The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-09

declared that Mr.. Hayes title to the
presidency was the most absolutely ir
refragable of any in the whole list of
American presidents. Mr.. Ingalls, said
that Mr.. Cleveland had apparently
warranty deed for the seat he occupied,
and yet, compared with the title which
Mr.. Hayes had to his seat, he was in
possession of stolen goods. In the
court of justice and fair conscience he
had never been elected at all. He had
been counted into office by a partner
ship between Dick Turpins and Uriah
Heaps of the solid South, as it had
been at every election since the cleo
ton of Mr.. Hayes. The solid South
was the confederacy, and the success
of the democratic party meant the
success of the confederacy, which was
to-day as much an organized, active,
aggressive force in politics as in 1861
and in previous times. Slavery was
dead and secession was dead, but all
the ideas, all the impulses, all the pur-
poses and intentions of secession re.
NAMED. Referring to the appointment
of Lamar, the speaker recalled speech
made in the house in 1879 by Mr..
Blackburn, declaring it to be the pur-
pose and intention of the democratic
party to wipe out from the statute-book
the last vestge of war legislation. He
said that within the next few years the
supreme court would be entirely re-
constructed. Two associate justices
were already past the retiring age and
if that tribunal was to pass hereafter on
the war legislation all know what the
result would be.
Passing on to the question of cleo
tions in the South, the senator said that
the republican party would have no
right to complain if the South were
kept solid by fair means. But the
democratic party there had been play
ing the political game with loaded dice
had been Throwing skies" all the
time, had held stacked cards." played
with " cold deck" 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 a single American
citizen, even the least of one of these,
my little Ones" there would be
declaration of war within ninety days
even with the present secretary of state
in office. They had an illustration of
what was going to take place in Novem-
Der next by what had just taken place
in Louisiana. He read lot of letters
and statements from republican sources,
detailing acts of outrage and cheating
at the Louisiana election, and declared |
his belief that fair returns would have
shown Yarmouth elected by majority
of SO 900 or "a 900. Then he discussed
the relative positions of the two parties
on the pensions question and closed |
with peroration, picturing what would
have been the miserable fate of the |
country if the rebellion had prevailed.
1t is needless to say that Mr.. Voor-
hees was not pleased with Mr. Ingalls,
speech. In fact he was so enraged at
the damaging exposure of his record
that he completely lost his temper and
his language in reply was virulent in
the extreme. He frequently applied
the epithets of liar" "infamous
scoundrel |" and dirty dog" to Mr..
ingalls, and to Representative Johnston
of Indiana, who was seated in the rear
of Mr.. ingalls,. The latter restrained |
his temper and did not reply to Voor-
hees' expressions in kind. The demo-
cratic and mugwump journals are much
put out by Mr.. Ingalls, speech and
pronounce it discreditable." They |
always express that opinion whenever
their side gets the worst of the argu-
ment. Their real grievance is that
Senator ingalls, told so much truth that
is damaging to their party and party
leaders.