The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 20, 1896, Page 2

DeARMOND TO HALL. ONE MISSOURI CONGRESSMAN CALLS ANOTHER A POLIT- ICAL BFNEDICT ARNOLD. He Accuses Him Falsely Claiming Credit for the Income Tax. of Story of the Eight Silyer Senators Turned Against 1t’s Author. Repudiated by the District Predicted— Misrepresentation Worse than Cowardice, Washington, D. C., Feb. 11.—De Armond to day replied to Hall. The speech of the free silver Missourian was as sensational as that of the sound money Missourian. It was au almost savage repudiation of Hall’s utterances as reflecting the sentiments of the Missouri democra- cy. It took up the story of the eight senators who had voted for free silver knowing that the enact- ment of such a measure would mean national bankruptcy and ruin, and political misrepresentation and prac- tical cowardice. DeArmond drew a comparison, and then he denounced his colleage as a betrayer of his con- stituents. He scored Hall for hav- ing claimed the credit of authorship of the income tax proposition when that credit did not belong to him. For half an bour he poured out upon him his scorn, while the free silver democrats applauded almost every sentence. Mr. DeArmond’s speech will make interesting reading in Missouri. It is given herewith: DE ARMOND'S SPEECH. I was somewhat startled the other day, Mr. Chairman, to hear my col- league (Mr. Hall) say that he had heard from an official high in the treasury department that probably within the coming twelve months there would be an issue of a thous- and millions in bonds. A thousand millions of bonds! A billion of debt to be fastened upon the people of this country! Why and for what? I am not disposed to treat this merely as the vapid declamation of a sensa- tionalist, because I have observed that as gentlemen change their views upon this money question, and as they get closer to the views that prevail at the treasury depart ment and farther from the views that prevail among their constitu- ente, they become daily better authorities upon what is intended and what is likely to happen about the treasury department. (Laugh- ter.) Contemplate the picture! In time of profound peace, with no ne- cessity resting upon us, with a coun- try rich in all the resources with which any people ever were blessed, we are threatened with an issue of a thousand millions in bonds in a sin- gle year to carry out a particular policy to force upon the people, willingly or unwillingly, a policy which has no just support in the ranks of the peopie; a policy which could net be upheld if submitted to the people, I believe, in any quarter of the Union, not even excepting the northeast; a policy which is almost entirely without support in the south and west. Mr. Chairman, my colleague sug gested some other things, to which it seems to me, as a Missourian, that I ought to give at least passing at- tention. I have nothing to say about my colleague's conversion. A man’s conversion and change of opinion are matters resting with himself. I do say, however, that the people he represents and the people whom I represent, the democracy, the whole people of the great state ef Missouri, are not lacking in cour- age; especially they dono not need) that politicians shall go abroad among them telling them what is right and what is wrong. They are Deacon Bros, & Co, lis that the politicians do not rise to ‘the summit of courage and tell the | veople wherein they are in error. Perhaps that is true. But it has sometimes seemed that graver harm | H Cutlery and Guns and Garden | ‘ac’ at some poli Seeds, Bug Wag and Farm comes from the fact that some poli ects BRE re oail-wark, aS < = SAT] 7 ye J Steel . Barb ire, ticians, appearing before the people ee s, Machine :Oil. as the advocates of certain doctrines obtaining the suffrages of the peo- Groceries and Farm Produce ple upon certain pledges; after they | are clothed with power by the peo-| | ple, after they are commissioned by| |the people to carry out the people's | | will, fail away from their professions, | |forget their teachings, and turn} \their backs upon those who have | given them honor and power, and | |have begun to learn, without the in-| tervention of political teachers, that ‘he who is not with usis against us. Now, my colleague gave some very startling information to the house. many as eight Senator | voted for the bill, said thet its passage was fr grave danger and seriou to the country—I do not recollect | the exact words he used, but that is i the thought As to this statement I know nothing. But the stion qu .. | was asked him, did he believe it him | self? He replied that he did. The| question, “Do vou believe the! Safe. The saving or gal on the freshao ng of health may depend of purity of the drugs you use. Certain, positive results must be had. We offer safe, reliable drugs. The amount of business we do keeps them moving—nothing gets old. The reputation we maintain for re- liability, and accurate prescription work in- sures the best of everything.® them. (Applause.) I have sometimes fancied that the people suffer more from misrepre- sentation than they do from the lack of courage in those who essay to teach them what is right and what is wrong, what is wise and what is unwise. Iam well aware that dis- tinguished men have changed their opinion. We have them around among us. They are to be found everywhere. It is a common enough thing for people, good and bad, to change their views, and change their course of conduct. The conclusion is not an irresistable one that when a man changes his views upon some great question he is largely beyond the measure of ordinary men, or is good beyond the goodness of ordi- nary men. That conclusion is not necessarily one whieh wo must adopt, because history does not show that to be the invariable rule and course of events I make no invidious comparisons or suggestions about these things. I know that some men stand con- spicuous in history for having changed their course, and changed their professions, When the change, according to ihe judgment of man kind, has not been in the right di- rection. I know that through twenty centuries and by sixty generations of men the memory of Judas Iscariot and of the great betrayal has been kept alive, that upon it might be heaped in perpetual freshness the execrations of mankind. I know that Benedict Arnold, who shed his blood in the cause of patriotism and afterwards turned against his coun- try, is remembered as a frightful example—thank God, one of the few examples—held up for the condem- nation and the execration of univer- sal manhood and patriotism. NOT OF THE IGNORANT CI Ass I know, too, that there are people who remain steadfast in views which they have formed upon deliberation and study—views they believe to be correct and views which they have tried—who cannot well be classed as Chinese or as belonging to the ignorant class from the East Indies or from some dark and benighted tribe in the depths of Africa—much less may they be classed as belong- ing to the lower animals. I do not attribute to my colleague | any suggestion that he was sent here by representatives of any of those| classes. I know that the men who sent him here, the men _ before whom he appeared as an advocate in season and out of season of the free coinage of silver, are, upon the average, as honest and as sincere as can be found anywhere in this Union. I, myself, like all men, I suppose have admiration for eour- age. Icanadmire the man who, clinging to his own opinion, though it be newly acquired, is willing om account of it to surrender place and power, is willing to retire from the walks of public life to the shades of private life. And I can also im- agine a case where perhaps the shades of private life may rest upon one without particular reference to his course upon this question or that question. There are such cases. When those cases arise it is seen in | join with those who are opposed to} TEA TIME. at Deecon Bro’s & Co’s , Sanborn’s brands of teas and coffees and up to date things too. LOCKS. When We Say LOCK S. 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We also carry a full line of Rock Island plows, Cultivators, Harrows &c, Parlin and Orendorfs Lalance trame cultivators, and the Ohio Riding Cultivators, this iast big cultiva- tor is the prince of Riders. We will carry no shoddy line this year but will endeavor to sell only such goods especial- ly, BUGGIES and ROAD WAGONS as will give our customers complete satisfaction, DEACON BROS. & CO. Low Price Hardware and £G:ocery House. himself against that which he ad vocated before them and which they wished to see advocated and voted here is liable to find no finer lining for his nest than the rough straw, unless some great duck shooter shall |drop a little down into that nest. (Laughter and applause.) VOICE OF MISSOURI DEMOCRACY. Iwish to say—and I call upon gentlemen who doubt the correct- ness of the saying to note the event for the proof—I wieh to say that when the voice of the Democracy of Missouri is heard, as it will be upon the 15th of next April, when its rep Tesentatives meet to send delegates to the National Convention, I believe they will not speak with no uncer- tain voice; I believe they will not speak in the apologetic tone of those who haye been left in darkness be- cause of the cowardice of politicians who have failed to instruct them; I believe that they will not speak in the voice of the courageous politi- cians who are assuming to instruet them against their deliberate judg- ment; but I believe that when the voice of Missouri is heard it will be heard again as it bas been heard those particular instances—I am not citing any at all—in those particular | brave people; they admire coure| age. ‘They are an honest | j people; they esteem honesty. | They are a_ consistent people; | they have respect for consistency. | These people know some things and will continue to know some things, even if the politicians do not venture among them upon the broad and philanthropic and courageous mis- sion which my colleague would sug- gest. HINTS AT TREACHERY. Perhaps the erying sin of the day! i instances it may be seen that the! surrender of great and good things is rather before the footlights and for the gallery than the actual giv. ing up of anything which may be re- tained. (Applause. Now, I do not know what persons were referred to in the allusions about the “feathering of nests.” I know, Mr. Chairman, or I believe I: knew, that the person who obtains! the suffrages of the free-born citizens | then changes his views so as to turn | heretofore in favor of what they underetand to be the doctrine of the | which seems to part with something free and unlimited coinage of silver and time test, ratio of 16 to 1. Now Mr. Cairman. the question before us is really a serious one. tion, I believe. which will be discus- lace of Whether yeu loox forward to it or backward toit,tea time is pleasant. if you have the proper kind of tea, that kindis always found who sell Chase and Theold Standbys in the grocery line we always have jat the old time-honored, time-tried/and applause ) | echarge’” wag perhaps uttered. I be- lieve that was the language. I think it likely that the word “charge” must have virtually been put into the mouth of my colleague, and that he did not utter it himself. Certain- ly “charge” is not the word that he used, unless he has been greatly misrepresented. For a number of months past my eolleague has been going through the State discussing the question and endeavoring to en- lighten the benighted people, ac cording to my colleague's idea, upon this question. CHARGED WITH DUPLICITY. He is reported to have said that he had learned the error of his way, {and he had become satisfied that the sound money theory, as interpreted | by John Sherman and Secretary Car lisle,was the salvation of the country and that he could no longer sub- scribe to the silver heresy;but, havi been elected by a free silver constit would vote for the heresy. I did not hear him say it. I do not know that he did say it. But I know that it was reported all over my State that he did say so, and that the declara- tion was made by him,and never did I hear a contradiction of it. If that be true, then, while the gen- tlemen may have the information that he says about the position of the Senators and their votes on that question, be has no “charge” to make against them. Because if it be true, if they yoted for the bill, be- lieving it to be wrong, and that fol jlowing in the track of its passage comes the injury they are reported as prohpesping,why should he make aeharge against them, when they are building what the gentleman himself is reported everywhere as saying he would do himself. The people in Missouri are sturdy, honest, brave, deserving people. They are in favor of what they are in favor of at home or away from home. They ere not afraid to say what they are opposed to. The man who faithfully represents that people has no special mission to instruct them, because they are not so dense- ly ignorant,but the man who wishes to represent them, unless he misrep resents them, feels bound to stick to the views that he has already ex- pressed to them when he received his commission, or else explain to them why he has abandoned the commission which still he bears. If my friend would go back to that magnificent Second District of Mis- eouri, which he represeuts to-day, and say that ‘such a change has taken place in my judgement on this question that I may no longer honestly vote for what I said I be lieved im and &dvocated; and, of course, J can not misrepresent you by taking the other side; I return you the commission which you in- trusted to me”—if he did that and went back to that splendid constit uency in his new role as an instruc- ter and advocate of what all his life long, until the shadow of the Treas- ury fell over him, he has condemned if he did he would hardly be his ewa successor. (Applause.) These people have not changed. That would be a sublime act of courage; that would be the courage that is going anyhow. (Laughter ard It | thing I might mention while I am at is of very vast moment. It isa ques. |it. | his constituency, especially if he has : sed from ocean to ocean and from|that lofty code for hia own guidance |°* ee a | the lakes to the Gulfin the next few | which make him tmonths,a question on which millions! teacher of men will vote next November. | Shall we shriok from it? | Of Missouri by advocating doctrines | dodge iS SS | to which they are devoted, and who | evade it by subterfuge? alize that the people of t! CHARGES MISREPRESENTION. Mr. Chairman, there is another uency, upon a free silver platform,he | | | considered. Prices are always just ones—always low,quality H. L. TUCKER. Prescription Druggist. that I was the author of the income tax bill, we will say, and that I was the man to whom credit ought to be given, and if they should conclude talking according to the “Record,” they would give me credit to which I am not entitled. of hundreds here in favor of that lately. The nations knew about it. It was in the law of our own country if my colleague from Missouri were | to pose,or were to allow himself to be posed, as the author of the income would be taking credit where it is not were to appear before his people as the midwife present when the in- come tax law was born,the wet nurse that cared for it in the hours of its puling infancy,as the godmother that or due. steadfast guardian and protector of if people were to give him credit for that sort of thing,he would get cred- it:beyond his deserts, because, like the rest of us, all except the gentle- man who really drafted that bill, he simply supported it, he simply voted for it. All these things and a great many suggest themselves to our minds if we will allow our minds to stop and reflect for a moment—all these things suggest to us that per- haps we may make a mistake when we assume to be so much better than the people, that perhahs we may drop in error when we assume to have acquired wisdom which the people who chose us did not possess, and take a course con- trary to that which they directed us to take. REFERENCE TO SHIRAS. Speaking of the income tax I might say further that perhaps as long as judicial history shall last, as long as men shall read decisions and of those who made them, only one little thing connected with that in- come tax law and with its overthrow will drift down and carry the name of at least one man to the far distant future, to be queried aboutand com. mented upon when the names of greater and better men shall bave long siace sunk beneath the floods of oblivion. That law, Mr. Chair- man, was to compel wealth to bear its share of taxation and to give to poyerty a measure of relief from un- just burdens. That law had behind it the wish, the prayer and hope of millions of struggling men and wo- men in this land. It had against it the concentrated power of wealth. It had for it when it was first passed upon by the courts one of those who occupies a place upon that ex- alted bench. It had against it, a few weeks later. upon the same question when the vote was decisive, the same person. We all ought to be charitable in this matter, I think, of judging peo- ple on account of a change of opin ion. I have cited some instances from history, some remote, some re- cent, to show as far as one can show One ought. in appearing before the exemplar and, of his people, to be exceed-| in this casual way that merely be- cause a man has changed in opinion has come to face in a different direc- tion, that we ought not, if the mat- \ingly careful always not to ask cred- ee eres pees anita, ae es Shall we it of them or take credit from them | a een? oe endeavor to|beyond his real deserts. For in-|° Soe ee ee Let us re-/ stance, if I were to go before the his country | people whom I represent and claim the level of ordinary mortals when perchance he has dropped below that common level upon which so that I was right about it, that I was I simply was one | measure. It had not been discoyered | years ago on the same basis. Likewise | tax bill, knowing that he is not, he | receiving | If he! was present at its christening,as the | it in all the years that followed, and | 1 | } | EAI rae nae resentment su ners veioensnitsuss lems ueilennunnecunaten ost itoye tous vsun on ettanuaneeten coeettony many men pass through this life, I recur to the original Proposi. | tion, having been somewhat discun sive in my remarks. Mr. Chairman, what will your party do with the question now before it? Can the party so handle this matter as to stand in the East for the single gold standard and in the West for that much abused and little understood thing, bimetallism? I hardly think so. The party can declare now where it stands. The party can vote for something and against some. | thing. Neither party can prevent it from doing it. It has absolutele power here to do it. DUTY OF HIS PARTY. I think, though I am not the ad. yiser of the party, I am not assuming this role of instructor my colleague may do it—I say that it seems to me that the party has a duty to dis. charge to itself and to the country: I know that in the west and in the south there are thousands of men within the ranks of republican party who are in favor of the free and un limited coinage of silver upon the ratio of 16 to 1. What will you give them? I know, too that in the same section of the country, the dominant element, the large part of democratic party, is sincerely devot- ed to the same doctrine. Shall they be over “slaughtered” again by the Northeast? Shall they, when the time comes for sending delegates to their own convention, send doubtful or uncertain men or shall they send men who can be relied upon? Will they test and try the men before they commission them to speak for them? Shall ,the voice of Missouri and Arkansas, whose people are overwhelmingly in favor of the free and unlimited chinage of silver at the old ratio, be allowed to be represented by the minority, how: ever respectable that minority may be, on this subject, or shall those whole communities be allowed to be repesented by the sente, the judgement and the wish of the predominating element of the party? ITamin favor of having 8 spade called a spade in the next campaign. I am in favor of the parties declaring what they are for and what they are against- No par- ty. I assume, should declare in a way that its utterances can be read one way in ome quarter and another way in another quarter while I believe it safe to assume that it would be held in each quarter to have meant the thing intended for the other quarter; but I believe that the party which declares that which is in the mind and heart of the dominant element of that party can go inte the cam- paign with self respect and with hope. I say with hope because the skies are not so dark, the issue of the contest is not so fally detertimed as that any man cap confidently predict that this party er that party shall prevail without reference to wha‘ its declarations and platform shall be. (Loud ape plause on the democratic side. State or Onto, City oF Torevo ¥ Lucas County, j Frank | Cheney make senior partner of ¢ n of F. J. ev & Co., doing business in the — city of Toledo, cuunty and state afore- said, and that said firm will pay the sum ot ONE UNDRED DOLLARS for ~ jae ath that he A W GLeasox, Notary Publit- Hall's Catarth Cure 1. taken internally and acts directly on the blood and cous surtaces of the system. Send fF testimonials tree. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, B@sSold by Druggists, 75c. of catarrh that caf