Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — Our Senator. [ARTICLE]

Our Senator.

Evansville Courier: During the past week Senator Yoorhees has j been engaged in a murder trial at j Madisonville, Ky., acting as counsel for the accused. Hisremarka- ; ble abilities as an advocate are i thoroughly known to the entire country, and his eloquence has been heard at the Bar of many States outside of Indiana. His service in public life has covered a period of history in which many of his political contemporaries, \vliostarted as poor in this world’s goods as he, have acquired large fortunes. Let any one c,di over the li ;t of public men who have been prominent during the last quarter-of a century, and see how many of them can be named who are without the taint oi: suspicion. Unhappily they are few, but foremost among them is Senator Voorhees. Year after year he has stood before the people of his own State as a champion of Democratic principles, and to give an account of his own public acts. But in no campaign has he ever been compelled to make explanation or apology for his conduct. He has returned to his constituency at the close of every session of Congress with clean hands and increased reputation. Certainly no man of our generation enjoys in a higher degree the honors that come from a well sustained and unassailable record. Being wholly without private fortue, his salary as a Senator is inadequate to the expensive living at the National Capitol, andjhe is compelled to look to his law practice as a means of adding to his income. So we find him snatching a week from his well-earned vacation and crossing the mountains, not for the purpose of adding to his reputation as a lawyer and advocate, but simply for the money there is in the business. No wonder that the people of Indiana love this man. No wonder that* there are evidences to-day of a deep-lying sentiment in the hearts of the whole people, in favor of according him still higher honors in the future, than those he now bears. Greater than riches is a name that all the world knows, and yet that no man has ever dared to tarn sh with even the breath of scandal.

Editor Sentinel: In the Sentinel !of last week appeared an article ■ entitled “Wartner’s Sentence.” — We humbly acknowledge our unworthiness to unlatch the shoes of | the author of such conclusive reasoning—such convincing logic. What a lawyer “X” would make! In illustration, how boundless! In resources, how T fertile! In elequence, how r sublime! That article will carry to the grave of this martyr of the cause of mercy— honor, fame and glory. Upon the marble shaft whose top will be shadowed by the sculptured form of ‘X’ poising as the goddess of Justice with balances and sword, from whose keen twd-edged blade will dangle the scalp of “M,” that marks that spotless grave will be written: “Here lies “X,” a martyr to- the cause of mercy. In life, how like a god. In appearance, how like a elude.” Behold the Lycucrgus of the West hath come, whose eyes are as the noonday sun; whose nostrils are as a consuming fire. Give-us a rest, brother “X.” Let thy pen “rust” until Orthography hath communed with thy memory, and Latin with thy understanding.

M.