The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-03

: ing that they were coWaruly set, WI
. would get their Southern brethren into
! scrape and then leaye-them TO get out q
} best they could. He made q better preseI
tation Of the case than was Anticipated, 10
his rankas an orator Is not the best.
He was followed by the fiery and un
, tanned Chalmers, OF Mississippi, who wa
more conservative and cool than usual
He madea good presentation Of the Demo
!, cratic case without losing his temper
, While he had tue floor Rnamusing tilt wa
provoked between him and the irrepressi
BILE Conger. Chalmers was eloqnentll
comparing this so.called revolution to thl
heroic conduct OF our ioreiathers In 177G
Conger asked him how the conduct Of ou
torelathers compared with that OF thetse
cessionists In 1881. Chalmers answered
this highly suggestive question by com
pairing CongeF TO the historic /" Kings Jes
ter clothed in fool's-cap and bells, who
made fun for royalty. This Congress hal
q jester, clothed In a swallow.tail, and al
this he pointed to Conger's swallow-tail
coat. y
The Democrats and others Joined In
laughter at this sally. But Conger didn't
lose himself for q. moment, but answered
sharply, ~ asked the gentleman civil
question, and he replied by jumping on
his music box-and making grimaces at the
audience" This brought down the
House, causing so much uproar that
Chairman Springer threatened to have
the galleries cleared. He did not notice the
suggestion that quiet could be best re-
stored here and elsewhere BY clearing the
Capitol Of oongressitself.
The Republican speech OF the day was
made by Frye, who followed Chalmers
Frye Is always an effective speaker, and
he never exhibited his powers TO better
advantage than to-day. He was cool, col
lected, vigorous, vehement, lie paced up
and down the aisle, facing the Confed.
crate Brigadiers and their feeble allies,
pouring Into them broadside after broad
slde'ot well directed rhetorical hot shot.
They sQuirmed yisibly but listened atten.
lively. He read the famous editorial from
an Okolona Mississippi paper, wherein
God Is thanked "that we have captured
the Capitol, and that tho portraits Of Davis,
Lee and jackson shall soon hang within
Its walls" and much Of the same sort.
This brought the Mississippi members to
their feet In the declaration that the ineyi.
table Ohio man was editor Of that paper,
and they couldn't be responsible for the
antics Of Ohio men, especially after they
carpet-bagged away from home.
gkryep epnduoi iattentionsto this SHewas
making 4 point against the Democrats as "a
party, and did not care whether this par
ticular one came from Ohio or Halifax.
lie read letter from another Ohio Demo-
crat lOlymer by name), warmly indorsinr
the Okolona editors sentiments.
There was good laugh over Southern
member, who jumped up, saying he had
never heard Of Clyper, and the response
that thereiwere probably many Democrats
In Ohio ofwhom he had never heard. b
FryewentIb back togSbuth Carolina'sa at
tempted nulfifcahoh ID 1882, and repairft-
ed scenes under the fugitive slave law,
when the United States soldiers were EN-.
ployed to hunt fugitive slaves in Northern
States. They did not keep the peace, but
charged bayonets upon liberty. loving citI-
zens, and Southern Democrats thought 1t
correct and constitutional.
He referred to the bloody record Of
the Democratic party in tho Southern
States since the war, their remorseless
slaughter Of Republican blacks, &c. He
used the most direct and earnest Language.
charging home these crimes, and blister.
ing the Democratic side with this merci.
less invective.
One RrentE, Delegate from Washington
Territory got the lpor next, and read a
speech to whick no one paid the slightest
attention. He had low voice and poor
delivery, and read with his head bent
over his manuscript, but there was such
confusion he could not be heard twenty
feet away.
At this point in the debate the Demo.
crats, who had held Frank Hurd In re-
serve, trotted him out, and he did not de-
ceive their expectations He made as
clear, concise and argumentatiye a state
ment OF their side Of the controversy as
well could be.
Following Hurd, Haskell, of Kansas,
made short but energetic speech on the
Republican side, and debate closed for the
day.
Frank Hurd's rooms are crowded to.
night by lea,ling Democrats, who are p.o-
iuse in their congratulations over his
speech to-day. They consider that ne has
replied to GartleldGin q speech equal in
strength to his. tits remarked as singu-
lar that OF the four leading speeches made
in this great debate three were from Ohio
AIcAIahon and Hurd.
There are now seventy-eight booked for.
which swill carry the debateto
the ,sndottheEe Proctor Knott opens
up tomorrow.
Some Of the Mississippi members, before
the debate Is over, viii attempt to read the
editor OF the 0kolona &aies out Of the
party. They will show that he is On Ohio
man, and the Southern Democrats cannot
he held responsible for all his erratic
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