The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-27

the plank out of the platform. Within the last few days, however, he said, Mir Bryan had demonstrated that he was att tached to an idea and would tear down everything rather than yield.
 MT. Cochran then reviewed his welcome back to congress, saying 1t had been most cordial on the part of members of both sides of the chamber and been par ticipated in by MT. Dalzell. We are now told he continued, that I was all the time regarded as a mercinary whose services were for sale"
 If Nr. Dalzell believed the charge he had brought against him, 1t showed him (Mr DalzelD In a pitable state. He was in infamy and did not know it. He con- fessed to his own partys corruption. He had proved. If he had proved anything, that the Presidential election had been purchased. It had been charged that six teen million dollars had been spent by the republican campaign committee in that campaign. MT. Cochran said he had never believed these charges himself. He added:
 T can always protect myself from the gentleman from Pennsylvania by choos- ing my own side of the street Before I sit down, I shall ask this house to agree with me on this that if what the gen. NNA''e'iA tif'7 fe'AN t9 U bNs oAii oAiN VI ilJ of membership"
 MT. Cochran was interrupted with loud cheers from his democratic col leagues. He continued:
 This will take wider range than our personal virtues. I shall ask for com mittee to investigate this charge and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers,"
 MT. Cochran said he had a resolution ready to offer that represents my at titude and the attitude of the honest man in the face of," pausing and measuring his words, lone that cannot be described in parliamentary language" The demo- crats interrupted with applause but MT. Cochran continued:
 One" he said, "whose character can not be described because he has illus trated it by his performance" He then read his resolution which was, as fol- lows:
 Offers His Resolution.
 Whereas, the Hon. John Dalzell, member of this house and of the commit tee on ways and means, charged on the floor that William Bourke Cochran, a representative from New York. as a member of the same committee. has been paid money by political party to sup port the candidate for the presidency nominated in opposition to the party with WnlCn the SdlQ Nlllld1n BOuIke had heretofore been affiliated, and
 "Whereas, the charge. though attacked specifically on the floor by the said Will fam Bourke Cochran, has not been with drawn by the said John Dalzell, and
 "Whereas, said charge. if true, estab- fishes such conduct as should unfit any man for membership in this house, and if false, should be so declared and its au- thor censured severely; therefore, be 1t
 yo1 hof O n five members be appointed by the chair to inquire into the truth of said charge and to report the testimony, with their conclusions thereon. to this house at it's session beginning the first Monday of December next; be 1t further
 Resolved, That said committee be and it is hereby given full power to compel the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such papers as the mem- bers thereof may deem necessary to the proper discharge of the duty hereby inn posed on them.'
 Loud democratic applause followed MT. Cockran's reading of the resolution. He then resumed and said that when that resolution was adopted in all its terms something more important than his con- duct or the action of the member from Pennsylvania would be clear.
 We will see." he said. just how the
 
 will see whether in fact the presidency was bought or purchased or whether 1t was won in honorable political conflict or whether it represented, as the gentle man from Pennsylvania would have us believe, the skill in corruption which was possessed by the managers of the repub- lican organization.
 ''If 1t be true" he said, "that the cam paign resulted in such use of money as has been described, there was but one possible safety for the republic"
 Talks of Standard-Bearer.
 The gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mir. Cochran said, had asked him "who it was that we would choose for our stand ard bearer. I said there was a man out in Missouri whom we might choose to nominate as our standard bearer because the main issue of this campaign will not be how we are to collect revenue but he said amid wild democratic cheers, how we are to keep the thieves from steal ing it's proceeds. /"
 Continuing, MT Cochran still facing the republicans, said:
 You have a distinguished candidate already named in the White House who is strident of voice in professions of re- form. We always have elevated demo- crats to dignity who have known how to prosecute the men who violated the law and brought reform into disgrace Your candidate denouces corruptionists be- tween elections and utilizes them at the primaries
 More democratic cheering and applause greeted this utterance.
 "We will" he said. Ego before the peo-