Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

surplus in the treasury; there was a
large amount of silver seigniorage lying
idle in the treasury uncoined. We Ia
vored utilizidg these resources of the
government first and then, if more
money was needed, of issuing green
backs to raise money to carry ON the
| war, and it was the vote against the is
suance of bonds that has subjected us
to the charge of q want of patriotism.
SIN the minds of many gentlemen on
| that side of the house no man can be a
patriot who does not vote for every
proposition to issue bonds. Some gentle
men regard that as the very highest test
Of patriotism. Dewey, with his brave
men. might be willing to go into what
appeared to be the very jaws Of death.
as he did at Manila, or Hobson and his
brave crew might exhibit their willing
ness to go to the bottom with the Mer-
| rimac, but neither Of them would be
| patriots in the eyes of some people I'm
less they were all right on every propo-
sition to issue bonds"
There may be concealed somewhere
on this continent some nonhumorous
dry as dust who can hit a harder jolt
than that, but I have so far failed to
form his acquaintance.
For ten minutes he discussed the
army ration in the Iacy and sensible
style which has filled the land with his
fame. Then he shot this bolt into his
political ady~ersaries:
$50 far as I am individually concern
ed and those who cooperate with me
in this house We want to give to the
administration every possible facility
for the proper conduct Of this war. I do
not believe there will be found OF either
side of this house any one voting to OBJ
struct a successful prosecution of this
wal. It Is not a partisan war.
ST do not believe if we had q Demo-
cratic administration that you people
would want for partisan purposes to
hamper or impede that administration
in conducting a war against q foreign
country, and I for one protest against
the efforts which have been or may
hereafter be made to make political
capital in favor of or against any polit-
ical party, especially when there is no
more ground for it than exists up to
| this time.
L. Above P~artisanship.
"My Republican friends, let US lay
aside q chickering's and contentious
until we have licked the Spaniards,
and then we can resume our partisan
quarrels and fight 1t out before the
American people. In the face Of q COM
mon enemy let us put efforts for parti-
san advantage behind us. I do not in
tend hat any Of you shall display any
more patriotism than I or my people.
"The gentleman from Indiana, who
seems to have felt he had discharged
his duty to the country when he deliv-
cred his interview against the Demo-
cratic party and who has ver since
been absent from his seat, took occasion
to reflect on the patriotism Of some Of
our states by saying they had not fur
nished their quota Of troops. I think
| the states have been remarkably prompt
in supplying the troops called for.
"But I want to call attention to the
fact that in most Of our southern states
| conditions are very different from those
in which most Of you reside. In my
| own state the majority Of Jul popula-
| ton Is colored. The call having been
made in the states according to popula-
| ton and no call for colored troops from
the state has left our quota to be filled
from the whites. Then, we have no
surplus population. The wal found our
people all at work. Most of them are
farmers. They had commenced their
| crops, and it is a more serious problem
| for a man dependent on his work to
give up his job or his crop than n
| who has nothing to do.
"They doubted if their services
would be needed, for they did not be-
lieve that, with our 70, 900, 900 Of the
| greatest people on the face Of the earth,
| with our unlimited q and IN.
limited credit, it could be much Of a
| war and that it would necessarily soon
be over.
"And if they did not go as readily
| as some others under these conditions,
| our quotas have been filed reasonably
| fast, and you will find that when it
| comes to fighting the troops from no
| state in this Union will show more
| courage or do better fighting than the
three full regiments Mississippi will
have placed in the field on the calls
made up to this time. They will 60
| where ordered, and I I'M willing for
the patriotism Of my section to be tested
by the way they discharge their duties
as soldiers rather than by whether their
representative votes for or against bond
issues or for or against the cheese ra-
ton"
A whack at Grosvenor.
Grosvenor was really the one he was
after, 70 he finally surprised that re-
doubtable warrior with the following
remarkable proposition:
st notice General Grosvenor, when
called down by an editorial in the
Washington Post about his speech, in a
card threatened at some later day to
furnish q catalogue OF the crimes or
votes of the Democrats as evidencing
their want of patriotism in connection
with the prosecution of the war. I sup
pose these charges will be chucked into
The Record just about time of adjourn
ment to be used for campaign purposes,
and I suppose those of us who vote
against this proposition to furnish a
market for the cheesemakers will be
held up as obstructing the successful
prosecution Of the wal. But I am going
now to make a proposition that I think
is a better test of fervent patriotism
than a vote for or against bonds or a
vote for or against cheese. We are 60
ing to adjourn in a few days. I am
willing to head the list of a company of
congressman to be commanded by Gen.
eral Grosvenor to take the train from
here and go down to Cuba and join
Teddy Roosevelt's rough riders right at
the front.
IT will tell You another thing I will
engage to do. I will take my stand and
let them form on me, and for every Re-
publican that you will get to march up
and take his stand beside me to 60 in
that company will furnish a Democrat
from over here. When they see the gen.
Hon. Champ Clark.
The New London Times says Champ
CLARK will receive the largest major
ity a candidate ever received In this