Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — WILL NOT COMPROMISE. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT COMPROMISE.

Provident Cleveland Said to Have- Set Dowa oa the Proposition. -■ A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Record, Tuesday, says: At no time in ths 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 authoratative 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 flamboyantly given it to the country as a .compromise acceptable to the administration, has demoralized all calculations and has aroused new animosities. One of the Senators repeated to a cor respondent 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 concession or modification from unconditional repeal .would be considered for a moment by the President," He said that he looked upon tho least modification of what the majority wanted as an admission that the majority no lohgerrules in the American Congress, and such a principle was too dangerous to be permitted to find lodgment in our institutions.