The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-28

any thing to do with the recent election
was secuted as absurd. ..
Perhaps. then, IL was the Mckinney Dill"
said Senator Magee.
1T wasn't the Mckinley bill in McKin-
1ey's district replied senator Shockney.
where be all but wiped out an adverse
majority of $500"
YES: but it cost 500. 900 to do it."
"Who was bought"
Senator Byrd advocated the resolution.
and claimed that the Democratic soldier did
Is much to put down the rebellion Is did
the Republican soldier.
TELLING FACTS OF HISTORY.
Senator Boyd said he was sorry the ma
iority were placed in a position where they
had TO apologize for their resolution. The
first Senator Howard who spoke had ap-
plauded the treachery of Republican
United States Senators. and the second
tMageel explained that the part he was
taking was in obedience to the crack of the
party lash. The Democratic declaration of
same sort of friendship that years
ago had taken from his pillow the Indiana
boy to join with shareholders and blood
hounds in the chase for fugitive black
men. As the Democratic party was O party
of fraud and pretense, so was it q party of
shotguns, tissue ballots and Wholesale mas
sscre. Six thousand murders it had CON-
mitted in the South to stamp out Republic
an sentiment there. but the time woald
reckoning. This resolution would no
doubt pass. The party whip had
been cracked and the Democratic Senators
would fall In line. Be this as IL might. the
Republican party would take no back ward
step. The irrepressible conflict was on.
and would continue until the slave was the
equal of his master at the ballot-bOx and
before the law. In conclusion. Senator
n--I - A.s. 80 Ah4
negro soldier that provoked tremendous
applause.
resolution was o fair and square declara-
ton that this is q white mans government;
that the negro is not and can never be the
equal of the white man; that the means
employed in the south TO disfranchise the
the blacks met with the approval of the
Democrats of the North, and that the lat
ter did not propose to stand quietly by and
see Democratic methods in the South inter-
fered with or overturned.
Senator Hubbell poured some hot shot
into the enemy in q brief but effective
spsssn. against ksasrr tRs i to ssms in 1n''n ssn.
eral and Judge Woods in particular,
ts cast back into the teeth of the Demo
Gratis their vile insinuations, and held this
part of the Democratic attack to be on a
par with that of the Indianapolis Sentinel,
whsn. in ~denouncing the Supreme Court of
Indiana, it had given ex pression to the bias
phemous sentiment of damn their cowardly
souls" He denounced the Democratic
party of to-day as the same Democratic
party as that embodied in Hendricks
which had stood on the north bank of the
Ohio river, and pushed back the frail
canoes of the hapless, helpless and almost
hopeless fugitives who. guided by the north
star. were flying for freedom and liberty. As
showing the estimates set by the South upon
the patriotism of the Democratic party OF
the North, Senator Hubbell presented a
scrap from General Johnston's history OF
the war, in which il was stated that the at
titude of such men as Hendricks, Voor
hees and Val.andigham enabled the South
to maintain the conflict two years longer
han il would otherwise have been able
to do. a
Senators Mount and Hanley spoke with
ability and emphasis against the res0lu'
ton. and other Democratic Senators fol
lowed in the wake of those already quoted
It was 8 o'clock when the discussion closed
= and then the resolution was adopted on q
strict party vote-yeas, 81; nays. ID The
senate adjourned. =