The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-02
His Friends Seem to Forget that to Re-
publican Senators Is Due the Pas
sage of the Repeal Bill.
MIR. PETER MUCH SURPRISED
He Was Evidently Not Posted on
Daniels Financial VagarieS.
Another Candidate for the Indianapolis
SurveyOrship-Place for Major
Kidd, Of Wabash.
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special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Senator voor-
hees Is being literally inundated with let
tiers and kilograms from all parts of the
country congratulating him, as chairman
Of the finance committee, upon the final
success of the bill Internationally repeal
Ing the silver-purchase law, after a strug-
gle the most memorable in the history Of
the Senate. Naturally, the Hooser Sena-
tor feels very good after a success which
nine-tenths of the men in Congress for
nearly two months confidently believed
would result in defeat, a success which
Senator Voorhees, himself for weeks Sc
cretly believed was beyond the power of
achievement
An intimate senatorial friend of Senator
William Alfred PETER. of Kansas, who.
by the way, was an Indiana school teach
er for some time and up to June. 1853,
when he went West to grow up with the
country, says that Senator Voorhees, es-
capped a severe personal castigation at the
hands of His WhiSkers'' from the cy
clone State. Senator PETER, in looking
over the congressional directory few days
ago was made to gasp with establishment
by finding in the autobiography of Daniel
WOolsey Voorhees, numerous references to
his lifelong greenback and free silver prin-
ctples. He was astonished to read these
sentences from the biography written by
the Indiana Senator:
''Soon after entering the Senate he adj
dressed that body in favor of free coinage
Of silver and the preservation of a green
back currency as full legal-tender money
in this speech he laid down the princi-
pies on which, as direct issue, the State
of Indiana was carried by the Democratic
party the following year QS70 by over
thirty thousand in the election of members
of the Legislature, and this Legislature re-
turned him to the Senate by twenty three
majority on joint ballot over Benjamin
Harrison"
When Senator PETER read this from the
pen of Senator Voorhees, he exclaimed to a
Senator who sat beside him words in effect
like these: IF the present action of Mr.
Voorhees, does not constitute him traitor
to his constituency / cannot see what will
make a man a traitor, and / intend to
call the attention of the country to this
fact
Senator PETER, probably after reading the
observations of his illustrious predecessor,
John J. Ingalls,, few years ago, in re-
spect TO the public career Of Mr.. Voor-
hees. formulated IN his mind a speech
which one Senator, after talking the mat
ter over to the Populist statesman from
tional in character" Senator Teller, hear
ing that Mr.. PETER was going TO submit
some remarks upon Mr.. Voorhees," went
to the gentleman from Kansas and asked
him to desist from further speech making,
saying that he CTeller) was almost sick,
his health having become delicate from the
long siege Mr. PETER did not make his
speech, and thus Indiana has been saved
from another laundry scene.