Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-05

assisted in riveting the shackles on hu-
man beings, and now, when it was to be
expected that it would redeem it's pledges
a| d be faithful to it's history, it is about
to prove false and it's repeated promises
are not to be redeemed. 1t comes victo-
rious from every field, and if it fails now
II finds in its own party those who are
faithless to the trust reposed in them. If
it is to be cruciied it is only because it's
chosen leaders have bartered away it's
principles for tricks and petty schemes of
politicians. Judas Iscariot of 1000 years
ago is to find
A COUNTERPART IN THE JUDAS ISCARIOT
of to-day. Judas, who took thirty pieces
of silver and went and hanged himself,
has left an example for the Mat Quays
that is we'll worthy of their imitation.
Some time since / stood in my place on
this floor and denounced senator from
my native state because when charged
with corruption and branded with in
fanny he did not arise in his seat and de-
mand an investigation and inquiry that
should establish the purity of his actions
and his personal honor. One other oc-
cupying high place in the councils of
the party to which I belong has suffered
himself month in and month out to
be charged with crimes and misde-
meanors for which, if guilty, he should
have been condemned under the laws of
his state and have had meted out to him
the fullest measure of its punishment.
This man is a republican. Shall
I now remain silent? Is it best and
honest to remain in my seat silent
because one who is accused of crimes
and refuses to seek for vindication is
republican, and that republican recog-
nized leader of the party?
NEITHER DECENCY NOR HONOR
would permit me to do so. I do not
know whether the charges made against
the chairman of the national republican
committee are true or false, but I do
know that they have been made by Jour-
nails Of character and standing, again
and again, and know that in the face
of these charges Mat Quay has remained
silent and has neither sought nor at
tempted to seek opportunity to vindicate
himself of them. I do know that as a
great republican leader he owed it to the
great party, at whose head he was, either
to brand them as infamies or to prove
their falsity, or he owed it to that party
to stand aside from its leadership. He
has not done either, and for this I de-
nounce him. The republican party can
not afford to follow the lead of branded
criminal. He has failed to justify him.
self, and though opportunity and ample
time have been given him, he remains ST.
lent. His silence under such circum-
stances is
A CONFESSION OF GUILT.
An honorable man does not long d. -,
when his honor is assaulted. He has de-
layed too long to justify belief in his in
nocence and he stands convicted crimi-
nal before the bar of public opinion.
Under such circumstances he should be
driven from the house of the party
his presence imperils. The republican
party has done enough for it's pretended
leader. Let him be relegated to the rear.
1t is no longer question of his vindica-
ton; it is now question of the life of
the party ITSELF
The Breckenridge case then went over
and the house adjourned.