The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-04-05

end OF the capitol aud also in this end !
| What caused all this change? do not
know. [ have my suspicious, as | said,
I IT was because you ran up against the
proposition that if you treat Puerto
| Rico In q certain way, you would have
to treat the Philippines in tho sane
way because we hold them upder the
same deed, and there can not be any
| differentiation in the treatment OF the
! two, unless you propose TO display sucn
| brassy and Unadulterated aud damn
| able seIfishpess and greed that you are
afraid TO trust your cause to the Ameri.
can voters.
M'kINLEY'S FREE TRADE VIEWS,
Sena or Tillman had running de.
bate with Senator Foraker, of Ohio,
upon the attitude OF the President and
the Senator from Ohio in regard TO free
trade in Porto Rico, quoting the
Chicago Times Herald at lepeta in is
criticism OF the administration. He
asked Mr.. Foraker to say whether he
was for free trade or not, aud prodded
him with changing his attitude be-
cause the Chicago Times Herald was
advocating free trade in Porto Rico.
Senator Tillman alluded to the rela-
tions existing between Foraker and
kohlsaat, the editor OF the Times.
Herald, which have been anyth ip 9
else than coroial and friendly:
MIR. TILLMAN. The editorial which
| have read here happens to be fro n
the Chicago Times Herald, and eve !.
body knows the brotherly Damon & (,
P&thias like relations which exist D.
tween my friend from Onio and Mr..
kohlsaat, and | felt constrained to be-
lieve, koowing the great love that
these gentlemen have for each otbcr,
Il nd F nnI I'M hof hn, l.
to Mr.. Nc kinloy aud the Republican
party, that the Senator from Ohio
simply got out Of the free-traGe boa,
because MIR. kohlsaat got into it that
he could not live in an atmosphere con.
taminated by the presence OF that per-
son.
MIR. FORAKER. In answer to the
Senator'S remarE, | will frankly con.
less, in The presence OF the Senate,
that | have felt since learning of Mr..
kohlsaats attitude u great deal more
confidence In my present position.
daughter,
MIR. TlLLMAN. Mr.. President,
have been rigAt along that roaG my
self. | have in my career como across
editorials in papers that had fought
and lied on me for years in which my
action was commended, and i'm
mediately [ set about u investigate in
order to find out whether | had not
been wrong when got the approval Of
such papers, and can understand why
the Serator from Ohio should desert
his own principles and his own calmly
selected position because koblsa took
d position alongside OF him. But at
the same time it does not explain why
the President, who was warm friend
aud to whom MIR. KOhl,aat il q trusted
ADVISER, has changed front, if he did
change front.
or not. l want some gentleman here
to explain TO me the present attitude
OF the President. | have been trying
TO stand by him. | bore testimony the
other day TO what said was his patriot
ism and nobility Of character. | do
not hesitate any time to say that |
think William Mckinley is one of the
most iovable men we have had in
public life in America, but the trouble
Is MIR. Mckinley will not stand up and
have backbone sometimes. Repubi.
cans would have been in heap better
fix politically If he had stood by his
free trade proposition and let you gen
tlcmen go on and fight it out among
yourselves and pass free trade meas.
ure or not. But whom the gods
would destroy they first made mad, -
and confusion 0! counsel is the beginn.
ing Of madness. That is my interpre-
tation of the present situation.
We had testimony the other day that
God Almighty had given US the Philip
pines hat the hon0red President pro
tempOre OF the Senate and his cola
borers on the Paris commission had
very little or nothing to do with it {;
that 1T had come directly from the Al
m IT n hnl 4 br
hollow Of His hand that the glory Of
our future history was to come frcm
the TACT that we were to reach out and
grab up that island and this island ::
that we wore to treat the COlOred races
Of those islands, not like we treat the
cOlored people in the South, or not like
you gentlemen once tried to treat them,
but as we of the South have felt con-
strained to treat them that you gen
tlemen have changed front on that
subject, and that we were to have q
glorious future, with SO much money
and emoluments and wealth flowing
into our Golfers in conse quence of this
new policy that we could not descend
so low as to give the credit 10 tho
Senator from Minnesota and the
Senator from Maine and their brethren
on the commission, who had gone over
to Paris and demanded the cession OF
these islands In the Pacific and had
enforced that demand to the point tn at
we got them, or got what title Spain
had.
Nobody will tell us, as I said mo.
ment ago, whether the President is
for free trade or not, | wish | knew
wanted to have the pleasure OF sup
porting sOmo measure that he had sent
here, and that could indorse honestly
as American without regard to being u
South CarOlinian or Democrat, and
now | am robbed OF that pleasure. You
gentlemen are cruel to us. Why do
you not let US do something some time
as Americans and not force us always
back to the narrow rut Of Democracy {:
and why do you not do something some
time as Americans and not be such
narrow. bitter partisans here?
MIR. PERKINS. OF course am not
authorized to speak for the President:
but l am inclined to think that his
views-l may have initiated them In
that respect--were influenced by wha:
| was referred to by my friend; the Sena.
tor from South Carolina. that great
trusts were being formed in puerto