Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03

elections in the south, he said the Republic
can party would have no right to COM
plain IL the south were kept solid by fair
means, but the Democratic party there
had been playing the political game with
loaded dice, and had been "throwing
skies" all the time, had held "stocked
cards" had played with "cold deck, !"
had a revolver in its boot and q bowie
down the back of its neck. There were
every day wrongs inflicted In the south,
and by hundreds of thousands OF men in
J the southern states, which, il inflicted by
! q foreign power in 8 single American
city, even the lesst one of these, my
little ones, there would be declaration
of WEI within ninety days, even with the
present Secretary of State In Office.
Loud laughter. They had an illustra-
zion of what was going to take place in
November next by what had just taken
place In Louisiana. Quiet laughter on
the Democratic side. He quoted 8
sentence from Voorhees, to the ef,scs
that the only wonder about Louisiana
WAS that the vote WAS not unanimous,
and he said it was more than unanimous.
The Democratic party of the south has
| learned the art not only OF making cleo
lions unanimous, but of making them
more than unanimous. 1t had learned to
return larger Democratic msjority than
the registered voters. He wondered him.
self a. the modern method of turning on
the maj GRITTY OF 70, 600 in Louisiana, but 1t
had been going up since the Senator from
Indiana had spoken and WAS now $1,000.
What 1t would amount to before the dog
DAYS nobody could tell. He read letters
and statements from Republican counties
detailing acts of outrages and cheatlDg at
the louisiana elections, and declared his
belief that fair returns would have shown
Yarmouth elected by majority OF 49,
900 or 81 900. In closing, Mr.. Ingalls,
said: In centuries that are to come
be saw q vision of united, prosperous
and happy America, vast homogene Gus
domain of free men, rulers of the CONT
nent from the P olar seas to the gulf, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, enjoying the
franchises Of liberty for perpetusting the
arts of peace. The people should re
member, he said, on each recurring dey
when they celebrated those who had died
that this country held in it's fruitful and
tender bresst no more priceless treasure
than the consecr6ted dust of those who
had died in order that this should be a
nation Of laws, not of men, and that iber'
ty and constitutional government might
not perish from the face of the earth.
As Ingalls, sat down Senator Blackburn
asked him to give him full and correct
ed extract from the speech to which he
had referred, and Senator Ingalls prom,
Used to do so.
| Senator Voorhees, arose, and IN slow,
measured, resonant tones, remarked that
the speech which the Senator had just
listened to called to his mind the fable OF
the mountain in labor. Two hours had
passed away after the b'sst Of trumpets
had brought large audience to the Sen
ate, and what had they heard
and what had they seen? A poor,
small mouse creeping Of. His
allusion last Wednesday to the
Senator from Kansas had been merely in
cidsntsl. Why should ne assail that
Senator? Men mistook themselves, and
the Senator from Kansas did SO more
thsu any one he knew. That Senator had
not been alive politically since March 6
last, when the Senator from Kentucky
| (Blsckburl) disposed Of him. Laugh
ter and yells Of approval from the CALLER
les He had been walking the streets
and posing before the world like an Told
friend of his in Indians, politically in bad
health, who had said to him that he had
been dead year and was walk
| ing around to save funeral ex-
penses. The only criticism OF his
| (Voorhees) speech which he had seen in
press was that he had galvanized q
corpse. He disclaimed any purpose of
| that kind. He had made no attack upon
him, but upon the Republican party. He
proceeded to compare Iugalls to pes
cock on barnYard fence, posing on 8
summer morning, looking at his own
| Gestures as they glanced in the SIM, and
vocalizing the whole neighborhood with
his harsh and unmeaning cry, unmindful
| of the fact that there were more useful
fowls in the bsrnyard. How useless it
had been for that Senator to arraign
him. He Ingalls, had said to the Senate
the old putrid rotten SANDER in years
gone by, which he (Voorhees) had tram
pied in forty political campaigns. 1t had
seemed to him like the voices OF spawned,
broken winded, hackneyed political CAM
paign liars of the last twenty five years.
That he ever uttered one word against
Union soldiers or talked Of their having
collars around their necks was 80 base q
falsehood, so Infamous that the black
walls of perdition could not rsdupli-
cate it. And he said to the Sen
ator from Kansas, without mean
| ing, perhaps, to the full extent Of what
his words conveyed, that 1t was not In his
power to fl "a up from the sewers Of in
fanny the campaign lies and make them
| respectful in sense, but II was possible
for min by short step to put himself on
On equality with them. VOORHEES, alluded
in & sarcastic and amusing manner to In
CALLS war record, and said he could
stand with the Senator before the soldiers
of Indiana or Kansas and would quit the
Senate If he was not approved by them
over Ingalls,.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied thst as the Senator
| from Indiana had seen ft to Invite COM
parison between their records on the
great questions of the past twenty five
years he felt it his duty to put o. record,
from information in his possession, what
the Senator's record and history was.
He should refer only to public matters in
the public records, and should venture
the affirmation that whatever might have
been his own QngallsD relations to the
great struggle between the north and the
south the Senator from Indiana had been