The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-23
VOORHEES, BOMBSHELL.
The 'sTaII Sycamore Bendeth
and Leaneth Toward the Re-
publican Party.
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D. w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, Ion
rt Democrat of the most pronounce
Bourbon stripe, turned his back tC
day 0h his Democratic associates i
Congress, and set his face in the di
e rection of the Administration camp
There is reason for believing tha
e this was done in pursuance of SOM
d arrangement made with Admins
tTation leaders, If not with the Pres
ident himself. AS long ago a
= Thursday last The rumor was afioa
on the Democratic side of the Hous'
that VOORHEES, had sold out. Tht
story was that he had had au inter
view with the President, in which
Grant had said: "There are mum
ber of men in the Republican party
that we would like to get rid of, anG
take in their places just such Demo
Gratis as you, Mr.. Voorhees," and
! that VOORHEES, agreed to aid Grant
by trying to disrupt the Democratic
party in case it should indorse Gree.
ley, This report was carried to
voorhees, on Friday, by some of the
newspaper correspondents, but he
denied its truth so strenuously that
they did not publish it, notwith-
standing the fact that several Demo
cratic members declared that they
had it on good authority, and pre-
dicted that VOORHEES, would soon be-
gin to perform his part of the bar
gain by making a furious attack
upon Mr.. Greeley in the House.
Their predictions were verified
this morning. AS soon as the House
had assembled, Mr.. VOORHEES, asked
leave to make a personal explana.
ton, which was of course granted
He first had read a newspaper para
graph setting forth that all the In
diana Representatives except him.
self We're favorable to Greeley's
nomination, and that he was halt
ing. Upon this text he proceeded
to make fifteen minutes speech,
beginning by eulogizing himself for
long devotion to principle and con-
viction, and passing from this self
laudation to violent denunciation of
Mr.. Greeley, whom he held up
as a monster of inconsistency, folly
and ferocity. lie denounced him
for, his protection theories; he ae.,
cused him of advocating the right
of the Southern States to secede,
and said he was afterward the
strongest advocate for coercion,
shouting his "On to Richmond |"
like wild beast, hungry for blood,
and shrieking for his prey. He de-
clared that Greeley had urged the
passage of the Ku-KIux law, while
Grant had only enforced the law, as
he was bound by his oath to do, and
that the same was true of the odious
Enforcement Act. AS he progressed
he grew more and more violent in
his denunciation of Greeley, and
worked his face into an expression
of hatred that was far from attrac-
tive.
The Administration members left
their seats and massed themselves
in his front with delighted counten-
ances. The Democrats, with few
exceptions, were manifestly both
angry and disgusted at the perform
ance. Mr.. Speer tried to interrupt
VOORHEES, with point of ORDER
There were cries of "Sold out"
"Paid by the White House," 'Gone
over to Grant," and the like. Mr..
Roosevelt asked VOORHEES, if he in
tended to support the action of the
National Democratic Convention,
and got an equivocal reply. Voor-
hees, after much interruption, con-
cluded his violent harangue by pro-
testing, in the name of the noblest
voting population the world ever
saw, against the effort to transfer
them to the Cincinnati movement,
and declaring that General Grant,
who prevented the arrest and i'm
prisonment of Lee, was more worthy
of the support of Democrats, and
especially of Southerners, than the
man who bailed Jefferson Davis
out. At this the Administration
members, who had listened with
evident delight to the whole speech,
could restrain themselves no longer,
and broke out in hearty round of
applause. This added to the indig-
nation of the Democrats.
Mr.. Sherwood, of Pennsylvania,
denounced the speech as made in
the interest of the Republican party.
There was great confusion and ex-
citement upon the floor, amid which
Roosevelt was heard to say that be
had been informed by good authori-
ty. that VOORHEES, had had an inter
view with the occupant of the White
House, and that his speech was the
result of that interview. VOORHEES,
replied that if Roosevelt had heard
such story he had been associating
with liars. Roosevelt retorted that
he bad it from Voorhees,.
After Voorhees, applauders had
gone back to their seats on the Re-
publican side, and quiet had been
measurably restored, Mr.. Kerr said
that the newspaper paragraph Mr..
Voorhees, had read was untrue,