Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-05
Representative Kennedy of Ohio Puts
the Knife Into Senator Quay
and Turns the Blade.
He Thinks that Judas IscariOt Left
all Example that Matt Quay
Should Initiate.
The Senator's Action on the Lodge
Bill the Reason for the Rep
resentative's Wrath,
a FOrcible and Artistic Roast.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3t-In the house
to-day, in the course CT debate on the
Clayton-Breckenridge (Arkansas) elec-
ton contest, Representative Kennedy of
Ohio drew from the details of the Clay
ton-Breckenridge case conclusion that
the federal election law should be enact
ed. He reflected severely upon the SEN
ators who had been opposed to the
Lodge bill. AS for himself, confident in
the doctrines of the republican party,
fully committed to the principles Of that
party, he must forever dissent from the
cowardly surrender which hauled down
the flag and strikes the colors of the re-
publican party to the defeated foe. Con-
tinuing, he said: "Speaking of myself, l
shall nail the banner of the republican
party at the masthead with the doctrine
which has become inseparable from the
history of it's existence and which de-
mands protection of the humblest citizen
in his right of an honest ballot and pro-
lection of life and property, and stand
ready to defend that to the last. That
THE ELECTION BILL
has been killed by republicans, or pre-
tended republicans, it is true. With the
fair treatment which the house of repre-
sentatives had imperatively demanded
for the preservation of it's own honor
and for it's safety and stability, and for
the protection of the whole country
against outrage, intimidation and vio-
lence is deliberately put aside without
a hearing and without an opportunity of
consideration. When before in all past
history of legislation has one house of
congress deliberately put upon the other
the mark of derision and contempt?
Consideration of this measure was de-
manded by every sense of decency and
honor. 1t was demanded by the house
of representatives that its floor might be
purged of those who are enabled to stay
by reason of violence and murder. The
senate of United States will learn that
there is bar OF public opinion and that
at that bar it is now being tried. 10
have beeu senator.
IN THE DAYS OF WEBSTER
and Clay and Calhoun was to have been
part of body that won and had the ad-
miration of the people, north and south.
To have been senator in the days of
Wade and Fessenden and Crittendel
was to have been associated with men
whose sense of honor would have scorned
the purchase of seat and would have
denied companionshlp to those whose
name was tarnlshed by even suspicion
of infamy or corruption. If the Roman
toga had been bedrabbled in the filth and
mire of centuries, surely the cloak of SEN
atorial courtesy has been used to hide
the infamy and corruption which has dis
honored and disgraced body which was
once the proudest in the land. The
cloak of senatorial courtesy has become
stencil in the nostrils and byword in
the mouths Of all honest citizens of the
land. 1t makes cloak behind which
ignorant and arrogant wealth can pur-
chase its way to power, and then
HIDE ITS CowARDLY HEAD
behind the shameless protection of 'sena-
torial silence It means a cloak which
shall cover up from the gaze of an out
ragged people the infamy which demands
investigation and which merits the pun
ishment of broken laws and violated
statutes. It means cloak behind which
party chickering's may barter away party
"A1O PAAy SACAAuSOSuO III uAO
face of the people. 1t means cloak be-
hind which pretended fairness hides it's
dishonest head, while in secret it is
trafficing in the rights and liberties
of the people. It means a cloak under
which not only timid but a cowardly
politician can cover up his tracks, be it
either foul or fair as necessity demands
The hour for senatorial courtesy has
passed. The OK team of senatorial prog
ress must give way to the motor of
more enlightened, progressive and deter
mined age. Let the old and threadbare
cloak of senatorial courtesy be hung up
with the sickle and the fail of bygone
days" Referring to
THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST
by Judas, Kennedy said: 'It was
fitting that Judas should be paid 80
marks of silver; it was still part of the
eternal fitness Of things, that, having
been guilty of the basest crime of all the
centuries, he should go out and hang
himself. History is repeating itself.
The great party Of the republic having
lived for thirty five years, had never yet