Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-22

manuscript, and this mass of rubbish had
been printed by order of the Senate. There
was not in the evidence taken before the
committee Of the Ohio Legislature one
single iota of testimony duplicating Mr..
| Payne directly or indirectly. Hechalleng,
ed the Senator from Massachusetts, to point
it out if there was. If the Senator had
the name Of a witness who could
prove anything that would warrant
Investigation, what was the name
of that witness? Where did he live and
what was his business? Mr.. Logan quoted
from the testimony and said That is the
character of the testimony on which we
three men, rs good Republicans as the
Senator from Massachusetts, shall be her
aided all over the land rs having Sacri-
feed principle.
WHEN 1T CONES To THAT OF THROWING
MUD
at members of party, / will defend my
self here and elsewhere, and l hurl back
in the teeth Of these men what they may
say against me. have been Threatened,
but would rather be right than have all
the offices or compliments that could be
bestowed upon me. Applause.
There is not an Office in the country that
would make me do wrong to any man IN
the Senate for political purposes. | am
the wrong man to be used for any such
purpose. What is there in this case that
should cause such excitement and cause
such charges to be made against Senators?
| have never been very much alarmed ut
the attack upon me. have had a number
of such attacks made and care very little
for them, but in order to show the intense
feeling against certain individuals pro-
pose to read what has been said about
Republican Senators by persons who
claim to be of the party. This
does not seem to be an investigation OF the
Senator from Ohio rs much rs 1T Is an at
tack upon three Republican Senators. The
| first thing done before decision was ar
rived nj was to send telegram to various
newspapers all over the country that LO-
gan had requested the Committee to keep
| the vote secret. That went to certain
| character of papers in this country. Why
was that said about me? There is not a
man on the face of Gods earth, who even
| heard me request secrecy in relation to IN
act of public character, that | ever per
/ formed. The members Of the Committee
| know
/ THAT WAS \ LIE
and the chairman of the committee tele
| graphed through the Associated Press thai
| there was no foundation for the statement
| | would like To know why that statement
WAS made. Why should be singled out
and have suspicion east upon me? 1t Wa!
| done lust rs many things have been done
since then. IL seems to De thought now /:
/ the time to kill of Republicans. Coo
/ knows that | am too small person tO
/ them to commence shooting ut first. Why
/ should | be killed OH: am not in tn,
| way of anybody. am not Il candidat,
| for any office, and ito not want 10 be ;
| candidate for any Office. Why Is II tha
| they so perSistently attack one day Loglr
| the next day FvartS, and the next day at
I ter killing off these two men they say, nov
is the time for our hero. 1t seems, sir
/ that this is part Of the play-the last part
of the play is for the purpose of destroying
, if possible Republicans in this Senate
chamber instead of OuSting the Senator
from Ohio. Well, that is all right. IN
READY To BE DESTROYED.
/ | owe no help to anybody. 1t will moi
hurt ANYBODY to kill me Off-not the slight
est. have been killed of half dOzcI
times and they may kill me again. Ii vii
uUt nurt ue; ur De - pleasure to other psO'
pie; let them have their fun. | enlS~ r-'''-
an A. myself | ann nI;thtnG
specch now against myself, and propos
TO make = general assault upon myself
and when get through, IL the Senate l
not satisfied that ! am the man who
being Investigated, then | will conclud
NV evidence is not as good rs my irlen!
Hoar's. As he has filled his report Wit
Democratic extracts | will nil my SpcecI
with Republican extracts, 50 that we ma,
balance each other. This is very amusing
II tshOws " hat kind of fellow | am.
diI not know until recently now bad
man was, but | have found out and | an
going to let the Senate know 1t. There l
n newspaper in the country | am a lrlen'
of the newspapers and they are friend
of mine from what | read) known a. tn
|Cinriunati Commercial Gl:ette. Some friend
, whisper to me, Logan, You had better le
the Commercial gazette alone, but am 20
inc To read from il and am going to use
oS evidence against myself The Cincinnati
Gazette is a very influential paper. NJ
, body disputes it. 1t is owned and edited
and has been for a long time, by
ANTAN NAMED HAISTEAD.
He is gentleman of wealth and influence
and il is easy for him 10 trample Ona crea
ture like me because | have no aspiration
in the world beyond what am, and inas
much rs the State Oi Illinois does not ri
ways ask my friend Halstead what sh
shall do about her Senators, and rs l IN
, not desiring to be a Senator from ONO,
nronose that my friend HalStead shall hav
aU the power aud influence and shall eNel
else il AGAINST me in Ohio. will try
take care of myself mt home. HalStead
an influential man. In the days OF Ahr1
ham Lincoln, HalStcad thought that LIN
, coins head ought to be ChuckGd agalnS
n wall and his brains Knocked out, or SOm'
. thing like that. That was cOmpllmentar
, IN Lincoln. In 1853 Halstcad though
, Grant was drunken old lOater, who ougt
, to be kicked out of society. That wa
COMPLIMENTARY to Grant. After Gran
, wal elected President, IIalStead thought b
WAS q dirty, corrupt old Scoundrel, wh
2 WAS not to be trusted by the people OF IN
country. So HalStead supported Greele
for the Presidency because Grant was nc
n man TO be trusted. l came to the Senai
; almost accidentally and the first thing
t knew when got here lpicked up the CiI
+ cinnati Commercial one day and ioun
D five columns of that paper char!
4 ing NV friend from ON
= who presides so hOnorably and fairly oy'
I this body. with all sorts of things IN
: article was written from Washington Clt
p and published with great head lines
l show that our friend Senator
Z SHERMAN WAS A DISHONORABLE, Col
RUPT MAN,
D who ought not to be trusted, on account
some kind of deyilment that he had dOl
a rs Ouartermaster during the war. III
{ next thing that found IN the CIneinna
Commercial WAS that James &. Blaine vi
; A scoundrel and thief and Il VILLAIN WI
L should be executed at the nearest lam
: nost / did not belIe'
u that about Blaine. l did n
. beIive il about Sherman. | did not b
Geve it about Grant, and l did no behe
: II about Lincoln. did not think that