Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-02

such charges.
When the senator from Kansas arraigne,
him and reflected upon his integrity, he OK
posed his own record, his own reputation b
examination, Voorhees, said that, unlike til,
senator from Kansas, he had not been fol
lowed TO the senate by an investigating com
mittee, charged with bribery and corruption
IN securing his seat, and whtewashed by
committee The senator from Kansas coulC
not afford TO enter into personalities Voor
| hees wanted il understood that he had in
| tended to make no reference TO the senator
| from Kansas-in any other capacity than u!
the traducer of Hancock and Mcclellan. II
was in response TO his attacks upon those he
roes that he had originally spoken. The sen
ator from Kansas now said that he did moi
| refer TO the military records Of these great
generals. He now said that he meant to re-.
fer TO these men MS presidential candidates.
| With all due respect, this was miserable
afterthought, The senator's first speech bore
no such Interpretation. The attack upon
| those heroes was the charge of treason Il
their country and betrayal Of their military
trust. The senator from Kentucky had given
the senator from Kansas ample opportunity
to qualify, to retract, to apologize.
| He had allowed his words to stand 1t was
now too late to change them or deny their
| meaning. The senator from Kansas was an
1 adept in the use Of language; he could not
| object to the most obvious rules of interpre'
| taton His language SO interpreted placed
| Hancock and Mcclellan on n par with Bone
| dict Arnold. His references to them were
false from beginning to end. To charge Nc
| Clellan with trying TO make the war failure
was tosItter as baseless n falsehood as could be
spoken When the loyalty of Mcclellan in
later life was questioned, the aspersion was
Ia al th.a pf
nation his loyalty was as true and earnest
as when he rode into battle at Antietam In
the pamphlet publication Of Ingalls, speech
he found notifications upon which he wished
to congratulate that senator. IL was wise to
soften some of thOSr, attacks The pamphlet
substituted the word 'subserVient' for de
graded i'll referring to the elements of the
north with which the late Confederacy sought
alliance,
The senator from Kansas challenged the
right Of others to speak in military matters
He attacked and criticised the military
record of other senator's voorhees, had be-
fore him a copy of the Kansas senator's auto
biographical sketch, 1t was minute and
doubtless accurate. 1t recorded his secreta-
lyship of Wyandotte society and other de
tails, but made no mention of Il military rec
ord Voorhees, also had the photographed
49,
years ago, in which he claimed to have been
Il major, a colonel and judge advocate of
Kansas militia. Recent biographical sketches
omitted these claims to military glory The
records of the state of Kansas do not sustain
the claims. The records OF the adJutant gen
eral of Kansas did not record the SEN
ator as warrior, even in the diluted
and dminutive form of judge adj
vocate. Whatever might he his own
war record, he would not shrink from com
parison with that of the senator from Kan
sas. In conclusion, he would say that he
spoke only for the truth OF history and justice
to the dead.
Ingalls, again rose. He said he regretted
exceedingly that the senator from Indiana
nod rafarral 10 nersonoI matters to which ma
IA nat intandad IA odvnrt Ha confessed
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that ms hlliitary services was llcoi,sl',cuous
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al ,Io,,,o,,I n ,anl,, I,,,alls soid that in tba
erro,t crisis of bis life when folIoyed from
Io,,sa, Inv a ,,aIia,ont and malicious inyasti
],nti,,1r oHr,,,ittae ond bis intaor.itv and bis
5'gbt To Iris snot had hoen Questioned the son
otor from Indiono had asslired him Of symuo
tbv and confidence When he had been vim
.dic,tod ba hal had the Indiana SENATOR'S ron
C,ratnI,tions Lnea1ls- then reneateded his
assertion that VOORHEES, had been friend of
thn Cnnralorocv
Voo,hoes rno3e n oenaraI denim, of everv.
thing CHARGED and insinnated bv the senator
go EanSos
meals nrotestad aq,ipst the interruntions
and offered to pr0duce evidence of every ac-
cusation.
Voorhees, said no matter who were the wit
neSses the charges were false
ingalS s'1ii u court cotiiu pass upon ' u,le
eN iuo''o II '''' '',i"'o "o''
the senator from liluiahh Woulu DC SEM 10
tne rock piie ior being drunk ana diSoruerly'
ne theh submitted letter signed ny Noor-
hees Ill becenlper' looo' commencing "
southern authorities man VINO useu ule ieo-
Ter as a recommendation IN securing n Con
lederaIe hhlntary appointment, anu III "hicn
letter voorhees, expressed his sympathy WIN
the sentiments Of this person ON the question
then disturbing the country. The senator from
indiana would not deny TINS letter, put men
mad been expelled from the senate 1of hBhter
oifenses than ITS authorship
voorhees, said this letter had been repeat
edly used against him in ms own state, ana
his people had passed upon 1t and upon all
these charges. The letter was genuine. 1t
was written before the war broke out. Inc
charges Of connection with the knights OF
the Golden Circle or other disloyal organiza
lions and OF attacks upon Lincoln were
rsTi,. Ill