Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-10
Gets An Answer TO A|s QUESTION
Minority Leader Admits There was a
Time in South When Intimidation
was Necessary in Order to Preserve
White Race, But Widows and Or
phan. Were Never Robbed.
(Ry Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON. d. c.. May g.
Sectional lines were sharply drawn IN
the House of Representatives today
and for time charges and counter
charges OF dishonesty in elections b.
both political parties were heard. In
terest in the proceedings was all the
more keen because the two floor lead
ers. Mcssrs. PAYNE. of New York. and
Williams of Mississippi. were the
principals in the stage setting. Mr..
PAYNE criticised the minority leader
for having had the hardihood % say
he was in favor of honest elections.
Since when was the Democratic
party in favor of honest elections he
inquired.
Mr.. Williams replied that he had lis
tened to the lecture upon honesty IN
Ahct ions from the leader CT the Re
publican party. the party OF fresh new
crisp twodollor bills; the party OF
blocks of FIVE; the party OF the city
of Philadelphia; the party of return
ing boards back in 1876; the party
that carried the election of 1896 by
wholesale bribry; the party that even
as late as 1904 denied that 1t had been
receiving, money from fiduicary cor
porations for political purposes and
whose ofScials were convicted Of false
hood in the denials; the party OF
Herodes.
Philadelphia Repubiieanism a Stencil.
If there was anything that was a
stencil in the nostrilS of all humanity.
he said, it was the city of Philadel'
phia.
1T has such a bad smell" he de-
clared. that even the Republicans
themselves could not stand it all the
time"
Mr., Williams admitted that there
was time when there was iutlmida-
ton and fraud in his section OF the
country, but there was some extenuat-
ion for it when a great race was en-
gagged in saving its civilization.
There never was, however, he ex-
claimed. any excuse OF extenuation
for the Republican party in its pro-
gram Of wholesale bribery in 1896.
1900 and 1904 when that party took
the money belonging TO widows ana
orphans and never had the manhood
nor the justice to return IT.
AT one time" he said. President
Roosevelt had the manhood to say
that the Republican campaign commit
toe ought to return the money that
had been filched from the widows and
orphans and beneficiaries and policy
holders of the New York Life and
New York Mutual Insurance Compa-
nics
Crossing the ailse and pointing his
finger at Mr.. Payne, Mr.. Williams
said. You said there was time IN
the history OF the Scrth when revolu-
ticn stood in the saddle. but he add
I'd since then those states have
adoptcd new constitutions
No Lin,i. to Republican FRAUDS.
Tho Acknowledgement laws. he de-
,l,rcd. were passed for the people
preventing fraud and the Supreme
Court Of the United States has upheid
them
Mr. Payne. nc said was from the
rariv Of the whiskcy fraud. Of the
Credit MobiIicr. Of the star route
fraud All" he exclaimed, i can
handv history.
He believed in letting the dead past
bury i,scl; on both sides. What do
Won say now He again shriekcd.
What do Won Say? Here stand.
stand 10 challenge YOU that every dol
lar tina; GOES into campaign fund
shall ~ published to the world the
tav after receipt so that Tr NAV
know tho mo'iy. of the givcr and that
the world may judge the means O: Cor'
rup;;on in tbs hands Of the recipient.
yr williams exclaimed. What do
You ssy for the future! VT the dead
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