New-York tribune., 1909-02-04
SETENTEEN REPUBLTC4NS
VOTE WITH DEMOCRATS.
Supporters of GOUernOr's Direct Pri-
mary Plan BcHere Senate ACti0n
U'W Help His Cause.
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| lothian P. Aids Joined hands with Senator
| Grady in fighting the confirmation Of Mr. Cook
| This lineup the first authentic showing OF
! Hughes and anti-Hughes feeling in the new
/ Senate The following Republicans voted with
| the Democrats against Mr. Cooks confrnzt ton;
/ Aids. Ait Burlingame. Emerson GledhiII. Graf
| tan. Hamilton. Hewitt. Holden Kissel. Macxsn~
/ zie. Meade. Platt. Raines Schlosser. White and
Witter. Absentees. Bracket. Republican; c. ID /
/ Sullivan and Schulz. Democrats.
| Speeches by Senators Grady. Raines and AIi1s
| sounded almost like we'll rehearsed sections or
| play Senators before the debate began told
| almost exactly what the vote would BE- What
| the result may be vas set fOFth BY Senator
| Frederick NJ. Davenport at the end OF a. mas
| terly argument for the confirmation OF Mr. Cook;
| when he said:
IT. like Senator RaInes and all the rent oS us.
am waiting to the bills before say whether
/ I for against popular cOntFoI OF ths'
| nominating machinery. But want 10 say tot
you now. you men who opposing the nomi-;
nation OF Mr.. Cook these 6irnsy grounds. you
are framing an argument in favor of direct prf-
mary nominations which will be-Sread at every
hreside in this state"
GOVERNORS SUPPORTERS HAPPY.
Supporters Of the Governors direct primary
plan almost tubiIant tonight
Have these Senators imagination or no
Bile they cannot see they have done EBore BY +,
this afternoons work to pass a direct primary
bill than Governor Hughes could have dons by
weeks Of speechrnaking? And actually, mis-.
guided men, some OF them think they have tn-i
jured the Governor by the stand they have.
takent"
Debate on the confirmation OF Mr. Cook as
sumed high plane il for one moment the spec
| tators could have forgotten the result had been
I
the nominee the charge Of not being Demo-
crat- Senator Grady itemized the charge-fai1-
ure to vote for Bryan and ChanIer. failure 70
support Democrat for member OF Assembly in
1905 and the next three years and. worst Of all.
the display of Taft and Hughes Autographs in
the windows Of his home Assistant counsel for
| the prosecution We're Senators Raines and Aids,
who brought arguments.
Senator's Hnman and Davenport for the de-
fence, entered a plea in confession and avoid
ance. admitting the truth Of the charges but
contending that their truth did not make Mr..
Cook any less a Democrat. They cited tbs
primary laws, which require a TO declare
himself only "tn sympathy with the general
principles of his party and a decIarati1r Of in
tent ito support generally the candidates -
that party Witnesses summoned included SEN
ators Cobb and Heacock Republicans. who tes-
titled from personal experience that Mr. Cook
was actively, even violently, Democrat
TESTIFY By DEPOSITION.
Prominent Democrats OF Mr.. Cooks county,
lifelong acquaintance, who said they nsver Rad
dreamed Of questioning his Democracy. testified
by deposition But. seemingly, element intro
duced by Senator Grady, an element later char
acterized by Senator Davenport as "a gentle
mems agreement had more weight with the
Jury than anything else. Mr.. Grady declared
that there had been an agreement between the
highway commission which drafted the new
highway code by which the minority party az
the next election was TO have one member OF ths
commission. He declared that the Democrats.
considering Mr.. Cook independent. would
have none Of him. and called tmpsssionedly on
the Republicans to carry out the golden rule
do unto your fellows in this Senate you would
have them do unto you.
When the Finance Committees report vas
read this morning Senator Heacock precfpitated
the fight by moving that Mr.. Cook be confirmed
Immediately. Senator Aids. chairman OF the
Finance Committee. declared that Mr.. Cooks
Democracy had been investigated at length by
that body. The question was q matter OF Law.
There was absolutely intent to question Mr..
Cooks ability character fitness for the
place. Simply the law provided that the minor
ity member OF ths commission must belong To-
the party which az the election OF 1908 cast the
second highest number OF votes. Mr. Cook adj
mitted that at that time he voted for Taft Shsr-
man and Hughes.
Thereupon Senator Grady told OF the agree
ment among the members OF the Highway Com
mission-"an agreement as binding on this SEN
ate as ever was contract between man and
man." This condition was not urged by Demo-
Gratis. but emanated from Republicans he said
The facts said Grady were so plain that the
most ordinary Judgment could form an accurata
opinion on them Mr. Cook came OF good
Democratic family. and up TO 1892 his Democ-
racv never had been impugned In 1895 aud
1900 he voted for the Republican candidates for
President IN 1904 the Democratic candidates
for President and Governor. and in 1905 the
Republican candidates for President ana Gov
ernOr Then he read from the Century Diction-
airy definitions Of the terms party man and par
tisan.' declaring that one could be a true
party unless he a partisan. Mr.. Cook.
he said. came under the heading independent
and il the highway Law had called for the ap-
pointment of an independent nobody would
question Mr. Cooks coming within the exact
definition of the term.
HINMAN DEFENDS COOK
Senator Hinman Immediately took up the Cook
defence. To hear Gradys discussion. he said
one would think the only work OF the Highway
Investigating Commission had been 10 parcel
out these three jobs in the future commission
What the real situation?" he askeS
We had our farms deserted and agri,ult-
ural interests suffering. Attempts we're made
| TO improve conditions by building good roads
| This was turned into partisan politics In my
/ own county this effort was used solely To build