Evening star., 1896-01-29
TILL ANS SPEECH
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Dated breath, walk with submissive head
in his presence. With relentless purpose
he has ignored 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 the
law. and giving no heed to the interests
of any but moneyed friends-I might saw
his owners or partners"
while to this besotted tyrant coin has
come to mean gold alone; he cannot by his
mere ipse dlxit' changethe law of this land
and pervert the piaih meaning of the Eng
lish language. His republican partners IN
crime. who set the unrfghteous and unlaw-
full example which hS has SO persistently
followed, and encouraged him in it to
the utmost extent, cannot escape the con-
demnation Of the honest, working business
men Of the country as equal partners In his
guilt"
The Repeal of the Sherman Law.
The repeal of the Sherman law, 1t was as
serted, which was the first point Of attack
of this ''unholy alliance" was only accom-
plished through the aid and in conjunction
with majority Of the republican Senator's
This democratic President ACCOMPLISHED
what was not possible for any republican
executive under the circumstances to :iaye
brought about. change Of the party in
power had left large number of offices in
his gift with which to buy votes"
In discussing the honest meaning" of
parity of gold and silver in the Sherman
law. he said:
THE object was to have them assist each
other. to hold silver up by hobling gold
Treasury, who should have resigned his
office rather than submit to the dictatIon of
besotted chief, would have paid out silver
to protect the treasury from the gold gam
blers and bond gamblers. as the law and
his oath of Office required But, alas, the
old breed Of southern statesmen like Cal
houn, who, after life spent IN the public
service. had to ne buried at public expense
6ahfS al hy
Carolina, is no more. No wonder the Sell
ator from Massachusetts feels warranted in
twitting us VITA The decay of southern
statesmanship and charging with dis
honesty. He charges 1t. however, in an
other connection and as aiding an abetting
this Judas from Kentucky who after a
brilliant career of twenty years and more
as leader and champion OF the silver forces,
mas, In his old age, come to this pitful
pass. And then to think that the Indictment
thus brought against a whole. section
should have so much color Of truth and Of
fact to back It up in the apostasy from
their principles Of the two other Secretaries
from the south of a President who has SO
disgraced the name Of democracy.
The south bows fits head in shame at
this exhibition of moral cowardice and de-
spiSeS the renegades; but l must remind
the Senator from Massachusetts that there
is as yet only moral turpitude and treach-
cry to be charged against these men. The
southern congressman and Senator's who
came here poor are still poor. They have
not become millionares, like some of their
northern brethren; and there is no Credit
Mobilier steal, or Colfax scandal or Bel
KNAPP bribery chargeable to any southern
man. Let him remember these things and
keep back his sneerS and tauntS''
the Senator contended that If there has
been one idea more persistently and prom
inently presented to the American people
by President Cleveland than any other it
had been the iniquities of the tariff and the
demand for its reviS1Qh: In season and out
of season, with 'dAtlIHable iteration. he
messages Of the President Of 1887 and 1888
and said he did 1t for "the purpose of
pointing out the evolution of tyrant and
of showing the transition from a conscion-
tious, law-abiding chief magistrate to an
arrogant and obstir ate ruler. who ignores
the law and issues bonds at will, and issues
them under statute that is subject to
the suspicion that it Was intended to be
temporary and limited in it's application
instead of comforting a discretionary au-
thority. He not only issues them, but does
1t secretly. with his law partner as wit
suspicion in the minds. of millions of his
countrymen that President of the United
gain. 'sot
He differs with the republican party only
in the one particular OF the tariff. and on
that he has blown hot and cold. as his pet
hobby, and will go down in history as the
occupied the White House, all because OF
his vanity and obstinacy.
What the President Should Have Done
'"ro make good this charge" Mr.. TILL
man argued that when President Cleye-
land came to power. in March, 1893, and
could have called the Senate and House
Goth democraEc) for the first time since
the war to carry his policy into effect, he
Il
reform to the people, but instead called
Congress together to stop the coinage of
silver. He, the President, had waited un-
til the object lesson the panic manufac-
tured to order by his fellow consp!ra tors
had swept like a cyclone over the country,
prcstrating all business enterprises and in
dustries, and the newspapers had howled
in chorus in the ears of the people that the
coinage Of silver was the cause of the
monetary crisis"
Discussing the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law which followed,
he said:
Democrats and republic ans We'd with
each other iE the furtherance of the policy
which had been formulated and steadily
pursued by the Senator from Ohio and he
has the proud satisfaction OF knowing that
he has brought the party which he SO hates
to its knees, and has lived to see many of
his old antagonists enlisted under his ban
ner of monopoly and class privileges They
sit at his feet and acknowledge his lead
ership. = =.
when the Senate met there was an ac-
kEowledged majority of men open and out
spoken in their determination to stand by
the white metal, and who were elected on
tfat issue. But the process of debauchery
began. Vote according to my will or you
will have no Offices Vote according to
my will and If your people do not like it
I will take care'of YOU The newspapers
raved and abused the Senate. Bankers tel
egraphed and wrote. Chambers of com
merce passed resolutions, and slowly the
Senate yielded In ninety days the deed
was done, and the chains We're riveted on
the wrists Of the toiling millions. Did the
raid On the treasury stop"
Discussing then the tariff bill which
passed in the regular session following, he
sad:
''It is true he di6 not sign It, and allowed
it to become law without approval But
here again we have a spectacle cf char
latanry and hypocritical assumption of
superiority to his party which has always
marked his career. The tariff law which
he repudiated as unworthy, involving party