Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15


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SENATOR BLACKBURN s d Q 8 during the
struggle. Mr.. Blackburn did not know
that he was necessary connecting linG
with the Senator's acceptance OF the PreaA
Dental nomination. The Kansas Senator's
language regarding the Chief Executive OF
the country was not entitled 10 reply
in a presence SO august as that.
of the Senate of the United
State9 What cause of grievance war
ranted the Senator in applying Ian
guage to the Chief Magistrate which would
not be permissible on the hustings-he
would not say it would be disgraceful even
to be employed bV ish-women-he did not.
know; but when that Senator undertook to
denouncs the Chief Executive after such
a fashion as to declare that no man aflict-
ed with ignorance so profoun 1, with OBJ
security SO gross, should consider himself
as unfit to become the Presidents success
sor, it did seem that the dignity of the
Senate chamber refused permission to re-
spond He was not here TO defend the
President from such unwarranted attacks
He knew but one sin which the President
had committed in the eyes of the
Senator from Kansas That might be
the objectionable sin 1t was that.
having defeated the Senate party at
the polls, he had given to the Amer
lean people for three years past SO efficient,
SO honest SO clean-handed an administra-
ton as to doom the last of Republican as
plrations to disaster But the Senator from
Kansas, in his incorporate zeal, had not
spared even the sanctity of the grave /
his frantic efforts to stir up prejudices be-
tween eections already reunited He had
dragged up for utilization men who had
furnished with their unhlemished swords
the brightest pages of American history.
McCelland and Hancock were to be de-
nOunced in The Senate chamber as allies
to the Confederates Would it not have
been in better taste if he had made such a
charge before both these men were buried?
Mr.. Ing llls-I did, often
Mr.. Blackburn-Then SO much the worse
for tue Senator from Kansas What war
Iant or ground had he for that except that
they were both different from himself in
political faith? Hancock an ally of Con-
federates? Was he SO regarded when,
weltering in his blood on Cemetery Heights
he persisted in giving orders which checked
the last advance of Longstreet's battalions?
Was tn man. who was honOred by the en-
tire American people, ally OF Confed-
crates? The Senator from Kansas was in
the army from 1868 to 1868, and in what
capacity? One who listened to the Sen
ator might suppose he was controlling a
great army.
what was the Senator's occupation, in a
military capacity?" continued Mr. Black
burn He was Judge-Advocate OF X insas
volunteers [Laughterl While General
Black. the Commissioner OF Pensions, was
bleeding the Kansas frontier, while Nc
Clellan was comman ding the army. while
Hancock was weltering in his blood at
Gettysburg, the Senator from Kansas, al
ways bah nd the rear of the army, was prose-
cutting Kansas jIyhawkers for r1fiing hen
roosts loud laughter and applause Now,
| what are you to think OF the argument OF
| Senator who will leave his seat as presid-
|
| OF partisan zeal which had seldom been
| equaIed attacking all decent people, from
! the President of the United States down,
and letting no object escape the venom Of
his tongue? One would say that he was q
cynic. despising neutrality-suspicious. because
he had suspicion that mankind is not
enamored of him. But neither President
nor soldier. living dead, Confederate or
Federal, except he accords with him in po-
litical convictions, is safe from his attacks
l have never opposed pensioning disabled
Union soldiers, and do not know the Con-
federate who he's done SO. The Senator
tells us that no u emocratic constituency in
the South had ever elected Union soldier
TO either House of Congress- Texls sent to
Congress term after term a distinguished
Union soldier in the person of Governor
Hancock. The State of Arkansas sent from
a Democratic constituency a Union soldier
to represent her in the other house OF
Congress- 1 would like to know IL
the late Governor Walker was not q
Union soldier and an honored repre-
sentative in Congress from an overwhelm-
ingiy Democratic district in the Old
Dominion? Did not the Senator re-
member that for six years Kentucky kept
continuously in the other house General
Wolford, who was shot out of his saddle
more than half a dozen times and who al
ways came there as candidate of the Dem
ocratic party, elected in a Democratic dis
trict? do not care to follow the Senator
through all the inaccuracies of his utter
ances Partisan as I am, do sincerely
trust that 1 may never find my life eT-
tended to that hour when, without war
rant. without truth at my back, will turA
deliberately to traduce and abuse the dead
who. while living. were honored by all hon
orable men" Loud applausel