Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-10

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they who had digged the pit, and digged it deep,
had fallen into il.
| II would be remembered how Hon Henry
Watterson issued his celebrated proclamation
calling on 10000 ''unarmed Kentuckians" to
visit the City Of Washington on the anniversary
OF the battle of New Orleans, for the purpose
OF experimenting the electoral count Laugh
| teri He Qngalls) had had a conversation with
President Grant shortly after the issuing OF that
| celebrated proclamation and had asked him If
| he thought there was going to be any trouble.
General Grant had paused q moment, and with
| that deliberate method which characterized his
utterances replied: mo, do not think there is
| going to 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 to the capital, and
| the agitation OF the Democratic party became
| extreme. because If there was any thing that
/ would turn the average Democrat inside out
| with indignation it was the sight of Federal
| soldier in blue uniform tLaughter.l The 1hO.
| OOO ''un rmed kentucAians" had not made their
| appearance and the count had proceeded, not
| withstanding the Indignation OF 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 sf Mr.. Hayes.
Mr.. Cleveland had apparently warranty deed
| for the seat which he occupied. and yet (com-
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
| into office by partisanship between
Dick Turpin and Uriah Heep, foot pads and
sneak thieves-Cartouche and Pecksniff; and
| it was some consolation to know that in that
partnership these apostates and renegades had
lost their share of the swag. Laughter and
spplausel. The country had still against it the
Southern Confederacy. It was confronted with
153 votes OF the solid South, as it had been at
every election since that OF Mr.. Hayes. The
solid South was the Confederacy, and the sue
| cess OF the Democratic party meant the sue
cess OF the Confederacy. which was to day
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; its
loyalty and fidelity to the leaders under
whom 1t fought and its determination to
reunite and reconstruct the history OF its coun-
try SO that it would be able to say TO the gener-
atoms which were to come that, while it was
overthrow by overwhelming numbers in the
field yet within twenty five years after the war
closed it's leaders had been restored to power.
In this connection. he asked VINO Lucius Quin-
titus Curtius Lamar was, and said he never was
suspected OF being a lawyer lLaughter.l His
bitterest 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 q reported case in
any tribunal, State or National, for years. 1t
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 lawyer and
never had been, and who. had called
OF all men, the South had selected him
and forced him on a reluctant President and
reluctant people. 1t was because Mr.. Lamar
was the nearest and dearest friend and repre-
sentative OF Jefferson Davis. There no
other explanation of it. II that was not true,
then his nomination was a farce and burlesQue,
without excuse and without explanation.
Mr.. Ingalls, then referred to 4 speech made in
the House of Representatives in 1879 by Mr.
Blackburn declaring ii to be the purpose and
intention OF the Democratic party to keep on
until 1t 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 Ca, 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 palpable 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, reported in
the papers at that time, and entering his special
Car went back to Georgia. [Laughter.I
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
had revolver in its boot and bowie knife
down the back of its neck. There were every
day, wrongs inflicted on thousands and
hundreds of thousands OF mon in the Southern
States, which, if inflicted by q foreign power
on single American citizen, even the
least would have caused declaration of
war within ninety days-even with the
present Secretary OF State in office
Loud laughter.] The people had an illus
tration OF what was going to take place
in November next by what had inst taken place
! in Louisiana [Quiet laughter on the Demo
cratic side.l He quo ted a sentence from Mr.
Voorhees, speech to the effect that the only
wonder ahout the Louisiana election was that
1t was more than unanimous, and he said that
it was more than unanimous. The Democratic
party III TIC oOulu Hdu the ART not only
OF making elections unanimous but of making
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 a
majority Of 5000 in Louisiana, but it had been
going up since the Senator from Indiana had
spoken, and was now $1,000. What it would
amount to before the dog days nobody could
tell
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 a majority of So
| 900 "a, 900.
In closing Mr.. Ingalls, said that in the centu-
ries to come he saw a vision of united, prosper
Gus and happy America, q vast homogeneous do
main of free men. rulers of the continent from
the polar zone to the gulf, from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific enioYing their franchises of HherfHr