Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-10


"the sentiments OF the President as thsy
have been known and constantly NAM
tanned for the last fifteen years. How
can such statements be reconclied WIN
the after statements OF MT. Gay tudt
but zone Interpretation was given 20 Al,'
Tyler's inaugural throughout the wnole
country by friend and foe by wing ana
Democrat, aud by presses Of both par
ties" and that in favor OF BANK Tue
assertion of Mr.. Clay was not only un-
true. but recbiessly false. and was tho
roughly exposed by Senator William T.
Rives. OF Nirginia who .triumphantly re-
piled to Mr.. Clay, saying That IT was
we'll understood at the commencement vi
cur session that there were serious con-
stitutiOnal difficulties at the executive
department i'm regard 20 an old-fasniohsC
Bank OF the United States The letters
and other contemporary evidence pup
lished i'm the Letters ard Times or me
Tylers," by Mr.. Lyon @. Tyler, snow
how completely the Whig leaders under
stood the position Of the President an'
Ewing, the Secretary Of the treasury
condemned Mr.. Clay for forcing me fs1
cal Bank upon the President ana sal"
tent to which you Cryler) were commii-
ted in the question. ! knew .he per
nacity with which you adhered to your
expressed opinions" on the subject.
DISTRICT BANK BILL
1t seems that Mr.. Tyler. following the
views of General Harrison, got his can
Inc, "a agree fo n Bank of the District of
Columbia, under the constitutlohIl poM,
Of Congress over the District put ~
CLAW would not agree TO this Dill, Whlch
Sir. Ewing, the Secretary Of the treasury
DEVELOPED: and. against the strong pro-
test Of the Wing senators from virginia
and Massachusetts, he o1ered a s1Dst,-
tute, which, by empowering the Dalln
managers to establish at pleasure
branches in the States, was subject 70
all the objections which attached TO the
old bank Of the United states, since ~
claimed for Congress the power 70 estap-
fish corporations in the States. Ihis SUD
stitute, which became known as the
"Fiscal Bank of the United States was
supported by the Wing majority In Con-
gress, whom Clay whipped into line, pass
ed Congress. but encountered the veto.
Another bill. called the Fiscal Corpora
tion," containing the same powers was
then passed and met the same fate
But Mr.. Martin draws on mis- ''recoliec-
ton" and states his belief that every
member Of Harrison's Cabinet (Whom Mr..
Tyler continued in office VI they Were
also. Mr. Webster excepted, whipped into
ne), was in favor of a Bank Oh the
United States. Now | deny 1t. Not
man of them was originally in favor Oh
United States Bank, all depreca'ot
Clay's substitute, as did the editors %
the Wing and National Intelligencer' anu
It was not till after the hrst veto tndI
they yielded to pressure ana nh1hy 80,
solved 10 desert the President and make
common cause with Mr.. Clay
A glance at the past may serve 70 tbe
vince Mr. Martin Of this fact. IN tne
canvass Of 1910. Thomas Ewing, seer
tary OF the Treasury, declared 1t TO De
shameless and absurd piece OF DemocIauc
trickery TO make the people DeleVe thal
there was a question Of the bank contlo-
yersv i'm the election. John Bell, the
Secretary OF War, had been a Democrat,
had voted against the bank IN lSjZ, anu
had in 1887 in a report submitted 10 ne
House of Representatives denounced the
bank as unconstitutional Badger, inc
Secretary of the Navy had also Deen d
Democrat and had during the canvass
Indignantly denied. in an address 10 lhe
people of North Carolina, that Harrison
was bank man: webster tn v,,s Syc r're
of state. had in his speech In Wall street,
September Is, 1910, taken the ground that
the currency should in some degree or
I'm some portion of II be natlonahzed IN
it's character" but that IA bank was not
the only mode to effect IL. He afterwards
gave his cordial support to Mr.. Tylers eX-
chequer plan, creating a purely govern
ment agency.
Harrison and Tyler were nominated IN
December 1899, and on January q loV'
after their nomination Clay said IN the
Senate that "he had no thought OF pro-
posing a national-bank and no wish OF
seeing it proposed by another, untll- IL
was demanded by majority OF the PEE
pie Of the United states" But now Coulu
that majority be made manifest until the
issue was joined on the bank? The Dem
ocrats eagerly offered the issue, out the
Wings as steadily declined IL, as witness
the editorial Of the National lntelllgencer
of August l. 1910, which begins, "Inou6h
the question Of bank is not now peioIe
the country. &c" Butler, Jackson late
Aforementioned, said, September %
1910. Just before the election, that tine
modern Wing party had in every quarter
Of the Union made the claim 70 De re-
garded as the true successors or the
Democracy Of 1900" For full particulars
OF the canvass of 1910 and the Issues or
1sn | refer Mr.. Martin 70 the files OF the
Richmond Wing, the Richmond Enquirer
the National Intelligencer, Niles Regis
ter. Congressional Globe and The other
contemporary records Of the day. Let
him not 20 10 Ben. Perley Poore, or 10
the advertisements of partisans IKE
Thomas II. Benton and Henry Clay 10
find what men said. but read mems utter
ances al the time they were made.
WIGS SOMERSAuLT.
II Is perfectly true that the subsequent
sOmcrsault Of the Wings in their adyo-
cacv Of "A bank of national incorporation
and protective tariff was a most astonlsh-
ing thing. But IL is also an astonishing
thing as Mr. Martin himself admits thdt
IL should take two hundred years before
the true character of the great OllVer
Cromwell was known even 70 MS own
countrymen." We have seen something
like the conduct Of the wings IN our
daV. and that was when General Malone
and his followers, after claiming thdt
they were better Democrats than Ben. !
Hill" on a sudden met at I.ynchDurg ana |
resolved that they were the kepuDncah /
party" coolly ousting General Wickham /
and the other "strdight-ouL' leaders IloAl /
control.
But Mr.. Martin is not content with at
lacking Mr.. Tyler; he INDUCES In dla-
h.. Nuh al Al those
unfortunate gentlemen who have been /
called by the States TO the yice-presl- |
dency. And yet some may thlnk that' |
on the whole the line OF the Nice-Presi- |
dents, beginning with John Adams, ranks
I'm ability and character with that OF the /
Presidents II John Quincy Adams had |
died In Office John 9. Calhoun, the great /
South CarOlinian, would have succeeded ]
him. If Polk had died .silas Wright /
would have been the recipient Of the /
honors II Pierce had died. William X. 1
King, Of Alabama. would have taken his I
place And for one, think the spec D. /
Gle OF the "wretched Andrew Johnson /
defending with his veto at imminent peril /
10 himself the liberties OF the southern /
people. trodden under the iron hoot OF I
military despOtism, quite as interesting a /
picture as that Of Abraham Lincoln send !
ing armies TO subjugate our people ana /
insurrection. and permitting the poor /
Federal and Confederate prisoners 10 /
languish and die IN prison By refusing !
them tho cartel II exchange which Mr.. !
Davis eagerly offered. see nothing dan
gerous but everything eXpedient In the |
election Al the time the President is elect- |
ed of a man who viii step into MS shoes /
under proper contingencies. / see no rea- /
son on earth why, when the people are I
selecting one man for the presidency,
they may not, just as inteligently. just |
as nationally. select another who shall |
fiji the same office II the first President /
dies or IS incapacitated. But the excited /