The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-26
THE FIERY HLOQUENGH
Of the "TaII Sycamore Of the
Roaring Wabash"
CHARMS GRAVE SENATORS,
While He Attempts to Show that the
Democratic Party is the True and
Only Friend of the Union Sol.
dier--Tarin in the House.

t Only Friend OF the Union Sol.
/ dier--TarIn in the House.
8 WASHINGTON, D. c., April 25.-1n tn
! ! Senate to-day the motion to refer tn
J Presidents message was taken up an
| Mr.. Voorhees, proceeded to address til
Senate thereon. He said that an exten
sive discussion of the tariff in the Senat
and House left no doubt as to the atti
tude of the Republican party on tina
question, and it had at last been forceC
to throw away masks and false faces, ant
to admit that taxation was not to stop a
the revenue line Of the Government
but was to be turned loose without limi
and without shame on the labor OF the
people for the set purpose of enrichinl
favored few-a syndicate Of deyouring
insatiate monopolists.
AN ALLEGED REPUBLICAN POSITION.
The Republican party leaders, driven
by madness to suicide and hari Kari, were
going before the American people, op-
posing every reduction OF taxes, except
those paid by tobacco and alcoholic
spirits. He did not intend that the
issue should be lodged in the coming
political campaign, at least in Indiana.
The position OF the Republican party
might be described thus:
EiFst-TaxatioR not to be limited by
the expenses of the expenses OF the
Government, with view TO the protec-
ton OF manufacturing monopolists.
Second-All the protection given and
all its profits to inure to the furtheren-
richment Of capitalists, but not a dollar
OF it to the laboring man an woman.
Third-That if any reduction OF taxes
was to take place, It must be alcoholic
liquor and tobacco, and not on the
prime necessaries OF life.
Passing TO the charges that the DEM
ocrats in Congress have been hostile to
the Union soldiers in the matter OF PEN
sions, he contrasted the action OF both
parties in that matter, and claimed that
the Republicans would make q mean
and parsimonous record toward the SOL
diers, and that rank and bitter injustice
had been done them by provisions OF law
under the Republicans, while the DEM
ocrats in Congress and in the Executive
Office had been liberal in the extremes.
DANIEL wAxETH ELOQUENT.
Referring to the attack made in the
Senate upon the memory OF Mcclellan
and Hancock, he said the presiding Off
Ger of the Senate had descended to the
floor and attacked the memory OF Amer
lean heroes, who we've sleeping where
flowers and tears were annually COM
mingled on memorial day, resting from
the glorious lives in the quiet bivouac Of
the dead. The pious task OF making re-
sponse had been appropriately performed
by one whose conspicuous daring in
arms had given him the generous right
OF chivalry to speak in their praise.
It was true that not even the eloquent
tongue OF Blackburn could reach Nc
Cleilan or Hancock with assurance of
their country's devotion and love.
"Can honor's choice provoke the silent
dust; or aattery soothe the dull, ,.cold ear
of death?''
No, but the voice OF the Senator from
Kentucky on that occasion had been an
honor to American manhood and Amer
ican soldiery. There were suggestions,
however, inspired by the wanton and
astounding assault Of the Senator from
Kansas, which would not speedily pass
from the public mind. That Senator, a
recognized leader Of his party, had stood
in his place in the Senate and denounced
two great Union Generals as traitors to
their country,
ALLIES OF THE coNPEDERAcY,
and no word OF dissent or rebuke had
been uttered by single associate in
either House. Democrats had waited
and some had wondered, but the silent
acquiescence in the horrible charges re-
mained unbroken.
Mr.. Voorhees, proceeded to draw a
vivid picture Of the events during the
war, beginning with the scenes on the
night OF the first battle OF Bull Run,
when the wearied gallop Of the courier
could be heard as he came over the long
bridge and reached the War Department
with dispatches Of disaster from the
front. In that hour OF national extrem-
ity Mcclellan had been called by de-
spairing official authority to perform q
task greater far than was ever performed
by Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar or Ma
poleon, in the same length Of time.
Mr.. Voorhees, changed the scene to
Gettysburg, where he said the last hope
of the Southern Confederacy disappear
ed forever. What invisible spirit OF the
air, he asked, intent upon evil to the
Senator from Kansas, could have been
in attendance on him when he stood up
and opened his mouth in the Senate
chamber on the 9th Of March.
TWO HoNoREp HEROES.
Mcclellan and Hancock were the
heroes OF the two most consequential
battles OF the war-Antietam and Gettys-
burg, the loss OF either of which would
have brought European recognition to
the Confederacy. and darkness and dis
may, II not final dissolution. They had
commanded in the only battles fought
north Of the Potomac, and each time had
met the enemies Of an invading force,
strong, confident and flushed with recent
victories. Antietam and Gettysburg
had involved the possession Of the cap.
ital and the perpetuity OF the Govern
ment, and to Mcclellan and Hancock
(now stigmatized as allies Of the
Coniederacy) had been committed
the measureless and awful trust
of defending and preserving them
both. II asked hereafter where