The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-03-04

the President in his inaugural when / say
there ought to be a rule in even the civil
service, by which this patronage shall be
placed where ii cannot be used for such
purposes. If it is not done. | 40 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
deal frankly with each other. II were
TO charge any gentleman on the RePub-
ican side Of the chamber who was elected
as a Republican, who professed 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
repelling 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-
zation.
Mr.. Mahone.-Mr. President, l do not
propose to detain you and the Senate
more than a few minutes. The distin-
guished 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 a little more direct, as he might well
have been in the course. of his remarks,
in asking my position; and that / will
give him. g $ s
Now, sir, l serve notice on you that I
intend to be here the custodian of my
own Democracy. | do not intend to be
run by your caucus. | am in every sense
a free man here. l 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 his floor
shall undertake to c~riticise my conduct
By i~nnuendoes, a method not becoming
this body or a 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 l am going 10
vote in a little while.
Mr.. Hil.-Mr. President, | hope nobody
imagines that l rise to make any parti-
Cu1ar reply to the remarkable exhibition
we have just seen. l rise to say a few
things in justification of myself. | GER
talnly 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 a Demo-
crat and was not going to vote with his
party. | never saw that gentleman be-
fore the other day. | have not the
\ c1iohtoct 1nlirl foD1jrr for I;o, ro,-o
alluded to him by name, l never alluded
to his State; and cannot understand
how the gentleman says that I alluded
to him except upon the rule laid down
by the distinguished Senator from New
York, that a guilty conscience needs 10
| accuser. | did not mention the Senator.
II had been stated here by the Senator
from New York over and over that the
other side would have a majority when
that side was full. 1 showed it was i'm
possible that they should have a 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 ii
was; and to my utter establishment 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 a word of the people of Virginia? |
said that the people Of no portion of this
country would tolerate trcachery. Was
that attacking tho people of Virginia? !
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 Democrats? lie
says he was not required to declare that
he was a Democrat, and iii the next
[ breath he says that he is a truer, bette,
democrat than | am. Then | commend
him to you. Take coed care Of him, my
friends. Nurse him well. How do you
like to have a worse Democrat than
am?
Mr.. Conkling and others.-A better
Democrat.
Mr.. Hill-Oh, a better, Then my
i fiiend from New York is a better Demo
crat than | am. You have all turned
Democrats; and we have in the United
States Senate such an exhibition as that
of a gentleman showing his Democracy By
; going over to the Republicans!
Sir, / will not defend Virginia. She
needs no defense. Virginia has give1
the world and humanity some O.
the brightest names of history
She holds in her bosom today the ashes
of some of the noblest and greatest men
that ever illustrated the glories of any
country. | say to the gentleman from
Virginia that neither Jefferson, nor Madi
son. nor Henry, nor Washington, no:
Leigh. nor Tucker nor any of the Ions
list Of great men that Virginia has PRO
duced ever accepted a commission to rep
resent ono party and then came here and
represented another.
MIR. Malone rose.
Mr.. Hill.-Does the Senator from Viz
ginia wish to interrupt me?
The Vice Prcsident.-Docs the Senator
from Georgia yield?
Mr.. Hill.-Certainlv.
Mr.. Mahone.-I understood you to say
that l accepted a commission from on
party and came here to represent an
other. Do l understand you correctly?
Mr.. Hill understand that you were