The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
PAYNE AND WILLIAMS
 INDULGE IN INVECTWE
Congressman Payne Jumps On Demo crats With Both Feet About EIec- ton Funds, But Williams
 Calls Him.


 were sharply drawn in the House of Representatives today, and for a time charges and countercharges of dishonesty in elections by both political parties were heard. Interest in the proceeding was all the more keen because the two floor lead CTS, Messrs Payne of New York and Williams of Mississippi, were the prin- ciples in the stage setting.
 MT. Payne criticised the minority lead- CT flor having had the hardihood to say he was in favor of honest elections.'
 Was it." he asked, "when it was de- priving certain class of citizens of suf- frage by every means. by perjury. fraud. Intimidation, murder riot and everything else under the sun?" He wanted to know if the democrats favored honesty in cleo tions in the state of New York. when time after time they carried the election not by the honest ballot. but by fraudu- lent votes deposited in the ballot box and fraudulent counts"
 He said 1t was well known that in Troy, Albany and the city of New York the democrats sent around repeaters from poll to poll in gangs of five who imper- sonated well known citizens and swore , they were the citizens registered: who were allowed by the democratic officials l to vote, 'who. when the honest voter , came around deprived him of his ballot.a The democrats. said MT. Payne were l in favor of honest elections only when they got majority that way. sIt is necessary for the democratic party in Maryand,' he said, flor that state had eetten in habif eff going repuDhcan now and then"
 People Are Educated. i The people were getting educated. he said, and by republican ideas He de- elared that the republican party had an honest majority in Maryland and in or der to overcome 1t the democrats were bending every effort to deprive every cit izen of the right of franchise. "and there- i by make a democratic state of Mary l land"
 l MT. Williams replied that he had lis- tened to the lecture upon honesty in eec- tons from the leader of the republican l party, "the party of fresh, new, crisp $2 bills; the party of blocks of five the party i of the city of Philadelphia; the party of returning boards back in 1876; the party 1 that carried the election in 1896 by whole sale bribery; the party that even as late 1 at 1904 denied that it had been receiving money from corporations for political pur- 1 poses and whose officials were convicted l of falsehood in the denial; the party of | Herods.'
 l If there was anything that was a 1 stench in the nostrils of all humanity | he said, it was the city of Philadelphia Tt has such a bad smell" he declared. that even the republicans themselves 1 could not stand it all the time" ! MT. Williams admitted that this was a time when there was intimidation and fraud in his section of the country, but there was some extenuation for it when l great race was engaged in saving it's civilization"
 Party of Bribery.
 There never was, however" he ex- claimed, any excuse or extenuation for l the republican party in it's programme l of wholesale bribery in 1896, 1900 and i 1904 when that party took the money be- longing to widows and orphans and never l had the manhood nor tho justice to re- turn it"
 | welt had the manhood to say that the l republican campaign committee ought tn return the money that had been filched 1 from the widows and orphans and bene- ficiaries and policyholders of the New York insurance companies Crossing the aisle and pointing his fn- l ger at MT. Payne MT. Williams fairly ! shrieked: Yes, said he, there was a 1 time in the history of the south when revolution stood in the saddle" but he l added, since then those states have adopted new constitutions. The new dis l franchsement laws, he said. were passed ! for the purpose of preventing fraud and ] the superior court of the United States l has upheld them.
 l Mir Williams remarked that "the gen ] tlemans soul revolts at the idea of the 1 democrats being interested in honest cleo ] tions." Mir Payne, he said, from the ! party of the whisky fraud, of the credit 1 mobilier, of the Star route fraud An, he exclaimed. "l can bandy hs- 1 tory with him all day, but l don't want | to bandy history.
 l He believed in letting the dead past | bury it's dead on both sides. What do l you say now? he again shreked What 1 do you say? Here I stand. l stand to l to challenge you that every dollar that !; goes into campaign fund shall be pub l lished to the world the day after it IS received so that the world may know the | motive of the giver and the world may i judge the means of corruption in the ! hands of the recipient
 | Mir. Williams exclaimed he took his | seat; What do you say for the future? 1 Let the dead past gol''
 
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