The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-12

take care Of that Only a miserable set OF
people, not soldiers but suffers, or suffers
clerks, or bummers, ever alluded to
any thing Of that kind. He did not want TO
say any thing offensive, but he did not care
much whether he did or not. He could
only say, as he said to the people whose
names were on the paper from sullivan
County, that they lied and did not tell the
truth, nor did the Senator when he repeated
what they said. He had not the slightest
concern, not the slightest feeling, not tho
slightest irritation in regard to this matter.
IL had been passed upon time and time
again. The letter with regard to Captain
Shute he had written. II was In December
before the war broke out, and he had SYM
pathized with the feeling that there ought
to be compromise. AS to charity, he re-
sponded to that with contempt.
"Dd not the soldiers of Indiana threaten
to hang tho Senator with q bcll-rope on
train after he made that Lincoln dog
speechl" asked Mr.. Ingalls,.
1.-THE Senator is great liar when he in
| Inmates such thing; great liar and a
| dirty dog 1t never occurred, never, In the
| world" was the angry retort of Mr.. Voor-
hees. "That is all the answer ] have, and
| pass 1t back to the scoundrel behind the
| Senator who Is instigating these lies"
| [This remark was made in reference to
| Representative Johnston, of Indiana, who
was seated ut desk directly in the rear of
Mr.. 1ngalls.l
"There is q reputable gentleman in the
chamber, u citizen of Indiana, who informs
| me that the signers of that certificate are
entirely reputable inhabitants of Indiana,
and that he knows fifty people who heard
the Senator" said Mr.. ingalls,.
"Tell him say he is an infamous scoun-
drel and a liar. Tell him say so," said
Mr.. Voorhees,.
Mr. Eustis, of louisiana said he would
inform the Senator from Kansas that the
mode and manner in which the Louisiana
election had been conducted, being a
State election, was none of his busi-
ness whatever. He denounced as scan
dalous, vituperative and unparlia-
mentary the language which had been
used by the Senator from Kansas with ref
erence to the people of Louisiana. There
seemed to be preconceived conspiracy
among the Republican leaders to question
the legality of the elections in the South
for no other purpose than to convince the
Northern people that the Democratic Ad-
ministration elected by the suffrage of tho
people was a usurpation. The Senator
from Ohio some time ago. in speech de-
livered at Springfield, ILL.,, made the start
ling statement that every man, woman
and child in the United States knew that
Grover Cleveland had been elected to the
Presidency by fraud, intimidation, crime.
and violence in the South. That declara.
tion had been adopted as the party cry
) for the coming canvass by the Republican
conventions which had been held. The Re-
publican leaders were preparing the Amer
ican people for coup d'etat. What did
they mean by stating that the President Of
the United States had been illegally and
unconstitutionally elected by stating that
, , the Democratic Administration was a usur-
patton, that we had Government estab.
lished and installed by revolution! We
were reducing ourselves to the level of the
Mexicans and Central Americans. They
were going into canvass with the declare
tion that the President held his Office by
virture of the suppression of the will OF
. the majority, by fraud, intimidation, and
crime. There was no reason why any man
in Louisiana, white or black should
vote for such man as Governor
Warmoth. The Republicans hud given
Louisiana government which was a dis
grace to civilization and society, and it was
only because the intelligent men Of Louisi
ana resisted the negro domination, because
the Republicans had failed to perpetuate
their supremacy by the infamous machina
tions of the political machinery, that the
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wrath abused the Democrats of Louisiana
Instead of being abashed by the charges he
threw them back into the Senator's teeth
!, When the Senator from Ohio and himself
4 in that chamber witnessed the dramatic
political scene, when the vail was drawn
> from the chaste body of Eliza Pinkston ant
. the wounds exposed to the oredulous sym
pathy Of the Senator from Ohio, from tina
, !, time he considered that his judgment il
reference to elections in Louisiana had be
come slightly perverted
u Senator Gibson Na,) said that the
4 charges of the Senator from Kansas were
an aspersion upon the character and patri
u otism of the Southern people. The South
ern people were doing their best Will
. benevolence with charity, with composur'
and firmness, they were invoking all of thu
= resources of civilization to settle this ques
: | tion