San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
THAT LATE SKINNING BEE.

Ingalls, Voorhees, debate which rele-
gates 1t to the limbo Of senatorial black
guardism and says quits" This ia the
most sensible view a democratic jour
nal can take Of the situation, because
| the only one in which the democracy
can find the faintest ray Of comfort. 1t
| Is true that Voorhees, called Ingalls,
| liar when he thrust home upon the In
/ diana senator the charge OF treason and
| disloyalty, But 1t Ia also true that It.
gals actually and absolutely proved
every count In his indictment, and by
that proof, the democratic senators be-
| ing his judges, convicted Voorhees, not
| only Of being a traitor during the war,
but of lying twenty-five years after
ward in order to cover up his treason
able record. This is the bare, unvar-
nished truth. The full text reports
of the great controversy prove
this to have been the bald.
headed fact. 1t is very we'll for the
moralists of the democracy to modest
ly retire behind the thin vail OF sena.
torial courtesy and decry the whole pro-
ceedings as disgraceful. 1t is the only
sensible thing that a democrat can do.
The first duty of democratic journalist
is to make false issue If he can, draw
off public attention from the issues and
facts involved and throw dust into the
eyes of the nation. Happy would it be
for the democracy If this could be done.
but IL cannot. Whatever may be said OF
Ingalls, methods, his facts, his letters as
produced In the senate, certified copies
of voorhees, own utterances, and the
cumulative evidence OF the Indiana
mans conspiracy and treason in spirit
and disloyalty in form, his facts cannot
be set aside. Voorhees, made a most
lamentable mistake when he overrated
the power of years Of silence. His idea
that his record was lost in the
kindly gloom OF oblivion was a
fatal mistake and for it he was
literally hayed alive. No one who has
not read the photographic reports OF the
speeches; the full text alike OF charge,
rejoinder and replication can gain any
adequate idea of the utterly futile at
tempt OF Voorhees, to stem the torrent
OF damning facts poured into him by In
gals during that merciless uncovering |
of the damnable record of his copper
headism. 1t was only touch and go that |
Blackburn, of Kentucky, was not also |
pillorIed in the same style. He was
anxious for arejoinder and was fidget- |
Ing for q chance to get the floor, when
q friend sent him a note informing him |
that Ingalls, had speech at his fingers |
ends that would crush the yellow fever |
fiend out of the semblance of existence. |
That Ingalls, had the whole record Of |
Blackburn's villsinous transactions in |
his vest pocket with certified docu- |
ments, as in Voorhees, case, to
prove all and everything alleged, |
and begging Blackburn for Gods
sake to keep still. Blackburn did keep |
still; not for Gods sake but for his own,
and 1t would have been well for VOr-
him an hour before of what he was so
painfully conscious soon after Ingalls, !
opened his mouth in rejoinder. ingalls, |
has deserved we'll of loyal men all over |
the nation. The challenge came from !
the very men who made merchandise of
loyalty, called patriotism an unholy |
thing and trampled the honor of the re- |
public beneath their feet. The challenge |
was made in the senate chamber OF the |
nation, and its answer was such as to |
leave little room to doubt how guarded |
in the future will be the lips of those
who raise their accursed voices against |
the loyal sons of this nation. All honor
to Ingalls, and all who, with him, are
neither blind or dumb to the t8unts of
the nations old destrOyers.
EVEN the democratic gods of this
overwhelmingly democratic state are
counting the cost and reckoning if, with
the odds against them, they can afford
to hew out oak hearted planks for state
platforms at the expense Of the prohibi-
ton vote of the state. Ex-senator
Maxey evidently does not consider the
democracy SO justified, for he remarks
that mo one OF ordinary sagacity can
fail to recognize the fact that there Is q
feeling OF unrest among the people,"
Too true, and that unrest is certain to
grow under democratic manipulation
and Encouragement until the demo-