The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-10
HONESTY IN
 ELECTIONS Sectional Lines Are Sharply Drawn. HOT DEBATE IN THE HOUSE Mi. Payne and MT. Williams Use
 Strong Language. Charge. and couutsr-charses of Dis honesty h Eiections by Both
 the Political Parties Were
HOT DEBATE IN THE HOUSE

Washington, May s.--Sectional lines were sharply drawn in the House or Representatives today and for time, charges and eounter-charges of dis honesty in elections by both political parties, were heard. Interest in the proceedings was all the more keen because the two floor leaders, Messrs. Payne. of New York, and Williams, of Mississippi. were the principals in the stage setting.
 MT. Payne criticized the minority leader "for having had the hardihooo to say he was in favor of honest elections"
 Since when was the Democratic pArty in favor of honest eelctions?' he incurred. "was it. he asked, swhen it was depriving a certain class of citizens of suffrage by every means by perjury, fraud. intimidation. mur- der, riot and everything. else under the sun? He wanted to know If the Democrats favored honesty in elections in the State of New York, when time after time they carried the election not by the honest ballot. but by frauc- uIent votes deposited in the ballot Dox and fraudulent counts" He said It was well known that in Troy, Albany and the city of New York, the Demo- crats sent around repeaters from poll fo poll in gangs of five who imper- sonated we'll known citizens and swore they were the citizens regis tered; who were allowed by the Dem ocratic officials to vote "who. when the honest voters came around, de- prived him Of his ballot.
 Maryland Situation.
 The Democrats said MT. Payne, were <.R elections only when f6ev' got a majority that way. "Is fl necessary for the Democratic party tw, Marvland." he said, had gotten in inc habit of going Republican now and them The people were getting eSlucated, he said, and by Republican ideas He declafeA that the RepupI- can party had an honest majority In Akaryland. and in order to overcome IL. fine Democrats were bending every ef- fort to deprive every citizen. of the riri,4 If franchise, and thereby make \ Denoeratic State of Maryland.
 MT. Williams replied that he had listened to the lecture upon honesty Tn elections from the leader of the Baonhlican party, "the party of fresh new crisp two dollars 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 in 1885 Ypy wholesale bribery; the party that even as late as 1904 denied that it had hsen receiving money from fiduciary corporations for political purposes and whose officials were convicted of false tood in the denial: the party of Her ods. If there was anything that was A stench in the nostrils of all hu- manity, he said, 1t was the city of Philadelphia. Tt has such bad smell. he declared, that even the Re- rmbiicans themselves could not stand ' Mir Williams admitted that this was a tinna when there was intimidation and fraud In his section of the coun- fry but there was some extenuation Tor 1t when a great race was engaged In saving it's civilization.
 .sT,here never was however" he ex- claimed. ''any excuse or extenuation for the Republican party In It's pro- gram of wholesale bribery in 1S96, 1900 and 1904, when that party took the money belonging to widows and or nhans and never had the manhood nor the Justice to return 1t.
 At one time, he said. President Roose- welt had the manhood to say that the Republican Campaign Committee ought to return the money that had been fiched from the widows and orphans and benehciaries and policyholders of the New York Life and New York Mu- tuai Insurance Companies"
 Crossing the aisle and pointing his finger at Mr. Payne, Mir. Williams fair lv shrieked, Yes" said he, there was a time in the history of the South when revolution stood in the saddle" but he added. since then those States have adopted new constitutions"
 Disfranchisehent Laws.
 The disfranchisement laws, he de- clared, were passed for the purpose of preventing fraud and the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld them.
 MT. Williams remarked that the Sentleman's soul revolts at the idea of the Democrats being interested in hon. est elections"
 MT. Payne he said, was from the party of the whiskey fraud, of the credit mobilier, of the star route frauds"
 "Ah." he exclaimed, T can handy history with him all day, but I don't want to bandy history"
 He believed in letting the dead past bury itself on both sides. What do you say now?' he again shricked.