The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-07-31
VOORHEES, AND THE SOLDIERS.
What a Soldier and Ex.Dem0cratic Ed
itOr Thinks Of the Assertion that
voorhees, and the Democratic
Leaders were Frienus Of
the Soldier

democratic papers In this pant or The
State and whose father, Charles L.
Murray, now edi il, was "A soldier oi
the Uuion army and is now in Wash
ington. An old army c.made resid
ing at Indianapolis wrote TO him
while Congress was in session asking
him to use his Influence to secure
him certain position on the grounds
that he was a union soldier. Murray
replied as follows:
WASHINGTON. July 2.
My DEAR JoE:-You dou'L seem to
realize just how things are run hele.
Fun quite sure you don't, since you
appear 10 entertain a more or less re
mote idea that your having been a
soldier, and wounded and starved
and all that sort of thing will recon-
mend you TO Il place uLder our Dem
ocratic friend, D.ck Bright, aud, pos
sibly, that all our other Democi attic
friends, headed by Voorhees,, will be
at the Baltimore depot 10 offer their
services and influence. There is only
one way l can account for your halIu-
cinaiion, and that is in the presump-
ton that you have been reading
Voorhees, On Voorhees, military re
cord. And So you want me to tell
! hx.n tr wuh L s..f-
chances are?
Very we'll. In the first place, the
simple fact Of your having been iu
the active service of the uuion army
would be against you. 1t is fact, ]
fear, as has been charged by our OPP
ponents, that there is only one army
service that comnends man TO the
Congressional Democracy, aud that
il. having been a CoUfedera:e. 1t il
a tact, know, that it is sheerest non
sense to b lse any claim upon having
been union soldier. Why, my dear
fellow, they'd laugh at you'll There
is no soldier known by our present
party here but the Confederate sol.
dicr. It's little tough TO have TO
come up to the rack and acknowledge
that you were in the wrong army
and l don't believe that you would
like TO do it. never took any stock in
this soldier business, always regard
ing ii as party catch-penny, even
when a member OF the Republican
party. But II the Republicans made
themselves contemplate IN the sol
dier clap-trap, what the ID are We
TO characterize those latter day Dem
ocratic pretenses? Think OF tie ef
I itery and adamantine cheek OF
Dan Voorhees,, who always hated d
soldier worse than the devil does
holy water, is now claiming TO be the
soldiers "ownest only" darling cham
.pionl Don't it paralyzs you? The
idea OF Voorhees, and Dick Bright
cool" Dick) setting 'p for tried
apostles of the Indiana soldi ry
Great Godl
or course. as Democrat, in full
accord with my p rty l must admit
it is true. But between you and me
and the ink bottle, what cussed fools
the soldiers were that thep didn't un.
derstand this thing duling the war,
when they were running around with
ropes TO elevate Dan to the lamp
posts and apple trees. Dan was one
OF the best friends the union soldier
ever had. He didn't want 'em to go
to war at all. There are good many
OF them now living who wish they
had taken his advice. Now. Joe.
don't get offended or suspicious. My
Democracy can no more be ques
TONED than yours. But / am neither
a fool nor running for Office. Why
not look the truth in the face?
You overrate my influence il you
think I can be OF any service TO you.
II you had been Confederate sol
dier, or even come from Virginia, or
anywhere south OF Mason and Dix
on's line, or could fix up collateral
relation with some Senator, | could
offer you some encouragement. Voor
hees has a son and "a couple of
nephews in Office, aud so have nearly
all Democratic Senators who have
any relations. Yet Voorhees, made
the best effort OF his life" on nepot-
ism applied to Grant. Dick Bright
has been under the thumb OF the ex-
Confederate captains, and with all his
love. coupled with McDonald's, Vooi-
hees' and other Indiana Democrats,
for the boys ia blue have not been
able 10 score the appointment tf a
single union soldier. III so, I have
/ been unable to find them. But Bright
has the son OF prostitute on his
staff, | am Informed by policeman.
The woman is the keeper of "A bawdy
house here. / don't know whether
anybody but the boys mother backs
him, or precisely what figure the
business cuts in the process OF cat
skinning. L don't know as Dick
knows Ii. Bat it becomes a part ol
the record our party is making and
upon which We must go into the nj xi
contest. All those things come ou,
sooner or later.
There is not any better chance for
you under Burcb, the Secretary OF