The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-11
GORMAN'S FRIENDS
 ARE ENCOURAGED
SITUATION IN NEW YORK MAY GIVE SENATOR AN EXCELLENT CHANGE IF DELEGATION GOES TO ST. LOUIS CONSTRUCTED.

Washington, March 1o-(Special)-Th | friends here of Senator German feel some
 little encouraged over the democratic sit- uation in New York. They know that
 the Maryland senator has many strong friends in the Tammany organization, and believe that if the New York delega- tion goes to St. Louis uninstructed Cor
 man will have a fine chance for the nom nation. Colonel James M. Guffrey, dem ocratic national commit reman from Pennsylvania gave out the following in- terview last night:
 There has been discussion in some quarters looking to the abrogation of the | unit rule. I ask, why should not the unit rule be adopted? The democratic national delegates have been bound by the unit
 rule for many yeares past. It is not
 new thing and is the very essence of the democratic doctrine that the majority shall rue. The state convention of Penn sylvania, which will be held on April 19, will not instruct for any presidential l candidate The delegates will be free until their arrival in St. Louis. Then, after full and fair discussion of candi dates ana party pTlHClpltS lHty VIII Qe- eide what course to take. and as the ma jority decides, so the entire delegation I will go."
 time I have been candidate? Was he | treating you fair, knowing l was guilty of this awful crime all the time he was voting for me and saying nothing about | it? Is 1t because he wants my job now fIot t.o l.ofa~ nd r1 ha q spasm when reciting how bad am9
 Here are those railroad passes and here | is the little Western Union frank book"
 said MT. Burnett, holding up handful of annuals In one hand and the frank book | in the other.
 Refers to Letters.
 | He then spoke of the often referred to
 letter to Colonel Andrews, president of the Southern railway
 Those letters were written by me and | given to my secretary to copy on the typewriter. They are my personal and private property said Congressman
 Burnett. T kept this secretary, a MT. Fitzpatrick five months longer than his
 term. In other words he was my secre- tary for two years and five months.
 then let him go and appointed two young
 men who wished to prosecute their studies. When MT. Fitzpatrick left me- he took with him these two letters And ! want to ask you whom you consider the
 worse, the man who will take the priv.
 ate property of another, or the man who
 will use 1t as this man who Is running
 against me Is dong?
 | He stated in regard to the salary that l the work at first was very light and that
 his secretary had nothing scarcely to do. | that the greater part of the work fell
 on his wife and he divided the salary of
 s1Oo allowed for secretary with her. Gives His Reasons. He gave as his reasons for voting against an appropriation of 5000 for | confederate monument that he desired to take the case of the living ex-confed- | crates first.
 | Congressman Burnett charged Lusk | with being opposed to the act for the ! examination of private banks, stating that his reason for opposing this measure was due to the fact that he owned s5oo worth of stock in a bank at Guntersville. '.He accuses me of being untrue and un- faithful to my constituents because l ride on free passes and am the attorney ] for railroads he continued. and yet he l allows a little bank stock amounting to $500 to Influence his from doing his duty | in the Legislature as he had promised his people he would do. If you can't trust | him in the legislature of your own state, how can you trust him in congress?" Lusk Makes Brief Close. l Mir Burnetts reply lasted an hour and under the rules Mir Lusk closed in a speech lasting fifteen minutes. The time was nearly consumed in explaining his reason for taking his stand on the bank | examining act
 T opposed it." he said, because con- i sidered the original bill a scheme of the ] large banks to run the small ones out of l business and concentrate the money in 1 the cities The big banks could then re- fuse to lend money in less amounts than | s1,0O0, which amounts bar the farmers | from borrowing money to carry them through their crops, except at exhorbi- ] tant interest from merchants. l voted against this original bill and would do so again"
 The crowd to an outsider and stranger