The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-11
HOT WORDS.
q Warm Debate In the United
States Senate.
The Senator From kansas Replies tn the
Senator From Indiana - Crowded
Galleries Listen to n Very
Lively Tilt.

SENATOR FROM 100lan0 CfOW0eU
Galleries Listen to Very
Lively Tilt.
WASHINGTON May s-The Senate galleries
presented an unusually animated appearance az
the opening OF yesterdays session, being
crowded with SPECTATOR principally ladie !,
drawn by the announcement Of . speech by Mr..
Ingalls, in response to Mr.. Voorhees, invective
of last weGne day and by the prospect Of Bit
ter and excited political discussion.
At two o'clocs Mr.. Ingalls, commenced his
speech by recalling the fact that July II. last,
Major General Eitz John Porter, now on the re-
tired list, wrote o letter in which he thanked
his friends and said his heart was always with
them, although his hand and heart had at one
time worked the best they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana had COM
planned last Wednesday with bitterness that an
attempt had been made to blacken the names
of 81: he great civil well as military leaders
in the late war who retained their allegiance to
tae Democratic party. Fitz John Porter had
been one of those military leaders who retained
eilegian.- to the Democratic party, and he with
In the last four months (although he had been
sllshonorably dismissed from the service and
had been restored by the action OF the Demo
cratic party and its members wno had been
''his heart was always with them" .
Referring to General Mcclellan Mr.. ingalls,
spoke OF his education al West Point of his
business connection with Be'iuregard and his
attempt to extend and continue slavery by the
acquisition of Cuba. He spoke of him as hav-
ing begun his military career by disobeying the
orders of General Scott, as having abandoned
p pc at Centervii,e, as having Jailed to put the
rebels to the sword at Aniieta;n, as having re-
fused to obey the orders of the President and
follow the rebels TO Winchester. and as having
fatally controlled the destiny of the army until
the battle OF Fredericksburg. History had pro-
nounced its verdict upon him as soldier and
the Senator from Indiana would not be able to
place him in the category with Napoleon. Han
uibai and Caesar. He uDgalls) dealt with him
as politician and said that no one could read
his letter to President Lincoln after the disas-
srous seven days fight on the peninsula and
before Richmond without coming to the con-
clusion that Mcclellan was not fully and act
lively in sympathy with the forces. the ideas and
the sentiments which were then controlling the
Amer can people.
As to General Hancock, he also, Mr.. ingalls,
said, was one OF the military leaders who were
true to the Democracy. His martial career was
one of the imperishabie heritages Of American
glory. He marched and triumpbed. He filled
the abyss of fame with names which would be
eternal. lum;nous-the Peninsula, Antietam.
Gettysburg, Charlottesville, Cold HarbOr and
Petersburg. Had he been = soldier under
Napoleon he would have been Prince and
Marshal of the Empire. He had been well
called Hancock the Superb But after the
war closed he, like Mcclellan, had become
tainted with the fatal virus OF an ambition for
the Presidential nomiaation.
But notwithstanding his magnificent and I'M
approachahle career. the American people
recognized his hostility to the reconstruction
measures and in .he Presidential election OF
1880 he carried bit three Northern States
California Nevada and New Jersey-and the
first two of them had been stolen by the for
0ery and fraud of The Morey letter. issued by
the Democratic politicians. He had also re-
ceived the 1873 electoral votes OF the solid South
which had been promised him in his speech at
Cincinnati by the Senator from South Carolina
mir. HamptonD
Mr.. ingalls, spoke OF the affected indignation
of the Senators from Indiana and Kentucky as
discreditable to their intelligence or their cam
dor II they did not know that he InQalls)
had spol,en Of these Union Generals, not as
soldie rs. but as politicians and as Democratic
cand;dates for the Presidency, they were dull,
atupid and ignorant indeed. If they did know
and persisted in their assertions they were
t,;s;neenuous and he suspected iii such a thing
were possiS,e) that they we're both. laugh
teri ~
Mr. Ingalls,, continuing, said: Mr.. Presi-
dent, from the impassicned eulogy, from the
rhapsody Of appreciation that flowed from the
Senator from Indiana at the great military
achievements Of Mcclellan and Hancock
began to have some doubt who it was that
really put down the rebellion. I was driven
curiously 10 inquire what was the attitude of
the Democratic party in the North and OF the
Senator from Indiana as one Of its great
leaders in 1862 when Mcclellan, the ideal
Democrat was fighting the battle OF Antietam !:
in 1863. when Hancock was hurting back
in confusion and dismay the scattered
kauadrons OF the Confederacy. I was
really for the moment, Mr. President, inclined
to believe that the Democratic party Of the