Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22

it shall be fenced in and everybody insulted
who proposes to come in and vote with the
Democratic party?
ST. Clair-Not at all, sir, my venerable
friend; but the Democratic party, you are
old enough to know, should give no con-
sideration in a Democratic caucus to q
bolter.
Bragg said that the Democratic party had
been strengthened, not by driving people
out, but by asking people to come in. treat
ing them courteously. "We want votes;
we don't want to drive them away. We
want to reconcile all differences and use
our scalping knives on our enemies and not
on our friends
c. B. OBrien, of Minnesota, said reso-
luton had been furnished now it was
wanted. When men who claimed to be
Democrats and friends of Cleveland had to
sit patiently and listen to speeches such as
had been used of the majority of the con-
vention, he thought any man coming here
with clean hands and clean record should
be heard. The Democrats kne y nothing
and cared less about the fight in New York,
except that they were told that It was going
to be settled, but man like Coudert should
be heard and allowed to withdraw the con-
test and remove the contention.
Donnelly, of Colorado, thought it ap-
parent to every man that if the Syracuse
delegates were Democrats they would not
be here, but he was willing to hold out his
hand and invite them into the faith. It
was because they were not Democrats that
they had sought to cast blur on the regu--
lar New York Democracy. But if they
were manful enough to acknowledge their
sins he would not cast anything in the way
of their repentance, and they should be al
lowed to confess, and if they showed desire
- IL lo So
them absolution.
Bragg Resents slurs on Muswumps.
Bragg replied to the slurs on the Mug
wumps. Mugwump, as he understood it,
was man who was not bound by party,
but votes as he thinks right, but ended by
declaring that the Syracuse delegates were
not MugwumPs.
Donnelly again attempted to reply, but
the majority was for harmony, and cut him
off with cries of "Question.
Cochran got the floor and moved to give
Coudert all the time he wanted He was
not opposed to Coudert talking ALI he OBJ
jected to was the surrender of the Demo-
cratic party to the Mugwumps who despise
it and who will only support certain candi-
dates because they say they are better than
the Democratic party. He knew nothing
here better than the Democratic party and
if he learned of anything better he would
search for it through time. If there be
contest let it be heard, but he opposed the
explanations about something that did not
xist
Was this committee meeting to soothe the
sensibilities Of the Syracuse gentlemen or
to try contests? Its time should not be
taken in receiving explanations not of a
contest, but of the withdrawal of an al
legged contest, which, but that he would
wound General Bragg sensibilities, he
would say had been smuggled in. If they
were to be heard, the regular Democracy
should have chance to answer.
Foote protested against the word smug-
gled, and spoke for harmony. They would
hear Cochran if there arose any necessity
for it, and ended in panegyric of Cleve-
land as a winner.
Coudert Finally Gets Hearing.
Cochran said he would be glad to give
Coudert all the time he wanted if he would
only furnish copy of the alleged sigma
lures to the petition asking withdrawal of
contest.
Coudert having at last got hearing, said
he had not expected his Democracy to be
impugned by Cochran, whose political for
tunes he had tried to advance. Cochran in
terrupted with disclaimer of impeaching
Coudert's Democracy.
There was a humorous side to that, and
that was that these men were called bolters
by those who had gone after the flesh pots
and Offices in the Republican party and then
come back to denounce him as a bolter.
The resolutions were read, and Donnelly,
with fight in his eve, made the inquiry if
the resolution Of withdrawal was because it
might create dissension in the party. Cou-
dert replied, "partly," and then Donnelly
started in to score point on the anti-snsp-
per by asking why they had instituted it,
but was cut short by loud cries to sit down
on the part of members of the committee
and by Lamb, the Chairman, who ruled
that the contest was withdrawn and there
was nothing before the committee, thereby
shutting off Donnelly Notwithstanding his
protest against this summary method of
preventing trouble.