Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1902-01-25

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hurried into that Conference and
smoo' huess which constitute the
charms Of spoken language.
The perJ. s.t3on followed a state
n4ent ia denunclation Of the Demo
cratic calm that TIE U1ited States
I'D taken the place oi Spaia d a
despo.er Of the Philippines Having
been chosen TO close the general de
bate on tre urgency deficiency bill,
Mr. Watson passed ia review some q
the critic. sms on the minority side,
and reminded the house that % per
cent. of the revenues from the arcal-
pelagO had been diverted to the
mother country. In ringing tones
and sweeping two arm z stures, Mr.
Watson compared this condition
with what the Americans have done
toward education and improvements.
His black frock coat, clio hing a tall,
slender figure, snapped smarty in
the aisle as he proceeded with great
momentum Mr Gaines of Tennes
see attempted to interrupt him.
''Oh, this is too much! declared
Mr.. Watson, and chorus Of hearty
laughter sounded forth from the Re
pubiicans, appreciative Of the situa-
zion. Then Mr. Watson entered up
on one of the finest oratorical peri
DDS the house has heard since Mr..
Cousins of Iowa essayed his utter
ances on the Maine.
Why, Mr.. Chairman, we have
heard these speeches before, said
he as be turned his smoothly shaven
face, clear cut OF feature, toward the
marble rostrum, where Mr.. Sherman
of New York was presiding. Il
well remember that when William
Mckinley, the gentlest memory OF
our day, was President of the United
States, these same epithets were
used, these same arguments were
employed. | remember that these
gentlemen exhausted the dictionary
in order to amplify their vocabulary
of epithets.
"You remember what they said.
How distinctly we remember it.
How they hurled their maledictions
at his head; and how the dolefui
prophet from Missouri (Mr. De Ar
mond) prophesied unutterable woe
unless all these things should hap
pen that he wanted to happen.
Why, the deep and melancholy re-
fi~ctions of Jeremiah, the sharp and
maledictions of Malachi
are but murmurous river of
breath as compared with the Voc
laden and sorrow burdened prophe-
cies of the gentlemen from Missouri
daughter and applause But be
hold, they have not come to pass.
Suiting his tones to the sense of
his speech and raising a long fore
finger portentously, Mr.. Watson
added
'And we we'll remember what our
friends on the other
side had to say about these PROPOSE
tions. We remember that those
clean hands of the great statesman
now gone were charged as being
with the warm, fresh blood
of his fellow men. We remem Der
that the heart, which now we know to
have been pure, was charged with
being nesting place of tyranny and
hate. We well remember that that
breast, which we now know in its
aims embraced humanity and human
ity s cause, was charged with being
a spawning place for oppression and
S breed We remembe
that they did not hesitate to say
that that fertile brain, which
throbbed with love for all man
kind, was full of schemes for
for lust OF en-
pire, for greed of gain. We know
that all these arrows were hurled at
his head. These arrows were all
bro en- at his feet, and left his name
The powder was all
burned and found no flaw IN his ar
NOR, o stain upon his shield.
And now that the narrow chasm
which separates US from eternity is
oridged, now that his soul has fitted
its dark and somber stad-
oas and William Mckinley stands
immortal, 1t does seem r. mar kabl to
NE that our Democratic friends should
oose tue tongue of vituperation, OF
of aspersion, of utilization
a speaking OF the Republican party
ind of the boys fighting over ynnder
n the Philippines under the shadow
Of the Aruericen flag.
The House broke into prolonged
applause at the conclusion of this
De riod
In 1860 our friends of the South
rot up a strife down there; and every
me of them is glad today that be did
lot succeed Ia 1864 they sought to
hold four million human beings in
!avery. Are you not glad, my Dem
,eratic friends, he asked, |
urning toward the Democratic side |
With outstretched arms, that you
lid not succeed in that conflict, And |
vhen we found that the debt had |
,een piled mountain high and people |
we're amazed and terrified at its i'm |
nense proportions, the Democratic |
,artv wanted to repudiate it. But
he Republican party said, No, every !
lollar of that debt is as sacred as
he soldiers blood and every dollar |