The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
MALONE AND M'LAU-
RlN--A PARALLEL
Continued from Page Nine.)


eminence that he disgraces the commits
sion he holds?
Who is it? Who can he be? Do you
receive him with affection? Such man
is not worthy to be Democrat. Is he
worthy to be Republican? If my
friend from Illinois, my friend from
Kansas, or my friend from New York
were to come to me holding a Republican
commission in his pocket, sent here by
Republican Legislature and whisper to
me, Il will vote with the Democrats on
organization l would tell him if he so
came. he would be expelled with ignomi-
ny from the ranks of the party.
Sir, | know that there is great deal
an this question. The American people
have had much to humiliate them; all
peoples have much to humiliate them
l know that the patronage of this Gov
eminent has become very great. | know
that the distinguished gentleman who
presides at the other end of the avenue
holds in his hands millions and hundreds
of millions of patronage. To our shame
be 1T said it has been whispered a hun
dred times all through the country by the
presses of both parties until it has be-
come absolutely familiar to American
ears that the patronage of the Federal
Government has been used to buy votes
and control elections to Keep one party in
power. 1t is a question that confronts
every honest statesman whether some
thing shall not be done to lessen that
patronage. respond to the sentiment of
the President in his inaugural when / say
there ought to be rule in even the civil
service, by which this patronage shall be
placed where 1t cannot be used for such
purposes. If 1T is not done. | do not
know what humiliations are in store for
us all.
Mr.. President, as l said before the
Senate should be a place where there
should be no masquerading; men should
zeal frankly with each other. If | We're
TO charge any gentleman on the Repub-
Ican side of the chamber who was elected
as Republican, who protested to be a
Republican when he was elected, with
having made arrangements with the
democrats to vote with them, / should
insult him and he would resent it as an
insult, and, gentleman, excuse me for
fepelllng the charge which, if made
against you, you would repel as an in
suit. | repel as an insult the charge
made against any Democrat that he
would be false to his colors and is in
tending to vote with you on the organi-
cation.
Mr.. Mahone.-Mr. President do not
propose to detain you and the Senate
more than few minutes. The dstin-
gulshed gentleman from Georgia has
manifestly engaged in an effort to dis
close my position on this floor.
Mr.. Hill do not know what your
position is. How could | disclose it?
Mr.. Mahone.-Sir, the Senator might
be little more direct, as he might well
have been in the course of his remarks
in asking my position and that l will
give him.
Now, sir, l serve notice on you that |
intend to- be here the custodian of nv
own Democracy. | do not intend to be
run by your caucus. l am in every sense
free man here. / trust | am able to
protect my own rights and defend those
of the people whom / represent. and GER
tainly to take care of my own | do not
intend that any Senator on this floor
shall undertake to criticise my conduct
By innuendoes, a method not becoming
this body or straightforward legitimate
line of pursuit in argument
| wish the Senator from Georgia to
understand just here that we may get
along in the future tremendously. that
the way to deal with me is to deal direct
ly. We want no bills of discovery. Now.
sir you will find out how / am going to
vote in a little while.
Mr.. Hill.-Mr President. l hope nobody
imagines that rise to make any parti
cular reply to the remarkable exhibition
we have just seen. l rise to say a few
things in justification of myself l GER
taiply did not say one word to justify the
gentleman in the statement that | made
an assault upon him, unless he was the
one man who had been elected as Demo-
crat and was not going to vote with his
party. / never saw that gentleman be-
fore the other day. I have not the
slightest unkind feeling for him. / never
alluded to him by name; / never alluded
to his State: and | cannot understand
how the gentleman says that l alluded
to him except upon the rule laid down
by the distinguished Senator from New
York, that a guilty conscience needs no
accuSer. | did not mention the Senator
IL had been stated here by the Senator
from New York over and over that the
other side would have majority when
that side was FULL l showed it was i'm
possible that they should have majority
unless they could get one Democratic
vote, with the vote of the Vice Presi-
dent. | did not know who it was; / asked
who it was; | begged to know who it
was; and to my utter astonishment the
gentleman from Virginia comes out and
says he is the man.
The Senator from Virginia makes a
very strange announcement. He charged
me not only with attacking him, but with
attacking he people of Virginia. Did
say word of the people of Virginia? |
said that the people of no portion of this
country would tolerate treachery. Was
that attacking the people of Virginia? l
said that thirty eight men had been
elected to this body as Democrats. Does
the Senator deny that? Does he say he
was elected here not as a Democrat? He
says he was not required to declare that
he was a Democrat. and in the next
breath he says that he is a truer better
Democrat than | am Then / commend
him to you. Take good care of him, my
friends. Nurse him we'll. How do you
like to have a worse Democrat than
am?
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