The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-28
MR. WILLIAMS IN REPLY
Democrats Have Best of Party
 Encounter.
The Mississippi and Maine Men Meet in Forensic Fray With the Tariff as the Point
 at Issue.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building.

Washington. April 27.
 As soon as Speaker Cannon's decision on the Cochran resolution had cleyerly extricated the Republicans from the dilemma into which they had been forced by the unsupported imputations of Dal- zell. against the New York Congressman. the majority put forward the last of their strongest men to debate the tariff
 General Grosvenor, who had the farm ing of the time for the Republicans. was . forced to clamor for fair play to give the minority equal time in the debate which ensued.
 Littlefield, for the Republicans, made the strongest speech that has come from that side, but as is always the case with that peculiar product of Maine Republi- canisn as far as upholding consistently the policy of his party he was like the bear and the fiddle he broke down in the middle"
 He made admissions as to the justice of tariff revision on occasions which knock ed silly all the Republican stalwart back ing of stand pat policy.
 The Littlefield Method.
 Lattiefield was put forward unhappily for the Republicans as a slxillful lawyer to arraign the Democratic side on the question of whether or not they endorsed the speech on Saturday of Bourke Cock ran. the Republicans proclaiming it as free trade speech.
 Pursuing this line Littleheld. put that question to different Democratic leaders and to the entire minority with a great flourish of confidence which tho Repub- licans made much uproar over.
 Minority leader Williams seemed to want nothing better than the style of speech made by tho man from Maine. He transflxed his position nn every propo- sition, answering directly every question and argument to the utmost delight and enthnsiasm of the Democrats. When { tfler affssy ssippian called upon the Repub- xlsan leaders and the Republican side whether they endorsed the speech of Mr. Littlefield, and there was no response. it exposed the naked absurdity of the style of question which had been pro- pounded by Littlefield.
 The last party encounter was a bril- liant victory for the House Democrats under the leadership of Mir. Williams. It was on the old Republican trick of ask ing at. the sessions close of three days leave to print with the view of getting into the record campaign material which they dared not utter in speeches on the floor MT. Williams's chief argument was against the proposition and 1t was defeated on yea and nay vote which was greeted with another uutburst of
 
 Democratic applause
 Dalzell's Great Mistake.
 Since the Republicans have had time Co think about the Dalzell charges and the Cochran answer with denial and challenge for proof in the form of reso- lutions. they are not as gay as they were ever the way in which they block Con- gressional investigation of thiev1ng in the Postofice Department They know hat nol ffn nd n usually is, with the cunning of barn yard rat, blundered miserably when Sat- urday he interrupted Cockran to intimate that the Republican campaign committee had hired him to make speeches for Mc- Kinley in 1896. His very charge was a confession that Mark Hanna, deceased, and the Republican campaign committee lad corruption fund.
 Cochran not only denied the charge when it was made as against his receiv- arg money, but repuciated any intima- ton that he had been paid or accepted TccEey for campaigning or making sf eeches in any cause, political or social or charitable. Then Dalzell comes along with his long drawn out scurrility of Monday and seeks to prove by unfriendly uncorrohorated newspaper circumstantial ct idence that Cochran was guilty of re- ceiving money from the Palmer and Buckner campaign committee. All of that Cochran denied and covered his ac- cuser with open and unresented loath- fhc R IT Watkins