St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-23
Senator Voorhees, Denounces
the President to the
Queens Taste.
He Charges a Conspiracy to
COloniZe Voters in Vari-
Gus States.
A Congressman Wants an In
veStigation Into Sitting
Bulls Death.
Judge MaXey Renders an I'M
portant Decision Regard
ing Chinese.

L.
heeS addressed the senate upon the
election bill. The opening part of his
speech CONSISTED of criticism of Presi-
dent Harrison for that portion of his
message to congress urging the passage
OF the election bill. If Mr.. Harrison, he
said, should undertake to put ON the
stage "A School for Hypocrisy" he
could not do better than dramatlze that
portion of his message that related to
fair and honest elections. The rank
corruption Of the presidential election
OF 1883 was resting, folded away in
"Dlocks of tive." and was still fresh and
carefully preserved in the minds of the
American people. Mr.. Voorhees,
charged that within sixty days after the
incoming OF the present administration
an extensive, powerful anu corrupt
conspiracy was formed to import Ger
tain class of voters from distant PARTS
of the country into the states of
Indiana, West Virginia and Con-
necticut, in order TO secure
maJoritles in those states Tor
the Republican ticket in 1892. The
proof of it had been published in the
New York World on the 4th of October
last, including letter from MIR. Huston,
treasurer of the United States, to Mr..
Lindsay, the author of the plan, ode
clarlng himself heartily in favor of the
scheme," and saying that he would
speak to the president about it. 1t was
painful (Mr. Voorhees, remarked) to re-
fleet that the man who knew Benjamin
Harrison better tnan any other man in
public life kne " him, who had carried
him and his fortunes through the stormy
and
Corrupt Campaign of 1883
in Indiana, who had studied him and
bis political methods at close range, felt
himself warranted in submitting for his
consideration and approval a corrupt
project for the overthrow OF honest res
ident maj0rities by the shameless inn
portation and colonization of black
voters from the South. And yet that
man (Mr. Huston) retained his high
office, had met with no rebuke and con-
tinued to bask in executive favor and
confidence. The names of Mr.. Dudley
and Senator Quay having been intro
duced III connection with this scheme
for coloniZing negro voters in Indiana,
MIR. VorheeS said he took no pleasure in
commenting on the names of men con-
nected with that conspiracy; but he
would not remain Silent when even the
most exalted dignitaries of the govern
ment were found conspiring, plotting
and burrowing amid filth and cOrrup.
ton IN order to overthrow rightful
maJorltleS in Indiana. to deprive her
people Of the first principles of Self-gOv-
ernment, and to place them under the
rule of the lowest and most venal negro
element that could be bought and i'm
ported from the South. Mr.. Voorhees,
went on to read letters from Senator
Quay and some Republican representa-
tlVes from Indiana. approving of the
colonization plan, as well as correspond
ence between Lindsay and his co-work-
erS In the enterprise, Whitehead, of
North Carolina. giving some of the
points of the plan and suggesting that
some 5000 negroes from North Carolina
must be placed iD the state of Indiana.
In one of the earliest epiStles of Lindsay
to his confederate, the following rich
and historic lnOrsel of advice and in
structiOn (said Mr.. Voorhees, was given:
Now. my dear friend, read this letter,
which hope will put you in better spirits.
and then, in the language of one of our
greatest statesmen burn this letter. Do not
tear it up. but burn it.
If, MIR. Voorhees, continued. White
head had burned Lindsay's letter, or
kept sober. as he was enjoned to do,
the world would have lost one lesson, at
least. in the art of securing Republican
majOritieS in Democratic states.
The bill now before the senate, he
said, and which was made an admin.
iStration measure, would take control,
by force if necessary. of the elections of
every state. Benjamin Harrison, he
said, had recorded his distrust of the
people of all the states. and the people
OH their part in nearly every common
wealth of the Union had with unparall-
eled unanimity voiced their distl ust of
him and of his administration. Mr.. Voor-
hees spoke at length against the bill,
and in the course Of his remarks made
an appeal for fair play to the South and
declared that in every one of the South
ern states the negroes had received
more and higher political honors than
in all the Northern states put together.