Wichita eagle., 1888-05-02
VOORHEES, ANSWERED.
tContinued from First Pagel.

Passing on question of elections i'm tn
south, he said that the Republican part.
would have no right to complain If TIN
south were kept solid by fair means. Blu
the Democratic party there had been play
ing the political game with loaded dlce
had been throwing SKIES all the time, haa
held stacked cards; played with colo
deck; had revolver in its boot ana
bowie knife down the back of its neck
There were every day wrongs inflicted Oh
thousands and hundreds of thousands OF
men in the southern states, which, If in
f1icted by foreign power or single Ameri
can citizen, even the least Of one
of these, my little ones, there
would be declaration of wal
within ninety days; even with the present
secretary of state in office. l,ond laugh
ter This was an illustration what was
going to take place in November next, by
what had Just taken place in Louisiana.
{Quiet laughter on the Democratic side
He quoted from Mr.. Voorhees, speech
to the effect that the only wonder about
the Louisiana election was that the vote
was not unanimous, and he said that 1t
was more than unanimous. The Demo
cratic party in the south have learned the
art, not only of making elections unani-
NOUS. but of making them more than
unanimous. 1t had learned the art
of returning a larger Democratic
majority than the registered vote. lie
wondered, himself, at this moderation in
returning only n majority OF 13,0U0 III
Louisiana; but it had been going up since
the senator from Indiana had spoken, and
was now $1,000. What it would amount TO
before the dog days nobody conld tell.
He read letters and statements from Re
publican sources detailing acts of outrage
and cheating at the Louisiana election,
and declared his belief that fair returns
would have shown Warmoth elected by a
majority of $1,000 or 1000
In closing Mr.. Ingalls, said: IN the cen
turtles that are to come he saw the vision
If a united, prosperous and happy Amer
lea, a vast domain of free men-rulers of
the continent from the Polar zone TO the
Gulf from the Atlantic To the Pacific, en-
joying the franchises of liberty and per-
petuating the arts of peace. The people
should remember he said, on each recur-
ing day when they celebrate those who had
died that this country had in its fruitful
and tender breast no more priceless treas
IRE than the consecrated dust of those
who had died in order that there should be
:. government of laws, not men, and that
liberty and constitutional government
should not perish forever from the face of
the earth.
As Mr.. ingalls, sat down Mr.. Blackburn
asked him to give in the Record the full
and correct extract from his blackburn s.
speech, to which he had referred and Mr.
ingalls, promised TO do so.
Mr. VOORHEES, arose and in slow, meas
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 blare of irumpets had brought large
audience to the senate and what had they
heard, and what had they seem A poor.
small mouse cropping off. His allusion last
al,.nc 70 q ha |.
had been merely incidental. Why should
he assail that senator? Men mistook
themselves. and the senator from Kansas
did so more than any one he knew. That
senator had not been alive, politically,
since the 9th of MAJ Gu last, when the sen
atOr from Kentucky BLACK burh) disposed
of him daughter and yell of approval
from one of the galleries. He had been
walking the streets and posing before the
world like an old friend Of his in Indian
apolis in bad health, who had said to him
that he had been dead a Year. and was
only walking around to save funeral
expenses The only criticism of his (NoOr-
hees' speech which he had seen in the
ress was that he had galvanized corpse.
He disclaimed any purpose of that kind.
lie had made no attack OH him. but upon
the Republican party. He proceeded to
compare Mr.. Ingalls, to Il peacock On
barnyard fence, posing on summer
morning, looking at his feathers as they
CLEANED in the sun and vocaliZing the
whole neighborhood with his harsh, unmu-
steal unmeaning cry, unmindful of the
fact that there were more useful fowls in
the barnyard than he How selfish to
arraign him. Ingalls, had read to the
senate, the old stale, putrid, rotten SLAM
uers OF years gone by, ON which he Moor
hees) had trampled in forty political COM
paigns. 1t had seemed to him like the
of min Oh hac
political campaign liars of the last
twenty-five years. That he ever uttered
and word against union soldiers or talked
of their having collars around their necks
was so base "A falSehood, so infamous. that
the black walls OF perdition could not
duplicate it. And he said TO the senator
from Kansas (wlthOHt meaning, perhaps
the full extent of what his his words con
veyedD that il WAS not in his power to
fish up from the sewers of infamy the old
campaign lies and make them respectable
III the senate of the United States: but il
was possible for him by a short step, to
put himself on an equality with them.
Mr.. Voorhees, alluded in q sarcastic anus
ing manner To Mr.. ingalls, war record, and
SAID he woald stand with the senators be
fore the soldiers of Indiana or Kansas aud
quit the senate if he was not approved by
them over Mr. ingalls,
Mr. Ingalls, replied that as the senator
rom indiana had seen lit To invite com
parI>on between their records, and their
relations to the great questions of the
past Twenty-Five years, he felt IL his duty
10 put on record from information in his
possession, what the senator's record and
history was He should refer only to pub
lie matters in public records, and sh
venture the assertion that whatever might
have been his own Qngallso relations TO
the great struggle between the north and
south, the senator from Indiana had been
from the outset he determined, outspoken
posi- i've, aggressive and malignant enemy
of the union cause.
pronounce that lsaid Mr.. Voorhees, ris-
ing with anger in his eyes, TO be a dehber-
ately false accusation. voted for every
dollar that paid the soldier for every stitch
of clothes he Wore. and for every pension
bill that rewarded his services.
Mr.. Ingalls, said the senai or cam9 in here
today ana thanked God that he had never
been followed here by COMMITTEES To cues
ton his right TO his seat, and, with much
dniuseness OF illustration had endeavored
TO cast aspirations upon him (Ingalls) anu
belittle him, and humiliate him in the
eyes of the American people, when he On
gallsl had only referred TO the senator's
pubnc uttelauces-hls speeches which he
had never denied.
Mr.. Voorhees, declared that he did not
deny n.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that the senator
could not deny the publieatio ion he had
read. Ii was verbal report and so cer,i-
fled to-
Mr.. voorhees, asSertedithat not one wof,l
or syllable read by theI>enator was true.
or believed tn be true IA Indiana. The ac-
cusstion bad been trampled under foot.
The senator's insinuatioA that he Nor
heesl had never been a member of politi-
cal secret society, the Knights of the Gold
en- Circle, WAS So base and UNANIMOUSLY
false that he did not know how 10 choose
language To denounce il as such,
Nh. ingalls,, continuing, said the senator
from Indiana had written letter for Mr.