| Show WESTERN INTERESTS western democrats Demo crata are not so partisan but they are willing to give honor to wh whom om honor is due and speak well of any senator or con z icsman who stands upeor the interests of the west tim THE JOURN JOURNAL AL has baa already called attention to the manly stand of senator dubois who declares for silver in in spite of all the threats and prom promises aises of eastern members of his party THE JOURNAL expressed its re gret that the west has so few men of independent haind in the united states senate and its sorrow that utah of whom the silver representatives expected so much had no men with the coura courage ge or pa patriotism to stand up for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at tho the ratio of sixteen to one Th the herald pays senator teller of colorado a deserve compliment as he be too hurled burled de defiance flance at eastern protectionists projectionists who seek to destroy the wealth of the west among other things it says that senator teller is more the than n a republican abe hs is an honet bont man then the herald honors him because of his manhood courage and for his defense of the silver cause through r all evil anil and through tin ough good report no defeat of silver has discouraged coura cou raged ed him no odds odda against t it in either the senate or the country has daunted his splendid courage whenever strong men fell by the way and may have hare fallen no one ever thought of teller of colorado being among the number and he never was he it is as true to the cause today as ever and fights all comerson comers on tho question that oppose it with as much earnestness as when lie he first entered the aena a ena and he be fi fights n ats those of his own party as hard as those of any other party with what fine scorn he has held at bay his party associates on that 1 question and never with finer force I 1 than he be did the other day when senator morrill proposed in his childish way to read cut ufa of the republican party the men ilien who had refused to take up the tariff bill because senators from the cast refused to couple free silver with it his retort on the vermont senator turned a cathode ray on the course republicans have been pursuing in I 1 their bond and tariff legislation in the present pre ent session of congress mr president he said 1 I charge here and I 1 biall undertake to make the charge good beffie this debate is over that this bill I 1 was never introduced in either body nor has it been supported in this body with any reference to its becoming a law of that I 1 shall speak ni at another time if the senator from vermont thinks that he be can em embarrass barrasi us who have stood by the republican party as I 1 long as lie he has and zealously as he has because we do not agree with him upon every subject he be is ia entirely mistaken I 1 voted against the taking up of this bill as I 1 shall vote against the bill if my jud judgment dictates that I 1 should and I 1 shall remain in the republican party in in spite of the suggestion of the senator from clermont Vera it was known when this bill was introduced in the house of representatives that it could not pass the senate unless it had bad democratic or populist support it was said publicly that it was not expected to pass it was said publicly that it was wa for the purpose of political gain fain and political advantage it is is a play mr president which is degrading to the american senate and degrading to any member of the he patty party to which I 1 clairl claim to belong who shall take part in in it 7 but another statesman has declared himself in no uncertain tones to the shame of utah we must confess that it is not one of her honored representatives it is senator carter of montana in the senate last wednesday he fought the gold bugs with the strength and vikor vigor of a true mountaineer ta in his able defense of oabe ahe people and their money senator carter paid his respects to those eastern republicans who are wielding the party lash with such effect that many western wen men among them the senators from utah are cowering and cringing under it not so with carter who nho said recently Resent ly certain self constituted 1 censors of party motion have been I 1 pleas pleased etl to denominate the republicans I 1 who voted against the bill as conspirators against the public I 1 weal others have gone so BO far as to I 1 invite them to relieve the party of i their obnoxious presence ile ho declared the silver republic cans believed they were right and were firm in their party alleg allegiance banc mr carter said laid that business depression in this country follon followed d the election of 1892 because of of tariff tinkering and t the he aspea speaker or continued at this ibis momentous point the spark of g genius e appeared in one of most determined men inen this country has ever known when the history of our ou r limes I 1 i mes shall hall F be written mr cleveland will be accorded the honor of having displayed display cd the most remarkable political taut tact of any man mail of his time ile he said further it is high hial time that republicans who claim to be with the party should take their cues fro from in the party platform rather than from the whito house if it shall occur that this senseless crusade s against 1 dinst republicans who b believe e lieve in good faith in the minneapolis platform when it declared for bimetallism as well as protection shall lie be carried to such an extent stent as may result in the adoption of president Cleveland Clev elands 8 scheme schema by the st louis convention I 1 submit that republican success will be tendered rendered utterly impossible if the platform of announces to the country try in conjunction with the action of representatives bearing 0 on the two conventions that the plank on bimetallism adopted at minneapolis was a delusion a fraud and andas a it would be just as well for the republican party not to make a nomination at st louis at all hoar replied at some lenh length ot to senator carter but no sooner had bad he finished than carter was up and after him again there are senators from the west who are honestly fighting for the restoration of silver money but brown and cannon are not among them |
