Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-04-02
Voorhees, Speech.

Below will ba found "a few cxtraci
from the speech of Hon. ID. ".
Voorhees,, of Indiana, in the L. :.
cnata on the Edmunds resolutions
Mr. Voorhees, spoke 10 the point
and showed clearly that Mr.. Ed
munds and his Republican allies,
had not so much the good Of tn
country at heart as the perpetuation
OF tens of thousands Of Republicans
III office.
Mr.. Voohees heartily indorsed
Mr.. Lleveland'a action in making re
movais so far as action had beer
had, and he would heartily indorse
| the presidents action IN tue same
direction if it went a thousand
leagues farther. The civil service law
had never commended itself to the
Judgment of Mr. Voorhees,. Very
recently he had voted III committees
and shoul vote in the senate for its
absolute repeal. 1t had proven it
self to be violent aud Odious OBJ
struction to the will of the people,
and stumbling block in the way of
q national and successful adminlstra-
ton of the government. With the
exception of fourth class postmasters
there were at the present moment ten
Republicans in office to one Demo
crat.
He had no hesitatiOns in declaring
that such a state of things was not
consistent with the true theory of
popular government. or with the
safe and honest administration of the
government, and such charge was
not properly limited to changes in
few Chi offices. History had shown
that no political party could admin
ister the affairs of a government
through the instrumentalIty of enc
mics.
At this very hour Mr.. Voorhees, de-
clared that there was not confidential
communication or transaction of any
one of the deparemsnts that was not
betrayed to the leaders of the Re
publican party. The very papers
demanded by the senate were famil-
lar to eager Republican eyes. Every
paper, and every drawer, and every
closet in the department were daily
and hourly under the espionage of
Republican private secretaries and
Republican confidential shorthand
writer's. Those who opened the
letters of the heads of departments
were known as malignant opponents
OF the Democratic party ,lnfamed with
a desire Tor the overthrow of the adj
minlstration.
MIR. Voorhees, sald the president
could not be blamed for moving
slowly. Every act of his admins
tration was in the light direction and
the country would understand why
greater progress had not been made
and would place the responsibility
where it belonged.
Mr.. Voorhees, said that the evils
predicted by the Republicans when
the Democrats should come into
power had not come. The ''Confed-
crate brigadiers" at both ends of the
capital continued to vote annually
500, 100000 for pensions to union
soldiers and as to the colored citizens
President Cleveland gave them occa-
sloEauy good office.
Referring TO Mr.. Wilson'S charac-
terizatlon of the Democratic party as
''protoplasm' Mr.. Voorhees, said it
was fortunate for the Democracy
that the colored people had not
been told before election that the
Democratic party was q protopIasm
| laughter and as to what would
have happened, If instead of the
word itself, the senator from Iowa
had used its definition as given by
ebster, namely: that 1t was ''the
viscid nitrogenous material in veg
etable cells, by which the process OF
nutrition, secretion and growth goes
forward" Mr.. Voorhees, imagina
ton shrank from contemplation OF
the probable results. Renewed
laughter.
If 1T had been understood that the
Democratic paaty was anything like
''non-celluIar formation of veg.
etable substance" Mr. Voorhees, haG
not the slightest doubt that that par
ty would have been counted out il
New York. Laughter. The sen
ator from Iowa ought to have attack
ed the Democratic prrty in hy'
pothenuse or rectangular parable
Iona laughter, but all the calum
nies heaped on the party had beer
exploded. The party had shown
that it could not be trusted. In the
last election III the state of the sena'
tor from Iowa that senator was al
unwilling witness to the fact that the
Republican ''protop'asmic" major
ity of 10000 was evolved into /:
n floating dlmiuutive atom of 5000
v ELaugter.
MAY that continue" said Mr.
Voorhees,, ''untiI the survival of thC
fittest is fully established.