St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-02

no other explanation of it. If that was
not true, then his nomination was
farce and a burlesQue, without excuse
and without explanation. Passing on to
the question of elections in the South,
he said that the Republican party would
have no right to complain if the South
were kept solid by fair means. But the
Democratic party there had been playing
the political game with loaded dice, had
been Throwing skies" all the time. had
held stacked cards." played with
''cold deck" had a revolver in its boot
and a bowie knife down the back of its
neck. In closing Mr.. Ingalls, said: In
the centuries that are to come he saw
the vision of a united, prosperous and
happy America; a vast, homogeneous
race of free men, rulers of the CONT
nent from the polar zone to the gulf.
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. enjoy
ing the franchises of liberty and perpet-
uating the arts of peace. The people
should remember, he said, on each re-
curing day when they celebrated, those
who had died, that this country held in
its faithful and tender breast no more
priceless treasure than the cOnSecrated
dust OF those who had died in order that
this should be a government of laws and
not of men, and that liberty and cOnsti-
tutional government might not perish
forever from the face of the earth.
MI voorhees, arose and in slow,
measured, resonant tones remarked
that the speech which the senate had
Just listened to, recalled to his mind the
fable Of the mountain in labor. Two
of trumpetS had brought a large
audience TO the senate. And what had
they heard, and what had they seen?
A poor, small mouse creeping off. His
alluSion last Wednesday to the senator
from Kansas had been merely Incl
dental-why should he assail that sena-
tor? Men miStook themselves, and the
senator from Kansas did so more than
any one he knew. That senator had
not been alive, politically, since the 9th
of March last, when the senator from
Kentucky (Blackburn) disposed of him.
Laughter and yell of approval from
walking the streets and posing before
the world like an old friend of his in
indianapolis, in bad health who had
said to him that he had been dead year
and was only walking around to save
funeral expenses. The only criticism of
his (Voorhees0 speech which he had
seen in the press was that he had gal
vaniZed a corpse. He disclaimed any
purpose of that kind. He had made no
attack upon him, but upon the Repub-
lican party. He proceeded to compare
MI. ingalls, to peacock on barn-yard
fence, posing of summer morning,
looking at his own feathers as they
glanced in the sun and vocaliZing the
whole neighborhood with his harsh.
unmusical and unmeaning cry, I'M
mindful of the fact that there
was more useful fowls in the
barnyard. How useless it had been for
that senator to arraign him. He On
CALLS had read to the senate the old,
stale, ISLANDERS of years gone by. on
which he Voorhees, had trampled in
forty campaigns. 1t had seemed to him
like the voices of spawned, broken
MINDED, hackneyed, political campaign
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 so base false
hood, so Infamous, that the black walls
OF perdition could not reduplicate it.
And he said to the senator from Kan
saS, without meaning, perhaps, the full
extent of what his words contained,
that it was not in his power to fish up
from the sewers of infamy the old cam
paign lies and make them respectable
in the senate of the United States.
but it was possible for him, by short
step, top put himself on an equality with
them. Mr.. Voorhees, alluded in a sar-
castle and amusing manner to Mr.. In
gals war record, and said he would
Stand with the senator before the SOL
diers of Indiana or Kansas and quit the
senate If he was not approved by them
over Mr.. Ingalls,.
Mr.. ingalls, replied that as the sena-
tor from Indiana had seen fit to invite
comparison between their records and
their relations to the great questions of
the past twenty-five years, he felt it his
duty to put on record, from informa-
ton in his possession, what the sena-
tors record and history was. He should
refer only to public matters in public
records, and should venture the atfirma-
ton that whatever might have been his
own Qngalls) relations to the great
struggle between the North and South,
the senator from Indiana had been from
the outset the determined, outspoken,
positive. aggressive and malignant
enemy of the Union cause.
81 pronounce that" said Mr.. VoOr-
heeS, rising with anger in his eyes, ito
be a deliberately false accusation.
voted for every dollar that paid the
soldier; for every stitch of clothes he
wore, and for every pension bill that
rewarded his services"
NIL Sdlu. lie SeIldUOr came
in here to-day and thanked God that he
had never been followed here by a COM
mittee to question his right to his seat:
and with much diffuseness of illustra-
ton had endeavored to cast aSperasionS
upon him Qngalls) and belittle him and
humiliate him in the eyes of the Ameri-
can people when he Qngalls) had only
referred to the senator's utterances-
his speeches, which he never denied"
MI. Voorhees, declared that he did
deny it.
Mr.. ingalls, replied that the senator
could not deny the publication he had
read. 1t was verbatim report and so
certified to.
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one
word or syllable read by the Senator
was true, or believed to be true, in In
diana. The accusation had been tram
pied under foot. The senator's inSinua-
ton that he (Voorhees) had ever been a
member of political secret society
the Knights of the Golden Circle-Was
so base and UNANIMOUSLY false, that he
did not know how to choose language to
denOunce it as such.
Mr.. lngallS-The senator said that the
charge that he had called Union SOL
diers ,''hirelings and Lincoln dogs'' and
said that they ought to go to a black
smith shop and have an iron collar put
around their necks, with the inscription
My dog, Abraham Lincoln" was
ampaign SANDER and scandal that had
been spit upon. That averment could
be substantiated by as creditable wit
ness as there was in the city.
Mr.. Voorhees-And even if the sem
ator said it, it would be absolutely false
and palpable lie.
Mr.. Ingalls-Did not the soldiers of
Indiana threaten to hang the senator
with a rope on train after he made
that Lincoln dog speech?
Mr.. Voorhees, senator is a great