The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-11
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by big delegation from the Iroquois
Club. Five hundred members of the Duck
worth Club from Cincinnati next put in
an appearance. About every civil and
military organization in Indiana and
many from Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and
Missouri were represented.
The parade moved about ten o'clock.
At the monument the exercises consist
ed of welcoming address by Governor
Hovey, music by chorus of 500 school
children, invocation by Rev. J. S
Jenckes, an historical statement
by President Rand, unvailing Of
the monument by Mrs. Hendricks, ded-
icatory ode by James Whitcomb Riley,
an address by Senator Turpie and bene-
dictfon by Bishop Chatard
Senator Turpie's Grafton was the
feature of the occasion
Senator Turpie, in abiding to Mr..
Hendricks position during the civil
war. said:
His Judgment on the questions of
that perilous time was prompt, decided
As early as April, 1861, in the fret
month of the war, in a letter
to some of his old constituents of
Shelby County he wrote and pub
lished these words Since the war
comUenced have uniformly said
that regard it as the duty of the eiti-
zeus ef Indiana to respect and maintain
the authority of the General Govern
ment and to give an honest and earnest
support to the prosecution of the war
until in the providence of God it may be
brought to an honorable conclusion and
the blessings OF peace be restored to our
country, PestpoHing until that time all
controversy relating to the causes and
responsibility therefor
'r0f the same tenor were his nuner-
Gus addresses to the people in the polit-
zeal campaign of 1852, which immedi-
ately preceded his election in the Sen
ate Of the United States He entered
upon his duties as Senator from Iadi-
ana March 4 1858, AID served as such
for term Of SIX Fears, during which
time ne constantly acted and voted in
aid of the Government in every measure
looking to the suppression of armed In
surrection against its authority, al
though ne always reserved the right as
Senatorte freely discuss the civil policy
of the administration At the conclusion
of the civil war, in that day which saw
the surrender Of the Confederate army,
there came the question as to what dis
position ShouEd be made of the States
whose People had taken part in the in
surreceien designed 60 subyert the Cow
ernmez.t In this crisis of deliberatiGn
he stood Rpon his side almost alone.
With TIE irrmovabie calm and euiet
which sustain high spirit upon great
occasions. at very early period in the
debate GpOz the bill for the establish
ment OF military governments in the
SoutherE Seates he took his posi-
ton. de said: L desire this tS
be UEioz in form under the Con-
stitation. and in fact by the harmony
of the people sf the North and South 1.
deny that at the elese of the war there
were no State Gesernments in the
South Tae consultation of a State,
when it Ess once been admitted, be-
comes a part of the National compact
/ deny that the people of that State
have the right to destroy its govern
'ment and tEEs cease 10 be within the
Union / deny that a convention, a
Legislature q any other assembly what
ever can vok2G1arily terminate the ex-
istence of their State government and
thus cut of their connection with the
Federal Unioe-~
The speaker showed that although
the views advocated By Mr.. Hendricks
were derided and rejected he lived TO
see them universally approved and
sanctioned as the law BY the highest
Judicial tribunal of the land