Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — Mr. Voorhees in a Fix. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Voorhees in a Fix.

A stranger who should be here in a strange land and should read the report of th,e Senate proceedings yesterday, knowing nothing of the men or the circumstances, would say at once that the man named Ingalls had worsted the man named Voorhees; that it were apparent on its face that the charges made against the Mr. Voorhees'must have some truth in them, because he so blindly lost his temper and so roared and swore in denial. repelling a thing with an easy consciousness of its absurd falsity would find no occasion to lose his temper, and opportunity a plenty to smile at the charge. But there wasn’t a ghost of a smile in Mr. Voorhees reply; it was all the furious ravings of the hard-hit, and well it might be. Mr. Voorhees was hard hit Mr. Ingalls’s statements are substantially true, From the time it was made, the “Lincoln dog” speechof Voorhees was , t not denied until years afterward, when he and Hendricks began to pose as the soldiers’ friend. Then affidavits appeared of men who did not hear Mr. Voorhees say those things. But counter-affidavits of reputable men affirm that ne did say them. That Voorhees was a Knight of the Golden Circle was never believed and probably his story about the documents being concealed in his office is true. Let us suppose it is. Does not Mr. Voorhees see what a terrific arraignment this is of himself? Suppose those documents had been concealed in Oliver P. Morton’s office, or Ben Harrison’s? Would that have made them suspected? The fact that such documents found in Mr. Voorhees’s office could work him such disastrous hurt shows what his reputation was. It is confirmation strong as proof from Holy Writ of Voorhees’s attitude as a secession sympathizer and obstructor of the war. And this reputation is the thing. It is not so much a specific aot. There were a number of well-known Democrats in Indiana whose love for the Union was never questioned. Why should Mr. Voorhees ever have had any other reputation than that ? It is sheer impudence and bitter gall for him now to standup and attempt to say that he was a great friend of the Union. He is now, when it dosen’t need any friends, but ns long as it did he was believed to be heart and soul in sympathy with its enemies, and the effect and influence of his attitude and career here in Indiana was to embarrass*the government and hamper the state in prosecuting the war.—lndianapolis News.