The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24

Kitchin yesterday. The gentleman. he said, was a member of coordinate branch of the government, yet you lis- tened to the bitter, yea, the criminal. de- nunciation of the President. This was a degradation of the nation in the eyes of the world he declared.
 Referring to the alleged quotation from the President that there is a strain of barbarian running through the people of the south' MT. Hepburn said the gentle man had sought to place the responsi- bility for this barbaric spirit upon the President of the United States, placing him as one who was the advocate of lsnching and the justifier of the horrid outrages which take place in the section of the county from which the gentleman comes. That these things did take place, MT. Hepburn said there was no denial and the Presidents statement had refer ence to the frontier.
 Cannot Go UnchaIlenged.
 "This brutal arraignment of the Presi- dent ought not to go unchallenged, he continued, ''and I thought some one in ad- dition to my friend General Grosvenor) ought to say what l have said.
 ''The gentlemen makes merry because, as he says, the President has not seen fit to allow the gentleman from Ohio, and myself to find favor in his eyes, on the question of civil service. But If the President has as poor an opinion Of my opinion on that subject as l have of his' I am ready to commiserate With him daughter and applause) on the demo- cratic side. But, continued Mr. Hep burn, as he left the subject. The Pres ident of the United States does not al- low his opinion of questions Of this char acter to interfere with his relations or the public service.'
 MT. Hepburn then returned his atten- tion to the recent speech of Clark or Missouri Mir Clark had accused MT. Hepburn of a mistake in stating the out put of steel MT. Hepburn explained that this was the case. He had taken the world output by mistake instead of that in the statistics But he never had made steel nor had he ever eaten IL. Not so with the gentleman from Missouri. lie lived in the greatest corn belt or the world; he had consumed great deal of corn some of which he had eaten Qaughter), but he had made as great mistake in giving the output of corn.
 MT Clark tried to interrupt MT. Hep hurn. but he made the rule that the in- terruption must be for a question only "I don't want a part of your speech in mine"
 well" interjected Mir Clark amid laughter, 'it would improve your re- marks
 Would Take Clark for Model.
 MT. Hepburn admitted he would gladly take Mr. Clark for a model. He had quoted from four languages. Tn the language of the gentleman from Wiscon- sin," continued MT. Hepburn IT l could take him for model, l would go into the regions where Tacitus went. l would
 oII ,tttc I with old Euripides, but what in hell has that to do with the laws of Wisconsin? (Prolonged laughter)T But. l 1m here to enlighten my benighted friend from the corn belt
 Mir. Hepburn took the democrats to task for talking tariff before the money question was settled. First, he asked if it was not settled.
 s.No." shouted Mr. Maddox of Georgia.
 'Then let me read your platform" MT. Hepburn read that part of the demo- cratic platform of 1896 which said that no agitations of tariff changes should be made until the money question was set tied He arraigned with stnging sar- casm democratic tears at McKinley's death It made him indignant beyond anything to have Mckinley and Lincoln, the men most abused, most villified. most slandered by the democratic party. now claimed as in complete harmony with the democratic party.
 "Bah,v exclaimed Mir Hepburn. "It is contemptible on the part of men who have pursued such a course to whine and snivel at the tomb of those who for a life time they had vituperated..
 Mckinley, he said, never uttered a word not in harmony with republican principles.
 Something Had to Be Done. 
 Turning his attention to democratic presidential possibilities, MT. Hepburn said that when that young g1ant of the west had begun to move over the troubled democratic waters, 1t became apparent to the leaders of that party that something must be done"
 This young man. Hearst, he said. was not liked by the democratic house leaders nor the democratic senators, but they say that he must be nominated unless something was done.
 So the men who had said nothing but Cleveland" he continued those who had said German or Olney, all got together in conference and scratched their ranks