Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-10


OF his (Voorhees) speech which he had seen in
the press was that he had galvanized a corpse.
He disciaimed any purpose OF that kind He
had made no attack upon him but upon the Re
publican party. He pro eeded TO compare Mr..
Ingalls, to peacock on barnyard fence.
posing of summer morning looking 1T his
own feathers as they glanced in the sun.
and vocalizing the whole neighborhood with
his harsh, unmusical and unmeaning cry, I'M
mindful OF the fact that there were more use
ful fowls In the barayard How useless IL had
been for that Senator to arraign him, He I'm
galls) had read to the Senate the old stale put
rid. rotten ISLANDERS OF years gone by on which
he (Voorhees) had trampled in forty campaigns.
1t had seemed to him like the voices OF spa
yined. broken-winded, hackneyed political cam
paign liars OF the last thirty years. That he ever
uttered one word against Union soldiers or
talked OF their having collars around their
necks was so base falsehood. so infamous that
the black walls of perditlon could not redupli-
cate it. And he said to the Senator from Kan
sastwithOut meaning, perhaps, the full extent
of what his words conveyedD that it was not in
his power to fish up from the sewers of
infamy the old campaign lies and make
them respectable in the Senate OF the United
States; but it was possible for him, by q short
step. TO put himself on an equality with them
Mr.. Voorhees, alluded in a sarcastic and
amusing manner to Mr.. Ingalls, war record. and
sdd he would stand with the Senator before the
soldiers OF Indiana or Kansas and quit the
Senate If he was not approved by them over
Mr.. ingalls,.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that as the Senator from
Indiana had seen fit to invite a comparison
between their records and their relations to
great questions OF the past twenty five years,
he felt it his duty to put on record, from infor-
nation in his possession, what the Senator's
record and history was. He should refer only
to public matters in public records, and should
venture the affirmation that whatever might
have been his own Qngalls) relations to the
great struggle between the North and South,
fhn
outset the determined, outspoken, positive,
aggressive and malignant enemy OF the Union
cause.
II pronounce that" said Mr.. Voorhees, rising
with anger in his eyes, Ito be deliberately
false accusation. voted for every dollar that
paid the soldier, for every stitch OF clothes he
wore, and for every pension bill that rewarded
his services"
Mr.. Ingalls, answered that the Senator had
come in here to-day and thanked God that he
had never been followed here by committee
to question his right to his seat, and with much
diffuseness of illustration had endeaypred to
cast aspersions upon him Qngalls) and belittle
and humiliate him in the eyes OF the American
people. when he Qngal1s) had only referred to
the Senator's public utterances, his speeches
which he had never denied.
Mr.. Voorhees, declared that he did deny it,
Mr.. ingalls, replied that the Senator could not
deny the publication he had read. It was a
verbatim report, and was certified to.
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one word or
syllable read by the Senator true or be-
heved to be true In Indiana. The accusation
had been trampled under foot. The Senator's
insinuation that he (Voorhees) had ever been q
member of political secret society-the
knights OF the Golden Circle-was so base and
UNANIMOUSLY false that he did not known how to
choose language to denounce it as such.
Mr.. Ingalls, continuing, said the Senator from
Indiana had written a letter for Mr. T. A. Shute,
which that gentleman took South with him and
filed in the Confederate War Department in
support OF his application for appointment
Brigadier-G General in the Confederate army
The letter was dated December IL, 1861 and
said: ION the disturb ng question of the day
his (Shute's) sentiments are entirely with the
South and one of his objects is probable home
in that section. 1 take this occasion to
say that his sentiments and mine are
IN close harmony" The Senator said that
the charge that he had called Union SOL
diers ''hirelings and Lincoln dogs and said
that they ought to go to blacksmith shop and
have an iron collar around their necks with the
inscription MY dog, Abraham Lincoln" was
campaign SANDER and scandal that had
been spit upon. That averment could be sub
stantiated by as creditable a witness as there
was in the city.
Mr.. voorhees, broke in: ''And even il the SEN
ator said it. it would be absolutely false and q
palpaple lie''
Mr.. Ingalls, rejoined: THE Senator is disor-
derly," and, continuing, read from a paper
signed by citizens of Sullivan County who
stated that they were present at n meeting on
April 8. 1862 when Mr.. Voorhees, said that
Union soldiers should go TO the nearest black
smith shop and have an iron collar around
their necks with the inscription: My dog,
Abraham Lincoln" This paper was signed
by respectable citizens of Indiana, who were
not ashamed OF their names and residences,
which were attached. Everybody knew
what business the Democratic party OF Indiana
had been engaged in during the war. Seventy
thousand of them had been members of the
knights of the Golden Circle. and had been con-
spring against the U:1ion. They had entered
into a combination according to General Holt
for the purpose of aiding soldiers to desert dis
couraging enlistment. circulating reasonable
publications, giving intelligence TO the enemy
and assassination and murder, and it was sus-
ceptible of proof that they did conspire to MUIR
der Governor Morton. This organization, which
the Senator said he never belonged to. had
ritual OF which liz copies were
found in the Senator'S office at the
time when Hancock at the
unbloody angle. In that same ONCE found
other correspondence concerning the objects
and purposes OF that organization. The CORES
pondence of CT. Vallendingham was in the Office
The Senator in his address to his constituents
in 1861 had declared that he would never vote a
single dollar nor q single man for the prosecu
ton OF the war and he had never done so. so
long as he was in Congress. He had consistently
and persistently voted against every measure
for upholding the Union cause und reinforcing
its army.
Yet continued Mr.. Ingalls,, 1.-The Senator
who. think, deserves charity more than any
man 1 know of on this floor. and who has
ceived it 1T the hands of his associates and can
less afford than any man of my acquaintance to
invite the scrutiny of his war record. rises here
and with playfulness and hilariousness, refers
to the fact that 1 served during the war as
Judge Advocate with the rank of Major and
subsequently OF Lieutenant Colonel. How
ever obscure inefficient my services have
been, they were always on the side of my
country-not as his have been, always against
it."
Mr.. Voorhees, said that If the gentleman from
Kansas would find one single vote that he had
cast against the payment of soldiers for their
supplies, for their bouhties against the appro-
priations FOR their pensions, he would resign his
seat in the Senate. Every word the Senator
had stated on that subject was absolutely false
by the record. absolutely false He measured
his words The Senator said that he Voor-