The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-10
THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY CONDEMENED
Wholesale Bribery in SO.
1900 and 1904, Charged
Against the G. O. Pre-
publican Leader Charged
South With Riot, Murder
and Intimidation, to Gov
ern the Ballot Boxes.
BY Associated Press

Was hingtOin, May 9.-SecJtonal lines
day and fOg. a time. charges and count
er charges OF dishonesty in elections
by both political parties We're heard,
Interest WAS especially Keen because
OF the two floor leaders. AIesSrS.
PAYNE. of New York. and Williams, Of
Mississippi, We're principals.
Payne criticized the minority lead
eT for having the haTdihOOd 10 say.
he was in favor OF honest elections -
Since when was the democratic
party in favor OF honest elections" he
inquired. Was it he asked, when
it was depriving a certain class OF
citizens of their suffrage ny every
means, by perjury, fraud. intimida-
ton; murder. riot and everything I'M
der the sun.
He wanted 70 know If the democrats
favored honesty in the elections in the
state Of New York, when time after
time they carried elections. not by
honest ballot, but by fraudulent votes
deposited in the ballot box, and frau
dulent counts
Democrats, said Payne, are in
favor Of honest elections, only when
they get a majority that way.
" HildI1S ISpliSu JlldT lie Ildu llSlHUSu
10 the lecture upon honesty in cleo
tiOnS from dhe leader of the republi
cam. party, THE party of fresh, new,
crisp. tWodollar bills. the party OF
blocks Of fives, the party that carried
the elections in 1895 by WHOLESALE
bribery, rthe party that even as late
as 1904, denied that it had been re
ceiVing money from fduciary corpora
tions for political purposes, and whose
officials were convicted of faisehoOd
in the denial that a party of HevOds 3"
Williams admitted the time when
there was Intimidation and fraud in
his section OF The country. but there
was some eNtenUatiOn for it. when a
great race was engaged in saving its
civilization"
There never was. however he ex-
claimed, any excuse. or eXtenuatiOn.
for the republican party in its pro
gram of wholesale bribery in 1896
1900 and 1904. when that party took
money belonging TO the widows and
orphans. and had not the manhood
IpOr justice TO return it. At one time.
he said. President Roosevelt had the
manhood to say that the republican
committee ought to return
the money, that had been filched from
rhe widows and orphans, and bene-
IlCIdi les IdIsN HlOAlCN IlOiOcIS Oh Tie New
York Life and New York Mutual in
sTance Ompanies.
, Crossing the aisle, and pointing his
finger at Payne. Williams fairly
ShT'ieked:
Yes, there was a time in the his
tory Of the south when revelation sa;
in the saddle. but" ne added, since
then, those states have adopted new
Disfranchisement laws, he said.
were passed for the purpose Of pre-
venting fraud, and that the United
States supreme court upheld them 4
Williams remarked that the gentle
man Of New York revoltS at the I
dea OF democrats being interested in I
honest elections
He then charged Payne with being
n the party OF whiskey fraud. and Of
mail route fraud. Williams then said /
ne believed in letting the dead past /
bury itself on both sides. and chal- .
enged Payne TO consent to the publ !
:atiCnS.
AS he took his seat he exclaimed: /
What do yOu say for the future ?'' (
Let the dead past go