The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-28
THE DALLAS HERALD FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL as ssa.

lied to speak for the Bourbons of Missis-
sippi but emphatically denied his author
ity 10 speek for the conservative white pee
pie. The antipaihy of the Bourbons was
not race antipathy but party antipathy,
and Bruce as a candidate for the presidency
in 1880 would have come as near carrying
Mississippi as General Garfield has done.
He asserted with deep feelings OF mortifca-
ton and profound regret, that in the official
person OF the contestee in this case, the
country was presented with lasting mon-
ument to riiled ballot-boxes and stitled pub
lie Justice. Though that gentleman had Oc-
cupied seat on this floor for the last five
wears, yet no one knew better than himself
that he had never with possibly one eY.
ception received as many as one-third OF
the votes cast at any election at which he
had been Il candidate. The fraudulent acts
committed by his friends and supporters,
and which resulted in his being returned
! to seat on this floor, had
been received by Him with either silent &C.
quinescence or public approval. In the fur
her course of his speech Lynch character
| lied Chalmers as maligner OF his section
and traducer OF the most respectable and
! intelligent portion OF his own people. Re-
terrng to what he termed the Bourbon
method of election he declared that there
publican party would continue to wager an
unceasing war upon tn at method until the
| right of every American citizen to cast his
ballot for the party and the man of his
choice, and have that ballot honestly count
ed, should have been acquiesced. in from one
end of the country to the other Applause
on the republican sidel.
| In conclusion he regretted to be GEM
PEELED to say that it seemed to be the set
tied determination Of the Bourbon party in
the south that there must be q centralized
government or no government at all. 1t
seems to be determined if il could not de-
stroy the government in one way il would
| in another; for it was an incontrovertible
and indisputable fact that the sanctity and
purity of the ballot was the chief pillar Of
our government structure; destroy that
pillar and the structure must neces'
sarily fall. He spoke not in behalf
of himself but in behalf of his party when
he declared that this system of election
frauds in several of the southern states
through and by which that section had
been made solid in support of one of the
great political parties of the day ought,
must, and would be destroyed. Applause
on the republican side and in the gallery.
Chalmers, contestee, was the next
speaker. Referring to the speech Just de-
| livered by Lynch, he asserted that it was
but a repetition of what had been said time
and time again by the contestant and his
co-conspirators who had through the pub
lie press of the country endeavored
to destroy the reputation of the white peO-
pie of Mississippi. The notice of the con-
test was filled with just such generalities,
charges of fraud, violence and all manner
OF corruption in Mississippi. and yet when
those charges came to be tried they could
not be substantiated. The contestant had
undertaken to arraign him personally be-
fore congress, but he (Chalmers) challenged
the gentleman to find in the record line
or syllable, from beginning to end that cast
any aspersion on his character. He then
entered into an exhaustive review of the fiCts
IF the case as exhibited by the record, and
which failed, he claimed, to prove any act
of fraud or violence. Instead of having
made his contesi.with rifles and shot.guns
it was matter OF history that he made it
with brass band blown by colored must
clans, in patriotic wagon decked in red
white and blue
and shame have ilcd to British breasts, if
a sacrifice OF the democrats is to be made
and am to be the first victim, then
| say 90 a head. You have the
power, if you choose to exercise t
you will regret it more than /. You may
drive me from my seat by force and place
another in it, Whenever you look at him
you will be reminded of this days outrage,
and If conscience be not n canker in your
breast in the stiffness of night il will haunt
you with the recollection that truth, Justice
and law were inundated and that you were
the high priests that oiliciated at the un-
holy sacrifice" Applause ON the dem
ocratic side
DeMotte closed the davis debate with an
argument in favor If Lynch to the seat, and
then the matter went over The previous
question will probably be called at O'Clock
| tomorrow.
The speaker laid before the house mes.
sage from the president respecting outlawry
in Arizona, After brief speech nv
Springer, of Illinois, relative to the impor.
lance of immediate action, the message was
referred to the committee on military
affairs with leave to report ct any time.
Adjourned.