Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-02
COSelUDlEG DEBATE OH THE EDAUADS
RESOLUTIONS.

authority. He said the bill was
suggested by reports of recent Oc-
cMlcuccs at Carrollton, Miss. Ac.
cuaing To- these reports 3 wanton
and uuproyoacd crime had been
committed, resulting in the death
of q large number OF citizens, in
which The victims were of one race
aud, he presumed of one political
party, and all the murderers of an
other This bill, Mr.. Hoar said,
was intended TO supply a method
of inquiry which would be removed
from politics.
the Edmund's resolutions were
then placed before the Senate, and
Mr. ingalls, took the floor in sup
port Of the majority resolutions.
II had been charged, Mr.. Ingalls,
SAID, that the Senate was trying
to keep Republicans in office. The
HepubllcansOf Kansas were neither
afraid to be so classified nor
ashamed 10 be thus described.
They were proud of the achieve.
mculs Of their party. For twenty
five years they had stood upon the
shirmish line, neither asking nor
giving quarter. They were Repub-
hcaus by inheritance, not by acct
dent, but from their convictions,
can give The reason for the faith
that is IN them. There was neither
detection nor dismay in their col
umns, and they were eager to the
conflict. The Republicans Of Kans-
as and Mr.. Ingalls, believed that
no Republican could hold Office
under a Democratic Administra-
ton without either sacrificing his
conviction or FORGETTING his self
esteem, and Owhen new Admin
lstratlOn was lnaugurated Kansas
Republicans began to make excuses
for retiring to private life. They
did not stand upon the order OF
their going, they fairly trampled
Oh each other Gin tumultuOus and
indecent haste), SAID Mr.. Ingalls,, to
get out of Office. There was no crav-
ing for merit. Mr.. ingalls, did not
believe in nOnpartisanship. Polit-
zeal parties were indispensable to
popular governments. He had no
patience with men who believed It
a badge of virtue not to belong to
political party, or that it reflect
ed glory on n statesman to affect
Independence of his party. The
new party had been recruited from
The Republican party If there was
any genuine ciyil.service refOrmer
who had deserted the ranks OF the
Democracy, history did not record
his name.
Continuing, Mr.. ingalls, said the
ncuter gender was not popular
either in nature or science. "Male
and female created them. But there
was third sex-if that could 'sex'
be called-which sex had none, re-
suting sometimes from cruel ca.
price Of nature, at others from ac-
cldcnt Of malevolent design, pos.
sesSng the voices of both and yir-
tues OF neither, unable either to
bcget or TO bear, possessing neither
iccundity nor virllIty,endowed with
the contempt Of men and the deri
sion of women. Doomed to sterili-
IS, isolation and extinction said
the Senator, "they have Two funo-
lions, they sing lalsetto great mer.
ument aud are usually selected as
the guardians Of the seragliOs of
Oriental despots.' To come from
figure to fact, this third party had
distinguished itself by singing in
falsetto phrases or civil service re-
form, and had been selected as the
guardians of the conscience of the
National Government.
Continuing, Senator ingalls, said
he was not here to impugn the good
faith, patriotism, or many extraor-
binary qualities OF President Cleye.
land, "the sphinx of American poll.
ties Whether Grover Cleveland
was a very great or very small
man, his career forbid any other
conclusion than that he was a very
extraordinary man. Grover Cleve-
land, the man who at the mature
age of 81 abandoned an hOnered
profession that he might become
sheriff of an interior country, was
selected as the Democratic candi-
date for the presidency, and when,
year ago, he took the oath OF
Office at the capitol, he encounter
cd an audience not One-twentieth
part of which had ever seen him,
and the greater part did not know
him even by name two years before
the rise Of Napolean, hr. Ingalls,
said, was dazzling. Many others
had sprung from obscurity to fame,
but no Illustration OF an elevation
from an obscurity so profound to a
height 50 brilliant and dazzling
wasrccorded in history as the selec-
ton Of Grover Cleveland to be the
Chief Magistrate of the people. If,
continued, Mr.. Ingalls,, when lnau-
gurated President Cleveland had
determined that the functions OF
Government should be exercised
by men Of his own party, the nation
would have been content, and here
on, SAID the Senator, was founded
the Justification that the majority
of the Senate could use in demand
ing that no action should be taken
in connection with the proposed re-
mOvals from office until there had
bccu satisfactory assurance that IN
justice had not been done. But
what was the Presidents attitude I
Through all his political utterance,
from his letter of acceptance down
to to-day, he had denounced the
Of political changes in the
OF the country. He had
declared that there should be nc
changes for political reason where
the incumbents were competent.
But some Republicans had been
suspended and others retained, and
what was the irresistible inference,
the logic Of the situation, in view
of the Presidents utterances, OK
ccpt that every suspended man
was suspended for cause and not
for political reasons ! Abiding to
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