The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-15
a WONDERFUL PHILIPPE.
Senator Ingalls, Sends q Fiery Tor
rent of Denunciation.

rent OF O6nunClaGloA.
Mr.. Ingalls, for wealth OF diction, for
sarcasm, for invective, for marvellous
powers of description, for vocabulary
stocked with a striking array of strange,
grotesque and vigorous words, has no
peer in American public life. He drew
upon all the resources of his forclble
and rasping vocabulary in delivering
the extraordinary Philippe which was
heard in the senate today. The atten-
dance in the senate was not slight
compliment to Mr.. ingalls,.
No man in either house in this con-
gresS has received such an ovation as
was given to the Kansas senator. 1t
has been expected for week that he
would speak and the galleries, even up
on the uncertainties of debate and In
spite of diSagreeable weather, have
been filled but today they were not
only packed, but the corridors leading
to them were densely crowded and
about the glass doors through which
but very scanty number of people
could be found, there gathered long
lines of men waiting and hoping to get
a glimpse or to catch word of the
fiery torrent of denunciatiOn which
could be heard kissing and roaring be-
low.
And the audience was not composed
of strangers, the idle and the curious
alone-the galleries were filled with
veterans of the Grand Army, whose
cause Mr.. Ingalls, was so elOQuently to
plead; with scores of old soldiers. who
were glad to fight their battles again !;
with bodies Of society, who wished to
hear the man Of whom in the giddy
whirl of society so little is seen, and
whose words cut like Damascus blade.
To the floor the public is not admitted
but the floor was densely packed. al
most as closely as the galleries. Ohly
the members Of the house, officials of
the government and privileged persons
found entrance there. Yet every seat
in the broad chamber was filled, and in
all Of the vacant spaces in the area
back Of the senators desks chairs were
brought in, until the chamber took on
the appearance of an Inauguration day
or some great state occasion. Conspic-
nous among them, coming in just as
Mr.. ingalls, began to take up the case
of the old soldier and defend it against
the assaults of the eX-ConfederateS,
was the general Of the Union armies,
Phillip II. Sheridan, who entered by
virtue of his right, he having received
the thanks of congress and being es-
pecially admitted under the rules to
take a seat where he could get a
glimpse at one of the orators of the
senate who says what be means and
never has any difficulty in being under
stood.
What Mr.. ingalls, said is told in the
regular report elsewhere. How he said
it can scarcely be told by anybody.
He spoke almost without notes, NOV
ing about in the space behind his desk,
which had been cleared for him, and
seemed to be impelled at every step
with Indignation which increased as
he went forward, and he used a fierce
invective and an acerbity of expression
to which he sought to place no bounds.
1t will be said that he endpavored to
revive sectional issues; that he told
the story of the bloody shirt over again
that he endeavored at the threshold Of
the presidential campaign to excite and
arouse the soldier vote and to pose as a
presidential candidate. Whatever
may have been Mr.. Ingalls, motive
there are few men who followed the
Union flag in the last great contest
who will not be glad to read his words,
and there are few men anywhere who
hate shams and admire courage, who
will not be glad to know that there is
one man in the United States senate at
least, who can stand up and strip The
disguise from pretendeis, who can ex-
pose the mawkish sentimentality of
of Henry W. Grady, for instance.
He in May, 1886, in Atlanta, deliv-
cred what Mr.. ingalls, characterized as
a ''Eulogy" coming near TO the frontier
Of sacrilege and the line of blasphemy
on jefferson Davis. 1.-The uncrowned
king of the lost cause" whose presence
in Atlanta in the event of the dedica-
ton of monument to Ben Hill seemed
to him to give 1.-The world the best
easter that we have had since Chris
was risen from the dead" Yet who
as the apostle of the Gospel of the new
South in December of the same year at
the New England dinner in New York
did as Mr.. Ingalls, put it, spill oil and |
wine over the whole American people"
Mr.. ingalls, had characterized the as
sault of Senator Vest on the Grand |
Army of the Republic as An exhibition |
of combined, concentrated, coagulated |
cysicism." Mr.. ingalls, reply was that