The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-05-04
A SPICY DEBATE.
Dalzell and Cochran Lock in the
House Of Representatives.
THE FRESHMAN TURNS TABLES.

The IRIsEMAN TURNS TABLES
Points Out Charges Against Him
Were Confession Of Corrupt
methods on the Part OF
Republicans.
The heavyweightS had another bout
in the house on Tuesday Of last week
with Messrs. Dalzell and Cochran as
com5atantS. The speeches were a
renewal of last Saturdays debate but
we're more personal in their charac-
tiers. AS on Saturday the speakers
were greeted with vociferous applause
by their respective colleagues and the
bitterness Of party feeling ran high.
MI. 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 appointments OF select committee
of five members Of the house to in
vestigate the charge which had been
made against him by Mr.. Dalzen. He
and other Democrats, including Mr..
Williams, the minority leader, de-
manded immediate consideration, but
the speaker declined to pass on point
OF order against the resolution until
be had examined preceaentS.
To support his charges Mr. Dalzell
said he would mention some facts and
circumstances connected with the his
tory Of Mr.. Cochran. .ae then read
from a number Of documents to show
that Mr. Cochran started as green
hacker, and in 1895 stood with the
Mckinley side because he was for
sound money.
For sound money in 1896" be
said, amid Republican applause, tray
cling all over The continent; in 1900
in support Of Bryan, greenbacker-
sound money man, free silver man.
He has been Bryanite 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 derision, said
that Mr.. Cochran has been Tam
manyite and as such has been mem
Der of congress; he has been an anti
Tammanyite and as such ceased to be
a member Of congress. The gentle
man from New York is Tammany-
ite now again and now again he is a
member Of congress"
The Republicans were reused to a
high pitch Of enthusiasm and ap-
plause when Nj. Dalzell said softly:
Would not that make one suspicious
that it was more than matter OF
conscience with gentleman having
such a harlequin career?"
RUMoRs IN TIE AIR.
The Democratic side of the house,
be said, had gotten hysterical when
he would not on Saturday disclose the
name OF his informant. He then read
the New York Journal published by
Mr.. Cockran's colleague, W. R. Hearst,
in August, 1896, which the statement
was made that Mr. Cochran was for
Mckinley "a position which to those
who remember bis career il congress,
does not seem to involve such strain
on his feelings as might be supposed
especially with runors in the air Of
$3.50, 1000 checks out of Hanna'S educa
tional fund"
Mr. Dalzell closed amid wild Re-
publican applause with most bitter
denunciation Of Mr.. Cochran. He 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 an interna
tional hoodlum.' Facing the Demo :
cratic side and looking directly a t
Mr.. Cochran, Mr.. Dalzell declared I:
'sIf there be any hoodlumS amongE t
US they are not the product of Amer i
can institutions or American ciyilizs :
tion." He was interrupted with loud
and prolonged Republican applause
Continuing, he said:
They are to be found rather
amongst those adventures who hav-
ing left their own country for their
country's good, find in the field Of
American politics prolific source Of
notoriety and pelf, 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 respectability.'
He took bis seat amid another storm.
OF Republican applause.
COCHRAN IN REPLY.
Mr.. Cochran had sat through the
entire speech Of Mr. Dalzell unmoved
and waited for him to flush when,
rising from bis seat he was greeted
with tumultuous applause by the
Democrats.
MI. Dalzell be declared, had
thought it proper to Justify charge
Of infamy against a fellow member
by searching the various channels
through which anonymous calumina-
tion circplates I'M political campaign
and with hands no cleaner than those
with which it deals, hurlS it over a
body Of deliberative men,"
Mr.. Cochran denied the charge that
he had received SIS, 200 from the p l.
mer and Buckner campaign commit
tee. he also denied in the most posi-
tive manner that be had ever received
money for supporting President Nc
Kinley's election in 1896. He denied
the charge that he ever was green
hacker.
If Mr.. Dalzel believed the charges
be had brought against him, Mr..
Cochran said, it showed him (Mr. Dal-
zilD in a pitiable state. He was in