The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-28
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How thoroughly Voorhees, was
thrashed and just how contemplate he
must appear to his political enemies,
may be guessed at by a perusal Of the
many comments made through the col
umns Of both republican and demo-
cratic papers alike. But how utterly
cowardly and pusiIanimous his conduct
shows up to the simon pure democrats
who were brave enough to fight for
democracy in the confederate ranks,
may be appreciated by perusal of the
following from the Macon, Missouri,
Democrat, whose editor was one who
wore the gray:
| Honesty is the best policy in poll
l tics as well as in everything else. AS
/ a confederate we have not the slight
est doubt of the sympathy of Voor-
hees being with the people of the
south; were this not the case we think
l that almost every confederate who
knew anything at all about it was left
to believe that in this brilliant and
eloquent man the south had a SYM
pathiZing friend. And this trust has
never yet been shaken and the know
ledge of it has not detracted in the
least. from his personal popularity.
A digni6ed silence or a generous and
manly avowal of these sentiments
would have been infinitely better for
the man sand for the cause of truth
than the weak and silly denial he made
in the face OF evidence strong enough
to convict any man.
1t has never yet been necessary for
} any man to deny fighting for or sympa-
thizing with the south in the late strug-
gle to gain and hold the repect of hon
! orable men let them be ever so strong
friends to the union. Gould Senator
Voorhees, succeed in convincing the
people Of his own state that he was
, what he claimed in his debate, to be al
heart in sympathy with the policies be.
; both the north and south, hG
would not add to his popularity in the
least, and If they believe that he was
l driven to a cowardly denial of his sen
timents, the mantle of charity alone
can prevent his being most severely
) censured.
How much better it is for a man tx
be true to himself, and, if mistaken, &C
knowledge it like man, and if he be
lieves himself right, to stand by it, al
though it sinks him into endless obliV
ion. Cowardice and falsehOod are 81
detestable in the eyes of true men anC
women that anything that looks like i
cannot aid him who practices it.
Politicians, above all men, SHOULD
times be sincere and act with clear
hands and pure heart. And theI
they should stand by their records 81
firmly as not to deny it, though
} they might know that they haG
made mistakes. The man who tries
to blow hot and cold with the
same breath and to be working hare
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the same time is generally shown up il
his true light, and becomes contempti
bic in the eyes of his enemies and al
object of pity to his friends. A mar
whose word and pledge is not as sacred
in politics as in anything else is un
! worthy of being confided in in any
thing. A man who seeks to betray &
man or cause he represents in politics
is as dishonest and more cowardly thar
man who will violate law. In ont
case honor alone is all the safeguard
thrown around the cause he represents
; in the other the law protects.
While We find but little in Ingalls, tC
: admire but his talent, we cannot but
acknowledge that man whom we 81
I much admired and whom we thought
to be his superior in everything grand
and noble, has through cowardict
alone allowed his enemy to gain an ad.
vantage over him which will prove &
: lasting disgrace, and in a contest, too
where the weapons were 10 be those
forged by brains, the one stood grand
noble and selfpossessed, while the
other disregaTded the code of homer il
7 debate and condescended to use the
} weapon of the ruffian and blackguard
We dislike to say what we have il
this case but the truth demands it; an(
should we stand alone among demo
cratic Journals we must cOndemn fh,
course of the man we loved and ad
mired, and admire the course of hin
whom we have so little reason to loV,
and admire. Cowardice and ruf1ianisn
3 we shall never endorse while we holl
3 honor as sacred as we do.