The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-24

tender, for the issuing of fractional paper money
ETC., were offered and then the bill, with pending
amendments QnCluding Mills substitute) wen
| over without action,
EXCITING coLLoQUY BETWEEN BLACKBURN AMI
FRYE.
The House then went into Committee OF thC
tive Appropriation bill
Mr.. Price, who was entitled to the floor, yielded
to Mr.. Frye who said, II at, in connection with
the Misunderstanding which had taken place
yesterday, between the gentleman from Ken
lucky and Ohio, blackburn and Mckinley IN
regard to the proper construction of Blackburn
speech, he desired to read to the House the con,
struction Put upon that speech in Mississippi by
| the now famous paper, 0kOlOna States, which he
received through the mail. He thereupOn read
with great emphasis the following article from
that paper of the 10th OF April, prefacing 1t with
the statement that the article was complimentary
to the gentleman from Kentucky, and therefore
the gentleman would take no offence at it,
What was 1t the brave Joe Blackburn said In the
House, Messrs Soft Shells2 Oh yes; we remem.
| Der now: He remarked our party would strike
the las vestige Of war measures from the statute
books The States never said more and never
said less than that. You repudiate the States
| VIII you repudate Blackburn You are silent
WIN you repudiate Blackburn? You are still 81.
lent Well, gentlemen, we will give you just one
more chance; answer or forever after hold your
peace as far as the States is concerned viii you
repudiate Blackburn? Down with the devil born
| amendments Down with centralsm and its
hints of the crown and Eceptre Down with pic
| tIrpu NJ Nd no
rounded him In the battle days OF 1s61.5l Down
with every anti Democratic idea and idol These
be the watchwords for 1885,"
Mr.. Blackburn having come down from the
chair during the reading of the article in an ex.
cited manner, said "NIr. Chairman, If this be
not the first time have been forced to complain
of unfairness at the hands of my friends on the
other side il is certainly the first time have ever
been compelled to make such a complaint against
the gentleman from Maine. l have but this to
say: | regret that every recurring day brings up
some personal assault which 1t seems to me fair
dealing, honesty of construction, given either by
some members Of the House to language uttered
by me- In the shape OF garbled quotations, or else
unwarranted unfair, unnatural construction put
upon somebody elses language by member Of
that side Of the House.
80 far as the newspaper article which the gen
tleman from Maine has read to the House is con-
cerned care nothing for it. The editor of that
paper, contribution from Ohio to Mississippi
simply repeats the unfair, nngenerous and un
truthiul effort that was made here yesterday to
misrepresent me. l care nothing for the utteran.
ces OF that paper but when the gentleman from
Maine seeks to add his high authority to the in.
justice done me by the editor of that inconse.
queutial sheet, it then becomes more serious
matter. Then | group the paper and the gentle
fTOm Maine tOppthnr and I " IN DC
mittee. and to the country, that 1t occurs to me
they are Well-matcd, The one is as unfair as the
other is illiberal and crazy" Applause and
laughter on the Democratic side
Mr.. Frye-The one was Colonel In the Confed.
crate service, and not carpet bsgger from Ohio.
The one was the peer of the gentleman from Ken.
lucky in that service in the south. OF the other
| have nothing to say. Applau!e on the Repub.
hCan side
Mr.. Blackburn (who had by this time moved
into the area in front of the Speakers chair and
who Stood there surrounded by many Demo.
Caatic membeTs)-But have this to say of the
other. He seems to be more perfectly familiar
with the history, antecedents and merits of that
adventurer than | care to be. Whether he served
in that army or the other is a matter of no con
Cern to me- simply desire to repeat that in the
article which the gentleman has read (COmpli-
mentaTy to me, as he chooses to term it, in order
to twist 1t TO partisan purpOse) he perpetrated
all act of gross injustice, to which the gentleman
from Maine, to my utter amazement has sought
to lend his high authority
Mr.. Frye-I did this and nothing more. l
heard the speech of the gentleman from Ken
lucky when it was made on this floor, as taken
down by the Associated Press reporter and sent
all over this country, and l say had not a sCin.
tilla OF doubt that the construction which this
paper has put on that gentlemans language wO'd
be put upon in the South If that gentleman
made declaration on the floor of the House
which the Associated Press at the time could de.
clare it to be what it did declare it to be, and
when the 0kalOna States, from tue dispatch in
the Associated Press could declare in its ioy to
be what its heart desired it to be- then it is not
that is TO be called to account fOranything have
repeated to this House. l say 1t is my right and
1t is not tlbera or unjust to the get tleman from
Kentucky for me to state to the House, not my |
own words but the words of this paper publish. |
ed in Mississippi, endorsed as it il by scores and
scores of papers in the South | believe intend. |
ed no injustice 10 the gentleman from Kentucky. |
| say in my heart and from the utteranCes which |
| have seen in the papers South | believe iFthe |
gentleman from Kentucky had uttered on this |
floor the very words spoken by that paper no |
more, 10 less, he would have commended him |
self to nine out of every ten of the Democrats |
South of Mason and Dixon's line.
Mr.. Dqvidson-You do injustice to all of us.
Mr. Blackburn wish the gentleman from |
Maine to understand the issue distinctly. stand
by the record made in this House, and wish |
himself and his colleagues would act as fairly, |
The words which 1 uttered here were stronger J
lin the very line made my remarks in on yes |
terday and to-day than they stand reported in |
the record; and say there was no dispatch by |
The Associated Press which warranted the garb. |
ling to which my utteranGes have been su iected |
by the gentleman on the other side, and by that |
emisssry who was sent among my people. What |
were offered to that emiSsary To |
make his home among people whom he persist. |
entity seeks 10 misrepresent, am not prepared TO |
lav. Possibly the gentleman from Maine can tell,
Whether forced contributions levied upOn de.
clerks and on Government employees
constitute the motive which led him to the work
which seems to answer so good a purpose do
lot know, Applause and clapping of hands on
he Democratic side.l do not take issue with
he gentleman from Maine when he says that
nan is my peer, or was once, That may or may
lot be-
Mr. Frye dnterrupting) - Your peer in the
Irmy.
Mr.. Blackburn But only mean to say this
hat, in the matter Of the injustice done and the
r representation made he has not shown him.
elf superior to the gentleman from Maine to- day.
Applause on the Democratic SIDE
BLACKBURN GETS THE LAUGH ON M'K1NLEY.
Mr. Mckinley here came to the controversy
md asked Mr. Black burn whether the speech OF
he latter had appeared in the Record as 1t had
been delivered.
Mr. Blackburn replied it had with no substan.
ial alteration. He rept sted few words that
lad been added and which he said rather weak.
ened than strengthened the words actually ut
cred.
Mr.. Mckinley then asked whether a pamphlet
,opy of Backburn's speech did not vary from
he Record report of 1t in the sentence allud
ID to.
Mr. Blackburn said the word "only" had been
Inserted in the pamphlet copy but said he had
eally not revised the reporters notes. He retort.
I'd on Mckinley by asking whether he had not re-
'ised his speech of yesterday.
Mr.. Mckinley replied he had, whereupon there
vas triumphant clappiug of hands and laugh