The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-29
WALLACE WINS
ny a Majority of fifty After a Two nay
Debate-- Mckinley Loses His Scat
Special to the Pittsburgh Post,

Special 10 the Pittsburgh Post.
WASHINGTON, May 27,--Fifty majority
for Wallace was the verdict OF the House
o Representatives cOndemnlng Cover
nor Fosters returning board for giving
a fraudulent certificate 10 VIM. McKin,
10y, Jr,, aa member OF the B0rty.eighth
Congress- from the Eighteenth Ohio dla.
tTict, Wallace was sworn In nj $3.50 this
evening after q two days debate on the
case, In which II waa fully and ably pre-
aented, Wallace lost the yOtea OF seven
Democrats, viz: Blackburn, Robertson
and Thompson, all of Kentucky; DOrs-
heimer aud Potter, Of New York, and
Hurd and Mills Wallace l0at the first
three because OF McKinley'a services In
behalf OF tho whisky bill, and he gained
the vote of John D, White, Republican,
of Kentucky, for the same reason. Hnrd
and Mills put their opposition on the
ground that Wallace was u protection
iat.
THE DEBATE.
Both spoke for Mckinley, and Hnrd
was sharply answered by f0llett, and
both suffered from the terrible inyectiye
Of Chairman 'furneGwh0 closed for Wal
lace In the ahlest speech Of the debate.
Turner In closing Knocked ont McKin-
ley'a allegations OF fraud, az well M tho
authorities quoted by Ranney and Hurd
IN favor Of the aittlng member, bollett
called the attention OF the House 10 the
fact that during seven years Of service
In the House Mckinley had voted to IN.
seat Al Democrats, and had never voted
for q single one In contest lie also
quoted from McKlnleys speeches In his
campaign, In which he said the forty
seventh Congress, which had been char
ged with doing nothing, had unsealed
II Democrats ana seated II Republicans
and for this alone II deserved the thanks
Of the country
M'RINLEY's FAREWELL,
Mckinley In q short farewell address,
In which he briefly reviewed his case,
said II no could only hold his seat on q
technlcality no wouldn't keep II an
hour, He conceded TO Wallace
the whole OF the twenty.four
votes appearing on the return made
TO the State returning board aud reject
Gd by Governor Foster and Secretary
Townsend In the face of the opinion Of
Nash, the Republican Attorney General,
that they should be counted for Jona-
than II, Wallace although they appeared
yariOusly for Jonathan Wallace,""J.
II. Wallace" John II. Wallace" NV. II.
Wallace" "W. W. Wallace aud "Maj.
Wallace" Mckinley also conceded the
eleven misSpelled ballOts In Fairfield
township, Columbiana county, and the
ten Votes disputed In the count of Car.
roll county II Mckinley had shown
half the generosity In the beginning
that he did to-day, he never would have
accepted Governor Fosters fa'se and
fraudulent certificate, but, after holding
his seat for 1iteen months, he doliber-
alely gives his whole prima faci0 case
away and admits IN plain terms that he
never should have taken the certificate
for q seat, and that II he appeared here
NJ all II should have been ~ the con.
testant OF Wallace, who had q clear ma
jority OF llfteen on the face Of the re.
turns. The great wrong, however, has
at last been righted, and the honestly
elected representative Of the old 18th
district sits In the seat TO which no was
chosen by the people.