The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-13

dence Commercial Club is going to place
on exhibition Saturday evening w repro
duce on another page Senator TIILMAN's
famous, or rather infamous, speech de-
livered in the senate which made every
thinking man weary from one end OF the
country 10 the other. The speech, which
occupied something more than four
hours, is'not here printed in full, bat
enough OF II is put into Tyre to illustrate
Tillmanism at its best. Much of his
offensive language is necessarily omitted
in the condensation and some OF IT was
almost unfit for publication, bot enough
appears for the enlightenment of the
reader on the sort of hightalutin' high
flyer is this Pitchfork BEN who is TO be
honored by the Commercial Club by an
invitation to sit at its board where have
many a time sat representative men In
the field OF honor of politics, of art,
of literature, honorei and honoring by
their presence.
We quo @ a few OF the tid-bits from the
TILLMAN talk. AS Pitchfork BEN re-
marked, in his preamble: ~ find that
eminent men in our history, whose
speeches are read all over the country,
get up here like schoolboys and read
ersays in a monotone to empty chairs,
when the Senate Of the United States, sup
posed TO be in session. has gone to the
c!oakrooms or somewhere else"
1t will be recalled that long before the
Senator from South Carolina closed the
remarks has introduced, the Senate
cha Il Der was dererted and a great and
curious crowd in tbs galleries had de-
parted in disgust. We trust the members
of the Commercial Club wi be Ible to
endure with better grace the flow OF
Tillmanism when the bung is started in
the Narrag ince.t Hotel tomorrow even
ing.
To express his disappointment at the
record of the CLEVELAND administration,
sena or TlLLMAN Used figure Of speech as
follows: 81 came up here as Governor OF
my St'ta and stood out in the cold
around here on East Capitol street for
four bours, nearly frozen to death, to be
present at the Publication and glorifca-
tion upon the Inauguration OF a Demo-
cratic President with a Democratic Senate
and Democratic House, and God forgive
49,, for being such a fool"
He calls the law for the redemption OF
greenbacks, the CLEVELAND 'endless
chain"-''a ratent continuance with
thieves at one end and dishonest officials
at the other" This Is not intended as q
figure OF speech.
He cheeriully refers to the President of
the United States as "this be otted
tyrant."
'It is not say ing too much,'' spoke
Pitchfork BEN, ''and ] nm warranted in
charging that the arrangement in our
finances and all this cry about sound
money and maintaining the credit and
honor OF the United STATES are ali part
and parcel of a damnable scheme of rob-
berry,"
In Pitchfork BEN's opinion nothing
that be says can he regarded as ''saying
too much" Words canine express his
reat-up feelings-that is, not words that
would be admissible in public print.
Again resorting to metaphor, pure and
simple, Farmer TILIMAN said: 'Farmers
use O pitchfork in handling straw; there
fore the simile is good IL the staten, mt is
good. They also use pitchforks to handle
manure, and rerhips l shall find some OF
that IN my pathway before / get through"
So Farmer BEN went hunting for manure.
As Senator TIILmAN further remarked
in his pream bic lie felt constrained to
raiss his voice to speaS and he sharpenet
up his pitchfork TO sail into the uanure
hears. "Before / get through" said
the Senator from soath Carolina, ''you
will realize the fact that / speak plainly
and bluntly and use An slo-saxon, the
vernacU,ar, the language of the common
people, for / am one OF them, and / ex-
pect to tel You how they feel, and what
they think and what they want"
II Senator Ben cones to. Providence
expecting TO tell how hs feels and in
dulges his ex aoctstions In the Narragan-
se;t Ho'el as freely as he did on the SEN
ate floor, Landlord HUMPHREYS will
find it 10 the advantage Of his guests to
squirt a deodorizer about the banquet