The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-21

lures OF Lincoln and the scoundrels who
} surrounded him In the battle days o
! lS8l.5l Down with every anti. emocratlC
{ ideal These be watch.woryls for u.s."
, Mr.. Blackburn having come down from
, the Chair during the reading Of the article
} In an excited manner said:
, "Mr. Chairman, II this be not the tirst
j time | have been forced 10 complain OF un
fairness at the hands OF my friends on the
other side, 1t Is certainly the FIRST time
have ever been compelled 10 make such q
complaint against the gentleman from
Maine. l have but this 10 say: regret
that every recurring day brings up some
personal assault, whiCh,it seems TO me
fair dealing, honeAty OF construction and
ordinary manhood would repudiate.
With each recurring day find myself
forced 10 repel misconstruCtion, given eth.
er BY some members OF the House TO Ian.
guage uttered by me in theshape OF garbled
quotations, or else unwarranted, unfair,
unnatural construction put upon some.
body else's language by q member OF that
side OF the House. So far as the news.
paper article which the gentleman from
Maine has read TO the House Is concerned,
] care nothing for 1t. The editor OF that
paper, contribution from Ohio to Missis-
sippi, simply repeats the unfair, ungener.
Gus and untruthful effort that was made
here yesterday to misrepresent me. Tcare
nothing Tor the utterances OF that paper,
but when the gentleman from Maine
seeks to aid his high authority othe injus.
tice done me by the editor Of that incon.
sequential sheet, u then becomes a more
serious matter. Then l group the paper
and the gentleman from Maine together,
and l say to this committee and TO the
country that Il occurs to me they are well
matched. Then one is as unfair US the
other Is illiberal and crazy. [AppIause
and laughter on the Democratic side.l
MIR. Frye-The one was q Colonel In the
Confederate service, and not a carpet-hag.
ger from Ohio. The one was peer OF the
gentleman from Kentucky in that service
in the South. 0fthe other have norhing
to say. [Applause on the Republican
side.1
Mr.. Blackburn (who had by this time
moved into the area in front of the Sneak.
er's chair, and who stood there surround
ed by many Democratic members)-
have this TO say OF the other. He seems 10
be more perfectly familiar with the history,
anteCedents and merits OF that adyenturer
than | care to be. Whether he served in
that army or the other Is matter OF no
concern to me. l simply desire to repeat
that in the article which the gentleman
has read complimentary to me, as he
chooses to termit, In order to twist It to a
partisan purpose) he perpetrated an act OF
gross injustice, to which the gentleman
from Maine ito my utter amazement) has
sought to lend his high authority.
Mr.. Fryc-l did this and nothing more;
heard the speech OF the gentleman from
Kentucky, when it was made on this floor,
as taken down by the Associated Press re.
porter, and sent all over this country, aud
say had not scintilla OF doubt that
the construction which this paper has put
on that gentlemans Language would be
put upon it in the Souh. II that gentle.
man made declaration on the floor OF the
House which the Associated Press at the
time could declare to be what Il did de.
clare 1t 10 be, and which the Okolona pa-
per from the dispatch in the Associated
Press could declare in its Joy to be what
its heart desired it to be, then it is not
that is to be called to account for anything
have repeated to this House. say it Is
my right, and it is not illiberal nor unjust
to the gent eman from Kentucky, for me
to state to the House, not my own words,
but the words Of this paper published in
Mississippi, indorsed, as it IS, by scores
and scores Of papers in the South. be.
level intended no injustice to the gen.
tleman from Kentucky. l say in my heart,
and from utterances which have seen in
the papers Of the South, that believe il
the gentleman from Kentucky had uttered
on this floor the very words spoken by
that paper, no more, no less, be would
have commended himself to nine out OF
every ten OF the Democrats south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Mr.. Davidson : You do injustice TO all Of
the United States.
Mr.. Blackburn-1 wish the gentleman
from Maine to understand the issue dis.
tinctly. l stand by the record made in
this House, and wish himself and his d.
leagues would act as fairly. The words
which uttered here were stronger in the
very line l. made my remarks in, on YES.
terday and to-day, than they stand re
ported in the Record, and say there was
no dispatch by the Associated Press which
warranted the garbling TO which my utter
ances have been subjected by gentlemen
on the other side, aud by that emissary
who was sent among my people. What
inducements were offered to that emissary
TO make his home among people whom he
persistently seeks to misrepresent am not
prepared to say. Possibly the gentleman
from Maine can tell. Whether forced con,
tributions levied upon departmental clerks
and on Government employees constitute
the motive which led him to the work
which seems to answer so good q purpose
l do not know. Applause and clapping
OF hands on the Democratic side I do
not take issue with the gentleman from
Maine when he says that that man is my
peer, or was once. That may or may not
be. -Il -.-. ..-f "a
Mr. Frye tinterrupting) Your peer in
the army?
Mr.. Blackburn But I only mean to say
this, that In the matter Of injustice done
and Misrepresentation made he has not
shown himself superior to the gentleman
from Maine to-day. [ApplaUse on the
Democratic side y .F'H -iI,B
Mr.. Mckinley here came into the con.
troyersy, and aeked Mr. Blackburn wheth.
er the speech Of the latter had appeared
in the Record as II had been delivered.
Mr.. Blackburn replie'l it had, with no
substantial alteration. He repeated the
few words that had been added, and
which he said rather weakened than
strengthened the words actually uttorod
Mr.. Mckinley then asked whether the
pamphlet copy OF Mr.. Blackburn's speech
did not vary from the Record report Of it
In the sentence alluded to.
Mr.. Blackburn said the word nonly"
had been inserted in the pamphlet copy,
but said he had really not revised the re.
p1rter's notes. He retorted on Mr.. Nc.
Kinley by asking whether he had not re.
yised his speech OF yesterday.
Mr.. Mckinley replied he had, where.
upon there was triumphant clapping OF
hands and laughteron the Democratic side.
Mr.. Blackburn then asked SIr. McKin.
ley why twas that when, yesterday, the
charge Of a deliberate act ol injustice lad