The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03

complain if the south was kept solid by
falr means, but the democratic party
there had been playing the political
game with loaded dice, had been
throwing skies all the time, had held
stacked cards, played with a cold deck,
mad a revolver in its boots and
a boWie-knife down the back
OF its neck. There were
every wrongs inflicted on thous-
and and hundreds of men in the
southern states which if inflicted by a
foreign power on a single American
citizen. even the least of one of these
my little ones there would be a decla-
ration of war within ninety days, even
with the present secretary of state in
office. This was an illustration of
what was going to take place in No
vember next by what had just taken
place in louisiana Quiet laughter
on democratic slde.) He quoted
a sentence from Voorhees, speech to the
effect that the only wonder about the
Louisiana election was that the vote
party in the south have learned the art
not only of making elections unani-
nous, but of making them more than
unanimous. 1t had learned the
art of returning larger dem
ocratic majorities than the
registered vote, and he wondered
himself at its moderation in return
ing a majority of IS 600 in Louisiana.
But it had been going on since the sem
ator from Indiana had spoken, and
was now SO 600, and what it would
amount to before dog days, nobody
could tell. He read letters and state
ments from republican sources detail
ing acts of outage and cheating at the
Louisiana election, and declared his
belief that fair election would have
shown Warmoth elected by a majority
of SO 900 OF $4,000.
In closing Ingalls, said in the centu-
rieS that are to come he read the vision
of a united, prosperous and happy
America, vast homogeneous domain
of freemen and rulers of the continent
from the Polar zone to the gulf, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, enjoying
the franchise of liberty and perpetual
ly the ark of peace. The people should
remember, he said, on each recurring
day when they celebrated those who
had died, that this country held in
its tender breast no more priceless
treasure than the conSecrated dust of
those who died in order that this
should be government of laws and
not of men, and that liberty and con-
stitutional government might not per-
ish forever from the face of the
earth.
As Ingalls, sat down, Blackburn asked
him to give in the report the full and
correct extract from his blackburn s.
speech, to which he had referred and
Ingalls, promised to do so.
Voorhees, arose and in slow,
measured and resonant tones remarked
that the speech which the senate had
just listened to recalled To
his mind the fable of a
mountain in Cuba. Two hours had
passed away after the blare of
trumphets had brought IA large au-
dience to the senate. What had they
heard and what had they seen? A
illusions last Wednesday to the Sena.
tor from Kansas had been merely Incl
dental. Why should he assail that
senator? Men mistook themselves
and the senator from Kansas did 81
more than any one he knew Of. That
senator had not been alive politically
since the 9th of March last
When the senator from Kentucky
(Blackburn) disposed of him (laughtel
and a yell of approval from the gal
leriesl, he had been walking the streets
and posing before the world like al
old friend of his in Indianapolis il
he had been dead year and was onl.
walking around to save funeral expen
SEES. the only criticism of his iVoOT
| heeS) speech which he had seen in tn
press was that he had galvanized
| corpse, He diSclaimed any purpos
of that kind he had made no attacl
upon him, but upon the republican
party; he proceeded to compare In
gals to peacock on a barn yard fenc
| posing on summer morning looking
| at his own feathers as he glanced a
the sun and vocalizing the whole neigh
borhoud with his harsh. unmusical AM
unnecessary cry unmindful of the fac
| that there were more useful fowls il
| the yard. How useless it had been 70
| that senator to arralgn him. he
| 1ngalls) had read to tn
senate old stale, putrid, rotten Sian
ders of years gone by on which
| (Voorhees) had trampled in forty pOlit
ical campaigns. 1t had seemed to hiI
like voices of spawned, broken-windet
knock-kneed political liars of the las
twenty-five years. That he ever u
tered one word against union soldier
or talked of their having collar
around their neckS, was so base falls
hood, SO Infamous that the blac
walls of perdition could not n
duplicate it, and he said to the sen;
tor from Kansas without meanin
perhaps the full extent of what h
word conveyed); that it was not in h
power to fish up from the sewers (
infamy the old campaign lies an
make them respectable in tt
senate of the United States; bl
| it was possible for him by a short ste
to put himself on an equality wit
them.
voorhees, alluded in a sarcastic an
amusing manner to Mr.. Ingalls, w;
record and said he would stand wit
the senator before the soldiers of Inc
ana or Kansas and quit the senate
he was not approved by them over NJ
|. Ingalls,.
ingalls, replied that as the senat
from Indiana had seen fit to inyi
comparison between their records al
their relations to the great questiC
of the past twenty-five years, he felt
his duty to put on record from info
nation in his possession what the Sc
ator's record and history were. T
should refer only to public matters {
! public records, and would venture Il
affirmation that whatever might ha'
been his own (Ingallsl relation
/ the great struggle between nor
, and south, the senator from Indial
! had been from the outset the dete
! mined, outspoken, positive. aggressi
and malignant enemy of the uni'
! cause.
l / pronounce that (said Voorhees, ri
! ing with anger in his eye) to be deli
: crate false accusation. / voted f
: every dollar that paid the soldier, f
= every stitch of clothing he wore and
every pension that rewarded his sc
4 vice.
!. ingalls, said that the senator came
!. here to-day and thanked God that
= had never been followed here by col
/ mittee to question him as to his seat al
with much diffuSeneSs of illusions h
n endeavored to cast aspersions up,
8 him ungallsl and belittle him, and b
t initiate him in the eyes of Americ
e people when he Ungallsl had only !
Il ferred to the senator public utteranC
g in his speech, which he had never {
! MED.
It voorhees, declared that he did de-
e it.
II ingalls, replied that the senat
u could not deny the publication he h
Il read. 1t was verbatim report a
: so certified to.
d voorhees, asserted that not one We