Wichita eagle., 1888-05-02

signed by respectable citizens of Indiana
who were not ashamed of their names, an(
residences which were attached. Every
| body knew in what business the Demo
cratic party had been engaged during the
war Seyenty-fiye thousand of them had
been members OF the knights of the
Golden Circle and had been conspirine
| against the union. They had entered into
| a combination, according to General Holt
| for the purpose of aiding soldiers to desert
discouraglng enlistments, circulating
reasonable publications, and giving intel
iigence to the enemy and assassination and
murder. and 1t was susceptible of proof
that they did conspire to murder Governor
Morton. This organization which the SEN
ator says he never belonged to- had ritual
of which l12 copies were found in the
senator's Office at the time when Hancock
was at the bloody angle. In that same
Office was found other correspondence con-
corning the objects and purposes of that
organization. The correspondence of c.
Vanlandlngham was in the office. The
senator in his address to his constituents
III 1861 had declared that he would never
vote single dollar nor single man for
the prosecution ofthe war, and he had never
done SO, as long as he was in the senate He
had consistently voted for every measure
for unfolding the union and enforc-
ing the army. Yet the senator who deserves
charity more than any man know of ON
this floor. and who has received it at the
hands of his associates, and who can less
afford than any of my acquaintance to
invite the scrutiny Of his war record, rises
here, and with playfulness and hilarious
ness refers to the fact that / served during
the war as a judge advocate with the rank
OF major and subsequently of lieutenant
colonel. However obscure or inefficient
my services may have been, they were
always on the side of my country. not as
his has been. always against it.
Mr.. Voorhees, said that if the gentle
man from Kansas would find one single
vote that he had cast against the
payment of soldiers for their supplies, for
their bounties, against the appropriations
for their pensions, he would resign his seat
in the senate. Every word the senator had
stated on that subject was absolutely
false. He measured his words The sena-
tor said that he Voorhees, was an object
of charity. The senator was an object of
contempt. Tine senator said that he
1861 that he would not vote for
money or men; that was false.
He never did anything of the
kind, never in the world He had fought
for free speech and and a free press, and
the soldiers of Indiana knew that he had
so voted for every dollar that had ever fed
them or clothed them, and the man tn at
slanderer, and he branded him as such
The senator from Kansas said that he
(Noorhees) had announced that he had
announced that he had quit practic-
ing law. That was not true. There was
not "A word of truth in II. He had gone
from one office to another. Some papers
were left in one Office and some in others,
TO put mp a job on him: were put there and
found there, and published as having
been found there. he hoped his Maker
would take cognizance of him at this mo-
ment and never let him leave this cham
Der if he had ever been member of Sc
cret political society in his life. When he
was abused by man who said that
Hancock fought two years to make
the war failure and was an ally of the
confederacy and that Mcclellan, belonged
to the degraded element of the north, he
felt that abuse was an actual compliment,
and he thanked the senator for his ascusa-
tion and responded to him accordingly
SO far as the old stuff about his denounc-
ing the soldiers was concerned, the sol
diers would take care of that. Only
diers, but suffers or suffers clerks,
or bummers, ever alluded to anything of
that kind. He did not want to say any
thing offensive, but he did not care much
whether he did or not. as he could only
say as he said to the people whose names
We're on the paper from Sullivan county
that the lied, and did not tell
he repeated what they said. He
had not the slightest concern, not the
slightest feeling, not the slightest iIrita-
ton in regard to this matter. Ii had been
passed upon him time and time again.
The letter with regard to Captain Shute
he had written in December before the
war broke out and he had sympathized
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compromise. As TO charity. he responded
to that with contempt.
Mr.. mgalls-Did pot the soldiers
of Indiana threaten to hang the senator
with bell rope ON a train after he had
made that Lincoln dog" speech?
Mr.. Voorhees-The senator is great liar
when he intimates such thing; great
liar and dirty dog; 1t never occurred,
never in the world. That Is all the answer
l have. and pass it back TO the scoandrel
behind the senator who originated
those lies. (The remark was made
i'll reference to Representative
Johnson, of Indiana, was seated at a desk
directly in the rear of Mr.. Ingalls,
Mr.. lngalla-There is a very reputable
gentleman in he chamber, a citizen OF In
diana. who informs me that the signerS of
that certificate are entirely, reputable in
habltants of Indiana, and that he knows
fifty people who heard the senator
Mr.. Noorhees-Tell him | say he is an
infamous scoundrel and a har. Tell him
say so.
Mr.. Eustis, of Louisiana said he would
inform the senator rom Kansas thar the
mode and manner In which The Louisiana
election had been conducted being state
election, was none of his business, what
eyer He denounced as Scanttalous. Win
peratiye and unparliameutary the Ian
guage which had been used by the sena-
tor from Kansas, with reference TO the peo.
pile of Louisiana. There seems 10
he preconceived nspiracv among
the Republican leaders 10 question the le-
gslity ot the elections in the south. for no
Other purpose than TO convince the north
err people that the Denoo ratio admins
tration elected by the sun ge of the PEG
pie WAS usurpation. Tie senator from
Ohio, some time ago in a speeC h delivered
ii Springfield, made the startling state
ment that every woman and child in the
nited states knew that Grover Cleveland
had been elected to the pres idency by
flaud, intimidation, crime and violence IN
the south. That declaration had been
adopted rs the party cry for the Coming
year ny the Republican conventions which
had been held. The Republican leaders
were preparing the American
people for coup detat. What
did they mean by stating
that the president OF the United States
had been Illegally and pnconstltutionally !
elected, by stating that the Democratic |
was a usurpatiou: that we |
had government established and in |
stalled by revolutions We were reducing !
ourselves TO the level of the Mexicans and |
Central Americans. They were going into !
a canvass with the declaration
that the president held his Office |
10y virtue OF the suppression Of the will of |
the majority by maud, intimidation and
crime. There was no reason why any man |
IN Louisiana, white or black, should vote !
Ior such man as Governor Yarmouth.
The Republicans had given Louisiana /
a government which was disgrace 10 !