The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-11-28


Politically, Kansas is as apomalistic as
she is extreme in everything else. Asa
state. she never does anything ike another
In view OF the fact that the next United
States Senate is TO be Democratic, and of
the probability that the mopgrel balance
OF power at Topeka next winter will at
tempt to name or decide who the Ie1t SEN
ator shall be, the Republican party in no
other State, II placed in 4 like situation,
would hesitate moment as 10 the proper
and only course to be adopted. With our
msjority, if held by the Republicans in
any other State, there would not be doubt
upon the part OF the mass of the voters y
to the result. Personal ambition and local
preferences would weigh as nothing against
that officer whose standing as a Republi-
can, when measured by his record, was
found to be without q flaw or mistake But
not 20 in Kansas. The Republicans
OF Maine, New York, Pennsylvag ia
Massachusetts, and other States,
when they have been won at the
polls do not hesitate as to whether they will
re-elect their Blaines, Summers, Conkling-,
Camerons, Mortons and Shermans, the men
whose records enter into and make up the
party's platform. Not so in Kansas. How
ever fair the record of a Kansas Republi-
can, whatever his successes and transcend
ent brllliancy, however so sure the mass Of
the party may have pre- determined that
his faithfulness should be- rewarded, all
goes as nothing when pitted against COM
binatiou Of a dozen local preferences which
have been inspired by personal ambition,
and which looks for possible success only
through an aggregation that comes of po-
liiical jobbery, official pr-ferment, and
promises OF place. Leaving out of the esti-
mate, present and rospective office holders
and those who expect 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 re election of John
J. Ingalls, To the United States Sena,e-just
as sincerely and heartily az are the Repub-
licaDs Of New York to return Conkliug, or
the Republicans OF Indiana would be to re-
| turn Morton, If he We're alive. As far a.
| the people Of the State are concerned there
is no question but that Ingalls,, with his
experience, his brilliant record, his uniform
success as a representative oil the State and
his unquestionsd fidelity to his party in The
past, should be returned, by unanimou:
vote, as reward for well-doing The
leading Republican journals and the faith
ers Of our party in other and older State,
express surprise that there should even.b,
a cnance for his defeat
| They cannot understand how it is tina
having fulfilled the highes. expectations o
his friends by honoring his party and State
there should be dozen men seeking hi
place, who, backed by local friends, hope
through solid combination Of every con
ceivable element, that lightning may strik,
some one Of their number. Neither car
we; and, We see but one cure. Let the Re
Pubiicans of the next Legislature meet il
caucus and, ignoring all these local ant
personal ambitious, decide if their servant
the Hon. John J. Ingalls,, has failed III,
party or State in any particular. Ii h
has not, then settle the unseemlv strife by
establishing a precedent that will save tn,
Republican party in Kansas future divis
ions and defea.s into which it is rapidly
| drifting