The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-18

was the DUTY mat Justice ana equity
imposed upon the Republican party.
and that party has been swift to pledge
itself that that duty should be carried
out to the fullness of its ability; and,
here is the. astonishing spectacle of
all these charges that We ourselves are
trampling under foot, ruthlessly and
remoT selessly, those very doctrines of
equity and justice to which we have
pledged ourselves through twenty
years of our eventful existence. Cap
plause)- There has been no adjudica-
ton of these cases. There ought 10 be.
One gentleman in the committee in
formed us these rights were trivial.
that they were not properly rights and
that the burden OF his argument would
appear to be that if it involved in i'm
cor.ance The
VALUE OF A MUSTANG PONY,
he would insist upon the procedure of
allowing the parties to be heard, but
as it only involved the honor of a Re-
publican, the man who said he was
entitled to a seat here, and the man
who said when the right TO seat was
denied, thai. he was not a cheat, that
he was not a scOundrel, that he was
not here by frnudulent pretense, but
that he was elected and selected only
by free constituency.
In question of this kind involving
the honor of man, it was so trivial
that we ought not to subject our
selves to the heated atmosphere of this
talk for purposes of that character.
Further, 1 say, with regard to the
AddickS case, and l challenge contra
dictions, l say there was no proof of
any character considered by your COM
mittee. Not one affidavit was read;
no man knows the verities of the case.
One who was once a distinguished
senator made the statement that
ton that would not support him were
brfbed. No other man said that. No
mans affidavit to that effect, stating
knowledge, was read. That dis
tinguished gentleman said somebody
else told him that upon an occasion,
critical indeed. Mr.. Addicks
CONTRIBUTED $4,000
to a Democratic campaign fund. That
was the character of the proof. That
affidavit was not presented. Again,
he said that he had learned the Stand
ard Oil company had contributed
$4,000 to Addicks' senatorial election.
Not an affidavit,
NOT A PARTICLE OF PROOF
and these are the evidences upon
which the political integrity of Mr..
Addicks is impeachedl If there is
more name it. If you have anything
else that was brought before that COM
mittee; bring it out, (cries of That's
it, that's it.'0 | don't know what af
fidavits might have been brought here.
They were not presented, nor con-
sidered by your committee, and yet
there stood that man thus aSSailed,
stating that he had voted for Abraham
Lincoln for president and for every
Republican candidate from that day
down. (Cheers.) He stated that never
in his life had he voted any other than
a. Republican ticket, and no one as
sailed that statement, save by these
wild, loose. irrelevant and unfounded
stories There was a little gentleman
there, quite voluble and l might al
most say volatile Qaughter), and his
intellectual proportions were in exact
ratio to the geographical limits of his
state Qaughter) That gentleman told
us that these five persons were not Re
publicans and yet they were
THE HEAD AND FRONT
of the Republican organization there
until they preferred Addicks to Hig-
gins for senator. Their Republican
/ ism ceased when they failed to sup
The speaker continued in a sarcastic
vein to show that the charges against
Addicks and his associates were not
supported by any evidence before the
committee. The same, he said, was
true of Texas contests.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio-Mr.
President and Gentlemen of the con-
vention, the convention in Texas was
assembled under a call issued by the
chairman of the state committee.
THERE IS NO DISPUTE
that it was regularly called, regularly
assembled, no question of anything up
to a certain point of time. A temper
ary chairman was nominated by each
of the factions, but because of certain
reasons Mr.. Quincy was elected. as the
record shows A roll call was had and
| 800 and some odd members answered
to their names and voted. Quincy was
seated. A committee on credentials
was appointed.
The committee on credentials was
sent out and after two or three adj
tournaments of the convention, the COM
mittee on credentials came in with a
! report A minority of the committee
submitted a written minority report.
! Mr. Quincy ruled that the minority had
l
peal was made from his decision and
he refused to Iut the proposal to the
house. Thereupon he proceeded, as
the record shows-I hold it in my
hands, and no honest man will deny it
that on
MORE THAN TWENTY OCCASIONS
He refused division of the house,
refused a call of the roll and decided
every question by putting it to one
side, and finally vote was taken upon
delegates at large and at once an up
roar broke OUT mob violence was inn
minent and Quincy, when the little sub
sidence had taken place, waved a pa
per over his head, declared the dele
CATION was elected and that the con-
vention had adjourned. / say that
when the moment arrived that Quincy
refused to grant a division CT that
house, all that took place afterwards
was a simple assumption of power
without a shadow of legal right or le-
gal effect behind it. That is my posi-
ton. Nothing more damnable ever
stained the records of an American
convention. 1t will take forty days to
try theGe contests, for. If you open this
question and do not accept this report
you must not, after that, go to drawing
determinations. You have been asked
to stay here until the first day OF
August to decide whether
TOM, DICK OR HARRY
has the right of an American citizen
applause and laughter) 1 stand here
to say that no harm will come to the
American republic, no harm will come
to the fair fame OF the Republican
party of the United States If you sue
coed in relegating to private life the
man of Delaware and the rascal OF
Texas. daughter and applause and
hisses.)
A vote WAS takan ON thu r,niror.it,r ~