The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-16
rYG.IIS, SPEECH.

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the United Stats Senate last week
By no me:tns al lei 70 the repa 4
non d lut pen .ea.a1 "a u.e
the contrary It vas uISorthy u
of any man with an ordinary sense
of decency, and an ordinary attach
ment to truth. 1t was a dissraceful
exhibi ten of partisan spleen and
malignity.
But it vas something else. Mr.
ingalls, has the presidential bee
buzzing in his bonnet Conse~
quently he seeks to attract the at
tent1on Of his party. Seated in
solitary state, as presiding office Of
Senate, he could not attract atten~
ton He was com PEELED to be
calm, judlcla, aud as 1alr and un-
PARTISAN as 1t was possible for him
to be. lie could mol indulge in
those oratorical pyrotechnics for
which he has been noted. He has
been compelled to listen to others,
instead OF compelling them to listen
to him. 1t is not surprising, in
view of the approaching nominal
ton, that Mr.. Ingalls, grew restive'
So MIR Ingalls, called another SEN
ator to the chair, and took the floor
HIS ostensible subject was the pen
sion dill, his real subject was In
gals. It viii be remem bered that
about a year ago the Kansas sena-
tor expressed a very favorable opin,
ion eff Mr.. Cleveland. HOY he
came to get IN this amiable mood
is a mystery. Recently this ex-
preston Of opinion has been quo
ted extensively, and ingalls, has
been mean enough to declare that
he said nothing Of the kind But he
wished to add insult to this de nia.
Hence his statement Tuesday on
the floor Of the Senate that the
nomination aud election of Grover
Cleveland had made the nomination
of any American citizen to the
presidency respectable; there was
no man 50 ignorant or mean that he
might not aspire to the presidency
by the Dsmocrotic party"
1t might have been thought that
this exhibition of spite, malignity
and meaness was enough for one
day, but it was not enough for In
gals. He proceeded to repeat the
stale and false accusation that the
Democratic party is hostile to
Union soldiers, and, on being re,
minded thatit had supported Han
cock for president, retorted: eyes,
it did support General Hancock,
and it also supported Horace Gree
ley to fool The North. 1t also nom
mated and supported that other ally
of the Confederacy. George B. Nc
ClelIan an ally of the Cenfederacy!
Think of that, Confederate veterans,
who charged the hIllsides at Gaines
Mill, breasted the storm of bullets
at Frazier's Farm, and rushed into
the jaws OF death at Malvern Hill
Think Of it, you who marched with
Lee into Maryland, and for two days
engaged in bloody conflict with the
troops which Mcclellan had gather
ed for the defence of the Federal
capital. That sane man should
make such a statement, should give
utterance to such a bald~faced
falsehood, IS something difficult to
understand.
Mr.. ingalls, received fro IN Sena~
tor Black burn the castIgation that
be so richly deserved. All through
the re remainder OF his political career
it will be remembered that while
Mcclellan, Hancock, Buell., Black,
and other gallant Democrats were
fighting fer the Union, he, Ingalls,,
as iudge-advocate Of Kansas troops,
was prosecuting Kansas jayhawk-
ers for rifing hen roosts, was occu-
plying a bonn b-proof position that
protscte ed him frsm Confederate
shot and shell, Net being able to
fight then with his hands, Mr. In.
gals is fighting now with his ton
que, like other patriots Of like Bit
terness, and similar record,