Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-17
Speech of Hon. C. T. Buck, Of WinOna,
Explaining His Vote.
LIFE GA CHRISTIAN STATESMAN.
Scathing Review of Political Career
Which Began with i Lie and is
Ending in DishOnOr.
PACIPICMAL AND NORTHPACIFIC.
Seine Points Which Led to Enforcing
The Gag Rule Because They
were toe Pointed.

When the name of Hon. C. Z. Buck, Of
Winoaa, was called yesterday in the house,
he arose to explain why. he should vote
agaiust Mr. Window. His speech was so
truthful and unpalatable that the house
applied the gag rule, when 1t was about
thi delivered, and refused to allow its
o5rp letion. The following is the speech
entire:
Mr.. Having the honor to rep
resent IN part Il constituency among whom
one Of the prominent, and 1 might say, the
preminent candidate, resides, it will not
be out of place for me, and 1 regard it
duty-although not pleasant duty-tO
explain to the gentlemen of this house
some. of the reasons-briefy, of course
why the people of a county who gave
seventeen majority for James \. Garfield
over Gen. Hancock in the presidential
election of 1880, and who elected four Re-
publican representatives out of five to the
following legislature, should two years
later, at the late election, send six repre-
sentatives to this legislature, with instruc-
tons to vote first, last and all the time
against their own distinguished and re-
nOwned fellow citizen, by an aggregate
majority of more than one thousand votes.
Notwithstanding, Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. Win
dom had the federal officeholders and
the federal patronage at his back,
having, too, the machinery of the dominant
political party of the country working in
his interest, with the advantage OF having
legislative ticket, nominated in his in
terest, composed of able and popular gen
tlemen-some of them much ADLER than
himself and all of them much stronger
than himself with the people, with the
moneyed interest at his command lend
money was disbursed with a hberality I'M
known at any former election) yet, sir,
Notwithstanding all these potent influences
in his favor, the people among whom he
has lived for almost thirty years, banished
him from his home, dishonored, disgraced
and disowned, by avote of almost two to
one. And this action on the part of the
people, Mr.. Speaker, was not occasioned
III consequence of revolution in
the political sentiment of the peo-
pie of that county. They have
not all become Democrats down
there, but it had its origin in a deep. well
settled, and intelligent conviction that
your candidate here and their fellow citi-
zen is corruptionist of the most danger
Gus type. A corruptionist, sir, of the
school of the Pomeroys and the Colfaxes
of the last decade They believe that he
is pal of the Robesons, the Belknaps, the
Babcocks, the Bradys and the Dorseys of
our political history.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, in order that you, sir,
and the gentlemen of this house may ap-
preciate, may judge of the righteousness
of this action of the people, in order that
you may better understand the facts and
circumstances which have led, which have
compelled the people of Winona county to
pronounce this verdict against him, wish
you to go back with me,jast for a moment,
to the early history of our state, to the
early history of the Republican party
and to some incidents in the early life in
this country of this man Window. Mr..
Window came to Minnesota while we were
yet territory. He settled in Winona
when that thriving city was hamlet of
little more than thousand people. He
assumed at once the character of Christ
ian gentleman and lawyer. He pretended
to pure religion and a high morality
In our debating club which we had organ
lied down there, Mr.. Window always dis
o,7-zoJ o1,ar.-41,i,,r, (po
question was) from moral and religious
standpoint, and he soon became the repre-
sentative of the moral and religious eIe-
ment in the community, and so we'll did
he act his part, that the public
mind became saturated with the idea that
VIM. Window was a truly good man. And
he was honored as such on every possible
occasion, and finally he was nominated by
the Republican party as its candidate for
congress.
BEGINNING WITH LIE.
Now, sir, in the very first political speech
which he made after his nomination, and
the first political speech which he made in
the state, he uttered wilfull and deliber-
ate falsehood. He stated to this, his first
audience, that he was not then, or had ever
been member of Know Nothing lodge.
Now it so happened that there was more
than one gentleman in that meeting who
had sat in a Know Nothing lodge with him,
whose word was never doubted in that
community. Afterward the record of the
lodge was exhibited, which established the
fact beyond doubt and to the satisfaction
of everybody interested, that he had not
only been member, but an officer of a
Know Nothing lodge. Thus, sir, in the
very morning of his political life, this man
who had made the people believe that
every virtue was inherent in him, the
standard bearer of party actuated by
highest patriotism and purest motives,
started out on his political career with a
lie upon his lips, started out by deliber-
atelY falsifying his political record.
Now, sir, this relapse of this moral para
gon was overlooked to some extent during
the exciting times of the rebellion and dur
ing the exciting political events which i'm
mediately followed the rebellion. and do
not refer to it at this time, and at this dis
tant day, expecting that this fact will be
an objection to the interest which forms