The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27

COCHRAN ON
HIS RECORD
.DalZell Makes Bitter
Attack on New
Yorker.
PennSylVanian'S Singing
Criticism ROuSeS Anger
Of Minority.
Tammany Orator Replies ElOquently
and Demands Investigation by q
Committee.

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The heavy
weights had another bout in the House
to-day. with DalzeIl and Cochran as
the combatants. The speeches were a
renewal Of last Saturdays debate. but
were more personal in character. Dali
zell had Cochran on the rack for nearly
two hours, during which time he had
dealt largely with that gentleman's po-
litical history. Cochran, thoroughly in
dignant at times, denounced the accu-
sation Of Dalzell.
The climax came when he offered a
ment of committee of five to investi-
gate the charge which had been made
against him by Dalzeu. He and other
Democrats, including Williams, the mi
nority leader, demanded immediate
consideration, but the Speaker declined
to pass on a point of order against the
resolution until he had examined prece-
dents.
DalzelI provoked loud Republican ap-
plause when he said that while he
was an intense partisan, his brethren
on the other side will ADMIT that gen.
orally at least, am a gentleman"
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 vehemently declared that he
was so informed. II say now," he ex-
claimed, that 1 was justified in max
ing that charge, because it is the cur
rent belief to this day that the gen.
tleman received money for political
work.
REVIEWS COCKRAN'S RECORD.
He read from a number of documents
to show that Cochran started as a
greenbacker and in 1896 stood with the
Mckinley side because he was for
sound money. For sound money in
1885, he said, amid Republican ap-
pIause, travelling all over the conti-
nent; in 1900 in support Of Bryan;
greenbacker, sound money man, free
silver man. He has been a Bryanite
and an anti-Bryanite. He was for
Bryan In 1900. Is he for Bryan now?"
Looking Cochran in the face Dalzeu
said: Mr.. Cochran has been a Tam
manyite and as such has been men,
Der of Congress; he has been an anti
Tammanyite and as such ceased TO be
a member of Congress. The gentleman
from New York is a Tammanyite now,
and now again is a member Of Con-
gress.''
The Republicans were reused to a
high pitch of enthusiasm and approval
when Dalzell softly inquired: Would
not that make one suspicious that II
was more than a matter Of conscience
with a gentleman having such
career?"
DAIZELL'S DENUNCIATION.
Dalzell closed amid wild Republican
applause with a most bitter denuncia-
ton of Cochran. He referred to that
gentleman's speech before the Demo-
cratic convention which sent him to
Congress, in which Cochran said: We
have reached point where the coun-
try is regarded as an International
hoodlum."
Facing the Democratic side and look
ing directly at Cochran, Dalzell de-
clared that that utterance was of as
much interest to them as it was to
himself. IF there be any hoodIums
among u.s. he said. speaking with We
hemence, they are not the product Of
American soil, American Institutions
or American civilization. They are to
be found rather among those adven-
turers who, having left their own coun-
try for their country's good. find in
the field cf American politics a pro-
life source of notoriety and pelf-men
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