate contracO,
and also an extract from the democratic
contract year book OF 1888, showing the
purchase of bonds, with that surplus
which used to keep this man awake at
night" Naughter)
''And it must be authentic" he added,
coming as it does from the democratic
national committee" (Laughter)
II just want to put the two cheek by
jowl, you know, in juxtaposition."
Coming once more to a denuncia ton of
the President, Mr.. Tillman snapped out
the question to the republican senators
why have you not impeached him?'
Mr.. Hawley replied that the last con-
gress was democratic.
4 have already paid my respects to the
last congress-" Mr.. Tillman said, land [
hoped better things from the congress
which, the people have now sent here
But you are all of kind-cowards, tools
of monopolists (sensation). He is not i'm
peached because he is carrying out the
republican policy"
Mr.. Tillman spoke for exactly two hours.
delivering with great dramatic power and
effect the last sentence, in which he pre-
dicted national cataclysm unless you
take your hands off the peoples throat
and give them an opportunity to breath,
to work, to live"
AS soon as he resumed his seat the ses-
sion practically broke up, nearly every
senator rose and left the chamber and
the crowds focked out of the galleries.