The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-18
THE REAL CULPRITs.


Much has been said regarding the treat
ment Of Senator Voorhees, by certain Re-
publican Senators by habitually compelling
him TO show his ignorance regarding the
pending tariff bill. or the latest bill with
a 4O0amendment attachment. These Sem
ators. Aldrich. Chandler, Hale. Teller and
others. have been censured for bear-baiting
Mr.. Voorhees,. True, they have done so
every day for two weeks. and it is very
reprehensible. But these Republican Sem
ators are less guilty Of offense to the
craftsmanship and information, or rather
transformation. of Mr.. Voorhees, than
such Democratic colleagues as German.
Brice. Smith and others who are response
bic for the 400 amendments. His associ-
ates and party friends led off in putting
Mr.. Voorhees, in the attitude of ignoramus-
in-chief in the Senate. When Mr.. Aldrlch
declared in the Senate that another tariff
bill was being prepared, German. Brice ct
al. put Mr.. Voorhees, up to denying that
anything Of the sort was being lone Ac-
cordingly. with that afiuence of fambuoy-
ant epithet for which our Senator has no
equal. Mr.. Voorhees, denounced the Aid
rich statement as preposterous. Two days
later the 400 amendments to which Mr..
Aldrich referred were printed as the
amendments of Mr.. Voorhees, commit
tee. Therefore, these Democrats were the
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the country as being the chairman of a
committee who Is not consulted, apparent
ly. by other Democrats as to what his COM
mittee shall put forth as its work. After
Mr.. Voorhees, had defended ad valorem
duties, these men changed most of them
to specific duties. After he had declared
| that the bill which he reported was a per-
feet measure as far as it went. these
schemers reported 400 amendments in his
name. Compared with such humiliation by
Democrats the assumption of Republicans
that Mr.. Voorhees, had some accurate in
formation regarding the measure is mere
badinage. To be asked why. after advo-
eating an ad valorem system, Mr.. Voor-
bees had turned his bill into one OF specific
duties is annoying, but annoyance is
trivial compared with the humiliation
which German. Brice ct al. have poured
upon our senator by placing upon his
head the cap and bells and exhibiting
him to the country.
The Democrats who are running the
Senate in the interest of the trusts seem
not to appreciate the quality of Mr.. Voor-
hees's craftsmanship. He has no knowl
edge Of facts like tariff schedules. He has
learned that misinformation Is more eff
fective in influencing the Indiana Democ-
racy than information. Consequently. he
has the most extensive and valued stock
Imagination can produce. He may not be
informed on tariff schedules, but in that
higher craftsmanship which consists In as
sailing the money power in the Senate
and in hanging monopolists like Carnegie
in campaign speeches in Democratic coun-
ties away from railroads and telegraphs.
he has no equal. He has covered a large
part of Indiana with the graves of monop-
olists and Wall street. He has raised the
prices of farm products in Indiana so per
cent. every year during the past two dec
ades-in the minds Of the "one-gallus' De-
mocracy of Indiana. To-day Democratic
papers in Indiana have nailed his name to
their masts as the next Democratic presi-
Dental candidate, as those in Missouri have
hoisted the name of Richard Parks Bland.
And this Indiana Democratic statesman
and leader is ne whom Democratic associ-
ates in the Senate have deceived into pub
fishing himself to the country as the blue
ribbon ignoramus of the period.