Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — Poore on Voorhees. [ARTICLE]

Poore on Voorhees.

Ben. Per ley Poore, the veteran correspondent is well known as an ardent Republican. His political affiliations, however, do not prevent him from being just to opponents, or according honor where it is due, regardless of party. Having been a close personal observer of public men for thirty years past, Mr. Poore has this to say of Senator Voorliees:

“Dan Noorhees, the ‘Tall Sycamore of the Wabash,’ ns he was called by Indiana politicians, was the ablest Democrat on the floor of the House during the war—an object of admiration among his political friends and of aversion among his political enemies. Personally he was a favorite on both sides of the House.

“When some of the prominent representatives would rise to speak, their hearers would have to listen attentively all the way through, to find out which side they were on, and even then it might not be so easy to have told. But when Yoorhees got up, the first sentence was the key to a.l that followed.— He never took middle ground in anything. tHs forte was denunciation of tis opponents, and he always used Webster’s heaviest, artillery to tear down the enemy’s fortifications. Others defended Democratic principles by eulogizing Andrew Jackson and palliating the faults of James Buchanan, but Yoorhees did it by anathematizing Wendell Phillips, and exposing the sins and shortcomings of the Republican party.”