Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-08

out by questions from Mr.. Morgan. h.
Mr.. Daniel asked Mr.. Patterson II
he knew of any other senator Wnp
would vote for the treaty, but Mr.. Pat
terson did not reply; instead he referred
to the charge made that he had de-
serted his party and that he was IN
the habit of making party changes.
lie admitted that he had left the Demo-
cratic party in 1892 rather than sup
port Mr.. Cleveland.
Tillman Eats Crow
In this connection he referred to Mr..
Tillman's course in his own state, and
Mr.. Tillman interrupted with the re-
mark that he had eaten as much crow
in submitting to party dictation as
any man living"
Ibid you like it?" asked Mr.. Spooner,
and Mr. Tillman replied: mo; but ]
took it."
The DEPRESSION caused general
laugh, which increased when Mr.. Pat
terson remarked that he had eaten
some crow, but less than that taken
by Mr.. Tillman.
Mr.. Patterson said he had bottled
some party nominations at home, and
expected to do SO again.
Discussing the Democratic caucus
binding resolution, he asked, "Is II per
suasive or coercive?" and. answering
his own inquiry, he declared 1t to be
cruel.
Says States Have No Rights
Mr.. Patterson declared that the doe
trine that even states have a right to
direct the votes Of their senator's has
been abandoned. He indorsed the
change Of view, holding that the free
dom Of senators could not otherwise be
maintained.
He declared that the caucus rule did
not provide for the conscience of the
senator and said that a senator should
be true to his own convictions, copsti-
tutng himself a monitor of which he
should stand in awe. He appealed for
relief from the cruelty and injustice
and indefensible character of the eau
Gus action"
AS to the qualification that senator
should be 80 years of age, Mr.. Patter-
son quoted Judge Story that thirty
years was not too long for due matur-
ity and said that tried integrity was
having passed back and forth across
the chamber as to coercive measures,
and also spoke of summonses of sena-
tors to White House.
81 don't hesitate to say that the sem
ator and representative who surrenders
his own convictions in the hope of
patronage and that the president who
promises it are, to say the least, to be
condemned he said, adding that such
a course was nothing less than bribery.
Such course was immoral and indefen-
sive and was the {; me as securing votes
for venal considerations.
Bailey Defends System
Dat fo, al.
hour and a half and was followed by
Mr.. Bailey. The Texas senator began
by saying that Mr.. Patterson had pro-
ceeded throughout his speech on the
false hypothesis that the Democratic
party had sought to coerce him in the
matter of casting his vote oIlthe Santo
Domingo treaty.
He also declared that Mr.. Patterson
had failed to understand the purport of
the caucus resolution and his relation
ship to his party. The caucus had
simply defined the duty of senators as
members of the Democratic party; it
must be for him to determine his duty
as a senator in contradistinction to his
duty as a Democrat.
Mr.. Bailey then took UP the defense
of the caucus system and after calling
attention to the fact that most candi-
by caucuses read the proceedings of the
caucus by which Mr.. Patterson was
nominated, and asked if he considered
that the same objections which he had
made to senatorial caucuses should
apply to caucuses for the choosing of
Mr.. Patterson replied that the two
were not on the same footing
because no oath was taken in the eau
cuses for the choosing of candidates.
Mr. Bailey said that Mr.. Patterson
himself had dispersed the truth of his
assertion that caucus action was a
cruel outrage, for within ten years after
he had walked out of a Democratic con-
vention he had been chosen as a Demo-
cratic senator.
Mr.. Bailey called attention to Mr.
Patterson's statement concerning his
of a candidate for chap
laincy in the army. His man was an
and Mr.. Patterson said
that the presidents secretary had re-
piled that as the man whose place was
to be filled was a Methodist a Metho-
dist must be appointed to succeed him.
Mr.. Bailey jocularly took exception to
this as a violation of the constitution,
declaring that it was religious discrim-
nation. He said this might account
for the large church vote received by
Mr.. Roosevelt. He also said that Mr.
Roosevelt was the first president who
declared in favor of strife as the phil
osophy of life
Mr.. Bailey said that no president had
beer treated as well by his political adj
versaries as the present president.
Never before, said Mr.. Bailey, had a
president given such offense to Demo-
Gratis as the present occupant of the
White House. He predicted that the
big stick would be waved in such a
manner as to bring Republican support
to the presidents railroad program
The president must have very persua-
slVe arguments to receive the support