Session #51 · 1889–91

Speech #510117392

Are you without issues?- Are you without a policy? Can you not bring in anything except the name of John I. Davenport. coupling it at this late day with the false charge that the several thousand naturalization papers which he seized were valid. and that the men who held them were legal voters. when it has been acknowledged here broadly. not today. but within a few weeks. that those same men have not been able to vote from that day to this because their naturalization papers were taken from them? � If those naturalization papers were correct and valid. why did not you proceed in the courts ? Why did you leave those six or seven thousand voters out of the count when New York was so close year after year and when your only hope of the Presidency depended upon securing the vote of that State? Are you so cowardly. are you so without resources. do you understand so little of the laws and processes of the courts of the country that you could not avail yourselves of those thousands of votes which you claimed were legal through all those years when you were struggling in the State of New York to get her electoral vote as your only means of capturing the Presidency ?
Keywords matched
naturalization

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
SERENO PAYNE
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
510117392
Paragraph
#2
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