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Show All lllfaut Ileiuoerut SMt tin. Washington, D. C, March 35. During the silver debate yesterday the house was much amused by a little tilt between Messrs. Hatch and Williams. The latter having asked it Hatch could refer him to a democratic demo-cratic platform that ever declared for free silver, Mr. Hatch replied: "When you want a democratic platform, you will get it from democrats, aud not from men whose swad dling clothes have not been off for a aek or a month or a year. Ureat laughter. He told Mr. Williams (Mass.) that he did not know the first principles of democracy, and, when Mr. Williams asked if he was reading him out of the party, Mr. Hatch retorted that Mr. Williams said the time was coming when the democratic party would have to choose between the democrats of New York audtheallianeeoft.be south. He (Hatch) was willing to make the choice, if necessary, and would swap the barefooted statesman from Kansas i Simpson) for the gentleman from Massachusetts, and, if another swap were wanted, he would take in the erring young democrat from Georgia ( Watson ) and throw over another Massachusetts mugwump. mug-wump. The speech created almost a sensation. |