The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-29
INGALLS, ARRAiGNMENT.
Democratic Pretenses Exposed in Terms
of Patriotic Eloqaence.

| HretenseS Exposed IN lerclS
of Patriotic Eloqaence.
When aroused to intellectual indig-
nation-his emotions are singularlv
well under control at all times-Sen-
ator ingalls, is the most energetic.
brilliant. aggressive. pertinent. and if
need be, whitening of political orators.
His mastery command of language,
the accumulative force of his faultless
rhetoric, the vigor and originality of
his ideas N 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
pics, as his speech on the Pension bill
attests, are as punitive of the culprit
Democracy as ever were the invectives
of the patriotic Judge of conspirators
against the peace, dignity and 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 as impeiled by
Indignation, and the ringing sentences
hurled dcfiantly, but with nice regard
to parliamentary courtesy, at the op-
! position had in them the ardor of
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 to certain points i'll his seemingly
impulsive 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
detract from the respect and admira-
ton won by his emphatic support of
the measure the Democrats are deter
mined shall figure as partisan issue.
VigOr of language is necessary when
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
aparty against the idea of National
unity, harmony and justice. Senator
ingalls, exposed the misrepresentation
and penetrated the sophistry of the
Democratic politicians who have tried
on the one hand to make it appear that
the petition of the e. A. r. was an in
solent 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 SEN
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
a Presidential "boom." A more paltry
evasion of the imperative issue present.
ed by the speech of Senator Ingalls,
could not well be attempted, and comes
contemptibly from a man of Senator
Blackburn's professsed intelligence,
whose only other reply was deliberate
misrepresentation of ingalls, clear and
unmistakable declaration. The DEM
Ocrats have persistently falsified the
attitude of the Union soldier. as they
have continuously falsified the facts
and figures relating to the pensioners
and would-be pensioners of the gov
ernmcnt established by the Union sol
diers. The declaration that there were
but eight thousand Southern SOL
diers in arms at Appomattox at
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 pension
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 10 subterfuge or artifice will
enable the Democrats of the Senate
and House to escape putting them
selves squarcly on record for or against
the dependent Union soldier as a
Union soldier. If the Democrats in
sist, as they seem determined to in
sist, on making the soldier question
political issue. they will find that there
yet 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.
THE INEVITABLE RESULT.
Why Tariff Tinkering Is Bound to IEjure
the Working Glasses.
With the tariff on steel rails at the
present figure foreign manufacturers
are able to enter the American market
and Law down their prOducts after