Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-02
No. a REPRESENTATIVE Vote.

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The fact must not be lost sight OF
| that the recent Senate vote upon the
Teller resolution was, in no sense of the
! term. representative of the American
| masses. The Senate itself as consti-
! tuted today is rot a representative
body. 1t is fact that the senators of q
| few small silver states. representing a
very small fraction of the American
neople. are enabled, under our sys-
/ tenn Of government to hold the affairs
| Of the whole country. its commerce, its
! industries. its credit. its very posi-
| siGiary to a special interest of their
own section. The diSprOportionate power
welded in the United States Senate
by the representatives Of the great
Silver Trust is contrary To the spirit
OF American institutions. and frausht
Wtth serious menace to the future #
our country This fact was strikinGly
illustrated in the vote on the Teller
resolution. The vote stood A. to -. Il
majority Of Il in its favor. OF the Il
votes for The resolution. Is votes Were
throWn by senators from thu
states of Nevada. Montana, Idaho,
Colorado Washington. Utah, South
Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming.
T,,,r t.tn nj am Ia hon
of 66}.505. just think of it..
This is only tWo thousand more popu
lation than we have right hare in our
guod cid State of Maine which is rep
resented in The United States Senate
ny only two senators.
Is there any reason why 663.ooo people
in the silver states should have nine
times the voice and power in the Sen
ate of the United States that tn"
SCI GOO of Maine have? Why the
single city Of Philadelphia has
Very nearly double the popu
l&tion represented by these is silver
senator's who. nevertheless. with sub
lime arrogance and msolenoe, assume
10 speak not for the insignificant
minority. located in the silver states.
that they actually represent, hut for
the American people,
Deduct from the A. votes cast for the
Teller resolution the IS thrown ly the
senators above referred to ana he vote
would have stood - in favor and .
opposed. In other words ii would have
been defeated by three majority, The
a. senators who voted for the Teller
resolution represented about 25.0o0, 900
people. The % senators who voted
against il represented about A., enc 600.
The men vino wear the collars of the
SILVER Trust in the United States
Senate are disposed 10 make the most
Of the dislroportionatc power they are
permitted To WELD and To conceal 50
far as possible, the fact that they ac-
Of the American people. They hay"
submitted their theories to popu
iar vote only to have them over
whelminely repudiated And SO it VIII
he whenever the American people-not
the c63, 600 represented by the Is United
States senators above referred to. hut
the 70000.0o0 who make up this great
and powerful country-may he called
t. pass Judgment upon any proposal t.
repudiate honest obligations ana de
h2uCh tn" currency, by opening our
mints to the free ana unlimited coinag'
q. silver at a ratio of I6 to ! or any
GtMel fictitious ratio II is tha glory
81 our country that it has maintained
Us financial faith inviolate: nor will it
mar the proud record of the past. hA
adopting. at this late day, a policy al
reputation at the behest Of q staah
cotcrie OF mon welding disproDortion
ate power, who are not in touch with.
and do not represent. the great mass
Of The American people.