River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-05
ARRAIGNED BY INGALLS,.
Democratic Pretenses Exposed In Term
of Patriotic FIoouanca

ARRAlGNEO BY INGALLS,.
Democratic Pretenses Exposed In Terms
of Patriotic Eloquence.
When aroused to intellectual indig-
nation-his emotions are singularlv
| well under control at all times-Sen-
ator Lgalls is the most energetic,
brilliant, aggressive. pertinent. and if
need be. whitening of political orators.
His mastery command of language,
! the aecumulatiye force of his faultless
rhetoric. the vigor and originality of
his ideas in logical expression. the au-
| dacity of his antitheses. and the DOM
/ inant fact that he is never without the
courage Of his convictions, make him
a man to be feared as well as admired.
He is To the American what Cicero was
| to the Roman Senate, and his philip
| pies, as his speech on the Pension bill
attests, are rs punitive of the culprit
| Democracy as ever were the inyeetives
Of the patriotic judge of cOnspirators
against the peace, dignity aud honor
/ of the State of Rome.
In coming TO the defense of the
/ soldier interests it is the business of
| the Democracy TO assail whenever it is
expedient, Mr.. Ingalls, was as much in
! spired by enthusiasm rs iinpelled by
Indignation. and the ringing sentences
| hurled defiantly, bat with nice regard
| To parliamentary courtesy. ut the OPP
/ position had in them the ardor of a
| sincere sympathizer with the advo-
/ Gated cause. Whatever may be the
differences of individual opinion as to
the attitude of the fiery Senator rela-
tive 10 certain points IN his seemingly
] impulsiye speech. there can be but one
view of the soundness and irresistible
/ right of his deductions. His stand as
sures him of the gratitude of the
soldiers. whose rights he insists must
| be regarded and allowed, and the at
/ tempt of Senator Black burn to have it
/ appear that he maligned the dead.
memory of whom is precious to the ex-
soldiers of the Union army. will not
I detract from the respect and admira-
! tion won by his emphatic support of
I the measure the Democrats are deter
mined shall figure rs n partisan issue.
Vigor of language is necessary when
a body of men. ostensibly loyal to the
/ principles of the Union, sit menacing-
| ly in judgment against the just appeals
of the defenders of that Union, threat
ening the legislative body with the
! displeaSure of an Executive who sits in
authority as the representative, not of
the whole people against party. but of
/ a party against the idea of National
unity. harmony and justice. Senator
/ ingalls, exposed the misrepresentation
and penetrated the sophistIy Of the
Democratic politicians who have tried
on the one hand To make il appear that
the petition of the G. A. Il. was an in-
solcnt demand, and on the other hand
TO insinuate against the champions of
the Union soldiers and sailors that they
are seeking only to foster political sem
timent for selfish purposes.
Senator Blackburn could make no
more effective reply to the Kansas SEN
ator's scathing arraignment of the
! Democrats than the reiteration of the
feeble Jest of one of his colleagues,
that Ingalls, was stirring up for himself
{ u 4 tEHlutnNlAi UOOlils n lilblt Udlll
evasion of the imperative issue present
ell by the speech of senator Ingalls,
could not well be attempted, and comes
cOntemptibly from a man of Senator
! Blackburn's professscd intelligence,
whose only other reply was deliberate
misrepresentation of Ingalls, clear and
unmistakable declaration. The Dem
ocrats have persistently falsiiied the
attitSSle of the Union soldier. as they
have continuously falsiiied the facts
and figures rs,Sting to the pensioners
and would-be pensioners of the gov
eminent established by the Union sol
diers. The declaration that there were
but eight thousand Southern sol
diers in arms at Appomattox Mt
| the time of Lees surrender is not
wider Of the truth than the assertion
that half the men who were in the
Union armies are now on the pensioa
rolls; and neither is more deliberately
untrue than the repeated malign at
| tempts to define the motives of the
soldier and the friend OF the soldier.
| Senator Ingalls, smote with irresistible
thrust the pretenses and affections of
the Democrats so apparently Jealous
to conserve the right of the many, and
placed before them an issue so plain
that no subterfuge or artifice will
enable the Democrats of the Senate
and House TO escape putting them
selves squarely on record for or against
the dependent Union soldier rs a
Union soldier. If the Democrats in
sst. as they seem determined to in
sst, on making the soldier question a
political issue. they will find that there
vet exists in the United States enough
loyalty to the Union and to the soldiers
of the Union to sweep the Democracy
out of existence on that issue alone. -
Chicago Inter Ocean