The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-08

not Intend TO MAKE any exolanatlon OF apolokys
or to modify the language he used IN the debate
with Senator Ingalls,. This will relieve the lat
from any responsibility. and will just ify i'm
mediate publication. in the Congressional Rec
ord. of his entire speech. which he has withheld
for the purpose of accommodating the Indiana
Senator in any respect he might desire In the way
of expuneing the entire controversy from the
permanent record.
A Review OF the Recent ENCOUNTERS.
Washington Special to New York Press
Before the smoke OF the Senate duel il out OF
sight it may be worth while to call attention to
the moral that man gains something occasion
ally By at least trying to act as gentleman Mr..
Ingalls, when he started the fight knew his man
thoroughly. He made his first speech with the
most admirable Judgment. cutting Mr.. Voor-
hess just once. but leaving the sting where 10
knew IL would make q man who considered
liar" and 'scoundrel as fine bits of repartee
show his breeding to the big audience.
And the plan worked more successfully than
he expected. Voorhees,, who is big, puffy. well
supplied with self coneeit and at least thirty
years behind modern civilization. got up to
crush him with the kind Of stump speech
which worked In Indiana in the times before the
war. He began by looking down on him con-
temptuously In the kind of rhetoric that 10
known as whitening sarcasm. IN T. Ingalls,, he
said, twas more incidental to my remar ks than
protection is to tariff for revenue. Why" with
an awful frown. SHOULD assail mimi He has
not been alive politically since the 9th OF March
last and .. the only criticism have seen Ia
the press of the country in regard to my re-
marks Of last Wednesday. abiding TO the Sem
ator from Kansas, has been that galvanized
| the corpse" aud so on.
Every word was a personal telittlipg Of Mr..
Ingalls,, announcement that 90 great . man
as the Indiana Senator could hold no contro-
versy with him and very often repeated re-
mark that the Senator from Kansas was politi-
cal corpse. Added to this was the Wild exuber-
ance Of denial which regarded ISLANDERS as ''old.
stale, putrid and rotton" and $50 base and In
| famous that the black walls Of perdition cannot
repeat them with lrnpunity." That sort OF talk
| was really the whole OF the Senator'S speech
and il was no match for the affdavits of citizens
more respectable than himself and for the tssti.
mony of his own handwriting and the osths Oh
stenoRraphers as to the correct reports OF his
| speeches
1t Is an unpleasant thing to say about meme
| Der of the United States Senate. but IL IL unA
fortunately fact that he denied charges which
aoy court in the country would have decided
| true. and that he added to the denials epithets
| Of '1iarr and '-scoundrsw to the man who made
| them.
| People who think they are . sufficient answer
to afidavits are justified in regarding Mr.. voor-
hees a. victor in the debate. but the majority OF
| people. who prefer arguments or facts, will con-
| slider him the worst thrashed man that ever left
/ the Senate chamber. If he had bsd the good
| fortune 20 meet Mr. Inealls's charges as any
| other Senator would have done. Mr.. ingalls, at
| least would not have had the opportunity % say
| that in police court he would have been sent
| to the rock pile for being drunk and disordsrly.
| Mr.. Eustis and Mr.. Gibson replied TO Mr.. In
| CALLS without the slightest loss of self respect.
| but Mr.. Voorhees, could not do it. No charge
that was made against HIM WAS half so severe az
| the selfproven that he would mistake the
| United States Senate for BARRON.
| AS to Mr. Ingsliss shsre Of the debate, while
| its taste was questionable when be knew 90 well
the character of his antagonist it had the ex-
! cuss OF very serious provocation. For an as
sociate of Vallandigham, Thompson and other
/ men who had not the manliness TO fight inside
the rebel lines TO appear as the defender OF Ms
| Clellan, Hancock and the Union soldiers was Q
| spectacle TO call the msekest loyal man In the
| Senate to his fest
When he added to that personal attack on
| angalls, who. il not very prominent In the war,
WAS at least loyal, he invited everything he got
| The fight, too. it must be remembered, was not
disRraceful because of anythioe ingalls, said. but
because Of the bar-room epithets he got Ia re-
/ turn. Mr. Voorhees, erandiloquently asked for
the fight and he got too much Of IL. ingalls, was
| only wrong in not picking out some stronger.
| ADLER and steadier man for his attack.
The result of the fight, while 10 marks the
| complete overthrow of Voorhees, az q Senator,
merely calls public attention to the fact. whieh
has been understood here for years. that be NJ
| longer had the ability to compete with the
younger, brainier. better educated men vhs
have pushed themselves into the seats around
him. His ereas strength has always besn in
his strong use of telling adjectives and the
| striking. egotstic way Of putting them out,
which nearly made it impossible for the ordi-
nary man 70 get behind them TO question theiz
meaning.
When his speeches are read and dissectsd it
becomes evident that the adjectives have very
| little to hang to and their effect 10 lost Mr..
Voorh cess Democratic constituents, however,
were not IN the habit OF making deep researcns,
in rhetoric. and the speeches pleased them Until
the Senator's natural egotism got away with
him completely. He knocked backwoods an
tagonist out Of sight with his battery OF sdjec.
tivss. and he unwisely concluded that he would
crush out the Senator In the same way.
HE speeches were not suceessful. but he wae
not the kind of . man find that ont. and fou
At least five years he has been lying back In his
seat, convinced that nobody replied to his few
speeches because everybody was afraid Of him.
II he had had iudic;ous friends they would have
told him that Ingalls, ard Hoar and Sherman
and Edmunds only rarely took the trouble u
talk against combination Of wind and adjee
tives, and that the reason they had not respond
ed was because he had said nothing Cor them 4
respond t,
So he won't on In luxurious ignorance until
lugalls. locking around for an easy victim. se'
him 20 digging his own grave. he added 20 the
quaint hu NOR of his funeral by announcing dc
precatngly that he bad consented 70 gslvanizs
corpse Then he disappeared in his sepulchsl
and the big audience held their breath while thu
most SUCCESSFULLY galvanized corpse ever ex
hibited danced a hilarious cAn-cAn 90 his coffin
Sic transit Voorhees,.
Mr. voorhsss's weakness as lawyer, wbilt
| not SO evident or ostentatious as the arrange
mept by which he got ready his own wake "a
the Senate, has been doubted by great lawysrl
fer some time. He still has reputation IN In
diana and Is supposed by Democrats 10 know
| something about constitutional Law. but among
lawyers. good legal Judgment Is lot alleged 4
be one of his strong points.
He had one case in Pittsburg some years aee--
his last one there, / bsleys-uhich developed
so much Of his oratorical style that The lawyer
| said he forgot his law points altoesther Every
! body vemsmbsrs the shooting Of Cashier Nutk q