The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-10

An Ohio Member of the House vents his
R.cs .t .be Defeat or the Force Bill and
poprs Ont the Walls OF His Wrats: Upon
the Devoted Head of the Senate.
WASHINGTON. September 3.-ln the
House today in the course OF the de-
bate on the majority report in the Clay
-BrecEinriGg contested election
case from Arkansas, Robert Patterson
Kennedy, Congressman from the oth
district of Ohio, made tremendous
sensation bv a bitter attack on the
Senate as a body for its treatment OF
the force bill and Il scathing personal
denunciatlon of Senator Quay, as the
chief instigator OF the course OF the
Senate in that matter.
Mr.. Kennedy drew from the details
of the CLAYTON -Breckinridge case the
conclusion that the Federal election
law should be enacted. He made a
fiery 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
ardlv surrender which hauls down the
flag and strikes the colors Of the Re-
nnb,ican party to 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
its existence and which demands pro-
lection of the numblest citizen in the
right to 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
bv Republicans or pretended Republl.
cans is true. Without fair treatment
the bill. which the House of Represen-
tatiyes SAID imperatively was demand
ed for the preservation Of its own
honor ana for the safety and stability
of its honor. and for the protection OF
the whole country against outrages
and intimidation and violence, is de-
liberately put aside without hearing
and without opportunity Of considera-
ton. When before in all the past his
tory of legislation has one house OF
Congress deliberately put upon the
other the mark of its derlSlon and con-
tempt?
The consideration of this measure
was demanded by every sense Of decen-
CIV and honor. It was demanded by
the House of Representatives that It's
floor might he purged of those who are
enabled to enter by reason OF violence
and murder. The Senate OF the United
States will learn there is bar OF puollc
opinion. and that at it it is now being
tried. TO have been Senator in the
days of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun,
was to have been part Of body that
won and held the admiration of the
people. North and South. To have
been a Senator in the days of Wade,
and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to
have been associated with men whose
sense of honor would have scorned the
purchase OF seat, and would have
denied panionship to one whose
name was furnished by even the sus-
picion of infamy or corruption.
If the Roman toga had been bedrag-
eled in the filth and mlre OF centuries,
surely the cloak Of Senatorial courtesy,
has been used to hide the infamy and
corruption which has dlShonored and
disgraced the body which was once the
proUdest N the land. The. cloak OF
Senatorial courtesy has become, a
stencil to the nostrils and byWord ID
the mouth Of all honest citizens OF the
land. 1t means 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 Senatorial silence. 1t
means a cloak which shall cover up
from the public gaze of an outraged
people infamieS which demand lnYes-
tieasion and which merit the punish
ment of broken laws and violated
statutes. 1t means Il cloak behind
which petty party bickerers may barter
awav the party'S principles and play
the deuagogue in the face of the peo-
ple. 1t nleans cloak behind which
pretended f;,!rncsS hides its dishonest
head. while in secret it is trading and
traflickiDg in the rights and liberties
of the people. 1t means cloak under
which not only tie tmld and cowaroly
politician can cover up his tracks, oe
they foul or fair, as necessity demands.
The hour for Senatorial courtesy has
passed. The OK team Of Senatorial
progress must give way to the motor
of a more enlightened and progressive
and determined age. Let the old and
threadbare cloak of Senatorial courtesy
be hung up with the sickle and fall OF
abygone day.
Referring to the betrayal of Christ
nv Judas Mr. Kennedy said: 1t WIS
meet and lifting that Judas should be
paid thirty marks of Silver-iJ WAS still
part of the enternal fitness Of things
that having been guilty of the basest
crime of all the centuries he should go
ont and hang himself. History is re-
peating itself The great party OF the
Republic. having lived for thirty live
wears, has never yet assisted IN rivetlng
the shackies upon human being, and
now, when 1t was to be expected tAat
it would redeem its pledges and be
faithful 10 IT., history, it is about to
prove fa;s" ;,l,l oftrepeated pr misses
are not to be redeemed. 1t cores vic
torious from every field, and II it fails
now it finds in its own party those who
are faithless to its trust. II it is to be
crucifieG il IS only because its chosen
leaders have bartered away its prlncl-
ples for the tricks and petty schemes
If politicians. No Judas 1scarlot OF
2OQO years ago is to find a counterpart
in the Judas IScariot Of to-day. The
Judas who took thirty pieces OF silver
and went and hanged himself has left
an example FOR the Matt Quays that Is
we'll worthy Of their limitation.
Some time since l stood up in my
place on this floor and denounced d