The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-04-02
Senator Voorhees, ON Edmunds'
FOOlery.


VOORHEES, addressed the Senate on the
Edmunds resolutions. The following is
telegraphic synopsis OF his remsrks:
After stating the question at issue,
Mr.. Voorhees, asked why the majority,
In the resolutions. contented themselves
with an attack on the agent (the Attor.
lney GeneraD and shrank from . direct
blow on the principal (the President) {?
Did the Senator from Vermont expect .
Cabinet officer to disobey the President ?
The resolutions were meant for popular
effect. They contemplated no measure
I0f legislation to remove any evil or pre-
tended evil. They were merely q full
limitation OF Senatorial opinion, barren
lof result, other than = cheap partisan de-
lnunciation. Ii the Attorney General
were guilty as charged, then he should
be impeached. That was q matter for
Ithc House. The majority OF the Senate
had turned aside from the Legitimate bu.
lsiness of legislation. Labor, all over the
Icounlry, was over.tsxed and scantily
paid. Human suffering was wringing
lite hands and weeping In many parts or
the country in destitution for want OF
and proper remuneration
Great corporations we're over -shado wing
the land, aud absorbing the powers or
State and Nation, and grinding the flesh
and blood Of men and women into their
huge ard massive hoppers. American
commerce no longer had ship on the
high seas. Great questions Of taxation
and finance were pressing for attention.
But from all these great and pressing
subjects we must turn aside to discuss
this question raised by tAe Senator from
Vermont (Mr. Edmunds). It was thrust
into our councils to obstruct the business
lof the country in favor Of . lot Of Re-
publican officeholders. Mr.. Voorhees,
heartily indorsed Mr.. Cleveland's action
lin making removals so far a. action had
been had; he would heartily indorse the
Presidents action ia the same direction,
liz It went Q thousand leagues further.
The civil service law had never COM
Imended itself to the judgement Of Mr.
VOORHEES,. Very recently he had voted
lin committee, and should vote in the
Senate for its absolute repeal II had
proven itself to be violent and odiOus
obstruction to the will of the people
and q stumbling block il the way Of q
rational and successful administration
of the Government. With the excep-
tion Of fourth class postmasters. there
we're. At the presert moment, ten Re-
lpublicans in ofiice TO one Democrat.
Mr.. Voorhees, had no hesitation in de-
Iclaring that such n state Of things was
not consistent with the true theory OF
popular government. or with its safe
aud honest administration. The people
had ordained q change in the adminis-
tration Of the Government, aud such
change was not properly limited to
changes In few Chief ofiices. History
had shown that no political party could
administer the affairs OF . Government
through the instrumentality OF it's ene-
mics. At this very hour there was not|
a confidential communication or trans
action Of any one Of the departmental
that was not betrayed to the leaders oil
the Republican party. The very papersI
BY the Senate were familiarl
70 eager Republican eyes. Every paper
and every drawer and every closet IN
the departments were daily and hourly
under the espionage Of Republican chief
clerks, Republican private secretaries
and Republican confidential shorthand
writers. Those who opened the letters
Of the heads Of departments were known
Is malignant opponents Of the Demo-
cratic party, infismed with : desire forI
The overthrow Of the adminietratiOH.l
Mr.. Voorhees, said the President could
not be blamed for moving slowly. Ev-
sry act OF his administration was In the
right direction, and the country would
understand why greater progress had
not been made aud would place the re-
'ponsibility where II belonged. Mr. Voor-
,tes said that the evil predicted BY the
when the Democratic should
'ome into power, had not come. The
Confederate brigadier' q both ends OIL
he Capital continued to vote annually L
Dl0O, ,O00, 900 for pensions to Union SOL L
liers. and as to the colored citizens,
President Cleveland gave them occa-
ionally . good Office. Referring to Mr..
Wilson's Characterization OF the Demo-
,ratic party as "pr0toplasm" Mr.. Ve0r-l l(
ices said !t was fortunate for the De- II
nocracy that the colored people had not
,een told before the election that thel(
Democratic party was . protoplasmI
lsughtcrl and 50 as to what would have|s
happened IL instead Of the word itselfls
he Senator from Iowa had used its def i
'ition as given by Webster. namely, that
/ was 'the viscid, nilrogenous material
n vegetable cells, by which the process.
4 nutrition and growth goes forward, n !.
ir. voorhees' imagination shrauk from !
contemplation Of the probable results
renewed laughter.] II Il had been un-
too, that the Democratic party
vas like "noncellulsr formation OF 81 !,
ital vegetable substance Mr.. Voorhees, = =
ad not the slightest doubt that the party !
vould have been counted out IL New Y
'ork. tLaughterl. The Senator from
ow@ ought 70 have denounced The DEM
cratic party q hy2othenuse Or : rec.
angular paraIjeIogrsm. Laughter
'ut alI the calumnies heaped on the party, \
r.. Voorhees, said, had been exploded. 4
he party had shown that Il could BE- !.
rustcd. Ia the last election u the State Y
( the Senator from Iowa, that Senator :
vas an unwilling wituess to the fact that 2
he Republican protol lastic majority Off
0000 waa ov0lvad int0 4 noaf}nw d. ~