The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18
CUSHMAN x. DAVIS.
continued from page one.

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tions were toostrong for you, and that
you saw no other way to do than to
take yourself out of the field. I now
think you told the truth. There was
no United States senator to elect for
several years, and you did not want to
fool away any more time in the Office
of governor.
When Mr.. WINDOWS term expired
you made no sign. Indeed, doubt If
anybody knows how you stood towards
that gentleman. So far as you were
concerned the election went by de-
fault. In 1881, when it became nee
essary to elect successor to Mr.. Nc
MILAN, you again entered the field.
You know the position Iassumed in
that contest. I told you that Mr..
Mcmillan could not be defeated; that
| If you would wait six years you could
| be elected his successor without the
! expenditure of single dollar. You
| could not wait. but you banded your
| self with Mark HI. Dunnell, who as a
| member of congress from the district
| in which resided, had voted to grab
| 5000 of back salary, and also in favor
OF the Infamous proposition to make
| the lien of the government on the
Union and Central Pacific railroads
second instead Of first mortgage.
The fruits of that outrage we are now
| reaping. The result was as told you it
| would be. You retired to the practice
| of your profession and took no other
interest in politics Of any great mo-
ment until Mr.. McMillan's term ex-
pired in 1887. Then your friends raj
lied to your support and elected you
without the aid of dollar, just as /
told you six years previously they
would do. You spent six years in the
senate, and at the last session of the
| legislature you were reelected. am
told, and l have reason to believe, that
it is so that you had plenty of money
behind you at that time to secure
| your election; but for all that you had
a narrow escape. There was a man in
| the background who, no doubt, had
more money than you had, and whose
! political ambition, it seems, will not
be satisfied until he buys his way into
| the United States senate as he did in
to the office of governor of this state.
Indeed it may we'll be doubted if his
vaulting ambition stops with the sem
| ate.
Now, sir, | want to know what you
have done in the eight years that you
| have sat in the senate to carry out the
| promises which you made to the peo-
| pie before you were even elected gov
ernOr of this state? What measures
have you introduced to stay the en-
croachments of railroad corporations,
of which you talked so eloquently q
years ago? We who have for so many
| years followed your political fortunes
and placed you where you now are,
have waited, 10, these eight years to
have you make speech in the senate
which would thrill this nation. We
| knew you could do it, and we waited
with bated breath until you did do it.
! The telegraph at last brought the
word that you had made vigorous
speech" We learn that you even
stirred the senate to tears What was
| the occasion of these eloquent re-
marks? Was it on measure to adj
vance the interests Of the farmers of
this state, who have been your especial
champions? No sir. 1t was speech
which was received with applause in
the office of every railroad from Maine
to California, and from Alaska to
| Florida. We are told that you were
showered with kilograms of congratu-
| lation. l do not doubt it. Why
shouldn't you be? 1 would like to
take glance through those kilograms.
| Why don't you print them as they do
| kilograms of coincidence when great
man dies? There would be an appro-
| priateness about this, for great man
! is dead. His name is Cushman X.
! Davis. Yes, sir, you are the deadest
man in politics in this state. Your
best policy is to grab what there is in
| sight for the next four years, for when
| your time expires, in 1899, all the rail-
road corporations and pine land
thieves in this state cannot reflect
you. Even the Central Pacific rail
way. on whose bonded Indebtedness to
| the government you made your famous
report, cannot save you.
lam not condemning the sentiments
which you uttered in your remarks on
| Mr.. Kyle's resolution. Whether that
resolution was proper one to pass or
not has nothing whatever to do with
this letter. My complaint is that
after we had sent you to the senate to
| look out for and guard the interests
of the people in a contest which you as
sured us threatened their liberties. you
should make the first great effort of
your life in the senate in a speech
which has received the unanimous ap-
plause of the railway corporations.
You, sir, have cruelty deceived the
people Of this state. You have de-
| strOyed their faith in human nature.
You have branded yourself as the
most dishonest demagogue who ever
| held seat in the United States SEN
ate.
l can never forget the last time I
saw you. 1t was when you stood at
the dining room door of the Mer-
| chants Hotel in st. Paul, after your
last election to the senate, bowling
right and left, and repeating the
words, MANY thanks, gentlemen;
|