Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-19
PURELY Personal.
Most of the Talk in the Ma
tional House.
BAY STATE STATESMAN IN THE RING

Some Partisan Captions i'm The Record
Incite Williams to Personal Explana-
tion in which He Gives Walker 600
ing Oyer''-NIugwumpery Defined and
the Scriptures Freely Quoted-waIker
Replies with Spirit, and the House Has
Good Time-The Seal ImbrogIio,
WASHINGTON, March IA personal ex-
PLANTATION and the reply thereto took up
nearly the whole session of the house yes
terdsy. Williams (Den.) of Massachu-
sets complained that his colleague Walker
Rep.) had printed in The Record re-
marks about him (Williams) which We're
not only not delivered, but which were
improper, supplementary and offensive
in the extreme, and gross attacks upon
class Of men who are called by Mr.: Walker
"MugwumpS" He read the following
captions, written as he asserted By
Walker: Hot Shot for the Mugwumps,"
"Hoar and Williams Shown Up" will
Jams Report on Silver Riddledn He
quoted further from the remarks, in which
Walker said: The Mugwumps hold
their seats in congress by gross deception
and fraud"
Williams Defines .'NIugwump."
Loud of California inquired il he lwilliamsl
considered the attack upon the Mugwumps as
personal attack upon himself
Williams replied: Yes do, because / am
one" Referring to the political history OF
1884 he said that he did himself the honor to
stop voting the Republican ticket. He had
taken part in an independent campaign to elect
Democratic president The men who took
this course then are now called Mugwumps.
nafi nf -
who left the Republican party in 1854. In an
active campaign one OF the most difficult tasks
the executive committee had was to curb and
check the ardOr and zeal of the gentleman
from Massachusetts, air. Walkerl He now
makes this attack upon his former associates.
loud applause.l
All Democrats now Save One.
In 1884 there was rot a more bitter or vitu-
perative member of the Aiugwump party than
Walker He now hates the Mugwumps worse
than his party hates the Democrats. After
that great movement the whole body went
oyer 70 the Democratic party. There was one
man saved out of the wreck. The Republican
party had been struggling to get them back,
but the only man returning was the gentleman
from Massachusetts,. loud Etughter.J / COM
mend the gentleman to that f,.mons sermon
from which he himself quoted in his speech:
" W oe unto you, sCriheS and PhariSceS hypo-
critics. for We COMPASS sea and land t. make
one prn,elytc and when lac j. made ye make
nun tNO-ipHl more vac enid ~ hell Than your
selves lNell~ AMI laughtcY.I
"Rockfaced and >ky-Piercing.''
For all ruck-faced and sky-picrcing mourl-
ments OF b.aSphpny commend me 10 the words
Of the gentleman from Mas a.,hIIS its, III
which he compares the attack upon member
10 the re5ulie Of the Savior OF men to scribes
and pharisees-Said Williams. He then di-
gressed to the silver question, saying that the
Democracy Of MasNI 'husct.s were clear on
that issue and were for honest money. Tho
Record Of March would show who were tru,
Democrats on that question.
Returns to Walker Again.
He then called the attention of Walker To
the scriptures with which he (Walkerl had at
tempted tn identify himself. The gentleman
from Worcester would probably not recognize
himself as one of the persons addressed in
these words; The scribes and Pharisees sit in
Moses seat. All, therefore, whatsoever they
bid you observe that observe and do but do
not after their works. for they say and do not.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to
be borne and lay them on mems shoulders, but
they themselves would not move them with
one OF their fingers" / have borne the burden
and the gentleman from Worcester Is here.
Loud laughter.l But woe unto you scribes
and Phartsees hypocrites; for we shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men; forge neither
60 In yourselves, neither suffer we them that
are entering to uo in ~ RI oud lauvhtar