The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-22
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 n
Dtgnined Defense OF fhe
Lone star State and
SOuthin General.

dent laid before the senate the unfinished
business, being the resolution for the elec.
tion of senate officers.
BY unanimous consent, on motion of Mr..
Edmunds, the papers on the files of the
senate relating 10 the subject of bankruptcy
were referred to the COMMITTEES on judiciary.
MIR. Coke took the floor in reply to por-
tions OF Mr.. Frye's speech, which he do.
clared to be remarkable for the
recklessness Of its statements and
falsity of its charges. 1t arrsipus the
people of whole section and makes
charges, which If true showed that those
people were not fit associates for sny civil
lied people. He did not envy the man who
could find it in his heart 10 spesk of spy
portion of the people over which the Gag Of
his country fosted. 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 and incul-
Gated anlmosity could not be statesman
nor could he be a patriot. He then pro-
ceeded toreply 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 unverided by
a single record, by q single affidavit, BY u
single statement, except of the senator from
Maine. 1t was false. He meant it in no
offensive sense to the senator, who of course.
made his statement on information, but he
branded the charge as false from beginning
TO end. The sun Of heaven did not shine
upon land wherein thought and utterance
aHd action of the people of sll classes, con,
dltions and colors were more free than In
Texas, and every allegation to the contrary
he stood here to denounce as false and SLAM
derous. The senator from Maine had taunted
the south with its poverty. That poverty
had been brought about by the war and by
the Infamous carpet'bag governments which
had been placed over the southern states un-
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 to 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 hesouth 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 racs ns
the people of the north-s, 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 devis,e il
from its course or change the rules,
lie dwelt at some length on the improvement
Of property in his own state. instsncipg in
proof of it the fact that in 1856 there were
but three hundred miles cf 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
the senator from Maine. Reverling TO the
question before the senate, be asserted that that
fight was made by the republican party, not
free vote and fair count, but to obtain
political power. As long as BY obiugstion,
by demonstration, by SANDER and BY abuses,
the republican party kept the south
under the impression that carpe,.bsp
governments would be again placed
over it, just SO long would Il
be solid and could not be broken, II could
be broken only by kindness and statesman.
ship.
A motion to adjourn having been made
and voted down, MIR. Call took the floor and
denied tho charges made by Frye yesterday
against the freedom of the ballot in Florida.
The charge, he said, which the senator had
emphasized that in the contested election
case Of Bisbee VS.. Hull, witnesses were kent
from testifyng BY murder. The case rested
aon the fact that peaceful democrat had been
killed In crowd of colored persons. He,
Call, had never seen or heard of
a..single instance Of outrage for political con.
siderstions by black or white In Florida, and
he challenged anybody to bring any reasons
Die evidence OF such outrages. Commenting
on Mr.. Frye's remarks as 70 thesmall amount
of money appropriated for the maintenance
Of free schools In Florida, he asserted that
In proportion 10 her wealth no state gave
az much to tho school fund as Rhode Island
or Massachusetts. He (CalD had
never made use of any such
expression as its starving Its serrs,
as applied to the workngmen Of Massachu-
sets, as the senstor from Maine had a,trib-
uted to him. The senator will see where he
had obtained that expression. In concluding
his speech, he made some reference to the
suffrage Of Massachusetts and an unint,rest.
ing colloquy ensued between him and Mr..
Dawes on that subject.
Mr.. Dawes continued in humorous way
10 ridicule the idea Of an honest vote In the
south, taking an article clipped from the
Charleston Is. Q News of,hcl2,h March, in
which the following sentence occurs: In
their (democratic) eye cheating as means Of
securing an honest government Is a widely
different thing from chosting for ,hs
benefit Of local workers and machine.
made office seekers" This, be .ad, was a
sign Of warfare which was going on through
the south-a warfare go important that any
man who could strike below was welcomed
into ranks Of the republican party.