The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1878-11-03

~ Woo4Doro A A896
There res fair attendance 1t the
Court house lasl night 10 hear Mr..
woodbun give his vernon Of mattsra
political. He said he would undertake
70 prove that the republicans were not
guilty Of the many wrongs with which
they were charged by the Democrats but
that they have always honorAbly full
allied all of their promises and obliga-
tons. He went on TO state that the
Democrats sitter all their Investigations
had only convicted M man. viz: Del.
KNAPP, andhe had nCs defrauded the gov.
eminent but hail simply sold . few Post
Tradershipa. Said that although the
Republican party had left no stone I'M
turned TO secure the conviction Of Bah
oocx jet che jury had declared him not
gritty. This announcement by the
speaker was received with or eater ap.
plause by he Republicans in tae au-
dicnoe than sny other portion OF Mr..
woodburn's speech. which must be an
indication Of the fact that strange As IL
nay seem, the audience was In sympa-
thy with Babcock. We say strange ~
il may seem, because there was scarcely
o person who read the evidence in that
case who was not thoroughly convinced
Of tie fact thar Batcock was guil,y and
that the verdict in his favor wns only
secured on account OF n legal technical
i.y in regard to the admission in evil
Lence of certain kilograms.
lie snid he would like to meet Mr..
Deal on the stump and discuss the issues
Of the dayw!th hin. and Thought that str.
Daggett was to blame for not accepting
Mr.. Deals challenge.
Mr.. woodburn admitted the fact that
the Democrats as a lie voted for the
Silver bill and hat the Republicans
voted against il, but said that it was
because the Democrats were imitation
lists.
Said the Democrats did not oppose
the BurIingame treaty, but IL Ia q well
known fact that the Gorham campaign
in California was made Immediately
after the ratification OF that treaty and
the issue was squurely made by the
Democrats against that treaty and the
importation Of Chinese, and what Is
more they carried the State by n large
majority against Gorham and j. p,
Jones.
Mr.. Wuodburn testified to the fact Of
Mr.. Deal being in every sense an hon.
orable man, and n man Of Stainless rep
utation, which statement is in remark
able contrast with the nbuGe aud villa
cation which is being constantly heaped
upon Mr.. Deal by Dngsett. Mr.. Wood.
burn then related an incident which oc-
Cured in the U. S. Senate three years
ago, when Senator Morton asked the
question, what measure have the DEM
ocrats advocated III the last ten years
which has resulted in any good to the
some person answered Mr.. Morton by
saying, ''you were once q Democrat
yourself" Now Mr.. WCodburn, for his
own sake, ought to have a little better
memory than he seems to have. He
seems to have forgotten that he related
the saine incident in u speech here two
years ago. Bnt there is u discrepancy
in his two versions OF it. Two years
ago Mr.. WOODBURY. said that when Mr..
Morton asked the question, there was
no response whatever. Now We will not
ask Mr. Woodburn which of his yer
siOns Is correct, but We will assert that
neither ono Of them is correct. We
have heard it stated by n person who
was in the U. s. Senate when tho Incl
dent occurred, that Senator Salisbury,
Of Delaware, answered by saying 'the
Democrats have investigated the Repub-
lican party" Now this is O matter Of
very little consequence one way or the
other, but the honorable gentleman
ought to endeayor to make his stories
hang together q little better than he has
done in this case.