The Irish standard., 1916-04-08
comes to describe what happened on

this day:
"'But that dreadful Sunday dawned
and l went to Gainesville, not to see
the men hung, for would not see any
of these men hung; but l went to
see how things which were going on
would terminate. took my seat in
the same porch at the northeast corner
of the square, where l sat when the
Ia men passed which the mob took
from the jury and hung.
1.-The hanging did not commence
very early, and when the last one
was hung the sun was low. There
were 40 hung, and who broke from
the guard were shot and killed, max
ing AZ Deaths
And every face that was distorted
in death beneath that elm tree was
the face of white American citizen,
an American perhaps, whose lineage
dated back to the founders of the
Republic, the very kind of citizen for
whose protection and welfare the gen.
tleman from Texas has made an as
sault on other citizens on account of
the accident of their birth or the man.
ner in which they worship God.
Under the law of the United States
every man who wilfully had taken
part in this wholesale murder could
have been regularly tried by court
martial and hanged according to law.
An order was issued preventing the
military trial OF these men. If they
had been hunted down and regularly
tried and hanged, there would even
be more patriotism in the 18th district
of Texas today than there is now.
"Mr. Chairman, l make this asser-
ton boldly that owing to the very
fact that the north had cosmopOli-
tan population which, although united
in devotion to the Union, it could not
be united in any plan or policy to
wreak vengeance on the fallen south.
If they were homogeneous pOpula-
/ tion and if they were all of that noble
| stock represented by the gentleman
from Texas, they would have paroled
out the south, and especially Texas,
| among the victorious soldiers in the
good old Anglo-Saxon way. If this
happened, the gentleman probably
would not be here. Being man of
evident piety, every time he looks
about on the fair and limitless patri-
| mony of Texas he ought most de.
voutly to thank his Maker that the
loyal people of the United States were
/ not all like him. l do not dislike him
personally. He is a good man for
Gainesville, giving expression to the
philosophy OF the region in which he
lives and the light in which it is
studied. He probably desires to adj
vertise Texas at the expense of the
immigrant, and il this is his purpose
| shall help him. Oh, yes; like him,
but do not like his exclusive and
| narroW-minded doctrine. If it is a fact
| that Texas has Il horror of the immi-
grant. 1t is fitting and proper that
the gentleman from Texas should do
his best to cause the immigrant to
have a horror OF Texas. If this is an
| acceptable service in that state. he
has certainly rendered it with a de-
gree of effectiveness and ability rarely
ever performed through the medium
| 81 believe that a monument ought
to be erected by the government to
OF the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
commemorate those AZ martyrs who
suffered death primarily for their de.
votion to the government of the Unit.
cd States. and it is my present pur.
pose to introduce a bill to erect n
shaft that will plead to posterity for
their remembrance. They did not die
III vain! These men would not have
barred the worthy immigrant from our
shores, and the immigrant children
OF this glorious Republic in this day
and hour breathe prayer for their
everlasting repose.'
This is the penalty Texas paws for
sending a man like Stephens to Con.
gress.
On Thursday Mr.. Stephens OF Texas
called the attention OF the House to
the fact that during his absence the
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.
Gallivan) made an unjust and unwar-
ranted attack on some of the good
citizens OF Cooke County, Texas,
which he would answer at a later
date. He said, at was furthest from
my thought VIXEN l wrote this Ian
guage in the speech to raise any ques-
ton relative to any religion or want
OF religion and the argument here
! was that we should have no hyphe-
mated American in this country so
strongly set forth as it is in the presi.
dents last message to this House,
That seems to be the gist of my crime
and the reason why the gentleman
has become so aroused and attacks
the people of my district as he has
DONE"
Mr. Gallivan--"Mr. Speaker, l ac-
cept the gentlen.an's apology. Uaugh-
ter The next tina tIot l,o rot,