, 1889-07-18
About the Principal Product OF
Kentucky, and Why He
Sent For It.
@e Judiciary Committee of tn,
Constitutional Convention
Reports in Full.
0uacks Will Stand No Show In
the Now State----Gossip
About the Members.

minutes read, corrected and approved.
A QUESTION OF HIGH PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
j. Y. Moore rose TO question of the
highest personal privilege and sent to
the clerks desk and had read by the
clerk long article in little newspaper
under date of the 18th of July charging
him with being Northern Pacific lob
byist, and as such receiving and dispens-
Ing liquors: After the reading was
finished Mr.. Moore, in the most calm
and deliberate manner spoke as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT; rise to a question
Of personal privilege. ] send to the
clerks desk and ask to have read a cer-
tair correspondence from this place.
After the reading of the article Mr..
Moore said:
Mr.. President, do not wish to name
the paper or the correspondent. never
saw the paper until last afternoon, when
1t was handed me during the sitting of
the convention, and the correspondence
just read was pointed out to me.
have no acquaintance with the proprie-
tor or the correspondent. i therefore
= presume that
NoToRIEry is eoUGHr
frather than the gratifoation of malice
(in what has been written and published
with reference to myself No man has
Nhighcr appreciation than myself of the
gAcatncss ofthe American press and its
service in promoting the, general good
greatest latitude in discussing public
measures and public men. But, Mr.:
Presidents il has great power for evil
which aju 81 and patriotic man will never
exercise. iit may oppress and distress
those who, have done no wrong and
otherwise make tyrant's and q bully's
use of its nower. 1t does this when
It abandons 1.-THE domain of public
transactions anN invades the
q sAsoBrrr br PRIVATE LIYE-
and individual Needom. The article
Just read has done tthis. 1t is the result
of a confessed espionage upon my private
affairs, and not cot,tent with violating
Its privilege as a puiveyor of public
events by publishing and disclosing my
private business, it bases libel upon it,
and grossly charges me with being a
railroad lobbyist. II the charge were
fruc then should be unworthy of your
association and untenance and seat
fn this convention III is not true and to
- ITS USrgUrH
Nam driven TO disclose 10. this yopycn,,
ION q rnaiier Wholly private and per-
tonal.
VII do not, then / stand as member
accused Of really being here to serve
other interests than those of the alert,
intelligent, generouse and patriotic con-
stituency whom, in part | have the
honor 10 represent. ] rather choose the
painl which any gentleman must appre-
.cis,te, in disclosing my private and
Social purposes to my associates rather
than to stand for an hour under the inn
<xTN al al. a 1F.tt uaV,a
inc to have TO speak of myself person.
ally in public, much less to do so in
this
GRAVE AND IMPORTANT PRESENCE,
entrusted with and now diScharging
one of the,highest duties'of citizenship.
am neither a boaster nor an cgOtist,
= but one who believes the individual
lmanjs the mere dust upon the fly wheel
of time as compared with the
great events in peoples history.
If this matter, therefore, was one
of personal annoyance merely, il the
facts only had been stated, however eX-
aggerated, / should have remained
silent. But 1t is much more. A charge
is made which cannot afford to pass in
silence. / owe it to myself and those
who love me- to this convention and n
generous constituency, to speak. My
honor is very dear to me. In the vicis-
STUDIES of life Il may be all shall have
Il a
name from my father, and he AZ much
from his. Let no man say shall not
pass down this to those who shall take
my place in life. Whatsoever position
in life have attained to through many
OF its most trying and discouraging cir
cumstances reaching back into the
years of childhood, in the early years of
manhood, deep sense Of public duty
constrained me TO take u decided and ag-
gressive stand against the dominant
power under which my lot was
cast. In the high tide of an
sentiment, of which / was always the
victim, in which was sustained by a
patriotic devotion to my native state and
q determination TO do my whole duty by
her for seventeen or eighteen years |
acted the difficult part OF u citizen and a
man. In all this striving and trying
period no man ever had the grossness
and the mendacity TO charge. me with
corruption. This was reserved for n per-
son who knows nothing of my life or its
r environments-nothing of my habits or
associations. ] have no quarrel with the
Northern Pacific railroad and no rela.
tions with it. | never had. j never did
business for it nor received any favor
from it, IL was thought in Spokane
that ii opposed the election both OF my
colleague, Judge Turner, and myself
THE REVIEW,
the morning paper there so stated on the
morning of the election and warned the
people to look 10 their interests in bal
1oting. The only fact | knowis, that the
section boss at Spokane, ,who was pledged
to my colleague, Judge Turner and my
self, the evening before the election an
nounced that he could not support MS
that IL would cost him his place TO do SO
and on election day worked hard all
day for our opponents and brought out
wagon load after wagon load OF railroad
men and voted them against us. How
ever, il Is fair to the railroad company
to say this man is democrat and we
were the republican nominees.
Mr.. President, 1 first came to this ter
ritory in 1886. brought few letters OF
introduction and was generously re-
ceived. | have broken bread in the
homes of hospitable people and accepted
many occasions. ! brought out my
family in 1887 and located in the proud,
magnificent and
PHENOMENAL CITY
of Spokane, where I now reside, and
whose friendly, thrifty and indomitublc
people have shown me many favors and
accorded me a satisfactory share of pro
fessional employment. Many persons
are there and on the Sound To whom
feel especially obliged for some of the
s'smali sweet courtesies of life My old
state is kentucky, Mr.. President, some
what famous for the production
Of the class of goods men
TONED in the article read, and, strange
10 relate, the farther away you get from
her mountains and valleys, her disoil-
leries and her gallant people, tue louder
and more pronounced becomes her lame