The Irish standard., 1905-02-11

E t0OSe VINO DelleVe MS UOSuldS are AV-
nacies can but admire the man for the
temerity with which he proclaims
them and the tenacity with which he
mainatins them. But never again will
Benjamin r. Tillman fetch pitchfork
into the United States senate. In
commanding the respect of other sen
ators, he has grown in his own bosom
respect for them. If he keeps on it
will not be long before the amenities
of his speech will equal, possibly ex-
ceed, the asperities thereof.
Two far greater men than Tillman,
two orators unrivaled in their day, one
from Georgia and one from Alabama,
spoke in Faneuil hall to the generation
that fought in the great war of 1861
65, and Boston realized that New Eng
land had but two orators in their class,
and one of these was now Democrat,
and the other an racticable, q
visionary, fanatic blatherskite, and it
is doubtful If Boston, or Concord, was
more charmed by the oratory Of
Choate and Phillips than they were
delighted in the splendid eloquence Of
Toombs and Yancey, baleful as they
thought their preachments and innocu-
GUS as they deemed their threats.
Tillman ought to preach in Boston,
in Faneiul hall, if possible, at least
once month. He has tale to tell
the North, and it is we'll worth the
North's hearing.
For many years John ]. Ingalls, was
the terror Of the senate, and the DEM
ocrats hated him even more than they
feared him. His was scorpion tongue
and an exhaustless vocabulary-sar-
casm and invective were his weapons
He never convinced anybody and he
never persuaded anybody. His argu-
ment was magnificent, but it was not
logic. His language was splendid, but
it was not eloquence. He was a par
liamentary Murat, terrible in charge
after Lannes, Ney, Soult, and Da-
voust had gained the day. There is no
one to doubt that Roscoe Conkling was
greater intellect and a greater ora
tor than ingalls,, and ingalls, was long
in awe of him, and positively disliked
him. Thus it is with as much satis-
faction as particularly that in some
Of his writings Ingalls, relates the en-
counter between Lamar and Conkling
to the confusion and disaster Of the
latter. Kansas was Blaine state, and
ingalls, was Blaine man, and possi-
bly, that had something to do with his
hostility to Conkling, whom he never
attacked, however.
Ingalls, knew whom to kick, and
that is generally the way of your
bully who uses words, as we'll as Of
your bully who uses fists. George G..
Vest entered the senate in 1879, the
day ingalls, began his second term,
and they were fellow-senators twelve
years, and nearly everybody expected
that Ingalls, would try to give Vest a
dressing down. Indeed, it was told in
Gath and whispered on the streets Of
Askalon that the Kansas terror had
a rod in pickle for the Missouri ter
rier, and was only awaiting an oppor-
tunity to lay it on for the edifcation
Of the senate. Ultimately he conclud-
ed to try it on Uncle Brown, Of Georg-
ia. Vest did not seem to be afraid,
and even sought opportunity for the
engagement. 1t never came off; and
for very good reason. Vest had in
his possession copy of speech In
gals delivered during the war when
he was candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor on boiling ticket, in which he
not only gave utterance to political
heresy in characteristic denunciations
Of the Republican party, but was gull
ty Of fiat political blasphemy in abuse
of Abraham Lincoln. At that time In
gals was seeking, and got, Democratic
votes. The tradition is that Ingalls,
found out that Vest had copy Of that
speech, and he never brought on the
action-for his strong suit as senator
was loyalty, and this speech, from his
senatorial standpoint, was the next
thing to treason. 1t was long ago that
this story was related to me, but am
satisfied that the substance of it was
as I have tried to narrate in the fore
going. Certain 1t is that Vest gave
ingalls, every opportunity to engage,
and his provocation was never regard
ed.
As senator Ingalls, was inferior
to Blaine, to Conkling, to Carpenter, to
! Thurman, to Hoar, to Edmunds, to
Ben Hill; but he was emphatically an
K interesting man and gifted with ex-
traordinary powers. He left void in
the senate that will not soon be sup.
piled. There will be many future
Thurmans before there is one other
( Ingalls,.
8 In the earlier days there was greatly
more asperities in congressional de.
4 bate than now. John Randolph, OF
i Roanoke, a much misunderstood and
the most underrated statesman of oul
\ whole parliamentary history, lorded II
over congress as no other man has
though Clay and Stevens both cracked
Ha fhQ yvhin in tho ho,1So NJ ,.onrooouto,