The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-06
A SPICY DEBATE.
Dalzell and Cochran Lock in the
House of Representatives..
THE FRESHMAN TURNS TABLES


Points Out Charges Against Hin
Were Confession or Corrupt
Methods on tho Part OF
Republicans.
The heavyweights had another bou,
in the house on Tuesday Of last weel
with Messrs. Dalzell and Cochran a.
combatants. The speeches were {
renewal Of last Saturdays debate but
were more personal in their charac.
terS. AS on Saturday the speakers
were greeted with vociferous applause
10y their respective colleagues and the
} bitterness of party feeling ran high
MIR. Dalzell repeated his charge that
MIR. Cochran had received money fol
his support OF Mckinley. The charge
was indignantly denied BY Mr.. Cock
ran.
Ine climax came when Mr.. Cock
ran offered resolution providing fol-
the appointment or select committee
OF five members Of the house to in.
vcstigatc the charge which had been
made against him by M. Dalzell. lie
and other Democrats, including MIR.
Williams, the minority leader, de-
mandrd immediate consideration, but
the speaker declined to pass on point
of order against the resolution until
he had examined precedcnts.
TO support his charges Mr. Dalzell
said he would mention some facts and
circumstances connected with the his
tory OF Mr.. Cochran. He then read
from number of documents to show
that Mr.. Cochran started as green
5acker, and in 1896 stood with the
Mckinley side because he was for
sound money.
For sound money in 1895" &c
said, amid Republican applause, trav-
ellng all over the continent: in 1900
III support OF Bryan, g1eenbacker-
sound money man, free silver man.
lie 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 a Tam
manyite and as such has been mem
bcr Of congress: he has been an anti
Tammanyitc and as such ceased to be
a member of congress. The gentle
man from New York is Tammany-
itc now again and now again he is a
member OF congress"
The Republicans we're reused to
high pitch Of enthusiasm and ap-
plauSc when Mr.. Dalzcll said softly:
Would not that make one suspicious
that it was more than mntter Of
conscience with gentleman having
such a harlequin carccr?"
EU3IoRs ilS TIE AIR. ,
The Democratic side of the house,
he said, had gotten hysterical when
he would not on Saturday disclose the
name Of his informant. He vhen read
thc New York Journal pub shed by
Mr.. Cockran's colleague, w. Ii. Hearst,
| in August, 1896, which the .atement
vas made that Mr.. Cochran was for
Mckinley "A position which to those
who remember his career in congress,
does not seem to involve such strain
on his feelings as might be supposed
especially with rumorS in the air of
$3.50, 900 checks out Of Ilanna'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 point where
the country is regarded as an interna.
tional ho0dlum." Facing tile Demo
cratic side and looking directly. at
/ Mr.. Cockran, Mr. Dalzell declared:
If here be any hoodlums amongst
US they are not the product of AmcIi-
can Institutions or American civiliza-
tion." He was Interrupted with loud
and prolonged Republican applause.
I Continuing, he said
| They are to be found rather
amongst those advcnturerS who hav-
ing left their own country for their
| cOuntry'S good, find in the field of
american politics prolific source OF
notoricty and pelf, men who without
conscience and without conviction find
ah opportunity now with one party,
now with another find market for
their peculiar wares, among which is
/ not pectabilily."
! lie LOOK HIS seat amid anOther storm
/ o! Republican applause.
COCHRAN IN RELY.
Mr., Cochran had sat through the
entire speech Of Mr.. Dalzell unmovcd
and waited for him to finish when,
| rising from his seat he was greeted
with tumultuous applause by the
/ Democrats.
Mr.. Dalzall he declared, had
thought it proper to justify a charge
of infamy against a fellow member
by searching the various channels
through which anonymous calumina-
tiOn circulatcS ina political campaign
and with hands no cleaner than those
with which it deals, hurls it oyer Il
body of deliberatiye men"
Mr. Cochran denied the charge that
he had received $l5, 900 from the Pal
mer and Buckner campaign commit
tee. lie also denied in the most POSI-
tive manner that he had ever received
money for supporting President Nc.
kinlcy's election in 1896. He denied
The charge that he ever was green
backGr