New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-08
MIR. UOAR'S PLAIN TALK.
uE DESCRIBES THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION MIR
GRAY REPLIES OTHER REMAKnS

Waehngton Feb. Mr. Cameron ut"p, P"nn)
,r. scented 20 th. Senate to-day a large number OF
r.n9ns'rauceS against tE" Wilson Tarir Dill from
merchants. boards Of trades. manufacturers ana
operators r,Ir,srnt.ng almost all the Industries
carried on IN his S.atc There wtre ~ least nfty
of them in an lie also offered an amendment TO
the wilson Tariff IN postponins the time when
u A. - 20 into cNcci from June. 1894. 10 January
lNS !, was referred 10 the Committee on Finance
A. - 20 the House h 10 repeal the Federal Flee
tlon LAWS was taken up. ana Mr. iIoar u'ep,
MassD addressed the senate in opposition 10 H.
He said that he was one OF the five persons now
In the senate who had voted FOR the Election law
%, t.fl and he had been often since called upon 20
explain anl defend Il. "Where,cr." h. slid "there
s A crsylce In our protection Of the freedom Of
the ballot there you VIII find the Democratic party
irving to break through. Wherever we nave left
open an opportunity TO yc, possession OF an Office
contrary to the true and constitutional will of the
majority. there you will find that party exercising
a devish ingenuity before which even the great in
ventive genius OF the American people. in other
directions Is insignificant In performance
lie went on to reply - the charge made On The
Democratic side that the law Of $50 was sectional.
and said thai that law applied only to cities of over
twenty thousand Inhabitants: that when II was
passed there were nfiy-seyen such cities IN the
North and but Ave In the south: and that Of these
nfty-seven Northern communities. eleven were in the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts. How Idle. there
fore. IT, he sad to Keep up the claim that the
question a sectional one. as II the brave AMI gal
ltut men who represented the Of the Southern
COME leracy had fought and bel and died for the
privilege Of cheating at elections? lie denied
was question Of late rights. argued by the Soma
tor from Illinois (Mr Pamer with the zeal OF a
convert.
AN ARGUMENT LIKE BuMBLEpEE.
That Senator's argument had reminded him Of the
observation OF an old deacon who had been accused
OF want OF zeal 10y new convert. Il nave noticed,
said the deacon. that young converts are good
deal like Young bumbcbees- much the largest when
they are first ha,ched" lie thought that that Oh
servation was entirely applicable to he Senator from
Illinois.
Another objection made 10 the Federal Election
law WAS that 1t took away control from the people
OF the locality: but the same thing Had been done
In several Democratic States within the last ten
or fifteen ycars-in Virginia. Maryland. Delaware,
Louisiana and other states The right of managing
and ordering elections had been taken from the peo-
Die who gather at the polls. ana had been put In
tho hands Of the central power Of the state managed
and welded by the Democratic party leaders.
Mr. Gray dem, Deli replied TO Mr. Hoar who
no said had mistaken msrepresehed the
gravamen OF Democratic opposition to the Election
laws They wanted TO wipe them out not because
they projected the weak from the strong: 1t was
because Democrats believed from "A bitter expert
ence that those laws were not only at war with
evarv tradition of local self-govcrnment: not only
did they degrade the States Of which they were
ct,zsns. but they bu,rcssed up the very fraud
which they were professediy Intended TO destroy.
From IN. Inherent vice In their structure they had
been necessarily an auxiliary to the party machine
OF the party In power In the Federal Government.
In evarv city of 2OOO inhabitants they had been
the ready means by which during the last twenty
wears the Republican party had put Its hand into
the Treasury OF the United States In order to defray
the election charges and expenses of the party.
There could not be a successful denial Of that state
ment.
In connection with remark OF MT hoars. refer-
ence was made to the oft-quoted report OF ). y.
Cox as chairman of a Committee OF Investigation
into New-York election frauds In 1916. and para
graph I'm that report showing that the New ork
election had been fair and honest In contrast with
that in Philadelphia having been read by Mr. Gray.
attracted the attention Of Mr. cameron tkep.,
Penn) who asked him to read IL again
SOME "REMINISCENCES OF 1876
When Il was read for the second time MI. Cam
eron said that he had knowledge or the election
OF 1876 He Ind been then Secretary OF war. the
elections in Pennsylvania were as honest as any
where In the world. But he added sarcasticaiy
there had been some elections In that year Wn,cn
had not been quite SO honest; ana, as 80, ho,rsy
OF War, he had had to interfere-he result pr i,
that Mr. Tiden was not President Oh 'ne '"''eu
States. G.aughter) , ,h hin
Mr. Allison REP, Iowa. argued aga, hn, tne ', nn
stating that as far az he knew. mere W 100 no
public opinion demanding the repeal or the reuera
Election laws -. -...L>.
Mr. Daniel (Dem. Va was the next speaker.