Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-07

man that Kansas sent, and it was not withou
pride that he recalled the fact that of tn
thirty odd states then in the Union Ken
| lucky was the only state which ha
without "A draft supplied more tina
her quota Of men to both sides dun
ing the struggle, Why the senator iron
Kansas should have travelled out of his wa,
10 make an onslaught upon him, he did no
know. He did not know that he blackburn
was a necessary connecting link with the sen
ator's acceptance Of the presidential nomina
ton. The senator from Kansas doubtless di,
| know that illness in the family of the senate
from Missouri had taken him long distance
from the city, and that he was to be absen
for some time on that account He did no
intend 10 he involved in any controversy witt
the senator from Kansas, but he protested
against the lack of fairness evinced by tina
| senator when lie undertook to deal in such
fashion with men who had simply stated fact
and submitted data for the consideration o.
the senate upon the pension bill What con
nection, he had asked, had the speech madt
at Atlanta, or the speech made at Brooklyn
or New York, by gentleman who had never
| been member of either house of congress
with the pension bill
When the senator from Kansas undertook
| to speak of the chief executive of the
country in the terms he had seen fit to EN-
ploy, and which, he took it, were delber.
| ately prepared and cOnned, he Ingalls, Ger.
tainly could not take issue with him BLACK
burnl if he concluded that it was not Ell
titled te response or reply in a presence SO
| august and distinguished as the senate of the
United States, What cause of grievance the
senator had that warranted him in applying
language to the chief magistrate which
would not be permissible on the hustings die
mott Al f,,I
even to be employed by fish women he did
not know. But when that senator undertook
to denounce the chief executive of the United
States after such fashion as to deliberately
declare that no man afflicted with
ignorance so profound, with ohScurity so
gross, should consider himself unfit to become
the presidents successor, it did seem to him
Blackburn that the dignity of the senate
chamber refused permission to respond 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 senator's party at the
polls, he had given to the American people
for three years past, so efficient, so honest. so
clean-handed an administration as to doom
the last Republican aspirations to disaster.
Applause on the Democratic side and in the
galleries
But the senator from Kansas had even
gone farther and done worse in his intemper-
ate zeal. He had not spared the sanctity of
the grave in his frantic efforts to stir up
preJuulceS between sectlolls already reunited,
he had dragged up for abuse and utilization
before the American senate such men as
had furnished with their nnbemished swords
the brightest pages of American history.
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taste tat least more credltahle I" the courage
and CandOr of the SENATOR if he had made
such "A charge before both of these men were
hur,i.I
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~ ot,,,I,us,, and I,u,ht.r
RIai.l,h,,rn Than 81, n,,cl tb, ,ro,ss., f,, t,,
sarato,, FROM Kansas What warrant al, ,,ra,,,,,l
Ir a., e., ti,o, 80, ,h,t t,, No., ,tr ,i,,,
emf from himself ot Ieast In pnliti,al faith if
imn,, ,y, NOT hnne aIsnl in many other regards,
II,,,,l. a, an ~ ,h,, ,,rr,.Iarot,s. W. r.
r,rarIod arI haIi.yaI ,rh,.,, ,,al,art,,r Il, Ii,
iI'd n,, C1rnta,' 1I.I,,rts hn rfSsI = H. m
moved from tho tia,I nn na,si.t.J il, ,,iyirl, ar
dars ,yhi.h chscLaJ The, I,st a,yon,,a ~ + 2nr,
street !, ,.sistiII hattaI,,,s. kyns il tbis man
Who yas honnred nv tI,e American n.onla
,h,tb.r pan,,IJicons ,r D.n,,,.rots m, r., H.
vary date chen he had aceented the nni,,inntin,
of the Democratic party, who was to be spoken of
as an ally of the Confederatesy
The senator from Kansas complains Of the sen
ator IRON Missouri and says that he rests his
ro,lp'"ln' upon 'l'n, senator antopoEF9pny'
~ - ns l,'a' a i
" NC ,'' ' % ~ '''h i0'is 10 ui''i SCI
in i"ohE oaua te Suiu ".'' nl'
't'''s "l's " Wv n'.'o' i" H H
nu ,i."t me "'"5 H No. ~ t,e ~ I''g low, ne
pe'''t'i'iS was not III VIC my III 4ooS, pec't'se
~. ~ ~ NV 3 ~ % So III
.t. GU nu' NC wa" ~ .D ~ " ny 'i"l,i ioo' 20
listened TO the senator hlght suppose that he was
~ os '1 "' NY t III Iie "es',
hrnnzed and weather beaten rommandar ~ tbe
American army [amding to Gen sheridan
who had occupied a seat on the floor
during Mr., Ingalls, speech sit here in this cham
Der ana niusn IN noaGsty at the humble part
r.hnIlir ' IN ,o,,,,1orisnn ,,;,h tIot fr
ator from Kansas, What was that senator's 90
cupation in military capacity? He was Judge
advocate of the Kansas volunteers daughter
While Gen. Black the Commissioner of pensions,
was bleeding on the Kansas frontier; While Nc
oiei,an was tiie iS a. ie.eisptis'
eteIy Ieiehts at uettS Soui X tSe senator iroh