Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-10
HOT WORDS.
4 Warm Debate In the United
States Senate.
The Senator From Kansas Replies to the
Senator From Indiana - Crowded
Galleries Listen to Very
Lively Tilt.

WASHINGTON, May Zine senate C2llerie
presented an unusually animated appearance g
the opening Of yesterdays session, bein
crowded with spectators principally ladie
drawn by the announcement OF a speech by MI
Ingalls, in response to Mr.. Voorhees, invectiv
CT last WcGne day and by the prospect Of bit
ter and excited political discussion
At two ocloc. Mr.. ingalls, commenced hi
speech by recalling the fact that July II, last
Major General Fitz John Porter now on the re
tired list, wrote a letter in which he thanked
his friends and said his heart was always Will
them. although his hand and heart had at one
time worked the best they knew how agains
them The Senator from Indiana had com
planned last Wednesday with bitterness that al
attempt had been made to blacken the names
u al the great civil as well as military leaders
IN the late war who retained their allegiance e
iae Democratic party Fitz John Porter ha6
been one OF those military leaders who retained
allegiance to the Democratic party and be with
IN the last four months (although he had beer
Elshonorably dismissed from the service and
LAD been restored by the action OF the Demo
cratic party and its members who had beer
members OF the Confectionery had written tina,
his heart was always with them"
Referring to General Mcclellan Mr. ingalls,
spoke OF his education At West Point, OF his
business connection with Beauregard and his
attempt 10 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
PIPE at Centervile, as having failed to put the
rebels to the sword at Anietam 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 a soldier and
the Senator from Indiana would not be able to
place him in the category with Napoleon. Han
He sl ;Hh T.;
as politician ard said that one could read
his letter TO President Lincoln after the disas-
frous seven days fight on the peninsula and
before Richmond without coming to the CON
clusion that Mcclellan was not fully and act
Ivel' in sympathy with the forces the IDEAS and
the sentiments which were then controlling the
Amer can people.
As to General Hancock. lie also. Mr. ingalls,
said, was one OF the military leaders who were
true TO the Democracy. His martial career was
one OF the inperishabie heritages OF American
glory. He marched and triumpi,ed. He filled
the abyss Of tame with names which would be
eternal, lum!nous-the Peninsula Antietam
Gettysburg. Chancellorsvine, Colo Harbor and
Petersburg. Had he been i soldier under
Napoleon he would have been a Prince and
Marshal OF the Empire. He had been well
called Hancock the Superb But after tie
war closed he, like Mcclellan, had become
tainted with the fatal virus OF an ambition for
the Presidential nomination.
But notwithstanding his magnificent and I'M
approachahie career, the American people
recognized hls hostility 20 the reconstruction
measures and in the Presidential election of
1880 he carried but three Northern States
California, Nevada and New Jersey-and the
first two OF them had teen stolen by the for
gerry and fraud OF Che Morey letter, issued by
the Democratic politicians He had also re-
ceived the ISs electoral votes OF the solid South
vrh ich had x.np a a.. A;-
Cincinnati by the Senator from South Carolina
(Mr Hampton)
Mr.. ingalls, spoke OF the affected Indignation
OF the Senators from Indiana and Kentucky as
6iscreditable TO their intelligence or their can
dor. II they did not know that he Nngalls)
had spoken Of these Union Generals, not as
soldie RS, but politicians and as Democratic
candidates for the Presidency, they were dull.
stupid and ignorant indeed. II they did know
and persisted in their assertions they were
disingenuous and he suspected Of such a thing
were possible) that they were both. Laugh
teri
Mr.. ingalls,, continuing. said: Mr. Presi-
dent, from the impassioned culogy, 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. / 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 1868. when Hancock was hurting bacl, |
in confusion and dismay the scattered |
sQuGdrons OF the Confederacy. was |
really for the moment, Mr.. President inclined |
10 believe that the Democratic party Of the |
North and the Senator from Indiana and those
other great patriots whom he eulogizes as an |
n N "A Of of hal
ton and the UuIon-Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks |
and Mr.. Horatio Seymour and William A. |
Richardson-were in full panoply of battle. as
sisting Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing |
what they could to make the success of the |
armies possible And. it seems like the very
climax OF effrontery, like the apex Of audacity
for these men, whose history is SO well known.
who were from the beginning the avowed enc
mics Of the cause OF the Union at every step OF |
lis progress and who, like the Senator from In
DIANA were avowedly in sympathy with the |
South at the outset and were advocates and
apologists for slavery and secession; who gave
aid ard comfort to the rebellion in every posi-.
BE w"y-the copperheads, the putternuts
laughter, the knights Of the Golden Circle !
with all their brutal and degraded lies
here as TIE advocates and
champions OF Union soldiers and of |
the cause OF human liberty. supposed, from the
displayed iii favor of the military
Of Mcclellan and II incock. that
we should. upon inspection. at least find that
The leaders OF the Democracy who had been so
eUlogized were il sympathy with the Union
cause and in sympathy with the efforts that
were making 20 overthrow the Confe6eracy
Yet Mr.. President, at the very time. and during
The very year when Mcclellan was fighting the
battle OF Ant;etam. the Senator from Indiana
without excepting Mcclellan. and without ey-
cepting Hancock speaking at Sullivan Ind en- |
f1. - \ l
Union soldiers, that they should go to the ,
nearest blacksmith shop and have iron collars
made and placed around their necks, inscribed ,
thereon in large letters: My dog. A Lincoln:
md at the same time he referred to ,
he Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs !
and hirelings, without excepting Nc I
Clelan or Hancock laughter and applause.
and during the campaign. Mr. President that {
'esulted in the election OF Abraham Lincoln $
he Senator from Indiana who is row SO vehe- I
nently IN favor OF the prosecution OF the war OF
he rebellion, for putting down the South who n
% eulogizes the efforts of Union armies v
nd the genius OF Union commanders who d
'oses here as the special friend OF the Union | .
Older and denounces and asperses q criticism v
pon the political character and Affiliations OF Ii
hose who were engaged in that war. made q b
peech at Greencas;le which was reported in d
he Cincinnati Commercial, August g. 1864 by I,
oseph d. McCullagh. now the editor of the O
lobe Democrat in ST. Louis" II
Mr.. ingalls, read extracts from the speech Il
'hich declared the war failure and spoke of h
lincoln as a monster and an unhappy felon. n
Passing TO the question OF the Electoral Com /,
Mission of lS,6, MIR. ingalls, said he was not ~
peciauy cna,nored Of Mr.. Hayes Tlaughterl. O,
nd yet, inasmuch as the question OF Mr. HAYES n,
tie was brought in controversy by the Demo h
ratio party rs one of the issues OF the ap- | NJ
reaching campaign, he felt bound TO say that FL
ne title OF Mr.. Hayes TO the Presidency b,
as the most irrefragible OF any in the whole | @.
ST OF American Presidents. because it was the ri