The Iola register., 1888-05-11
EVERYBODY TALKING ABOUT IT.

A special dispatch to the Topeka
Capital dated Washington, May 2,
follows:
The general topic of conversation to-
tween Ingalls, and voorhees, yesterday.
The crowd seeking admission to the
Senate was greater by far than was
ever known before in the history of the
country. The papers generally criti-
else both combatants, but claim that
Voorhees, got terrible punishment.
The general impression among rep
resentatives is that Ingalls, speech will
become a great campaign document.
In the House this morning up to 10
o'clock there were 10000 copies taken
by members at their own Individual
expense. The Capital interviewed a
number of members in regard to In
CALLS speech as follows:
L. J. Turner, Kansas: "It was a
great speech, and among the republi-
cans of the House there is only one
opinion; that is that Voorhees, got the
worst thrashing that ever any man got
in Congress before, and that he deser-
we'd all he got. The speech will te the
greatest campaign document before
the people.
Judge Perkins, Kansas: "a remark.
able speech. Most incisive and un-
answerable. An important campaign
document as an exhibition of the
methods and purposes of the southern
democracy to control the judicial, ex-
ecutive and legislative departments of
the government"
Judge Peters, Kansas: A wonder
full campaign argument. The speech
will be much better in reading than
it was in delivery. have heard about
twenty members say it was a grand
speech. Have heard a number of dem.
ocrats cay that Voorhees, got terribly
chawed up"
E. H. Funston, Kansas: "a great
speech. 1t makes Ingalls, leader in
the Senate, an exponent in the party,
and fearless bell wether throughout
the campaign"
w. J. Laidlaw, New York: "Very
able speech. Deliberate in manner,
and unanswerablei in fact. Any republi-
can that would be offended by the
speech had better leave the party"
L. C. Hauk, Tennessee: "Grand
speech. A crushing victory over Voor-
hees. There is not another case in the
history of the United States where one
Senator achieved such victory over
another.
Major Warner, Kansas City: ga
masterly speech. It effectually took
all the bark from the Tall Sycamore
of the Wabash-a leading campaign
document"
Gen: Payne, Allegany City, Penn:
"Great speech. ingalls, simply flayed
VOORHEES, alive. In using the word
liar so frequently, voorhees, shows
himself to be the greatest liar of the
age. 1t was good campaign speech"
e. B. Taylor, successor of Garfield
and Giddings, Ohio: IA splendid and
able speech for the occasion. Voor-
hees deserved even more than he got.
A good campaign speech in certain
localities; good for Missouri and Mich
igan."
Ex-senator POmerOy: 1T was a
pretty good speech for Ingalls,. There
is one thing that ingalls, can do better
than all others, and that is to skin a
man alive"
Thomas Ryan. Kansas: "Was on
the floor of the Senate. Heard Ingalls,
speech and Voorhees, reply. Ingalls,
speech was in two sections. He ad-
roitly reserved his deadly artillery for |
the second section. The first section |
tore from the democratic party the dis
guise in which it has been masquerade
ing as the saviour of the Upion, and |
friend, par excellence of the soldier,
and left it exposed in all the naked.
ness of its dislOyalty during the war.
1t thoroughly laid bare the infamous
frauds upon the ballot in the late elec-
ton in Louisiana. 1t opened just
enough of Voorhees, war history, to
show the brazen hypocrisy of his os-
parade of his admiration Of
the Union soldier. It was sufficient,
however. to knock the Tall Sycamore
Of the Wabash. He came to his demise
limp, wounded, and :piti0ly week, and
when he resumed his seat he seemed
conscious Of his defeat. It
was then that Ingalls, turned upon
him the concentrated fury of his most
cruel invectlve, and crushed him with
the recorded evidence of his treachery
to the Union during the dark days of
the war. Ingalls, never lost his head
for moment. To Voorhees, impotent
rage and coarse epithets, such rs 'liar,'
dirty dog etc. ingalls,