Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
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ATELLIRe SPEECH.
Mr, Thoehe Makes HIS Appearance
Before the Reuse.

Ear. hh0ehe Makes HIS Appearance
Before h kasuse.
Washington, ID. O., Jan. 2I.-Fhose
VINO have taken any stock ia the idea
that MI. Thoebe, the contestant for Car
Isles seat N the both congress, is not in
earnest, thai hs would have been will
ing to have given up his Case long age
bat for the 1mportunlng of certain at
tcrnsys who were after fees, or that he
Is not an intelligent man, should hnvs
heard him IN his own behalf upon the
h1or OF the house yesterday. He is O
man of hue appearance. has a clear,
ringing voice, and q way of putting bis
points that carry the conviction that he
Is not only "a man of decided ability, bat
OF honest purpose and strong determine.
tion. He denied in toto that he ever
Said or minated to any one that he had
no case or mot nuoh of a CASE" as
some one testified; but, on the contrary
asserted it rs not only true that ne was
elected by nearly 1000 majority. but
that, if the house will SEND a committee
down there to investigate the matter for
itself, such will be found to be the case.
He said that he vas a poor man-be.
longed to that class who carr their bread
/ ~ DWtse Va tAfplA oApWS-auu U6 nHu
not the money to prosecute his case as
II should have been; that, when on his
way to Washington, learning, thst the
committee was about to close the matter
of receiving further testimony, he tele-
graphed them not to do 30; that he was
coming with additional evidence. But
it was closed nevertheless, and he has
now q petition signed by over 5000
I vnfapa of hsc 1iotpiok Ipoa.ln- st.
suoh investigation be had.
"Are you afraid of such q test gentle
men of this great body?" he asked. Ger.
tainly it can do no harm to take such a
step. And. gentlemen of the democratic
party, in the face OF the cry going from
q end of the country to the other that
many of you hold your seats by fraud
and violence? Isometimes cannot wond-
er that the labor1ng men do not feel sat-
istied with the manner OF their treatment
at the hands of congress. Most OF these.
more than 5000 persons represented
by this memorial before me are sons OF
toll. What will be their verdict if you are
satisfied With the majority report of
your committee, and refuse to put this
case in the hands OF q special commit
tee? / am satIsfisd of my election, and
demand only Justice at your hands when
l ask it. Mr.. Carlisle ought not to be
afraid OF such q test-sse, if l were in
his place [ would demand it,"
In relHtion to the testimony that he
only paid his fret attorney (Woods) $43
he said he could prove by credible W.T.
nesses that he paid him $95 at one time
every cent he had-$25 at another
time, So and $40 at other times. As to
the conference ne had charged was held
between Carlisle and his friends, of
which things were fixed up,n bat which
Was denied on the part of the contestee,
ne said he was wiling TO rest his csse on
the fact that he conld prove there was
such q meeting. and instead Of the con-
festes being miles away from it,
as had been worn TO, he
was there as charged. In
regard to the alleged fraudulent poll list
he can prove beyond question that IL
was manufactured for the occasion, and
tibet the n shown to the committee Was
sss FE=rES;na IS claimed. because,
among other reasons, private marks
were made on every page of the original
which do not appear on the one exhibit |
ed.
The remarks of Mr.. Lyman, of Iowa,
and Cabot Lodge,of Massachusetts, were
able and effective They spoke as the
minority members OF the committee and
urgeu the Importance of dong Justice
by MIR. Ihoebe, and of giving him fair
play.