The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-27

was not two hours in this house until
you turning to the Democrats)
| Joined in the bargain" He did no in
justice. he said, further to say that
| upon the faith of your own members
the senate and house combined TO sell
their constituency 20 the trusts"
More Republican laughter and applause
greeted him when he said: oh, you
are very much afraid of the trusts
when you are not in participation with
them"
SCOT a Brutal Reply
Mr.. Dalzell referred to the colloquy
between himself and Mr.. Cochran last
Saturday, and called attention to the
! reply Of Mr.. Cochran that he had
never made a Republican speech, but
that he supported Mckinley when he
thought Il right. but the gentleman
from Pennsylvania would support him
I when he thinks it profitable"
Mr.. DalzeH. with some feeling. de-
clared he had asked Mr.. Cochran
civil question. Il got brutal reply"
he said.
He insisted that he did not question
Mr.. COckrans honesty. The query
might have called into question Mr.
] COckran's consistency The reply"
he said. was that the gentleman from
New York stood upon high plane
Of conscience while 1 was playing pol
itics for profit"
Mr.. Dalzell provoked loud Republic
an applause when he said that while
he was an intense partisan his ''breth-
rem on the other side VIII admit that
generally, at least, 1 am a gentle-
man.
Claims Justification.
Judging by certain press dispatches
appearing after Mr.. Cockan's speech, /
IL - h. tie
he had made an unjust attack on Mr..
Cockan. son the contrary" he said
warmly, he made a mean and con-
temptible attack on me-" and he added
that the man who would have madz
any other response than he did would |
have been a coward.
Mr. Dalzell explained his remark Of |
last Saturday by saying that he had |
been Informed that it was profitable !
to Mr.. Cochran to support Mckinley |
when he did" He vehementIy declared /
that he was so informed. 4 say now" |
he exclaimed, that / was justified in |
making that charge because it is the |
current belief to this day that the gen !
tleman received money for political |
work"
Cockran's Career.
To support his charge he said he /
would mention some facts and circum- |
stances connected with the history of |
Mr.. Cochran. He read from a num- /
Der of documents to show that Mr..
Cochran started as a greenbacker, and !
in 1896 stood with the Mckinley side /
because he was for sound money.
For sound money in 1895. he said |
amid Republican applause. travelling
all over the continent: in 1900 in sup /
port Of Bryan; greenbacker, sound
money man, free silver man. He has
Eaa i n
He was for Bryan in 1900 Is he for
Bryan now?"
Looking Mr.. Cochran in the face Mr.
DalZell said: M Cochran has been
a Tammanyite and as such has been
a member of congress; he has been an !
anti-Tammanyite and as such ceased
20 be member of congress. The gem
tleman from New York is a Tammany-
lite now, and now again is a member Of
congress"
Hanna Corruption Fund.
The Republicans were reused to a
high pitch Of enthusiasm and approval
when Mr.. DalzelI inquired: Would
not that make one suspicious that 1t
was more than a matter Of conscience
with a gentleman having such a
career The Democratic side Of the
house had gotten hysterical when one
Saturday he would not disclose the
name of mis- informant. He then said
the New York Journal published by
Mr. Cocl0ran's colleague. W. r. Hearst,
in August, 1895, published a statement
that Mr.. Cochran was for Mckinley, !
"a position which, said the publica-
ton. Ito those who remember his
career in congress, does not seem to !
involve such strain on his feelings I
as might be supposed. and especially
with rumOrs in the air Of $3.50 OG0
checks out Of Hanna's educational
fund
He quoted from an article in the
New York Tribune in 1893, in which the J
statement was made that Mr.. Cochran {
evidently had been deeply inceused by
the story that he had sold his Oratory
to the Fusion cause, but had been :
hired for a large price by Tammany. +
Mr.. DalZell then appealed to the house
to know whether or not when he was
accused Of being in politics for profits d.
ne was not justified in saying he had ;
been informed that Mr.. Cochran prac-
Jiced politics for profit. {
Mr. Dalzell made a comps rison- of The /
various campaign utterances of NJ.
Cochran. and said that If in 1896 he :
was combating the destruction of the t
court OF the United States in J
1900 he was aiming a blow that would I 7
have resulted in such destruction. !
Denunciation of Cochran.
Mr. DalzeH closed amid wild Repub-
ican applause, with a NEST bitter de- I
of Mr.. Cochran. He re-
TERED to that gentleman's speech be
lore the Democratic convention which
sent him 10 congress, in which Mr.. I
Cochran said: q
We have reached point where the :
country is regarded as an international :
1oOdlum.' Facing the Democratic Z
side, and looking directly al Mr.. Cock /
ran, Mr.. Dalzell declared that that ut
.erance was of as much interest TO
them as il was TO himself. If there
De any hoOdlums among US" he said. Q
speaking with Vehemence they are {
lot the product of American soil. l
American institutions or American
They are 10 be found
'aiher among those adventures who. q
ldYinS left their own country for their ,
,0untry's good, find in the field of
American politics a prolific source of T
lOtoriety and pelf: men who without {
conscience and without conviction find \
N opportunity, now with one party,
low with another, to find a market FOR y
heir peculiar wares, among which is r
rot respecta bility-" \
Mr. Cochran had sat through the entire \
peech of Mr.. DalZeH unmoved and waited !
or him to finish. Then. rising from his |
eat, he was greeted with tumultuous ap- I
,lauSc b. the Democrats When order :
vas restored he began his reply bv stat '
ng that from the position of the newest r
nd most humble member of the house 1 ,