The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-09-12

As"AS "t eho DeieoU Oh the tOrCe Btll
Pours Out the Walls of His wratl, Upo
tho Devoted Head of the Senate.
WASHINGTON, September 3.-In tn
House to-day in the course of the de
bate On the majority report in the Clay
ton-Breckinridge contested election
case from Arkansas, Robert Patterson
Kennedy, Congressman from the Stl
district of Ohio, made tremendous
~. sensation by a bitter attack on til,
8 Rerafe as q body for ita1 txeatments
a 4 al 4. 3 s. lIl y 3 fsfi1S
defi fihciation Of Senator Quay, as The
&chief instigator of the course of the
Senate in that matter
Mr.. Kennedy drew from the details
of the ayton-Breckinridge case the
conclusion that the Federal election
Nv should be enacted. He made. a
.ery attack upon the Senators who
have been opposed to the Lodge bill.
For himself, confident in the doctrines
of the Republican party, fully COM
mitted to the principles of that party,
he must forever dissent from the cow
ardly surrender which hauls down the
flag and strikes the colors of the Re-
publican party to a defeated foe. Con-
tinuing, he said.
Speaking for myself, l shall nail the
banner of the Republican party at the
masthead with the doctrine which has
become inseparable from the history of
icf x..hi nI, Il
lection of the numblest citizen in the
evrigh9to an honest ballot and the pro-
lection Of life and property, and stand
ready to defend that doctrine to the
last.
That the election bill has been killed
by Republicans or pretended Repub
cans is true. Without fair treatme It
the bill. which the House of Repres :
tatiyes said imperatively was demand
ed for the preservation of it's own
honor and for the safety and stability
of its honor, and for the protection of
the whole country against out.ages
and intimidation and violence, is de-
>liberately put aside without hearing
and without opportunity of conSidera-
tion. When before in all the past his
tory of legislation has one house of
Congress deliberately put upon the
other the mark of its derision and con-
tempt?
The consideration of this measure
was demanded by every sense of decen-
CIV and honor. 1t was demanded by
the House of Representatives that its
floor might be purged Of those who are
enabled to enter by reason of violer ce
and murder. The Senate of the United
States will learn there is bar of public
opinion, and that at it it is now being
tried. TO have been a Senator in the
DAYS of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun,
was to have been part of a body that
Won and held the admiration of the
people, North and South. TO have
been Senator in the days of Wade
and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to
have been associated with men whose
sense of honor would have srorned the
purchase of seat, and would have
denied companionship to one whose
name was tarnished by even the SuS-
picion of infamy or corruption.
"A If the Roman toga had been bedrag-
gled in the filth and mlre of centuries,
surely the cloak of Senatorial courtesy
has been used to hide the infamv and
corruption Which has dishonor | and
disgraced the body which was once the
proudest in the land. The cloak of
Senatorial courtesy has become q
stencil to the nostrils and byword in
the mouth Of all honest citizens of the
land 1t means cloak behind which
ignorant and arrogant wealth can pur-
chase It's way to power and then hide
its cowardly head behind the shameless
protection of Senatorial silence. 1t
means n cloak which shall cover up
from the public gaze Of an outraged
people infamies which demand invcs-
tiga&on and which merit the punish
nf s1
statutes. 1t means Il cloak behind
which petty party bickerers may bart #
away the partys principles and play
the demagogue in the face Of the peo-
pie. 1t means a cloak behind which
pretended fairness hides its dishonest
head, while in secret it is trading and
trafiicking in the rights and liberties
of the people. 1t means cloak under
which not only the timid and cowardly
politician can cover up his tracks, be
they foul OF fair, AS necessity demands
The hour for Senatorfaf co rrtooy ts..s
passed. The OK team OF Senatorial
progress must give way to the motor
of q more enlightenf'' and progressive
and determined age. Let the old ant
threadbare cloak of Senatorial cOurtes.
be hung up with the sickle and fiai! o
abygOne day.
Referring to the betrayal of Chris
by Judas Mr.. Kennedy said: 1T w,
n meet and fitting that Judas should b
paid thirty marks of silvrr-it was sti
part of the enternal fitness of thing
that having been guilty of the bases
crime of all the centuries he should &
out and hang himself History is RI
peating itself. The great party OF th
Republic. having lived for thirty liv
years, has never yet assisted in rivetin
the shackles upon human being, an
now, when it was to be expected thu
it would redeem its pledges and !
faithful to it's history, 1T is about
prove false and oftrepeated promise
are not to be redeemed. 1t con- es vi
torious from every field, and II IL fal
now it finds in its own party those WI
are faithless to its trust. If 1t Is to
crucified it is only because it's chose
leaders have bartered away its primo
ples for the tricks and petty schem