The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-12

Infamous scot ndrels who are In the !
highways and by-ways OF our dear
country teaching the doctrine-of an
archy. And Mr.. Hopkins voted 10
seat Mr.. Smoot. He has been here |
In vandalia, and explained why. IL
Mr.. Shoot Is elected again--and he |
viii be. Brother Hopkins will natur-
ally vote To seat him again, and IL |
am successful in the present race for |
the United States senate, | will vote
to keep him out. III you believe that
man who takes an oath OF vengeance
against our government ought to help
make laws for your government, then
You ought TO support Mr.. Hopkins.
II YOU don't believe that, then you
ought TO support me or some other
man VINO agrees with me on this sub
ject.
| wish to reply partly to Mr.. Hop.
kins' legal proposition that the sen
ate has no right to unseat a man fer
anything that happened before he
was elected. The constitution pro-
vides, as Mr.. Hopkins says, certain
qualifications fer senator, but IL
also provides that the senate itself
shall be the Judge of the qualitica.
tions OF Its own mem bers. so that
for years, since the organization Of
the senate, men have been unseated
and refused admittance by reason OF
conditions almost exactly like this.
1t win be necessary to cite but one
case. Senator Clark. OF Montana,
was OF lawful age that certificate
from the sovereign state OF Montana.
lie sat there Tor months while his
case was being investigated and was
unseated by the vote of the senate
hecnse the senate believed he had
purchased his election. could cite
you numberless cases, which can be
found in the reports OF the senate,
from which have already quoted.
but haven't the time. Nearly all
those cases can be found in the senate
report to which have referred.
Ladies and gentlemen, II the men
who voted for Reed Smoot did 50
conscientiously, isn't 1t remarkable
that it took them SO lcng TO make up
their minds before they took a vote
on this question? Four years after a
million OF the Christian women OF
this country petitioned for the re.
moval OF Reed Smoot; four years
these great constitutional lawyers
(which Mr.. Hopkins admits he Isl
took to consider the merits OF his
case. and finally, when they found
they had votes enough, they permit
ted vote on this question. One ol
the worst mistakes Mr.. Hopkin!
makes now, aud one Of the most I'm
fair things he is doing, is to &,
around this state pretending tina
the seating OF Reed Smoot was re
publican measure, and saying tina
only few democrats voted to sea
! Smoot. deny it. 1t lis absolutel
|
Smoot was party measure. Ii
] had time, / would read you th
E names of the republican senators tina
j voted against the seating OF Rec
J Smoot, and the senators that Nj
Q Hopkins would like To read out {
: the party as a party measure. Fir.
: OF all, Hale, of Maine, who succeede
T that stlawart republican, James {
t Blaine. Then Senator burrows, wi
is chairman Of the committee, an
II who heard every bit OF the tesitmor
9 to seat Smoot. Senator Clapp,
: Minnesota, Senator Hemmingwa,
o Of Irdiana. who succeeded Vice Pre-
a iden Fairbanks as Senator, HI
a tredge, OF Sout Dakota, one OF Il
6 foremost lawyers Of the country Q
a are to be read out OF the republics
n party mainly because, as Mr.. Ho
. kins says, II he had voted again
. Reed Smoot. he would have vot.
!. with the democrats.
70 Is 1t fair for him to say that it is
a party question, when no party cauc
@ was ever held on that subject?
n know something about the procee
IS ings there, and 1t is practice of {
s republican party to hold caucus
a. the consideration OF party question
1t to which all republicans are invite
RI No such caucus was ever held TO 81
Of Reed Smoot. And let me say To y
D. now, gentlemen, that no party,
at publican or democratic, will dare
o. through the country with one OF I
We planks Of its platforms endorsing
IN seating OF Reed Smoot as a pa
ul policy. You can't carry this coui
of on that platform, you can't ca
10 this district on that platform, ]
nd can't carry this state on that pl
r. form. and you can't carry any ST
ur In the United States on that pl
all form, except Utah.
81 How can Mr.. Hopkins, with I
We degree Of propriety and fIankne
he say that this is a party questi
ny when the majority report, VIII
sr. was in favor OF uLseating II,
lily Smoot, was a republican committe
er But, ladies and gentlemen, he S
We that President Roosevelt bad s.