I never alluded to what one party or the other did. but to have a labored speech made here showing that the Republican party is responsible for this evil that it has labored so zealously to prevent can not go unrebuked by me. I regret that I have been on the present occasion under the necessity of alluding to the action of Judge Thurman. but when he is held up as an earnest opponent of the Chinese evil and leading Republicans are denounced. I felt it my duty to call attention to his position when the principal question regarding the Chinese was settled in the Senate and naturalization denied to millions of Asiatics by Republican votes. secured by Republican arguments. againsttheTrumnbullThurmanschene to stifle debate and accomplish indirectly what the Senator from Ohio. Mr. Thurman. would not do directly. and which he freely denounces on all public occasions as wicked and outrageous.
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