St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-09

questions her 72 votes are to be cast unless we
violate the obligations which New York has laid
upon us. When the voice of New York is asked
for in this convention the majority of our dele
gates by more than two-thirds have declared that
the chairman ofour delegation shall cast ~ votes
in accordance with that expressed will. / do
not deny the right of an individual to rise and
state the reasons which impel him to differ with
a majority, but what do mean is this, that
where majority will is ascertained by the in
structions of our state, our state must have its
appropriate dignity, its appropriate character
and strength by speaking its voice as one man,
and with its ~ votes. You are asked to disre-
gard the great sentiment of our state, and per
nit each member of this delegation to vote as an
an individual in violation of
its Instructions l beg you pause
sister states. You wholook to our state to have
its place close up to the head of our victorious
column this fall. Applause. bid you to con-
slider long and well before you strike down the
sovereign power of our state expressed by the
unanimous will of its delegates in state conven-
ton assembled, through the resolution that 1
have read in your hearing.
The Chair-An amendment is pending. You,
Senator Brady, entitled TO the floor, pending
which, however, an amendment has been offered
to the amendment.
Secretary Bell-An amendment to the amend
ment offered by Mr. Menze, of Indiana: No
state shall change its vote until the result of the
ballot has been announced.
The Chair-The gentleman from New York has
the floor.
Senator Brady desire to address to this. con-
yention few plain words in reference to amend
ments 1t is part of the misrepresentation
which has followed the hotels and corridors of
your public buildings regarding the position OF
the delegation from New York, and the people of
that state to say that there are less than 6S indie
pendent delegates from New York upon this
floor representing congressional constituency;
that no state convention and state machine have
power to disfranchise. Applaus. Our state
convention met; people from each of the as
sembled districts sent their delegates, the dele
gates from each congressional district met as
congressional convention, selected their dele
gates and handed in the names to the committee
on electors and delegates to have them reported
to the convention as selected by the congress
sional delegations that from the congressional
delegations the chairman of our convention would
make up the proper credentials for our appear
ance here. l am here to say TO you that there is
no danger of this convention stripping the
crown from the brow of the queen state of New
York, but there is danger that through the
power and influence Of peticoat machinery the
honest, truthful voice of New York may not
have any effective voice upon this floor.
0. ". Power, of Michigan, spoke in behalf of
the minority and in opposition 10 ''the attempt
to stide the voice of single delegate
Mr. Doolittle. of Wisconsin, spoke very decd-
eLiy in favor of the unit rule.
Nj Power, of Nichigan-Mr. PRECEDENT: 1
move you that the resolution of Mr.. Brady Of
Ee3 York, be reegated to the committee Oh rules
for its action.
The Chair-The motion is not in order. We
have no committee on rules.
Mr.. Power-When appointed, the committee on
rules to be hereafter appointed.
Mr.. Cochran, of New York-Under the ruling
of the chair I am entitled to the floor.
The chair-A motion has been made to refer
this resolution Of Mr.. Brady, of New York, to
the committee on rules for its action, when APP
pointed.
Mr. Power-Whatever committee viii present
the rules to the convention, mean that those
resolutions be regulated to that committee.
Mr. Smalley, of Vermont rise, Mr.. Chair
man, to state
Mr. Cocnran-I make point of order that no
gentleman can assume there Will be even a com
mittee on rules appointed This is for the tenn
porary government of the convention.
The Chair-The gentleman makes the motion
that these resolutions be referred to a committee
to be raised, and the convention can relegate
them to that committee or not as they see fit. 1t
is not for the chair to determine whether or not
his lnotion is that they shall be referred to suct
committee as shall be raised. -~
Mr. Cochran-Is that motion open to debate?
The Chair proceeded 10 put the question, which
was lost
The Chair-'rhe gentleman from New York,
Mr. Cochran, has the floor.
Mr. Cochran of New YorlS-Sitting here in the
place of JOS O'Donohfe, to whom / am an alter
nate, desire to say but a few words to this con
vention / do net suffer, sir, under the disad-
vantage of having been present at the meetings
Of the New York delegation where much has
been said that may have awakened the passions
and sensibilities of the delegates as to the vat-
Gus candidates whom they support, and the few
words that ! desire to say here on the floor hope
will be accepted by the intelligence of the con-
passions. | can't follow the gentleman from
New York through all the various and conflicting
figures. and meet the points which seem to be
strewn along his rhetoric, but 1 know that the
object of this resolution of Mr.. Brady is to stihe
the voice of the minority. | trust that no Demo-
cratic delegation win lend itself
to this gagging process, at the very
moment when it is going to ask the confidence of
the county rs to the result Of its labors in the Sc
lection of the platform. What, sir, are the taw-
dry sophsism when gents from New York, my
colleague has advanced here for the consdera-
ton Of this conventions he talks about the maj
esty Of the seat of the queenly figure she may
assume in terms which are not proper in practi-
cal discussions OF politics, The fact Is, that by
that system of political machiney which has
grown 70 be the curse Of New York politics.
the expression is now sought to be made upon
the floor of the convention which was conceded
in councils Of the state convention which was
suppressed and eyaded by the very gents who
now seem to take advantage Of the subterfuge by
which they claim they are instructed by the state
as a unit Applausej ! am stating here sir,
nothing but what the history of the convention
win justify, and ask the attention Of this con
veRton to the further fact that the
unit rule has always been an unhoIy device
by which political managers aud political en-
gineers have sought to give false expression TO
the voters of the state and to perfect rather than
to destroy the effects on the floor of a delibera-
tive body. Has the memory of 1880 passed
away from the minds of the delegates or is il
here upoa this hoor md has the lesson taught by
a Republican convention, the convention of a
party which we accuse Of perjury and of every
form of political heresy, has its enlightened ac-
tion been lost on this body representing that
pure and patriotic force which we mention,
Democracy. Applause, In 1880 the attempt
was made in this very city to deliver the conven-
ton of the Republican party to the support of
Gen. Grant for third term in the presidency Of
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