The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-25
LAST NIGHTS MASS MEETING.

Senator Voorhees, Resurrects His McSweeny
SpeecTi-A Burst of Grecian E1oquence.
A Democratic mass meeting was held at En-
glishs Opera-house lastnight, under the auspices
of the editorial association, the meeting be-
ginning with good sized audience. The first
speaker was Thomas r. Marshall of Whitley
county, who spoke on 1.-THE Young Democracy. y
The Grafton was of the sophomore kind, and was
hardly well under way before Senator Voorhees,
came stalking upon the stage, in the mist of one
of his most ornate periods, giving the
audience the opportunity of killing two birds
with one stone as the same applause that reeog-
nized and honored the Tall Sycamore gave them
a rest from the young Columbian orator. Mr..
Marshall resumed, however, considerably re-
freshed by the halt He laid great stress upon
the vigilance of the adolescent Democracy, and,
pointing to Mr.. Voorhees,, exclaimed: Let not
Agamemnon rest uneasily, many a young
Achilles is standing guard to-night'-a verbal
bouquet that apparently wasted its sweetness
on the desert air, as it passed entirely without
recognition. He closed saying: II will
no longer delay from you the words
of Nestor aud Gamaliel"-another dose
that was at least half Greek to the audience
Senator Voorhees, then read paper on THE
Relation of the Public Servant to the People. "
The first half hour of Mr.. Voorhees, paper was
largely spiced with references to ancient Greece
and Rome and would serve as companion
piece to Senator McDonald's wonderful and
timely tribute to the Phoenician navy The
latter part of his speech was taken up with an
attack on James G. Blaine on account of his
failure to effect the release of Daniel McSweeny
of San Francisco who, after being a naturalized
citizen of the United States for twenty-five
years returned with his wife and eight children
to ireland and was there arrested and
thrown into Dundalk Jail, guiltless of
any crime except that he had expressed sympa-
thy for the people about him who were suffering
under the terrible exactions of cruel landlords
Mr.. Voorhees,, with great vehemence charged
that Mr.. Blaine, during the ten months that he
held the office of Secretary of State had done
nothing in this case, nor in any case, except in
the matter of certain claims against poor and
feeble Peru He closed with sounding eulogy
on the glory and beauty of the freedom of the
press.
Aletter was read from Hon. VIM J. Holman
who regretted his inability to be present. The
letter contained a dismally jocose allusion to
himself as the objector and the usual taffy con
corning the power of the press.
Hon, Cyrus F. MeNutt, of Terre Haute, read
a paper on Free Schools Propagated and Ma
tured by the Democratic Party" Mr.. McNutt
had scarcely begun to read that IAN old philoso-
pher was once asked to solve a problem" when
the audience, having heard Mr.. Voorhees,
speech which they probably thought was quite
enough for one evening" rose as 400 men, and
rushed for the door.
Mr.. McNutt remarked, II guess had better
ask leave to print" and prepared to fold up his
manuscript like the Arab Encouraged by Mr.
Voorhees,, the chairman and four or five sympa-
thetc reporters, Mr.. McNutt proceeded. The
paper was a well-prepared one, and tried to es-
tablish the fact that Indiana was indebted to the
Democratic party for all benefits now enjoyed in
our school system He concluded that while
the Republican party had not done the school
system any particular violence, it had not added
one inch to the structure"
The chairman announced that Adolph Seiden-
sticker of Indianapolis, was not present to
speak on the subject allotted to him-"Our
Adopted Citizens"-and the remnant of the
meeting adjourned