The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-01
A Useless Lie.

oi sno hNo'ooo hePuohcan state Convention,
wound up as follows: "All the delegates will vote
for Ingalls, for Vice-Presidentn
We do not know who that press reporter is,
but Will venture a guess that he is tosdy who
either holds an Office or expects one by the grace
OF Senator Ingalls, If the delegates tell the
truth, (and we have no reason to doubt il, they
VIII not all vote for Ingalls,, by any means, nor
did they pledge themselves to do so. 1t would
be hard dose for them to swallow, under any
circumstances. Senator ingalls, name was not
mentioned in the Convention.
This little business has a history. For week
or two before the meeting Of the Convention,
certain newspapers felt the public pulse by sug-
gesting that, although ingalls, would probably
not be a candidate for the vice-Presidency, it
would be proper, as a matter of State pride, to
adopt q resolution endorsing him. This, OF
course, was echoed by all the papers that were
beholden to Ingalls, for favors. But in the elec-
tion of delegates throughout the State, the names
of some gentlemen of ability were found to be
among them-men with as much ability as In
gals, who were known not be attached to bis
kite-tail, and from whose well-known character,
it was presumed that they did not banker 10 lick
the dust from Ingalls, feet. The alarm was at
once taken, and Ingalls, friends at Atehison set
to writing letters to various delegates saying that
it was understood that certain persons who had
been elected delegates, were going to Topeka to
oppose resolution endorsing Ingalls,; that such
a resolution was simply intended to be cOmpli-
mentary, and they hoped no opposition to it
would be encouraged. How they came to under
stand that such thing was contemplated, We
do not know; but they mnst entertain tre-
mendous opinion of Ingalls, Importance, to sup-
pose that those who would attend the Conyen-
tioD, would do so solely in order to have an oppor-
tunity TO take action for against the distinguish
ed Senator. If it was intended to be merely COM
plimentary, why was it not proposed to compli-
ment Harvey alsoi
Upon arriving at Topeka, the delegates were
beset by gang of Federal Office holders, who
notOriously hold their positions through the fa-
vor of Ingalls,, and who made themselves dis
gustingly importunate in bummng every man
upon the Ingalls, ISSUE Every gentleman who
who aspired to be delegate to Cincinnati, was
beset by one or more of these bummers, who in-
sisted upon knowing whether he would support
ingalls, for Vice-President. The inference was,
that these bummers controlled the delegates in
man who was not for Ingalls,. They may have
importuned pledges out of some, but they did
not out of all. They sounded delegates enough
to satisfy themselves that it would not do to Of
fer an Ingalls, resolution in the Convention, and
therefore did not attempt it. Had they done so,
there might have been a sufficient nuIaber Of
time-seryers or good-natured, accommodating
souls in the Convention to have carried it By
majority vote; but before it shoald come to a
vote, there We're a number Of persons there pre-
pared to give the ambitious Senator such q
scathing that the endorsement would have made
him sick at the stomaehs and persons who were
present, contend that the resolution would have
been defeated by vote of over two to one.
Has not Kansas grown large enough to exempt
her from being owned by one man-and that
man an INSCRIPTIONS politician, who gained his
position by means of base conspiracy against =
and the betrayal of a confidence
gained by imposing upon a generous natarei
Time was when Jim Lane ontroled the politics
Of Kansas, and sought an endorsement hom ev-
cry Legislature and State Convention When |
ne betrayed the confidence of our people, and |
tOok his own life because he realized his mistake
100 late to remedy it, it was hoped that no one
man could ever again run" Kansas. Why does
Senator Ingalls, want this esdorsementf Simply
TO lead the powers at Washington to believe that |
he is the big man to whom the people of Kansas
ook up, and in whom they trust and believe,
which will enable him to control the Federal /
in the State, keep his strikers in fat |
'fices, and enable him to barter more offsses for
means wherewith to pay the debts of his bank
upt brother in Arkansas He expected to show
he endorsement to the Presidential aspirants,
md let them know that he carried the Kansas
delegation in his breeches-pocket, and that what
hey got from Kansas they could thank him for !
md what great thing has Ingalls, done as Senator,
hat entities him to such endorsementi What |
aw has he introduced that has found q place on
he statute booki What speech has he made
hat was worth the price Of setting the type up
N which it is printed in the Recordi What has
e ever done to claim the attention Of the people
f the country at large, since the conspiracy by
rhich he was electedf The Republicans of Kan
las should aspire to something higher than being
mere chips with which Senator Ingalls, plays at
olitical pool.