Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-20
RESULTS OF
FOUR YEARS
Senator Carter Devotes Short Time
to a Review Of the Presiden>
tial Situation.
A MOST REMARKABLE SPEECH
Taking for His Text the Result in
Oregon, He Entertains His Col
leagues Of the Senate.
A MOST REMARKABLE SPEECH

sion ot congress- lull occurred while the
senate was waiting for the president to ai.
fix his Signature TO a number of bills Just
passed. In this interim Senator Carter
arose and suggested that the time be given
to some Democrat who would explain the
results of the election in Oregon.
His challenge being ignored, senator Car.
ter delivered one OF the most remarkable
speeches OF the session. lie dwelt at length
upon the history OF the former campaigns
when occupants OF the White House were
candidates to succeed themselves, reeiting
briefly the torrents oi abuse heaped upon
Washington, Lincoln and Grant and con.
tinued us follows;
Washington was reelected notwithstand-
ing the vituperation and abuse which we're
hurled upon him with pitiless severity.
Gen. Grant was re elected, notwithstand.
ing the manner in which be was assailed in
the campaign of 1879 and prior to the
opening OF that campaign. These lessons
OF the past are useful as matters OF reilec.
tion now. They convey to us with uner-
ring certainty the conviction that the body
OF the American people are, in the last an-
alysis, not only intelligent, but truly just.
Acting upon the same impulse OF patriot
ism, guided by the same penetrating intel.
gence OF days gone by, the people at the
coming election will see through the vapor
and the mist, will see through the mud and
the dust which have been cast at his ad.
ministration, and. in my humble Judgment
next November will find recorded for Nc
Kinley as pronounced victory as that
given for Lincoln in 1864 or for Grant in
1879. applause in the galleres.l
The first gun OF this campaign has been
fired. In Oregon the 1000 majority OF
1896 has been swelled to 10, 600 majority
in 900, and that, too, in the lace OF the
Porto Rican tariff; in the face OF the ex.
pansioI OF our sovereignty over the Philip
pines and over Porto Rieo yet, too, and
in the face of the misfortune which oc-
Cured through the erring wandering way
VI u fudu hdiu W hh't ot'ome "'eNeheN
criminal in Cuba.
The people OF this country are not going
to decide the neIt presidential election up
on case Of grand larceny in Cuba. From
the beginning OF time to this hour human
experience has taught and now teaches
that human nature is frail and weak, and
that it occasionally happens that men,
while doing the best they can to follow the
paths OF rectitude, will lall into the ways OF
crime.
In the course Of four years OF an admin
istration that has made more appoint
ments TO civil and military life in this
country'r history there seems to have
been but Il single individual who is charged
with felony because Of criminal conduct
in public Office. The action Of the admin.
istration with reference TO this case is not
being overlooked by the people Of the
country.
The administration cannot be held re-
sponsiblr FOR the honur, the Integrity and
fidelity Uf every one ui The hundreds oi
/ thousands Of men employed in the govern
ment service, but the administration can
he h.ld responsible ior n prompt and vigor'
ous prosecution oi wrongdoers. In the
Cuban case let the facts bear witness TO
the country that from the moment OF the
first disclosure up to this hour vigilance
has not been rela xed and that prosecution
has gone forward with all the power OF the
federal government behind it. That proc
ecution will not be relaxed until justice
shall be done and the guilty, II guilty
persons there be, adequately punished.
The people OF Oregon understood this, and
their verdict has been recorded.
We have been told in the course Of the
summer and the preceding spring aud win
ter that mistakes have been made in the
PHILIPPINE islands; that Admiral Dewey had
dipped the colors to the Filipino flag that
one Of our gunbvats had escorted some lit.
tie Filipino gunboat up the coast Tor lew
miles. Does anybody suppose that trivi'
alities OF this sort are going to turn the
presidential election OF 1s002
Does anybody suppose the dipping Of a
flag in Manila bay, II that happened to
have been done. or the hiring Of a salute Of
any kind to any body will cause the Amer.
lean people deliberately, after mature
judgment passed upon the facts, 10 reverse
the wheels that are spinning in the factor.
les now, or again call forth from the body
OF hohest men the army OF tramps that has
disa ppeared from the face oi this country
under the inspiration OF Republican legs.
lation?
Does any body suppose that the people oI
this country, because Of little incidents
here and there, will Of their own free choice
elect to 90 back from the prosperous times
which surround US now through the deep
dark, dripping tunnel through which the
country was pushed between ls23 aud
1897 Why. Mr.. President, il il ineonceiy
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