The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-06
A SPICY DEBATE.
Dalzell and Cochran Lock in the
House of Representatives.
THE FRESHMAN TURNS TABLES.

THE FRESHMAN TURNS TABLES
Points Out Charges Against Hin
Wero Confession or Corrupt
nicthods on tho Part or
Republicans.
The heavyweights had another bout
in the house on Tuesday of last week
with Messrs. Dalzell and Cochran as
combatants. The speeches were d
renewal Of last Saturdays debate but
we're more personal in their charac-
ters. AS on Saturday the speakers
we're greeted with vociferous applause
by their respective colleagues and the
bitterness Of party feeling ran high.
MIR. Dalzell repeated his charge that
Mr. Cochran had received money for
his support Of Mckinley. The charge
was Indignantly denied by Mr.. Cock
ran.
The climax came when Mr.. Cock
ran offered resolution providing for
the appointmentof or a select committee
OF five members Of the house to in
vestigatc the charge which had been
made against him by Mr.. DalZell. He
and other Democrats, including MIR.
Williams, the minority leader, de-
manded immediate consideration, but
the speaker declined to pass on a point
of order against the resolution until
he had examined precedcnts.
I'm Ia I,
said lie would mention some facts and
circumsi ances connected with the his
tory of Mr.. Cochran. He then read
from a number Of documents to show
that Mr.. Cochran started as green
backer, and in 1896 stood with the
Mckinley side because he was for
sound money.
For sound money in 1896" he
said, amid Repu blican applause, ''trav-
cling all over the continent; in 1900
in support OF Bryan, greenbacker-
sound money man, free silver man.
lie has been Bryanitc and anti-Bry-
an-ite. He was for Bryan in 1900.
Is he for Bryan now?"
Looking Mr.. Cochran in the face,
Mr. Dalzell, speaking in tlerision, said
that Mr., Cochran has been a Tam
manyitc and as such has been a mem.
Der OF congress; he has been an anti
Iammanyitc and as such ceased to be
a member of congress Tue gentle
man from New York is Tammany-
itc now again and now again he is Il
member Of congress-"
The Republicans were reused to
high pitch of enthusiasm and ap-
plauSc when Mr.. Dalzell said softly:
Would not that make one suspicious
that it was more than I matter OF
conscience with gentleman having
such a harlequin carcer?"
RUMoRs llS rlE AIR.
The Democratic side of the house,
he said, had gotten hysterical when
he would not on Saturday disclose the
name of his informant. He chen read
The New York journal pub ished by
Mr.. Cockran's colleague, w. Il. Hearst,
in August, 1896, which the .atement
was made that Mr.. Cochran was for
Mckinley "a position which to those
who remember his career in congress,
does not seem to involve such a strain
ON his feelings as might be supposed
''P'SitiiS niUil lhllclo III VIC all VI
$3.50, 600 checks out of Hannas educa-
tional fund"
Mr.. Dalzell closed amid wild Re-
publican applause with most bitter
denunciation of Mr.. Cochran. lie re-
ferred to that gentleman's speech be-
fore the Democractic convention
which sent him to congress in which
Mr.. Cochran said:
We have reached a point where
the country is regarded as All interna.
L.onal hoodlum." Facing the Demo
cratic side and looking directly. at
Mr.. Cochran, Mr.. Dalzcll declared
II / here be any hoodlums amongst
US they are not the product OF Ameri-
can institutions or American civiliza-
tion." He was interrupted with loud
and prolonged Republican applause.
Continuing, he said
They are to be found rather
amongst those adventurcrs who hav-
ing left their own country for their
country'S good, find in the field of
American politics prolific source OF
notoriety and peif, men who without
conscience and without conviction find
an opportunity now with one party,
now with another find market for
their peculiar wares, among which is
not reSpectahility."
He took his seat amid another storm
Of Republican applause.
COCHRAN IN REPLY.
Mr.. Cochran had sat through the
entire speech of Mr. DalZell unmovcd
and waited for him to finish when,
rising from his seat he was greeted
with tumultuouS applause by the
Democrats.
Mr.. Dalzell he declared, had
thought it proper to Justify q charge
Of inlamy against fellow member
by searching the various channels
through which anonymous calumina-
tion crculatcS ina political campaign
and wl5h hands no cleaner than those
with which it deals, hurls il over a
body Of dcliberative men. f"
Mr.. Cochran denied the charge that
he had received $l5, 200 from the Pal
mer and Buckner campaign commit
tee. lie also denied in the most posi-
Tive manner that he had ever received
money for supporting President Nc
kinley's election in 1895. He denied
! the charge that he ever was a green
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