The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-28
PARTY PRATTLE.
THAT'S WHAT THE U. s. SENATE EXHIBITS
Mr.. Coke Takes the Floor In Reply to
mr.. Frye's Reckless Statements
About Texas, and Makes q
Dignined Defense OF fhe
Lone Star state and
SOuthin General,

Washington, April 21.-The vice-pre1i
dent laid before the senate the uuflnishe,
business, being the resolution for the cleo
ton of senate officers.
BY unanimous consent, on motion of Mr.
Edmunds, the papers on the files of tn,
senate relating TO the subject of bankruptcy
were referred to the committee on judiciary
Mr.. Coke took the floor in reply to por-
tons of Mr.. Frye's speech. which he de-
clared 10 be remarkable for the
recElessness of its statements and
falsity of its charges. 1t arraigns the
people of a whole section and make.
charges, which If true showed that those
people were not fit associates for any civil
lied people. He did not envy the man who
could find it in his heart to speak of any
portion of the people over which the flag OF
his country floated. He did not believe the
people of Maine endorsed the denunciation of
the senator. He believed that they we're more
patriotic and had more pride of country than
to endorse it. The man who tomented strife
and stirred up sectional feelings aud incul-
Gated animosity could not be a statesman
nor could he be a patriot. He then pro-
ceeded to reply to charges made by Mr.. Frye
of fraud in Texas, denying explicitly their
truth, and referred to the charge that in
Harrison county, in that state violence had
been reported to keep the republicans from
the poles. This wholesale charge against
the people of that county was unverified by
a single record, by a single affidavit, by a
single stateme 1t, except of the senator from
Maine. 1t was false. He meant it in no
offensive sense to the senator, who of course,
made his statemen on information, but he
branded the charge as false from beginning
to end. The sun of heaven did not shine
upon Il land wherein thought and utterance
and sction of the people of all classes, cons
ditions and colors were more free than in
Texas, and every allegation 10 the contrary
he 81 BOD here TO denounce as false and SLAM
derous. The senator from Maine had tainted
the south with its poverty. That poverty
had been brought about by the war and by
the Infamous carpet.b bag governments which
had been placed over the southern states I'M
der the reconstruction acts. The people of
the south were now striving in every state to
make an honorable payment or an honora
BILE adjustment of their debts. They were tax
ing themselves 10 the utmost capacity for the
establishment of free schools, believing that
universal education must 60 with universal
suffrage. Colored children had the same
amount raised for school purposes as white
children had, all over the south. The people
of the south would redeem the south. They
would place her where the good and lineage
of her people, where her glorious climate
and her fertile soil deserved that she
should be placed. All bringing of bones
of dead issues into this chamber would not
prevent the south from becoming the equal
in intelligence, in cultivation, in labor and in
aspiration of the north, east or west. The
people of the south are of the same race rs
the people of the north-a, race which
had never been dominated by an inferior
race and never would be. That race meant
to govern in the south and 1000 entering
wedges, such as was supposed to have been
entered in Virginia, would not deviste IL
from its curse or change the rules.
He dwelt at. some length on the improvement
of property in his own state, instancing in
proof of it the fact that in 1856 there were
but three hundred miles of railways in the
state, while to-day there were three thousand
six hundred miles of railways in
active operation and nineteen
roads in course of construction
He asserted that the state had in all other
respects increased in material prosperity, an d
declared thatthese salient facts gave the lie
direct TO every statement in the speech of
Lub btuhtOT lEODl hhlucs lONCItlue W tuO
question before the senate, he asserted that that
a free vote aud far count, but to obtain
political power. As long as by obligation,
by demonstration, by SANDER and by abuses,
the republican party kept the south
under the impression that carpet-bag
governments would be again placed
over it, just SO long would it
be solid and could not be broken. 1t could
be broken only by kindness and statesman
ship.
A motion to adjourn having been made
and voted down, Mr.. Call took the floor and
denied the charges made by Frye yesterday
against the freedom of the ballot n Florida.
The charge, he said, which the senator had
emphasized that in the contested election
case of Bisbee VS.. Hull, witnesses were kept
from testifying by murder. The case rested
a on the fact that peaceful democrat had been
killed in a crowd OF colored persons. He,
Call, had never seen or heard of
s'siDgle instance of outrsS 20 for political con-
siderations by black or white in Florida, End
he challenged anybody 10 bring any reasons-
bic evidence of such outrsges. Commenting
Mr.. Frye's remarks as 10 the smsll amount
of money a%ppropriat, l for the maintenance
of free schools in Florida, he asserted that
IN proportion TO her weslth no state gave
az much 10 the school fund as Rhode. Island
or Massachusetts,. He (CslD had
never made use of any such
expression as its starving IFS serts,
as applied to the workingmen of Msssachu-
sets, as the senator ION Maine had sttrib-
uted 10 him. The senator will see where he
had obtained that expr ssion. In concluding
bis speech, be made some reference to the
Of Mas achuset : and an uninterest.
ing colloquy ensued betg IN him and Mr..
Dawes on that subject
Mr.. Dawes continued in a humorous way
10 ridicule the idea o. an honest vote In the
south, taking an article clipped from the
Chsrlest1n Is. C)News Of thel2th March, in
which the following sentence occurs "In
their (dsmocrstic) eye cheating as q means of
an honest government lie widely
different thug fIJm cheating for the
benefit of local workers sud mschine-
made Office seekers" This, be said, was a
Of warfare which was going on through
he south-a warfare 20 important that any
man who could strike below was welcomed
into ranks Of the republican party.
At the conclusion Of this colloquy The
adjourned til tomorrow.