The record-union., 1896-06-18


Credentials could give them, unless it
stayed in session for q full week. If
| they got all the time they wanted the
committee would be in session for three
months, so that the Committee on Gre
| dentials had a right to say that the
temporary roll should stand. 1t had
given three hours and a half to the
| Delaware case and over two hours to
the Texas case, and the committee had
recommended that the Higgins delega-
tion be seated, because the delegates
headed by Addicks did not represent the
Republicans of Delaware or anywhere
else applause and laughter)
1.-The record before u.s." continued
Fort, showed that Mr.. Addicks en-
tered into a combination in Delaware,
and with four men in the Legislature
united with the Democratic party and
the Democratic Governor, and agreed
not to allow a United States Senator to
te elected from there. The fact of the
matter is simply this-a majority of the
National Committee believed under the
evidence that Mr.. Addicks and his part
ners in Delaware were highwaymen on
the way to political fortune, no matter
what the result. (Cheers) And as a
| rebuke to the Addicks men, and to
carry out the intention which the United
States Senate tried to carry out, we
seat Mr. Dupont in this convention as
a delegate from Delaware" cloud ap-
plauSe.)
| Mr.. Yerkes of Kentucky was heard
briefly ON the same side.
| The other side Of the question was
supported by Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa.
| who spoke for the minority of the COM
mlttee. He appealed to the convention
Tor fairness The American people
loved fairness. He repeated that there
had been no hearing on the merits OF
| 160 contested cases. Cheers) Here
lie said, speaking of those contested
ca ses, 'is the astonishing spectacular
view of all the traditions of the party
OF a Republican National Committee
trampling under its feet ruthlessly, re-
morselessly the doctrines of equity ana
Justice ito which the Republican party
has pledged itself during all the years OF
its eventful existence. Applause)
AS to the Delaware case, Hepburn
asserted that there had been no PROOF
Of any character presented or consld-
cred by the Committee on Credentials
Iimpugning the Republicanism of Mr..
Addicks. whereas Addicks himself had
assured the committee that he had
voted for Abraham Lincoln and for
every Democratic correcting himself
amid shouts of laughter)-every Re-
publican President since. Hepburn
spoke contemptuosuly of some person
who had denied Addick's Republican
ISM describing him as "a little gentle
man, quite voluble-he might almost
say volatiDe-whose intellectual pro-
portions were in exact ratio to the
geographic lines of his State. daugh-
i ter) That gentlemen was the only per-
son who had asserted that the Ad-
dicks delegates were not Republicans
"It was the constituency" Mr.. Hep
burn argued, that determined the
qualifications of its representatives In
| the convention. The people of Della
ware had not sent here to represent
them Anthony Higgins, whom they had
repudiated; who they had said should
never serve them; whom they had re-
fused to place confidence in, and who,
| they had said, could not properly rep
resent them or WELD their power at
this convention. But the majority of
the Committee on Credentials asked the
convention to say that Higgins should
| WELD the power of the people of Della
ware, whether they wished it or not.
Was that Republicanism? Whom would
Higgins represent? The people of Del
aware, who said they would not have
Higgins, or the majority of the Com
mittee ON Credentials, who said that he
was to have the seat?''
of
to the Texas case, giving it's history.
and claiming that the Grant delegates
(wh ho are Mckinley mem were entitled
to the seats He congratulated the last
speaker (NIr Hepburn) as being 1.-The
advocate of the biggest scoundrel who
ever walked the EARTH" meaning Cuney.
| Cheers and laughter) He assured the
convention, in conclusion, that no harm
| would come to the republic or to the
fair fame of the Republican party if it
relegated to private life the man of
Delaware and the rascal of Texas"
Cheers and laughter)
The vote was first taken on the Del
aware case, those favoring Addicks
voting aye and those opposed no. The
noes were declared to have carried, and
the minority report on the Delaware
case was rejected.
similar result, with even greater
emphasis, awaited the minority report
as to Texas. Also that portion of the
minority report referring the contests
back to the committee, the minority in
each case being overwhelmingly de-
feated.
The majority report was then adopted
amid cheers.
General Harry Bingham of Pennsyl-
vsnia, Chairman of the Committee on
Rules, read the report of the commit
tee. The rules recommended were al
mcst identical with those heretofore in
force. Among the changes, Indian Ter
ritory was given six votes instead Of
two, and Alaska four instead of two.
The report was adopted.
Mr.. Grosvenor moved to adjourn un-
til 10 o'clock tomorrow, and storm of
ayes and nayes was raised.
The Chairman declared in favor OF