Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-03-11
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A Va Ellington dispatch 0: the 9Th iu-
st.nt says:
In the Senate to-day IuGall' Of Kan
sas in reply to the speech OF Senator
Vest (who was abseUt), made last week
in opposition to The Pension bill.
poured on, his vin1ictive spleen against
the Democratic party. the President.
the South, and in fact everything Pnd
everybody opposed to the vcnality oftle
Republican patty and its co,ript bosses
and supporters. After the Republican
featherxeight bad exhausted his-. vocnb-
ulLry.of Yiniic i've spleen and the pa
ticuce Of tue audience gatie'ed in tue
Ssni;u Chamber to li-,eu to words Of
wisdom, B~lsckb1rn of keIiucky ioln1-
ed mp the whipper-snapper Of the party
without a head ia The following l,itc re-
marks:
When. said Blackburn, The Senator
from Kansas unde 10 TX TO speak OF the
Cnief Executive of the country in the
terms he had seen fit 10 employ, which
were deliberately prepared, lac (InGailSI
coall not take issue with him (Black-
burn) IL he concluded it was not euii-
tied to n response or. reply in "A pres
ence SO august or distinguished MS The
Seaats Of tho United States. He WAS
not heie TO defend the T. esident from
such unwarranted attacks. lie knew
of but one sin which the President had
committed In the e.es OF the Senator
from KunIas-it was that Of having de-
feated the Senator's party Mt the polls.
he had g,ven 10 tho American people for
three years past so clic,cut, SO honest,
so clcan-tGuJc,l nn Administration rs
to doom The last Of Republican aspila-
tons to diIas,er.
The gentleman from Kansas in his
i~nteiIpeIaie zeal had no. spared the
sinctity OF The grave. He had dragged
up for abuse and y~iiiilication such men
rs had furnished theif e~mLlemishcd
swords for the brightest pages OF Amer
lean history. Mcclellan and Iiaucock
were to be denounced in tue Senate us
niiics of the ConfcAcrHcy. Would it
nos have been in better inste, ut least
moro creditable to the courage aud can-
dor Of the Senator, ii he had made such
n charge before both OF these lncu wcle
buried?
Ingalls, did often.
DlacEburn-rhcn SO much the worse
for the Senator from kAusts. What
warrant or ground Ind hr ior TINT. ex
cept that they We're both different fIoaI
himself, ut least in political action il
not i'll MANY othrr regards?
Einckbnyn then devoted some time To
running down in a baIt ring Danrc lii
CALLS military record. lis WAS, lie said.
Judge Advocate Of the knyGas Noluu-
IeUrs. While General BIuck was bleed
ng Oh The Kansas frontier; while Nc
Clclliu was commanding the army;
while Hancock was weitgriYg III his
'iSoN SSh'NASJ h'Shto = NSh'SS
bnrg. the Senator from Kansas, always
behind the rear Of the army, was prose-
cutting Kansas jty-hawke's for rifiuG
h~en-ioosts. "Now. what are you to
think of u Senator who VIII leave his
seat as presiding officer aud come to the
floor, an iIlust n;ion OF pnrt'son zeal
which has never been equnlIed, attach
ing nll decent people I ON the Pres DEBT
Of the United States down (civiiians ms
well ~ mil tary men.) and letting DO
object cscapu the venom Of his tongue?
i have never opposed lhe p~ensiouiuB u
disabled Uuion soidic's. aud l do rot
) NOV The ConfcLc. ate Who has dorc
so."
Blhckhurn then proccCGc TO rc'ute
the assertion that the SOl;hcrn States
had never sent Union soldiers TO Con.
grcss. lie concludrd: PARTY mnn Ms
/ nm, partisan us l COATES, myself 10 be,
i sincerity trust that l may never find
my term Of public service prolonged to
III, day when without warrant / shall
turn deliberately to trnduce the dend
who while living were houored by nll
honorable men." Loud applause