The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-02

ARTILLERY and muuitions of war had begun TO
come to the capital and the agitation OF the
Democratic party became extreme because. II
there was anything that would turn the average
Democrat inside out with indignation 1t was the
sight Of federal soldier In blue uniform.
lLauehter. The 100. 0C0 unarmed Kentuckians
had not made their appearance. and the count
had proceeded. notwithstanding the indignation
OF the Democrats st the result OF their own de-
vice. The people were perpetualy reminded
that the Republican party was guilty OF an
enormous and gigantic fraud in the
election and seating OF Mr. hayes
deed for the seat which he occupied, and yet.
compared with the title which Mr.. Hayes had to
his scat, he was In possession or stolen goods,
and the receiver was 40 bad rs the thief. In the
court of justice and fair conscience be had never
been elected At all. He had been counted into
Office by partnership between Dick Turpin and
Uriah Heep. foot-pads and sneak thieves, Csr-
touche and Pecksniff. and it was some copsola-
ton to know that in that partnership those
apostates and rsnegades had lost their snare OK
the swag Laughter aud applause.
The country had still against it the Southern
Confederacy 1t was confronted with l53 votes
of the solid South, a. II had been at every cleo
ton since the election OF Mr.. Hayes. The solid
South was the Confectionery, and the success OF
the Democratic party meant the success OF the
Confederacy. which was to-day as much an Or
ganized, active, aggressive force in politics as
in 1861 and In previous times. Slavery was
dead, and secession was dead, but all the ideas.
all the impulses, all the purposes and intentions
OF secession remained. He honored and adj
mired. hut regretted and deplored. the consistency
Of the South to that idea; IT'S loyalty and fidelity
TO the leaders under whom IL fought, and its
determination TO reunits and reconstruct the
history Of its country so that it would be able
TO say to the generations which are TO come
that, while is was overthrown by overwhelming
numbers in the field. yet within twenty-five
years after the war closed It's leaders had been
restored to political power. In this connection,
he asked who was Lucius Quintus
Curtus Lamarl He never was SUSPECTED OF be-
ing a lawyer. [Laughter.l His bittsrest enc.
my never accused him of that. He never had
been admitted to the bar Of the Supreme Court
on whose bench he was appointed. He pever
had tried reported case in any tribunal, State
or national, for thirty years 1t was an open
secret that the President at one time peremptor-
lily refused to appoint him. He asked what ne
cessity there had been for the President to af-
front the loyal sentiment of the country by
placing on the bench of the Supreme Court
man who was not a lawyer and never had been
and who had called Abraham Lincoln buffoon.
Why, of all men in the South, did IL select him
and force him on reluctant President and q
reluctant peopel 1t was because Mr.. Lamar
sentative of Jefferson Davis. There VAS no
other explanation Of it. II that was not true,
then his nomination was q farce and burlesque
without excuse and without explanation.
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the House Of Representatives in 1879 by Mr.:
Blackburn, declaring it to be the purpose and
intention Of the Democratic party to keep on
until it wiped out from the statute books the
last vestige OF war legislation. He said that
within the next few years tho Supreme Court
would be entirely reconstructed. Two Of the
associate justices were already past the retiring
age; and If that tribunal was to pass hereafter
on the war legislation, all knew what the result
would be. There could be no question about It,
H. coA A. h. IS ID L.
son, at Macon, Ga, in the presence of jefferson
Davis, = speech which had the effect. he said, Of
defeating the Democratic lparty Of Ohio by an
immense majority. Its influence WAS SO palpable
that Judge Thurman denounced Jackson as an
old tramp and an old fool, and General Gordon,
Of Georgia Immediately set out for Cincinnati
In his special to try to countsract 1t; and In
order to show that there was no bloody chasm
between the North and the South, aud that q
thoroughly frsternal feeling prevailed. when be
form he kissed him In the mouth, ~ reported in
the papers at that time. and entering his special
car went back to Georgia ILaushter.l
Passing to the question Of elections In the
South, he said that the Republican party would
have no right TO complain II the South were
kept solid By fair means, but the Democratic
party there had been playing the political game
with loaded dice-had bean Throwing sizes all
the time, had held stocked cards" played with
"cold deck" had o revolver Ia its boot and q
bowie-knife down the back OF its neck. There
were every day wrongs inflicted on thousands
and hundreds OF Thousands OF men In the South
ern States which II inflicted by foreign power
on single American citizen. even the least Of
ono OF these. my little ones. there would be a
declaration OF war within ninety days, even with
the present Secretary Of State 10 Once. Loud
laughter They had On illustration Of what
Was going to take place in November next by
what had just tagsu place In Louisiana. [Quiet
laughter on the Democratic eide. He quotsd
= sentence from Mr. Voorhees's spesch to
the effect that the only wonder about the
Louisiana election was that the vote was not
unanimous, and he said that IL was more than
unanimous The Democratic party In the
South have learned the Art not only OF making
elections unanimous, but OF making ther more
than unanimous II had learned the art Of re-
turning larger Democratic majority than the
registered vote. He wondered himself at its
moderation ia returning only Q majority Of
$4,000 in Louisiana; but 1t had been going no
since tho Senator from Indiana had spoken, and
was now 90, 000 What 1t would amount to be-
fore the doe-days. nobody could tell. He read
letters and statements from Republican sources
detailing accounts Of outracss and cheating al
the louisiana election, and declared his belief
that fair returns would have shown Warmoth
elected by ma jority of SO. 900 or 81. 900.
In closing Mr.. Ingalls, said that in the centu-
ries that are TO come he saw the vision OF
united, prosperous and happy America, . vast
Homogeneous domain OF freemen, rulers OF the
continent, from the polar zone to the Gulf, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. enjoying the fran
chises Of liberty and psrpetuating the arts OF
peace. The people should remember, he said
on each recurring day, when they celebrated
those who had died, that this country held II
its fruitful breast no more priceless treasure
than the cousecrated dust Of those who had dice
in order that this should be government OF tho
laws and not Of men, and that liberty and con
stitutional government might not perish for
ever from the face OF the earth.
As Mr. ingalls, sat down Mr. Blackburn asket
him to give in the Record the full and correct ex
tract from his Blaekb urn's] speech. to which b,
had referred. and Mr.. Ingalls, promised to do 20
Mr.. Voorhees, arose, aud in slow, measured
resonant tones. remarked that the speech which
the Senate had just listened to recalled to his
mind the fable Of the mountain in labor. Tw,
hours had passed away, after trumpets hat
brought large au Hence 10 the Senate, ant
what had they heard, and what had they seen
A poor. small, mouse creeping off His allusiop
last Wednesday, to the Senator from
Kansas had been merely incidental
Men mistook themselves aud the Ssust d
from Kansas did 20 more than any one ne knew
That Senator had not been alive, politically
since the 9th OF March last. whom the Senator
from Kentucky [Mr. Blackburn disposed o
him Laughter and yell Of approval from
one OF the galleries He had been walking the
streets and posing before the world like 90 OLD
friend Of his In Indianapolis In bad health, who
bad said him that he bad been dead yea
and was only walking around TO save funsra
expenses the only criticism OF his tVoor
hses'sl speech which he had seen Id the pres
was that he had galvanized corpse. He dis
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