The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-27
REsENTs REFLECTION ON HON.
ESTE AND INTEGRITY OF CON-
STlTUENTS BY NEB2ASkAN.
NORRIS IMPEACHES HIMSELF
Condemns Charge of Political Rot
tenness Made "WhiIe ConceaIing the
Truth About Own Partf and Canui-
dates"

Washington, July 26.-In a bitter
sptlch in the house today, Represen-
tative Humphrey of Washington re-
piled to Representative Norris, who
yesterday concluded speech in which
ne Condemned teh recent Chicago
republican convention, and charged
that the delegates from the state of
Washington had been obtained for
President Taft through political cor
ruption. Mr.. Humphrey disayowed
any personal knowledge of the man
ner in which the delegates were Sc
lected, saying he was not at home at
the time.
But | do resent the attempt of the
gentleman from Nebraska, Mr.. Nor
ris,' he declared, TO reflect uron the
honesty and integrity Of a large num-
Der of the citizens of my state by
quoting the opinion Of some man
whose name he is not willing to give.
The gentleman in his speech said in
substance that a certain gentleman
Of wide acquaintance and of high
standing whose statements would have
great weight with the members of
this house and of the country, and
who was conversant with all the facts
had stated to him that the delegates
from the state of Washington to the
republican national convention were
absolutely stolen.
Mr.. Humphrey recalled the fact
that he repeatedly called upon Mr.
Norris to name his authority. Mr..
Norris, he said, had declared the man
IN question was a supporter Of Pres
ident Taft and a candidate for office
and for that reason had refused to
permit the use of his name,
What Measure OF Honesty?
May l ask the gentleman from Ne
braska what rule he uses in measur..
ing the honesty and the credibility of
candidates for office?" demanded Mr..
Humphrey. He insisted that a man
of such character as the unknown
informant was entitled to no credit.
"The gentleman from Nebraska is
himself a candidate for high office"
continued Mr.. Humphrey, land If he
is to subscribe tc the doctrine that
he has advanced in behalf of his I'M
known witness, that when he Is a
candidate for office he is excusable
for acting with a party that he knows
is corrupt; that he is excusable for
supporting candidate dishonesty
nominated for the highest office in
the civilized world; that he is excus-
able for not giving facts in regard to
the dishonesty and graft in his own
party, does not the gentleman i'm
peach himself and place himself in
a position where his own motives
may be justly questioned?'
In vehement alnguage Mr.. Humpn-
rey condemned those who charged
political corruption and political rot
tenness in the camp of their oppon-
ents, while concealing the truth
about their own party and their own
Inns seems 10 be the logic of the
position of the gentleman from Ne
braska,' he said. 81 regret to say that
this does seem today to be the ap-
proved method Of large class of
professional reformers who are seek
in by the volume of their vocabu-
larry to make the public believe that
with them rests the salvation of the
republic, and that without them vir-
tue shall perish from the earth"
Mr. Humphrey referred to the state
ment of MI. Norris that those who
had supported Mr. Taft had destroyed
the republican party. He retorted with
heat that if any man had done more
to destroy the party than Mr.. Norris,
the democratic party should erect |
costly monuments to his memory and
sing his praise in song and story"