Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-05

at0r from delaware (COOper), Is not
only one of the best Republicans, but
one of the most heroic men and one of
the greatest citizens this Common
wealth ever had although it took up
wards of 400 pages of print to prove
that proposition but we have present
ed, nevertheless, General Beaver as
one of the arbitrators in this dispute.
HoYT, GROW, AGNEw AND GARRETT.
Now, having presented gentleman
who wanted to be Governor, we select
Henry NJ Hoyt, who received major
ity of all the votes of this Common
wealth to that office, and served you
four years faithfully and well in the
position of Governor. Surely he is a
fit custodian of Republican interests in
this matter. But, not desiring to travel
too much in one path, we went little
outside, and we took man who re-
ceived at the last session of this Legis-
lature over fifty Republican votes for
United States Senator, Galusha A.
Grow, and, if we are to believe the
statements of the Independent Sena-
tors, those fifty Independent votes rep
resent not only the best thought, but
probably the highest political morality
in the Republican party. Galusha A.
Grow was the chief then of the Inde-
pendent phalanx, and We have named
him as one of the arbitrators in your
interest.
But we did not stop there. We
thought we would travel into the
judiciary and get the highest legal
talent in this State to protect the Re-
publican interests on this committee,
and we took o retired Chief Justice of
our Commonwealth, who, by what
political methods | care not, is now
vegetating in the hills of Beaver coun-
ty-an old and venerable man, whose
decisions line many pages OF your
State reports and who has not yet been
questioned in his legal capacity or in
his staunch Republicanism.
Mr.. Cooper-He questions the power
of the Governor to call this extra ses-
sion.
Mr.. Gordon-But, Mr.. President,
we did not stop there. Wesswent even
farther than that, and we took the most
conspicuous representative of Republi-
can reform in the city of Philadelphia
Philip c. Garrett, man who voted
for General Garfield, who voted for Mr.
Hayes, who has voted for every Re-
publican president since he had vote
"a man who, think, never voted a
Democratic ticket in his life for any
State or national Office. Those are the
Republicans who have been chosen for
the committee. Those are the five men
on this committee who are to take
charge of your interests in this dis
cussiOn.
REPUBLICAN CRITICISMS.
Mr.. Herr said he had but word in
reply to the Senator from the Third
District (Gordon) This proposition,
he said, was the outgrowth of Demo-
cratic discontinue. The argument of
the Senator was plausible, but fallacious.
There is wide difference between the
cases cited by the Senator and the one
under consideration. ID every one of
them the gentlemen composing the
commissions were selected because
they were specialists and had peculiar
knowledge of the particular subject,
but, in the present case, the gentlemen
named were not specialists; they had
no more intelligence, or judgment or
integrity than any other individuals
composing the Assembly. We are
just as competent to apportion the
State as they possibly can be.
1t would be an unprecedented pro-
ceeding for the Legislature to abdicate
it's functions. All history showed
when king or Legislature abdicated it's
power scorn and kissing followed the
cowardly act Mr.. Herr thought the
proposition would be rejected. A vote
was then ordered and the resolution de-
feated, the yeas being 10 and the nays
seventeen-a party vote, except that
Messrs. Wallace and Laird declined to
vote