The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-24
RANOALL'S CAPITOL VIEWS.
Senator HlI's Adrotness on the Cuban
Question Cockrell's Great Speech on FL
nances-A Railway Monarch from the
Northwest

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Northwest.
Special to the Augusta Chronicle.
Senator Hills speech was an adroi
one, and his criticism of the Thir
House Resolution appeared, to M
mind, correct grammar, law and logic
but the people seem to prefer the ma
who, on this Cuban question, takes
decided stand on the main issue an
not on dialectical construction. Thi
was exhibited in the galleries. Hill
ages OF his speech and read them sono
rously. They were cry fine and elo
quent, but somehow, perhaps becaus,
OF his critical attitude, did not strik,
lire. Preparations were made to in
tercept applause, but not RESPONSIVE,
plaudit was vouchsafed. BY the way
the traditional threat from the presid
ing officer to clear the galleries, unde,
certain circumstances, is perfunctory
menace. The applause sometimes
perhaps habitually, begins in reserved
galleries, but nobody pretends to dis
turb the favorites there. Colonel
Bright, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Senate, said that all spectators must
be treated alike, and that no poor man
need be dragged out Of the. public gal.
lery as If to be the scapeg3at for high.
s5ssS fos sbs ofensssG ns;tI in alefiss sex apart
1t is reported that educated Cubans
do not join the insurgents, but, ego
to the United States" Many of them
presumably keeptup thb war on Spain
from friendly shore, where they es-
cape the hardships OF the field. Dur
ing our Confederate war there were
not few SUCH persons at Nassau and
Bermuda, living like lighting cocks,
making money, and advising the wool
hot soldiers to die in the last ditch.
No doubt every cause engenders such
upholders, and 1t may be that they are
just as useful at distance as they
would be in the front Of battle.
The rival Republican Presidential
other of using money presumably in
the purchase OF delegates especially
from States that are not apt to furnish
an electoral vote. I once saw a gang
of men, at the polls, everyone of whom
had been probably purchased, as Dom
Platt used to say, disreputably
cheap" and they are bore aloft ban
ner with this proud device: 1--WE
Can't Be Bought" Perhaps they
were what Simon Cameron called
honest rascals they stayed bought.
Mark Hanna and William Pitt Kel-
iogg are having a controversy on this
ing and would make an excellent ap-
pendix to Hon. John Sherman's ac-
count of General Russell Alger and his
winning ways. 1t would beSdroll if
Southern delegates at St. LouiShelped
force an Objectionable candidate upon
the Republican party. The same
trouble may be arprehended at Chica-
go, when hopelessly Republican States
try to nominate a man distasteful to
Southern and Western Democracy.
Senator Cockrcll's speech on the f.
nancisl question Is a great one and
cannot be successfully answered. 1t
shows how the Republicans, when Fos-
ter was Secretary of the Treasury, in
vited Shylock, here and abroad, to
exchange paper for gold. The docu-
Senator Cockrell for the first time.
The most amazing thing to me is how
daringly men in authority ignore the
law and actually defy it; and another
thing Is how zealously
many good people uphold them in such
transactions. There has never been a
day, as Senator Cockrell circumstan-
TALLY shows, that tho Treasury could
not have been lawfully protected
against foreign and domestic gold
gamblers, without issuing single
bond for tho enrichment of Shylock.
And yet we are supposed to have
model administration and we may be
asked to help nominate the man who
follows Republican precedent like Mr..
Carlisle does Mr.. Foster, and who has
prevented the election of Joe Black
burn in Kentucky. In event of such
likely contingency, am satisfied that
MIR. Carlisle, If nominated, could not
carry his own State much less COM
monwealths farther South.
The greatest railway man of the
West and one of the greatest in the
world Is James j. Hill. His road, the
Great Northern, Is vast and solvent.
Mr.. Hill Is in Washington and there
has been Of late no more notable ar
rival, for few men anywhere can match
him as an intellectual force and ener-
getic developer of immense projects in
honest fashion. He has accumulated
many millions of dollars with clean
hands. Years ago, when a rising
young man, he was waited upon at an
eating house by ayoung woman, who
attracted him by her beauty, grace and
modesty. He made her acquaintance
and proposed marriage at some future
time. He knew that prominent CO
reer was before him involving wealth
and high position, so he had loving
conference with the girl, and she, like
the sensible woman she was, agreed
to his propositions. At his expense,
she was educated In the very best
manner and fitted to be the wife of q
prince. She became the wife of real
"lord of the creation" and was, and Is,
his proudest possession. There is not
better woman or one more fitted for
her commanding station, and very
touchingly beautiful is the tribute her
husband paid her before an imposing
throng, few months ago, when he
handed over to Archbishop Ireland
deeds to magnificent university,
built and endowed by himself and his
devoted spouse. While / write this,
am aware that the papers of recent
date contained an article showing how
q lieutenant in the United States
Army, one OF the prize men from West
Point, had been virtually driven from
the service because he dared to marry
the honest daughter of subaltern.
When Senator Tillman gets his pitch
fork ready for abuses in the army, he
may remember this incident and com.
ment accordingly.
The Columbia Register says that
| Governor Evans has not yet acted on
the bill passed by the last Legislature