The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-27

he had never made a Republican speech,
but that he supported Mckinley when he
thought it right, but the gentleman from
Pennsylvania would support him when he
thinks ii profitable
Mr.. Dalzell. with some feeling, declared
he had asked Mr.. Cochran civil ques-
insisted that he did not question Mr.. Cock
rams honesty. The query might have called
into question Mr.. CockranS consistency.
The reply, he said, was that the gentle
man from New York stood upon the high
plane of CONSCIENCE while 1 was playing
politics for profit.
Mr.. Dalzell provoked loud Republican APP
plauSe when he said that while he was an
intense partisan his brethren on the other
side will admit that generally, at least, am
gentleman"
pearing after Mr.. Cockrans speech Mr..
DalZell said it would be inferred he had
made an unjust attack on Mr.. Cochran.
ION the contrary" he said, warmly, he
made a mean and contemplate attack on
me-" and he added that the man who would
have made any other response than he did
would have been poltroon and a coward.
Mr. Dalzell explained his remark of last
Saturday by saying that he had been lin
formed that it was profitable to Mr..
Cochran to support Mckinley when he did.
He vehemently declared that he so in
formed II say now" he exclaimed, that
l was justified in making that charge be-
cause it is the current belief to this day
that the gentleman received money for po-
litical work" ;,
To support his charge he said he would
mention some facts and circumstances con-
nected with the history of Mr.. Cochran. He
then read from a number of documents TO
show that Mr.. Cochran started as Green
tacker, and in 1896 stood with the Nc
Kinley side because he was for sound
money. sFor sound mouney in 1885," he
said, amid Republican applause travelling
all over the continent in 1900 in support
of Bryan, Greenbacker, sound-money man,
free-silver man. He has been Bryanite
and an anti-Bryanite He was for Bryan
in 1900. Is he for Bryan how?'
So far as he could judge, Mr.. Dalzell
said, he was for ''some gentleman up In
New York or maybe in New Jersey" and
Republican laughter was renewed when he
added IF he is for Grover Cleveland he
has more wisdom than l think some OF
his brethren have.
FLAYED WITH SARCASM
With some sarcasm Mr.. Dalzell said that
possibly Mr.. Cochran is for some re-
spectacle political nonenity who is not
known to have a single conviction upon
any pablo question and who is willing to
stand on any platform that may be made
for him." Looking Mr.. Cochran in the face
Mr. Dalzell, speaking in derision. said that
Mr. Cochran Npas been a Tammanyite. and
as such has been a member of Congress,
he has been an anti-Tammanyite and as
such ceased to be a member of Congress.
The gentleman from New 1Ork Is a lam
manyite again and now again he is a men,
Der of Congress"
The Republicans were reused TO a high
pitch of enthusiasm and approval when Mr..
Dalzen softly inquired would not that
make one suspicious that IL was more than
a matter of conscience with a gentleman
having such a harlequin career?" The DEM
ocratic side of the House, he said, had got
hysterical when On Saturday he would not
disclose the name of his informant He
then read from the New York Journal, pub
lished by Mr.. Cockrans colleague, Mr.. w,
r. Hearst. in August. 1885, statement that
Mr.. Cochran was for Mckinley "a posi-
ton which, said the publication, Ito those
who remember his career in Congress does
not seem to involve such a strain on his
feelings might be supposed, especially
with rumors In the air of $4,000 checks
out of Hannas educational fund"
He quoted from article in the New
York Tribune in 1893, in which the state
ment was made that Mr.. Cochran evidently
had been deeply incensed by the charge
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
profit he was not justified in saying he had
been informed that Mr.. Cochran practiced
politics for profit
Mr.. Dalzell made a comparison of the
| various campaign utterances of Mr. Cock
| ran and said that III in 1896 he was com
batting the destruction OF the Supreme
Court OF the United States, in 1900 he was