Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-14

was a town with 24Oo Democratic majority.
tLaughter.1
Mr.. HcmphiIl-so far as the North is con-
eerned the Democrats and Republicans think
the same.
Mr.. Williams-Thst portion of Ohio is called
south Carolina. [Laughter.1
Mr.. Gallinger asked Mr.. Hemphil II he did
not know that Ohio had elected negro as q
member of the Electoral College.
UNsUBsTANTIAL GLORY.
Mr.. HemphiI replied that he knew that a
negro did sometimes slip into an Office thathad
no salary connected with it. IApplause and
laughter.l But a colored man could not live
on glory any more than white man. He OMr.
Hemphin) did not know any people more in
terested in having free ballot and q fair count
and some Just solution of the negro problem
than the people of the South. There the
whites and the blacks were to live together;
sink or swim, live or die. survive or perish,
they must go together. But 1t did not lie IN
the mouths of people who had treated this
race as the people of the North had treated
them to give the South advice on this question,
and particularly on the question Of honesty In
elections, until they had done some missionary
work among themselves. lApplause on Demo-
Mr.. Iafo1ette, of Wisconsin, said that the
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Hemp
hilD in his excursion through the North had
demonstrated one thing-that in the center OF
havior toward the negro was just the same as
it was in the South. Applause on the Repub-
hcan side.
A SHORT STEP.
From the bloodhound and the rawhide, the
South Carolina election law was but little step.
He warned the gentleman on the other side
that majority would ultimately control In
every corner of the Union. What would the
gentlemen think if the colored men turned and
said: "The villany you taught us we will exc
cute, and it will go hard if we do not better the
instructions" In the name of the lost past he
entreated the gentlemen to stop for the sake of
peace and honor, to go no further in this infa-
nous business. The hour was at hand when
the people would make il their first business
to secure and preserve the representative char
acter of this Government. [Applause on the
Republican side.
Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts, said that the
argument of the gentleman from South Caro-
lima Mr.. HemphilD was the old, old argument
that you're another" 1t was the argument
that because one wrong existed it could be
balanced by saying that another wrong existed
somewhere else. Two wrongs had never made
right, and they never would. Because the
fundamental rights of the black citizen were
torn up by the roots in South Carolina, 1t was
no answer to say that there were here and
there instances of race prejudice against him
in the North.
AN HONEST BREAKFAST.
1t was no answer to say that because group
of men here and there in the North manifested
an unworthy race prejudice, that men in the
South had the right to deprive the black man
of the rights granted to him by the Constitu-
tion. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. CrIsp)
had spoken of the election in the Seventh dis
trict as free, fair and honest one This re-
minded him of the story of the English gentle
man crossing the plains, VINO got off the stage
at one of the way stations, and, going up to the
ho cnTd f1nnN ha -@,,11 SlrAa hvaa -foE
poached eggs, steak and coffee. The barkeeper
looked at him across the bar, drew
out his revolver, covered him and
said, you will eat hash" He (Mr Lodge) |
had no doubt that in the view of the barkeeper |
the gentleman had full, fair and honest |
breakfast Qaughterl, but he doubted whether |
that was the view taken by the traveller. He |
then went on to review the methods which he |
said were practiced in the South to stife the |
voice of the majority, saying that it had come |
to such pass that in Arkansas the fraud had |
begun with the plunder of the ballot boxes and |
ended with the murder of the contestant. The |
Secretary of the State of Tennessee had been |
putting obstacles in the way of the delivery of |
the certificates of the man elected on the face |
Of the returns.
A REVOLUTIONARY STEP.
The Governor of West Virginia had with
held certificates from two Republican Con-
yressmen elected on the face of the returns. |
Did the gentlemen suppose that the people of
he North were going to submit to such thing
Is that. 1t was absolutely the most revolution
Try step that could be taken. These men had
to seize the powers of the House to
udge of the election of its members, and to say
Who should constitute majority of the Amer
can Congress. 1t was part of the same evil
ystem- Both parties expended money in elec-
ions. 1t was six of one and half a dozen of
avor of getting nd of this, and il would get |
id of it. There must be fair elections in the
south and in the North, in the East and in the
Vest
Mr.. Tarsney, of Michigan, said that he must
lrotest against the assumption by the Repub-
leans that they were the sole guardians of the |
olored man. The highest law he knew was
he Constitution and his understanding, and |
Vhen the Republicans insisted that the colored
nan was entitled to a seat in this House they
we're in error When they spoke of gerry
South Carolina districts, he could
how them district in a Northern State, made
" Republican Legislature, go miles long by
miles wide. He had seen as much bulldozing
t the polls in the North as he had heard re
ounted before this House. He favored fair,
rec ballot, but when the Republicans sought
o draw sectional lines they were making a
Mistake, and when they asked him to vote to
eat man whom he believed was not elected
hey made another.
SOLID BUT CARELESS.
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Tarsney was
Interrupted when rejecting upor the shape of
n Iowa district by Mr.. Cutcheon, who declared
hat the district was solid at least.
Mr.. Tarsney Immediately retorted: "Yes,
nd they're getting SO careless that they do not
are whom they elect" [Laughter.l
Mr.. Rowell, of Illinois, closed the debate for
he Republicans, saying that Notwithstanding
II of the assaults made upon it. Robert |
malls majority of l29 votes still lived. With
he exception of one witness no voter had |
worn that he was prevented from voting the
Democratic ticket or compelled to vote the Re-
ublican ticket.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georeia, in concluding the ar
ument for the majority of the committee, de-
led the truth of the general statements that
ad been made touching election outrages in
he South, and said there was nothing about
outhern elections that was not as fair, and as
ell calculated to secure an untrammelled ex-
ression of view as in an election in any other
ection.
Mr.. Johnston, of Indiana tried to interrupt
he speaker, but Mr.. Crisp waved him off with
he remark that the gentleman was initiating
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