The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-14
1.-THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OFF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAILY

bill, when he knew he was not. He
| agreed that Mr.. Hall had spoken in
season and out of season, to this man
and every man who would give him at
tention; he was plenteous and prompt
with his advice; he was held aIoft by
himself as the one man, not only in
this country, but in this wide world,
who had read everything, studied
everything upon the income tax, and
who knew that he was the one man
upon whom the progress Of the income
tax legislation must rest. laughter
and applause).
''He said he had been informed and
believed that eight Senators who voted
free coinage" continued Mr.. Dear
mond, "had said they believed 1T
would bring bankruptcy and ruin to
the country. He did not identify them;
ne did not name one; he dared not do
it; he never will do it. If eight Sena-
tors, one Senator made such a re
mark, he did what the gentleman him
self does not and will not dare deny
that he has done The gentleman in
his remarks said something about
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.
| do not defend those historic char
acters. Let them gl The gentleman
talked about Gladstone. / might, if
/ chose, have commented upon the eN-
quisite modesty that resides in my
colleague when, in talking about his
own conversion, his own elevation and
bis own progress he thrust into such
close connection that little incident
about the changed opinions Of Mr.
Gladstone Great laughter.) ] might
if / chose to do so, speak OF what he
said about Bismarck, the great irnper-
ial geniussof the German Empire, one
of the marked men Of his country and
Of all the world. (Laughter) / might
if / chose comment upon the modesty
which prompted the gentleman to as
sociate himself and his change with
that great man. lLaughter.) Any
man has a right to change his opinion
But my impression is, and it has
been greatly strengthened, that when
a man changes his opinion and departs
from his old associates he ought hard
III to prite at the first opportunity
about the courage which lead him TO
do it, or talk about the cowardice'
without Identification or specifica-
tionl that resides in those who did not
do likewise or talk about the Chinese
and the lower animals as being typical
of those who do not change when he
does (Laughter.)
as to the gentieman's s references to
people 'feathering their nests / do
not know jnst what they meant, but
i venture tn say that if the feathers
are to be had for the asking or for
the pIucking the gentleman, if he is
E3t1l rfts
daughter and applause
Mr.. Hall sprang 70 his feet when Mr.
Dearmond sat down.
II do not wish to emulate this gem
tleman in Billingsgate, saiaFhe hotly;
# do not expect to equal him in 1T.
But / wish to reply to some pertinent
matters that he has referred to. lie
SAYS sIdonotrepresent my constituents.
desire to call his attention to the fact
that we have but five Democrats here
from Missouri instead Of fourteen in
the Fifty-third Congress; that Of those
five Democrats, three of ms are sound
money men. (Applause.) And that
the leader Of the sixteen to one idea IN
the United States is now at home upon
his rocky farm in Laclede county, un-
less he is still lecturing to his one man
audience in the South daughter and
appIause) Ny statement in regard
TO the United States Senators was made
for the purpose Of illustrating
broad proposition for the purpose of
pointing a moral and enforcing this
truth that public men, not in this
body merely, or in the Senate, or in
the State legislature alone, but public
men generally are tending in the di-.
rection Of cowardice toward the peo-
pie. am not called upon to answer to
him for my course in Congress. / pro-
pose TO 60 back to my district and
make the fight for sound money ZAP
piause.) He will go TO his and make
the fight for silver monometallism.
Let the roll call Of the Fifty-ffth Con-
gress show which is right / have
unlimited confidence in the honesty
the uprightness, the integrity, and the
brains Of the people. ! believe they
will sustain me; ! believe that ! shall
receive their endorsement, and that
the gentleman will come back fif ne
comes back at all with less than the
133 majority he received in the last
election. (Applause.)