Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — STIRS UP THE ANIMALS. [ARTICLE]

STIRS UP THE ANIMALS.

KepMfr ■ of Ohl., la fM ■S.ctian Ml aid Xfalait Senator. Who Oppo». It. Me. Kennedy, a Republican Represents tivafroin Ohio, made a remarkable speech in t£e House Wedhesnay afternoon. He addressed the House as to xheClaytors Breckinridge contest, firstpointingoutthe details of that case, which he thought was argument for the Lodge bill. He said that he was ready to stand by Republican doctrine to the last, and continued: “Speaking for myself, I shall nail the banker of the Republican party to the masthead, with the doctrine which has become inseparable front the history of its existence, and which demands the protection of the humblest citizen in the right to an honest ballot and the protection o life and property, and stand ready to defend that doctane to the last. * * ’ —* That the election bifThas been killed by Republicans, or pretended Republicans, is tfcue- Without fair treatment, the bill, which the House of Representatives said was imperatively demanded for the preservation of its own honor, and for it safety and stability, and for the protection of the whole country against outrage, and intimidation, and violence, is deliberately put aside without hearing and without opportunity of consideration. When before in all the past history of legislation has one House of Congress deliberately put upon the other the mark of derision and contempt! The consideration of this matter was demanded by every sense Of decency and honor. It was demanded by the House of Representatives that its floor might be purged of those who are enabled to enter by reasons of violence and murder. “The Senate of the United States will learn that there is a bar of public opinion, and that at that bar it is now being tried. To have been a Senator in the days of Webster and Clay and Calhoun, was to have been part of a body that won and had the admiration of the people, North and South. To have been a Senator in the days of Wade, and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to have been associated with men whose sense of honor would have scorned the purchase of a seat, and would have denied companionship to one whose name was tarnished o’er by even a suspicion of infamy or corruption. If the Roman toga had been bedraggled in the filth and the mire of the centuries, surely the clcak of ‘Senatorial courtesy’ has become a stench in the nostrils and a by word in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land. “It makes a cloak behind which ignorant and arrogant wealth can purchase its way to power and then hide its cowardly head behind the shameless protection of ‘Senatorial silence.’ It moans a cloak which shall cover up from the public gaze of an outraged people the infamies which de-> mand investigation and which merit the punishment of broken laws and violated statutes. It means a cloak behind which petty party bickerings may barter away a party’s principles and play the demagogue in the face of the people. It means a cloak under Which not only the timid, but cowm ardly politician can cover up his tracks and be either foul or fair as the necessity demands. The hour for Senatorial courtesy has passed. The ox team of Senatorial progress must give way to the motor of a more enlightened and progressive and determined age. Let the old and threadbare cloak of Senatorial courtesy be hung up with the sickle and the flail of a bysgone day.” Referring to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Mr. Kennedy said: “It was meet and fitting that Judas should be paid the thirty pieces of silver. It was still a part of the eternal fitness of things that, having been guilty of the basest crime of all the centuries, ho should go out and hang himself. History is repeating itself. The great party of the Republic, having lived for thirty-five years, has never yet assisted in riviting the shackles on a human being, and now, when it was to be expected that ifr ful to its history, it is about to prove false and its repeated promises are not to be re>deemed. It comes victorious from every field, and if it fails now it finds in its own party those who are faithless to the trust reposed in them. If it is to be crucified, it is only because its chosen leaders have bartered away its principles for the tricks and petty schemes of politicians. The Judas Iscariot of two thousand years ago is to find a counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of to-day. The Judas who took the thirty pieces of silver and went and hanged himself, has left an example for the Mat Quays that is well worthy their imitation. “Some time since I stood in my place on this floor and denounced a Senator from my native State because, when charged with corruption and branded with infamy, he did notarise in his seat and demand an investigation and inquiry that should establish the purity of his actions and his PQrßonal hgnor, .One _Qther occnnying high place in the counsels of the party to which I belong has suffered himself, month in and month out, to be charged with crimes and misdemeanors, for which, if guilty, he should have been condemned under the laws of his State and have meted out to him the fullest measure of punishment. This man is a Republican. Shall I now remain silent? Is it just and honest to remain in my seat silent bccau e one who is accused of crimesand refuses to seek for vindication is a Republican, and that Republican the recognized leader of my party 1 Neither decency nor honor would permit me tq,do so. I do not know whether the charges m#de against the chairman of the National Republican Committee are tnie or false, but Ido know that they have been made by journals of character,, and standing again and again, and I know that, in the face of these charges, Mat Quay has remained silent and has neither sought nor attempted to seek opportunity to vindicate himself from them. “Ido know, as a great Republican leader he owed it to the great party at whose head he was, either to brand theta as infamies or to prove their falsity, or he owed it to that party to stand aside from its leadership. He has not done either, and for this I denounce him. The Republican party , can not afford to follow the lead of a

branded criminal. He has failed to justify hhnself, and though opportunity and am-’ pie time have been given him he remains silent His silence, under such fcircumstances is the confession of guilt An honorable man does not long dally when his honor is assailed. Ho has delayed too long to justify the belief in his innocence, and he stands a convicted criminal before the bar of public opinion. Under such circumstances he should be driven from the head of a party whose very life his presence im perils. The Republican party has done enough for its pretended leader. It is no longer a question of his vindication: it is now a question of the life of the party itself-" W AND CUMMING ALSO. Mr. Cummings, of New York, rising to a question of privilege on the 4th, protested, against his “blacklisting” by the famous Cannon resolution. The gentleman who had offered the resolution had made unjust imputations, and in making these imputations hg had falsified the record, and blacklisted himself. He then proceeded to make an attack upon Mr. Cannon, comparing him to the noted Linville of the French revolution. In support of his resolution, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Cannon) had appealed to the record. The gentleman from lowa (Mr. Henderson) had seconded the gentleman from Illinois, and had used the word “sneak.”- There had been some sneaking done, as the record indicated. The record showed that the Speaker had refused to the House the list of names of the absentees. Fancy the great Chairman of the Committee on Ap-propriations-the successor of Samuel J. Randall—sneaking to the Clerk’s desk and obtaining surreptitiously, a list of members that had been refused to the House, and upon this list basing a false accusation against his fellow members that had been refused to the House, and upon this list basing a false accusation against his fellow members. Was not that an act worthy of Linnville? He then proceeded to arraign the Speaker and the majority of the Committee on Rules. This majority composed a triumvirate almost as powerful as the one which sprang into life after the assassination of Julius Caesar. When the House met in the morning Mark Anthony recognized Lepidus or Octavius and nobody else. All the legislative meat was cut and dried and distributed according to a prearranged program; Mr. Cummings was frequently inters rupted by Mr. Kerr, of lowa, and Mr. Rowell, of. Illinois, with the point of order that he was not confining himself to a question of personal privilege. Mr. Cummings proceeded with his arraignment of the Speaker, but after frequent interruptions, asked unanimous consent to print the remainder of his remarks in the Record, but this consent was refused by Messrs. Kerr anu Dunnell.