The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20
REED AND CARLISLE,
PrOtectGl and Free Trade
Champions,
PUT THEMSELVES ON RECORD.
A Tilt Betwesn Baker and Brecken-
ridsc-The Speakers Sound
Democracy.
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HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Long before
the House met, every seat in the gal.
Ieries, except the few reserved for the
President and family, was occupied.
After the reading OF the journal, Baker,
of Illinois, was recognized. He said
that yesterday, at q moment when he
was out of the hall, words were spoken
by the gentleman from Kentucky
(Breckenridge) rejecting his honor: re-
footing upon the honor of his constit-
Uents.s II then hedjread the remarks of
Breckenrld TefecLlng upon the man
ner in which the defeat of w. Z. Nor
rison. in the Eighteenth Illinois district,
had be II accom- plIshed. In my
own name," continued Baker, land in
the name of the entire Eighteenth
Congressional District of Illinois,
which ne dared to defame, hurl the
words back to the gentleman from
Ken lucky, and denounce their imputa-
tioa as grossly untrue. [ hurl the
word back int the face and teeth of
the gentleman from Kentucky, with
absolute and unmitigated defiance.
(Apoiause and Iaughter). No gentle
man from Kentucky shall swing his
blacksuake whip over my shoulders
and CIV n the shoulders of my cons titu-
ents. with impunity, He. would at
least incur the risk of having it
wreIched from his hands, aud feeling
the hot end of it mayhap. II there be
distinction in he adjective Kentuckian.
then l am q Kentucklan. first saw
the light of day harG by the shades of
Ashland, the home of that important
Kentuckian. Henry Clay, answering as
adamant in grea;-hearted patriotism,
and whose old-time seat of peerless
hon u All glory in this shall IS now
alas, worse than empty. Applause
aud iaughter) That scat is filed by a
geniiem IN whose speeches are geriands
of flowers without leaves or fruit
totally unsuited to the affairs and well
adapted to q lady's b0udo!r. (Laugh-
ter But for their habitual touches of
some hing approaching domineering
arrogance, that old-tim9 seat, [ say, is
worse than empty, occupied as 1t is by
a gentleman who Kissed through his
teeth with uniformed reason the grand
idea of the grand old statesman whom
he succeeded. The colossal shade OF
that great man lovers over the repub
lie; il walks the north land and the
south land and will be living inspira-
tiGn in this mighty contest, this i'm
pending ground-sWeu which Will lift
President Cleveland from the White
House and very probably lift the gen.
ueman from the seat Of Henry Clay.
(Appia1se on the Republican side
The words Of the gentleman from
Kentucky challenge comparison be-
tween his district and mine. The Con-
gressional directory shows that 30 500
votes were cast for Congress in my
dis .rict, while in his but 4 79l were cast.
{Applause About one-eighth of the
voting population, aad all voting on
one side, Whatever the reason for this
curious arrangement may have been,
the gentleman from Kentucky repre-
sents one-sixth of the votes | represent
1t will be seen that the gentleman does
not occupy ground that makes it
prudent for him to indulge in reckless
dsmnatOry statements, reViling the
honor OF the election in another
STATE, OF which he actually knows
nothing, even if the law OF fair
aud honest and manly deal ne
was net sufficient to restraia him.
The gentleman from Kentucky is IN
IOIIuudJS
his own great father, as in the seat he
occupies. Robert j. breckenridge is
name that belongs to the whole repub-
lie. he was great as a thinker, as a
scholar, as g writer, as an orator, and
trauseendantly great as a patriot; a
patrlot whose heart, whose soul, en-
.6raeed the entire country, instead of q
fragment OF it. 1t is narrated of him
that, meeting q young man who was
about to Join the Confederate army in
the war of secession, he remarked to
him: II understood you were going to
Join the Confederate army. Your
father brought you into my arms, q
struggling infant, and asked that
/ might baptize you and dedi-
cate YOU to the service of
Almighty God; but had 1 known at
that hour that you would havs ever
betrayed your country and entered
the ranks of those seeking to destroy
II. | would have found it in my heart
TO have strapgled you at the baptismal
fort" There was q Kentuckian that
was a Kentuckian.
At the conclusion OF his remarks, MI.
Barker was greeted with loud applause
Breckenridge rose to reply, and said
that he had made no charge against
the venerable gentleman from Illinois,
He was the simple usufruct OF what
others did. He got the benefit OF what
other parties did, and have no doubt
from what 1 have heard of him,
that he was in the main
ignorant OF what was done; that in the
innocence of his simple modesty he
Thought it was his intellect and great
popularity that accounted for the de-
feat of Morrison, and am sorry if the
facts SHOULD dispel that pleasing con-
,ceit of the venerable gentleman from
Illinois. applause on the Democratic
side.)
-Of the old John Jarrett" and Amer
icsn T'npiate Association" and other
documents, the nature OF which was
made public soon after the defeat of MIR
Morrison, two years ago. After referring
at sone length TO these breckenridge
said. in regard to Bakers remarks
about his (Breckenridge's) father, that
Baker did not knoW-no one into whose
families the ploW share Of that terrint
war did Ut rna-kpew the dilemma o
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