People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — IT MUST RULE. [ARTICLE]

IT MUST RULE.

So Says President Cleveland Reffardlnff the Majority. H« Declares It the Moat Important Question Before the Senate, Overshadowing Repeal and All Else—Opposed to Compromise. HIS ATTITUDE. Washington, Oct 25.—At no time in the last sixty days of the silver struggle has the condition of affairs been more chaotic than it is to-day. President Cleveland has destroyed the last vestige of hope for a compromise by his authoritative statement that unconditional repeal is the only settlement of the question which will be satisfactory to him. This coming at the very moment when the compromisers had framed a bill and had given it to the country as a compromise acceptible to the administration, has demoralized all calculations. * Senator Gorman stands accused by a number of his associates in the senate of intentional deception. Only Saturday night Senator Gorman in the compromise plan induced other ardent friends of Mr. Cleveland to sign the agreement for a compromise on the statement that it had the indorsement of Secretary Carlisle and the administration. Within twenty-four hours Senator Gorman’s claim of the indorsement of the compromise was repudiated, and throughout the day he has been accused on all sides by democratic repealers of tactics amounting to a grave public scandaL On the other hand, the Gorman element have answered these charges with defiance and have met them with counter charges. They have openly asserted that Secretary Carlisle was the one who had deceived them and that he had given the compromisers to understand in the most positive way that the compromise would be accepted by him and Mr. Cleveland. Thus Mr. Carlisle had been accused of either intentional deceit or of such slight acquaintance with Mr. Cleveland’s real desires as to fully misunderstapd hi§ position. Senators Palmer, Vilas and Mills, who represent the most earnest friends that Mr. Cleveland has in the senate, went to the white house Monday afternoon to try and clear up the cloud of misinformation and misstatement which has arisen since the compromise made its appearance on Saturday. They were with Mr. Cleveland for three-quarters of an hour, during which time the situation was gone over very thoroughly. The president removed every possible doubt which existed as to his attitude. One of the senators repeated the substance of the president’s views and then stated the following as the exact words of ,Mr. Cleveland: “The financial question has ceased.to be the great one before the United States senate. The paramount question now is, whether the majority of the senate shall be permitted to legislate or whether a minority will compel the majority to abdicate its functions. This is a vital issue involving a fundamental principle of our government, and it must be settled before unconditional repeal, tariff or any other subject to which the majority wishes to address itself can be considered.” The senators came away satisfied that no compromise giving the slightest concessions or modification from unconditional repeal would be considered for a moment by the president. He said that he looked upon the least modification of what the majority wanted as an admission that the majority no longer rules in the American congress, and such a principle was too dangerous to be permitted to find lodgment in our institutions. The president also went over the circumstances which led up to the compromise of Saturday. He said that there had never been a though' ot accepting such a compromise. It was explained to him by one of the senators present that the name of this senator had been secured to this agreement by the assurance that the plan was agreeable to Mr. Cleveland, The president and all those present thereupon agreed that the representations were such a fraud and deception that they vitiated the signature and in no way bound the senator who had given his name to the agreement to stand by them.