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sideration Of other matters, which. as I
before stated. were allotted to me in
this discussion, and before commenc-
ing in detail, 1 desire to say, gentle
men of the committee, when we con-
slider the testimony that has been intro
duced in. this investigation, when we
consider the gigantic efforts that have
been made to find every possible pre-
tense for injuring the reputation of Mr.
ATcCune, when we come to consider the
enemies that he has had, vindictive
enemies who have been ready and will
ing at all times, not only to tell all
they knew, but to search in every. di-
rection for anything that could be found
to bolster up the charges made against
him. it is almost a. wonder that they
have not succeeded in blasting his rep
utation and showing how utterly unfit
he is from the standpoint of honesty
and integrity, to stand before the peo-
pie as a candidate for any public po-
sition. We have it ali before us; we
need not fear there is anything reserved
that has not been presented to this
committee. We have got it all. The
men engaged in this prosecution have
done their best, and a product of their
efforts has been laid before this COM
mittee. When l think of the efforts
that have been made, I cannot but
wonder if the searchlight of truth, by
of such efforts as have been
made in this case, were cast upon the
conduct of other candidates, Judge
Powers, Judge King and Senator Can
non, what the effect would be. It is no
of them or their honor for
me to say that in my opinion they
would stand in no fairer light than does
a. w. McCune at the present time.
Some of the charges made during this
are almost too trifling for
Many of them ought
never to have been mentioned at all.
They are simply calculated to trail in
the dust the names of honorable men
by imputing to them something dishon-
est, when, in fact, there was no real
for the imputation. Men
who were never before charged with
crime or with any want of honesty and
have, without any act of
theirs, found themselves upon the de-
fensive and have been compelled to de-
fend themselves before this committee.
Under the specifications mentioned in
the charges of Mr.. Law, one is to the
effect that Fisher Harris. campaign
manager for Mr.. McCune, sent a mes
oclSC " CdShSOi ny L.
C. Wins that the vote of Mr.. jackson
for Mr.. McCune must be procured for
the next day at any expense. Mr.. WINS
says that Mr. Harris told him at the
head of the stairs in the Kenyon ho-
tel to set MIR. JacksOn's vote at any eX-
pense. That he. WINS, at the time Har-
ris made this request, did not under
stand it to mean bride or an attempt
to bride. In fact it was only after he
delivered the message to Mr.. Jackson
and Mr.. Jackson had suggested that it
meant an offer to pay money
for his vote that Mr.. Ivlns saw any
thing or conceived anything improper
in the message.
A PECULIAR CASE.
This case is peculiar and extraordi-
harry. The man who received the mes
sage, who saw Mr.. Harris, heard his
voice, noticed the expression of his
who had been in. CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Harris for several min
uteS upon the subject of the jackson
vote, perceived nothing wrong or i'm
proper in the message that was sent.
The man to whom it was sent, who
did not see Mr.. Harris at all, at once
that there is something i'm
proper; that there is something wrong;
that there is something which he
should resent. He placed a construc-
ton upon the language of Mr.. Harris
which was different from that which,
up to that moment, had been placed
upon it by Mr.. Wins, the bearer of
the message. This thing of constituting
to mean something entirely
different from that intended by the
man who uttered it, and different from
that as understood by the man to
whom it was told, will go down in the
history of this state by name which
has been given to it in this investiga-
lion. Such Wrapping and twisting of
he language and intentions of a man,
20 suit the purpose OF a bitter, vindic-
i've enemy, will be known as q Jack
son construction. At every turn since
his Legislature opened (and what has
been done is matter of common
and public history, Repre-
sentative Jackson has shown himself
% be a vindictive enemy of Mr.. Nc
Cune. On this occasion he exempli6es
t beyond all question by taking words,
innocent in themselves, and extracting
herefrom ideas of corruption and dis
honesty. Now, what are the facts con-
,erning this message? Mr.. Jackson had
old Senator Chambers. Fred Turner
lnd Mr.. WINS that when he had dis
charged certain obligations to other
he would vote for McCune,
md when he did come to Mr.. McCune
lie would come to stay. All that he
desired TO know was that Mr.. McCune's
was honest, clean and free
rom corruption. In their conversa-
ion, in which Mr.. Harris requested
wins to see Jackson and get his vote
or McCune the next day, Wins had in
ormed Harris of the condition upon
r1fnh To aI-cnF,5c an5-l1 tNa- oh % Cd
Harris distinctly understood from WINS
hat Mr. jackson, who stood upon a
Ugh moral plane, demanded. as q con-
lition of his voting for Mr.. McCune,
hat McCune's methods must be hon
st and clean: yet, in the face of these
acts, and within few moments after
hese conditions were named to Mr..
Harris, he (Harris) then and there, to
he very man who had stated the con-
litions, had the unblushing effrOntery
o suggest a corrupt offer in order to
ecure Jackson's vote. Gentlemen of
he committee, it is incomprehensibIe
hat you, for single moment, can be
to take any stock in such
proposition. But this is not all.
DIFFERENCE IN STORY.
There is a difference between Mr..
Harris and Mr.. WINS as to the message
nat Harris gave to WINS on that oc-
aston. WINS says that Harris told
i'm to go and secure the Jackson vote
t any expense. Harris says that at
he time this conversation took place
wins suggested it might be necessary
o get a carriage in order to find Mr.
ackson, and in response to that sug-
estion, Harris said to him: Get one
arriage, two carriages or three car
lagos; never mind the expense; go
nd find Jackson" If human testimony
5 to be believed in this dispute be-
ween Mr.. Harris and Mr.. WINS as to
that the words were, Mr.. Wins is
laced at serious disadvantage. The
osition Of Mr.. Harris is corroborated
y the circumstances surrounding the
zen at the time. The men were in
ublic place, and, as before stated. Mr.. |
iarris had just been informed by Mr.. !
wins to the effect that Mr.. Jackson |