Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-03


stitutional tribunal properly organized fosShaf
purpose. The Deuloeratie party shepld nos forr
get that the Electoral Comnission was one OF
its own devices. It was not the drsf time that
they who had digged the pit and digsed II deeps
had fallen into IL. 80 ~ y - :
It would Be remembered hoF Hon.
Watterson issued his celebrated proclamation
calling on 10000 ..unarmed Kentuckians" 70
visit the City Of Washington on the anniversary
OF the battle of New Orleans, for the purpose
of experimenting the electoral count -tLanSns
teri He Qngalls) had had conversation with
President Grant shortly after the issuing OF tnat
celebrated proclamation and had asked him II
he thought there was going TO be any trouble.
General Grant had paused moment and with
that deliberate method which characterfzed ms
utterances replied: NO do not think there Is
going 70 be any trouble; but it has been one
rule Of my life to be always ready" And, add
ed Mr.. ingalls, with solemnity, he was ready.
In obedience TO some mysterious impulse
troops, parks OF artillery and munitions OF
war had begun to come 70 the capital, ana
the agitation of the Democratic party became
extreme, because il there was any thing that
would turn the average Democrat inside out
with Indignation it was the sight Of q Federal
soldier in blue Uniform Laughter. The lOO,-
600 'unarmed Kentuckians' had not made their
appearance and the count had proceeded, not
withstanding the indignsison q the Democrats
at the result of their own device. The people
were perpetually reminded that the Republican
party was guilty of an enormous and gigantic
fraud in the election and seating Of Mr.. Hayes.
Mr. Cleveland had apparently warranty deed
for the seat which he occupied, and yet Conn
pared with the title which Mr.. Hayes had to
his seat) he was in possession OF stolen goods
and the receiver was as bad as the thief. in the
court of justice and fair conscience he had never
been elected at all. He had been counted
to- Horr
Dick Turpin and Uriah Heep, foot-pads and
sneak theVes-Cartouche and Peeksniff; and
It was some consolation 10 know that in that
partnership these apostates and renegades had
lost their share of the swag. Laughter and
appausel. The country had still against 1t the
Southern Confederacy. 1t was confronted with
l53 votes Of the solid South, as it had been at
every election since that OF Mr.. Hayes. The
solid South was the Confederscy, and the sue
cess OF the Confederacy, which was to-day as
much an organized, active, aggressive force in
politics as in 1861, and In the previous time.
Slavery was dead and secession was dead, but
all the ideas, all the impulses, all the purposes
and intentions OF secession remained. He hon
ored and admired, but regretted and deplored
the constancy OF the South to that idea; it's
loyalty and fidelity TO the leaders under
whom it fought, and its determination to
reunite and reconstruct the history Of its eoun-
try so that it would be able to say to the gener-
ations which were to come that, while it was
overthrown by overwhelming numbers in the
field. yet within twenty-five years after the war
closed its leaders had been restored to power.
In this connection, he asked who Lucius Quin-
titus Curtius Lamar was, and said he never was
suspected of being a lawyer. lLaughter.] His
btterest enemy had never accused him Of that.
He never had been admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court, on whose bench he was ap-
pointed. He never had tried a reported case in
any tribunal State or National, for years. IL
was an open secret that the President at one
time peremptorily refused TO appoint him. He
asked what necessity there had been for the
President to affront 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 a buffoon, and why,
OF all men, the South had selected him
and forced him on reluctant President and
reluctant people. 1t was because Mr.. Lamar
was the nearest and dearest friena and repre-
sentative of Jefferson Davis. There was no
other explanation Of it. II that was not true
then his nomination was farce and burlesQue,
without excuse and without explanation.
Mr.. Ingalls, then referred to speech made in
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 book the last
vestige Of war legislation. He said that within
the next few years the Supreme Court would
be entirely reconstructed Two OF the Asso-
ciate Justices were already past the retiring
age, and il that tribunal was to pass hereafter
On the war legislation all knew what the re-
suit would be. There could be no question
about it.
The speaker next took up the speech Of
Henry R. jackson at Macon, Ga, in the presence
of Jefferson Davis, a speech which had the
effect, he said, of defeating the Democratic
party Of Ohio by an immense majority, and the
influence OF which was so palpa Bile that Judge
Thurman had denounced Jackson as an old
tramp and an old fool, and General Gordon, OF
Georgia. had Immediately set out for Cincinnati
in his special car to try to counteract it. and in
order to show that there was no bloody chasm
between the North and South, and that a
thoroughly fraternal feeling prevailed, when he
men General Morgan Of Ohio on public plat
form he kissed him in the mouth, as reported in
the papers at that time, and entering his special
car went back to Georgia. fLaughter.l
Passing to the question of the elections In the |
South, the speaker said that the Republican
party would have no right to complain il the |
South were kept solid by fair means, but the |
Democratic party there had been playing the
political game with loaded dice, had held
stacked cards" played with "cold deck and
down the back Of its neck. There were, every |
day, wrongs inflicted on thousands and |
hundreds OF thousands of men in the Southern !
States, which, if inflicted by q foreign power
on single American citizen, even the |
least would have caused a declaration of |
war within ninety days-even with the |
present Secretary OF State in Office |
Loud laughter.l The people had an illus |
tration Of what was going to take place |
anil % pavf hu hor inst oil nlo
in Louisiana. [Quiet laughter on the Demo |
cratic side. He quoted a sentence from Mr. |
Voorhees, speech TO the effect that the only !
wonder about the Louisiana election was that |
it was more than unanimous, and he said that |
it was more than unanimous. The Democratic |
party in the South had learned the art not only /
of making elections unanimous but Of making l
them more than unanimous. 1t had learned |
the art of returning larger Democratic ma
jority than the registered vote. He wondered |
himself at its moderation in returning only al
majority of Is, 900 in Louisiana but il had been
going up since the Senator from Indiana had 1
spoken, and was now 5000. What it would /
amount to before the dog days nobody could
tell $3.50.
Mr. Ingalls, read letters and statements from
Republican sources detailing acts OF outrage
and cheating at the Louisiana election and de-
clared his belief that fair returns would have |
shown Yarmouth elected by majority OF 49,
600 or $4,000.
In closing Mr. Ingalls, said that in the centu-
ries 10 come he saw vision Of united, prosper
Gus and happy America, a vast homogeneous do
main of free men, rulers OF the continent from |
the polar zone to the gulf, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, enjoying their franchises OF liberty
and perpetuating the arts Of peace. The people
should remember on each recurring day when
they celebrated those who had died that this
country held in its fruitful and tender breast no
more priceless treasure than the consecrated
dust OF those who had died in order that this
should be government Of laws and not OF men,
and that liberty and Institutional government