St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-29
Gratis should repeal all other laws for
the punishment of crime, counterfeiting,

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the punishment of crime, counterfeiting,
ROBBERY AND MURDER"
In a sarcastic way he proceeded to pay
his respects to the Democrats, who held
the constitution in their profound and
careful keeping" and attacked the con-
stitutlonality of these laws.
Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee; Bailey,
of Texas. and Tucker, of Virginia, came
In for share of his sarcasm.
Even Jerry Simpson, Sockless Jerry,
from the popalous region of grasshop-
pers.' he said. with all his lack of pro-
erosion, will not subscribe to this
theory that these laws are unconstitu-
tional"
TO show that those laws were not fail
ureS, as the Democrats had claimed, he
reeounted the history of the Justification
OF the returns i'll 1886 by Sim Coy and
Simon Perkins at Indianapolis. Both
were sent to the penitentiary. The
legal and other objections are mere pre-
texts.
The real ground of the opposition is
the Internal dogma of states rights,
WHICH teaches that the federal govern
ment is TO be deSpised and hated. He
amplltied his ldee of the doctrine of the
Capitalization of power, and concluded
with glowing eulogy of the grandeur
S'A~iiS iSoOldL
The conclusion marked the first en-,
trance into the debate of the bloody
SHIRT. With vehemence the Indianan
charged the Democratic party with be-
lug responsible for violation of the
sanctity of the ballot box, with corrupt
ing the conscience of the nation, and
defying
THE PUBLIC WILL.
The part OF the Democratic party in
the struggle for disunion was described,
and then in turn the Democratic party
was charged with forging the Morey
letter in 1880. with forging the returns
IN chicago in the same year that sent
Joe MackiH to the penitentiary, with
forging returns in Ohio and Indiana,
with frauds innumerable in New York,
with deeds of violence in the South.
The party that has perpetrated all these
wrongs now contemplate this climax
Ut their crimes, but let them enjoy their
victory without mental or moral reSer-
Walton. They have set no limit to their
excuses. The hour of retribution will
come. 1t will take the party that has
prostituted the power given it for great
public purposes and hurl it into obliv-
ION. tGreat applause on the Republican
side.
Mr.. Breckenridge. the silver-tongued
hChtuShS OIdlOI, IOllOWeu. he Hurl0u
defiance at the Indianian. "If the gen
tleman Is fair type" he said, ''of the
people of his district, then they cannot
be criticised for sending here man who
denounces as Infamous a majority of the
people OF this country. l have profound
pity for a man who could make such
speech, who does not believe his coun-
trymen are TO be trusted. With this l
dismiss him from my mind and from my
speech"
There are other things" shouted Mr..
Johnson,
SPRINGING TO HIS FEET,
and reaching out his long arm i'll the di-
rection of Mr.. Breckenridge, (which
the gentleman from Kentucky would
like to DISMISS" All this direct ailusion
to the famous Pollard Breckenridge
breach of promise suit, some of the Re-
publicans laughed. but the laughter was
drowned by a storm of Democratic
Kisses.
such remark" replied Mr.. Brock
lnrldge, "only shows that the gentle
man has no sense of the prOpriety and
decency OF public life.''
Mr.. Breckinridge's speech was de-
voted largely 10 the constitutional
phase of the question.
The Democrats clustered around the
speaker and listened to the glowing
periods of the Kentucky orator. fire.
quently interrupting him with APP
plause. These laws, he argued, marked
an era; their repeal would mark the be-
ginning of another and better era. Il
don't care to reply to the attacks of the
Republicans against the Democratic
party" said he. You can't indict a
whole people. You no longer indict the
South when you attack Democracy, for
the time has come when a majority of
the representatives. from the North are
Democrats" At the conclusion of Mr..
Breckinridge's speech the house ad-
jOurned, -..uT. sans 4t. .,t-