The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
INGALLS, AND his OPPONENTS.
LET A Caucus DETERMINE.

Politically, Kansas 10 as anomalistic
% she lie extreme in every thing else.
Az . State, she never docs any thing
like another. In view of the fact that
the next United States Senate is to be
Democratic, aud Of the probability
that the mongrel balance OF power at
Topeka next winter will attempt to
name or decide who the next Senator
shall be, the Republican party in no
other State, if placed in like sitna
ton, would hesitate moment as to the
proper and only course to be adopted.
With our majority, if held by the Re
publicaus in any other State, there
would not be a doub. upon the part
of the mass OF the voters as to the re-
suit. Personal ambition and local
preferences would weigh as nothing
against that officer whose standing as
q Republican, when measured by b's
record, was found to be without haw
or mistake. But not SO in Kansas.
The Republicans of Maine, New York,
Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, and 9TH
err States, when they have won at the
polls do not hesitate as to whether they
will re-elect their Biaines, Summers,
Conklipgs, Camerons, MOrtons aud
Shermans, the men whose records ell
ter into aud make up the party's plat
form. Not SO in Kansas. However
fair the record OF Kansas Republican,
whatever his successes aud transcend
cnt hriliiancy, however SO sure the
mass OF the party may have pre-deter-
mined that his faithiu!ness should be
rewarded, all goes as nothing when
pitted against a combination OF Il doz-
ell local preferences which have been
inspired by personal ambition, and
which looks for possible success only
through an aggregation that comes OF
political jobbery. official preicrmemt,
and promises of place. Leaving out
OF the estimate, present and prospect
I've OHict -Htlucls anu li4OsC w ~ IA
pcct to be benefited through them.
nine out Of ten Of the Republicans Of
Kansas to-day are most sincerely and
heartily in favor of the reelection of
John j. Ingalls, to the United States
Scnate-just rs sincerely and heartily
rs are tic Republicans of New York
10 return Conkling, or the Republi-
cans of Indiana would be to return
Morton, il he were alive. As far AS
the people Of the State are concerned
there is no question but that Ingalls,
with his experience. his brilliant rec
ord, his uniform success as repre-
sentative Of the State, and his unques-
ed fidelity to his party in the past,
should be returned, by unanimous
vote, as reward for well doing. The
leading Republican Journals and the
fathers OF our party in other and old
err States express surprise that there |
should even be chance for his defeat.
They cannot understand how it is that
having fulfilled the highest expec,a-
,ions Of his friends by honoring his
party and State, there should be doz-
en- men seeking his place, who, backed
by local friends, hope, through q solid
of every conceivable ele-
ment, that lightning may strike some
one Of their number. Neither can we
and We see but one cure. Let the Re-
publicans Of the next Legislature meet
IN caucus and, ignoring all these local
aud personal ambitions, decide ii their
servant, the Hon. John j. Ingalls,, has
allied the party or State in any partic.
liar. IL he has not, then settle the un-
eemly strife by establishing prcce-
lent that will save the Republican par
y in Kansas future divisions and de-
eats into which it is rapidly drifting.