Wichita eagle., 1889-02-27

lQsuIted and outraged Dy Upe SSicCofou VI
a man whose election was challenged by
bv eve every sense OF decency and honor. The
committee had been appointed for pur-
pose. With undue haste the COMMITTEES
had reported the case of John q. Carlisle
to the house.
At this point Mr.. Taulbee broke ID with
the exclamation that the gentleman IRON
Ohio had selected a good time to make hls
speech. Mr.. Carlisle being absent
Mr. Bland then denounced it as unta1l
for the gentleman to..speak and raised the
point of order that the gentleman must
confine his remarks to the Indian Dill
Therefore the chair was inclined to the De
lief that the point was well taken ano
directed the gentleman from Ohio to pro-
ceed in order.
Mr.. Kennedy proceeded, but his first re-
mark was in the line of his previous re-
marks. and again brought Mr.. Bland to
his feet with the declaration that the gen
tleman was in emphatic contempt or the
rules of the house
Utterly ignoring Mr.. Bland's Interrupt
ton, Mr.. Kennedy said that he desired to
show that the gentleman from Georgia at
the head Of the elections committee
did not treat the Carlisle cleo
ton case with the same precision
the case of Robert Smalls, of South Caro-
lima. Eleven months after the Carlisle
cose had been considered, the case of Rob
ert Smalls had been brought into the
house.
Again Mr.. Bland interrupted and de-
manded that the gentleman should be
compelled to proceed in order.
Mr.. Kennedy said that by his reference
to the Smalls case he wished to show that
the Democratic party never had done and
never would do justice to black man.
Mr.. BIand-I raise the point OF order
that the gentleman is not proceeding IN
the line authorized by the rules.
The chair overruled Mr.. Bland's point
that the gentleman from Ohio was not In
order.
Mr.. Bland appealed and the chair enter
tanned the appeal, Notwithstanding that
several protests were made against his
doing so However a quorum appeared to
sustain his ruling and Mr.. Kennedy was
accorded the floor. He contrasted the
Butterworth case in 1879 and the action OF
Democratic house upon it with the
action of q Democratic house in the Car
isle case. The speaker, he said, had re
mained as silent as the sphynX. Never
but once in the history of the government
had there been such proceeding. He
would not mention any names, but the
gentleman would go out of private life
condemned by his political associates and
despised by his political enemies without
society save that only which lllgotten
gains could purchase him-toO low for
pity and beneath contempt. Was 1T any
wonder that the conteStees should after
the vote be covered with humiliation and
shame? Was it any wonder that he left
the exhiliariting effects of Washing
ton society and sought the breezes
of Old Point Comfort to restore
him to mental and moral
equilibrium? He (Mr. Kennedy left him
to himself. his country and the people OF
Kentucky misses on Democratic sidel.
The gentleman from Georgia had said that
he (Mr. Kennedy knew nothing about
Georgia. If in 1868 the gentleman had not
been moving so swiftly to the south he
Georgia. His (Mr. Kennedy'sl standing
might not be as high in Georgia as the
gentleman from Georgia, because the gen.
tleman had worn confederate grey and he
(Mr. Kennedy the union blue in the great
contest. He had no desire to compare
records with the gentleman from Georgia,
but he believed that in the estimation of
every loyal man in the country his
record was as high above the
gentleman's in that great conflict
rs the angels of light were above angels of
darkness Applause on Republican side
and derisive laughter on Democratic side. !
The Gentleman's distinction at home and
abroad came from the fact that he was
elected by smaller number of votes than
was any other member who had ever been
elected to congress. He trusted that the
national distinction the gentleman had
thus achieved would never again be
achieved by any man within the limits of
the government.
The gentleman from Georgia had said
that elections were fair and honest IN
Georgia, but that the gentleman had not
attempted to answer the figures given by
him in his speech of july last.
Mr. Kennedy then referred to the speech
recently made by Governor Lee, of Vir-
einia, in which he declared that the
country wanted a white mans govern
ment. Governor Lee wanted white
mans government; he CMr. Kennedy
wanted an honest mans government. lie
would rather have an honest black man S
government in the country than a dis
honest white mans government. While
the be-ringed and be-jeweled fingers of
the Southern aristocracy had been endeay-
Oring to phil down the nation, not single
instance could be cited when the black
people had not been loyal to to the consti-
tuition and devoted to the flag. History
would forever record the fact that a black
man had run the boats past Fort Moultrie
and that black arm had sustained the
flag of the union on the top of Fort Pill
low. Applause on Republican side, !
Ia Arkansas only last week four
resigned because they had been
elected by fraud, intimidation and vio-
lence. The same election which returned
them to the legislature had returned a
member to this house who had not yet
handed in his resignation.
He then quoted General Rosser's declar-
alton that a southern gentleman could
whip a yankee every time, and suggested
that at the point of a bayonet and the end
of sabre and in 800 battle fields the north
had punched that idea out of the south.
If Lee and Beauregard and Rosser had
been hung at the gibbett, as they ought to
have been hung after the contest was over,
they would not now be teaching rebellion
and treason to the young men OF the south.
General Bradley Johnson had said
that the government was controlled
by the confederates; he thanked God that
that control was passing away and that
the confederates would be compelled to
take back seats. He congratulated the
country that the other side of the chamber
would be free from the dictations to which
ii had been subjected. a dictation which
had been humiliating not only TO the house
but to the entire land.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, said that before
he would characterize the gentleman's re-
marks as they deserved to be character
lied, be would expose to the house and the
country their deliberate and wilful inac-
curacy. A charge had been made by the
gentleman in speech delivered in July
last-a charge that he could not evade
by pratinC about -' his loyalty.
No assault had been made
upon that, 10 intimatien had been made
that the gentleman was not a true and 10y
nj soldier and IL was entirely out of place
for the gentleman when charged with de-
hberate Inaccuracies, TO say that he was a
soldier in the army of the union. The
gentleman had charged that the committee
on elections had been appointed by the
snaa aknr This he lCrisnl had denied and