The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-11

In obedience to some mysterious impulse
troops. parks 0: artillery and munitions Of
war hal begun to come to the capital. and
the a3ita.io. OF the Democratic party becnrne
extreme because il tn r. was any thing that
would turn the average Democrat inside out
with indignation 1t was the sight Of u FEDERAL
soldier in blue uniform [Laughtsr.l The o.
%, ''un rmed Ksntuc slams" had not made their
appearance and the count had prOcseded, net
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 IT,, election a11 seating OF Mr.. Hayes.
Mr.. Cleveland had apparently warranty ueed
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 ~ bad rs the thief: in the
court Of justice and fair conscience he had never
been elected ut al. He had been counted
into Office by q Ea-tisanship between
Dick Turpin and Craa Heep, foOt-pads and
sneak thieves-Cartoache and Pecksnin; and
II was some consolation to know that in that
partnershi, these apostates and reneyades had
lost their share OF the swag Laughter and
applausel The country had still against it the
Southern Confed.racy. Il was confronted with
lid VOtc3 vi TIE SOttu Stutu. % II Hbu USch az
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 AS
much an organized. active, aggressive force in
politics as il 1851. and in the previous time.
Slavery was deaf and secession was dead, but
all the IDEAS all the impulses, al the purposes
and intentions Of secession remained. He hon
cred and admired. but regretted and depiored
the consistency OF the South to that idea: its
loyalty and fidelity TO the leaders under
whom 1t fought. AID its determination to
reunite and reconstruc. the history OF its coun-
try so that it would be able to say 10 the yener-
ations which We're to come that while :. was
overthrown by overwhelming numbers in the
field yet within twelty-f years after the war
closed its leaders had been restored to power.
In this connection. he asked who Lucius Quin-
tins Curtius Lamar was. and said he never was
suspected o. being lawyer. Laughter. 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 reported case in
any tribunal! State or National, for years. II
was al open secret that the President at one
time peremptorily refused to appoint him. He
asked what necessity there had been for the
President to a.front 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
Lincoln a bufocr, and why.
of all men. the South had selected him
and forced him Oh reluctant President and .
people. It was because Mr. Lamar
was the nearest and dearest friend and repre-
sentative Of Jefferson Davis. There was no
other explanation OF it. II that was not true.
then his nomination was farce and burlesque.
yc,,S " yr;fhn,:f nv
Mr.. ingalls, then referred to q speech made IN
the House Of Representatives in lSi9 By Mr..
Blackburn, declaring 1t to be the purpose and
intention OF the Democratic party to keep on
until it 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 if that tribunal vas 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 o.
Henry r. Jackson at Macon. Ca, in the presence
Of Jefferson Davis, q speech which had the
effect, he said, Of defeating the Democratic
party of Ohio By an immense majority, and the
influence of which was so palpable that Judge
Thurman had denounced Jackson rs IN Old
tramp and an old fool. and General Gordon, OF
Georgia, had Immediately set out for Cincinnati
IN his special car to try to counterfeit 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, rs reporte in
the papers at that time and entering his special
car went back to Georgia. tLaughter.l
Passing to the question Of the elections in the
South, the speaker said tina: 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 a ''cold deck and
had a 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 men in the Southern
States, which, if inflicted by foreign power
on Q single American citizen. even the
least would have caused declaration OF
war within ninety days-eyen with the
present Secretary o: State in Office.
Loud laughter.l The people had an Illus
t-ation Of what was going to take place
in November next BIZ wha; had inst taken place
in Louisiana. [Quiet laughter on the Demo
cratic side.l He quo ted i sentence from MIR
Voorhees, speech TO the eject that the only
wonder al out the Louisiana election was tina,
it was more than unanimous, and he said that
it was more than unanimous. The Democratic
party in the South had learned 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
iority 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 mad
spoken, and was now 5000 What it would
amount 20 before the dog days nobody could
tell.
Mr. ingalls, read letters and statements from
Republican sources detailing acts of outrage
and cheating al the Louisiana election and de
cared his belief that fair returns would have
shown Yarmouth elected by a majority OF 81,
600 or 5000.
In closing Mr. ingalls, said that il the centu
ries to come he saw q vision Of united, prosper
Gus and happy America, vast homogeneous do
main OF free men, rulers OF the continent from
the polar zone to the gulf. from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. enjoying their franchises Of liberty
and perpetuating the arts o; peace. The people
should remember on each recurring day when
they celebrated those who had died that this
country held in its fruitful and tender breast nc
more priceless treasure than the consec.a.eJ
dust of those who hal died in order that this
should be government G: laws and not OF men
and that liberty and constitutional government
might not perish forever from the face OF the
earth.
Mr.. Voorhees, arose and. in slow. measured.
resonant tones, remarked that the speech which
the Senate had just listened to recalled to his
mind the fable OF the mountain in LABOR. Two
hours had passed away after the bare o: trum
pets had brought large audience to the Sen
ate. and what had they heard. and wha: had
they seen: A Door small mouse creeping or
His allusion last Wednesday to tbs Senator
from Kansas had been merely INDEPENDENTLY
should he assa:l that Senator! Men mistool;
themselves. and the Senator from Kansas did So
more than any one ne knew. That Senator had
not been alive politically, since March last,
when the Senator from Kentucky blackburn
disposed OF him. Laughter and a yell OF ap.
proyal from one OF the saileries.l He Had been
walking the streets and posing before the world