The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-05
vooRHEEsFsGaLLs.
Expressions Of the Press Of the STATE Over the
Great Excoriation Of the Indianian.

Fort Wayne Gazette: The disloyaisy Of -
Voorhees, uring the war was notorious. - :
furious denial Of his past REASONABLE words II
acts will only place his veracity now on III.
same level with his loyalty during the war IL
is . case Of Daniel come 10 judgment" but
he 10 in the dock not on the bench.
GreeusburR Standard: OF late years voor-
bees has been posing as the soldiers friend
Senator Ingalls, showed mp his war record. which
made him 90 furious that he. made spectacle
Of himself that was utterly diseraceful. He w
upou Ingalls, and found, when TOO late. that the
'Kansas huxz-esw' was 10 full running order
Hendricks County Republican: There
hundreds of men in Hendricks county who know
this blatant demaeogne 10 have been every
thing Senator INGALLS, described About tbs
close of the war he was compelled TO leave Dan
vile By the overland route on account OF his
reasonable uttersnces. There are reputable
men in Hendricks county who scores OF times
heard him denounce the war and the soldiers Of
the Union.
Charlottesville Journal Tho attack on voor-
hees was not uuprovoked. 1t was the Indians
Senator who first descended 70 personalities aud
also the first TO lose his temper and make OF him
self ass. by acting unbecomine to Senator
of the United States. He crossed swords with
one as skillful ~ himself and got worsted in the
conflict. and all the humiliation in which be 10
clothed to-day Is Of his own seeking His party
can make no apology for him.
Shelbyville Republican: IL s about time that
the hideous mask of hypocrisy and dema-
roey should be snatched from the face Of the
Wabash Senator. who in 1888 poses the IN
blushiuR champion of Coyism as he did of ssees-
sion and treason twenty-five years ago. None
SO we'll qualified TO do this job as the dashne
Senator from Kansas, and IN performing IL he
has done distinctive act Of meritorous patriot
ism by indicating the truth Of history.
Lafayette Courier: Mr.. voorhees, may be able
to impress the sentimental people with his
claims Of patriotic conduct and his devotion TO
the Union, but no amount of wordy pyrotschnics
will relieve him of the odium Of having been a
copperhead and Of having given aid and com
fort to the enemies Of the Republic who were
willing to sacrifice everything that was intended
to advance their own cause and interests The
Lesson has been sdrar one to Mr.. Voorhees,, and
it will Be costly to his party.
Peru Republican: Voorhees, was notorious as
40 aut-war Democrat The immense cheek re-
quired on bis part to deny it is paralvIing to
tation as an illustrious 'copperhead' in war
timeR Even Democrats smile at the audscity
OF Voorhees, in claiming that he Was in sympa-
thy with the Union. A prominent member OF
that party, who heard VOORHEES, make speech
1T Logansport 10 war times, remarked to the
writer, recently, that he thought it huge
joke for Dan voorhees, to pose as the soldiers
friend.
Lafayette Call: 1t IL not surprising that the
Indiana Senator should be infuriatsd; for he il
now posing ~ the ''S0lQlere fr1eDo." AND IL was
politically inconvenient and personally unplsas-
ant to have his malodorous record of these years
brought mp from the almost oblivion Of interven-
inc years, and exhibited ia the Senate chamber.
before tie whole Nation. But the Kansas Sena-
tor only told the truth: and not the whole truth,
either. VOORHEES, in those days was the consors
and polical ally OF mon who were proclaimng
the war to be . failure. and demanding immedi-
ate cessation. and the Inauguration of neeotia-
tions for peaceable dismsm herment of the United
States. and recognition Of the Southern Confed-
sracy; who were discouraeine en!istments, re-
sisting the draft. and waylayinR and assassinat-
ing provost marshals; who were plotting thu
forcibls release of the rebel prisoners confined
10 Camp Morton. and the establishment Of a
Northwest Confederacy.n in sympathy with
the "Southsru Coufederacy,' and in further dis
memberment OF the Union.
Richmond faliadium: Senator Ingalls's eash-
CATION of Senator Voorhees, was, perhaps. the
severest ever given In ont of the American
Senate II was only the severer because it YVES
90 we'll deserved. Il has been the custom Of
voorhees,. for some years. 70 pose before the
country Is . special friend of the soldiers. By
the new generation which has come into public
life within the last twenty-five years these Oft
repeated assurances were largely believed, but
to those who remember the dark days Of 1923
they were known TO be utterly without fonda
ton. The charges now 90 vehsmently denied
by Mr.. Voorhees, were current topics at that
time. and were not then denied. Mr.. Voorhees,
was then, at least. one OF the leaders Of the
''copperhsads.' who ware all in warm sympathy
with the rebellion. He WAS one of the favorits
speakers Of those men who denounced the war
flor the Union 40 unhoy and the men engaged ia
it as murderer BE was one of the advisers OF
the Democratic Legislature OF 1862. which de-
cared. In Q report of its committee that II fight
| they must. they would shoulder their muskste
and fight for their brethren st the South. These
we're the sentiments uttered by his followers
| and inspired by his teaching. That such man
should have the assurance to assert 10 the life
time Of men then living that he ever favored
the Union cause. or honored the Union soldier,
il q degree of rashness seldom exhibited. The
rebuke he received from the Kansas Senator
severe a. 1t was fell short Of that which Was de-
served.