The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-27


NV against fellow member by search
ing the various channels through
which anonymous calumniation circu--
Iates in a political campaign and with
hands no cleaner than those with which
n deals. hurls it over body of DELHI
eratve men,"
Mr.. Cochran denied the charge that
he had received $4,000 from the Pal
rner and Buckner Campaign Commit
zee He also denied in the most posi-
rive manner that he had ever received
money for supporting President Nc
Kinley's election in 1896. He denied
the charge that he ever was a green
hacker.
If Mr.. Dalzell believed the charges
he had brought against him, Mr. Cock
ran said, il showed him (Mr DalzelD
in a pitiable state. He was in infamy
and did not know it. He had confessed
to his own party's corruption. He
had proved, If he had proved anything
that the presidential election had been
purchased. 1t had been charged that
SIG 900 900 had been spent by the Re-
publican Campaign Committee in that
campaign. Mr.. Cochran said he had
never believed these charges himself.
Demanded Investigation.
AS to defending himself, he said: at
can always protect myself from the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, by
choosing my own side of the street.
Before l sit down. 1 shall ask this
House to agree with me on this, that
If what the gentleman has said is true,
l am unworthy OF it's membership if
what he said be false, he is unworthy
of membership"
Mr.. Cochran was interrupted with
loud cheers from his Democratic col
leagues. He continued:
This will take a wider range than
our personal virtues. | shall ask for
a committee to Investigate this charge,
and shall ask for power to send for
persons and papers.
Mr. Cochran then read his resolution
reciting that Dalzell had charged that
Cochran had been paid money by
political party for support of a candt-
date for the presidency: that If the
charge was true it established such
conduct as should unfit any man for
membership in the House, and provid-
ing for a committee of five members
appointed by the speaker, with power
to compel attendance of witnesses for
the investigation of such charge.
Would Show Debauchery.
Loud Democratic applause followed
Mr.. Cockran's reading of the resolution.
He then resumed and said that when
that resolution was adopted in all it's
terms something more important than
his conduct or the action of the mem
Der from Pennsylvania would be made
clear.
I'VE will see," he said, Just how the
election in 1896 was conducted, and
we will see whether, in fact, the presi
dency was bought or purchased or
whether it was won in honor
able political conflict or whether
it represented, as the gentle
man from Pennsylvania would have
use believe, the skill in corruption
which was possessed by the managers
of the Republican organization. If 1t
were true, he said that that campa ign
resulted in such use of money as had
been described, there was but one pos
sible safety for the republic
The gentleman from Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Cochran said, had asked him
who it was that we would choose for
our standard bearer. I said there
was a man out in Missouri whom we
might choose to nominate as our stand
ard bearer because the main issue of
this campaign will not be How we
are to collect revenue, but" he said,
amid Democratic cheers, how we are
to keep the thieves from stealing it's
proceeds"
Continuing, Mr.. Cochran, still facing
the Republicans, said: You have
distinguished candidate already named,
in the White House, who is strident
of voice in professions of reform. We
always have elevated Democrats to
dignity who have known how to prose-
cute the men who violated the law and
brought reform into disgrace. Your
candidate denounces corruption be-
tween elections and utiIizes them at
the primaries"
AppIauded Mention of Parker.
More Democratic cheering and ap-
plause greeted this utterance. 1--WE
WILL" he said. "go before the people,
whoever may be nominated, whether it
be the young giant of reform who
has won his spurs in Missouri, whether
it be that upholder of the law who
administers justice in New York'-at
this reference to Judge Parker the
Democrats broke out into unrestrained
applause, which did not for some time
subside-"or whether 1t be the man
whose great achievement on the Mon
roe doctrine evoked the sentiment
which the gentleman from Pennsylva-
MIA read from my speech In the usual
garbled method, suppressing the con-
text"
Mr.. Cochran denied having referred
to the United States as an 'interna-
tional hoodlum."
The Democrats went wild as Mr..
Cochran sat down, and the Speaker
found difficulty in restoring order.
Mr.. Cochran then asked immediate
action on his resolution as matter
OF privilege, as did also Mr. Williams,
but Mr. Grosvenor objected, the
speaker refused to rule on the point