Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11
BOB INGERSOLL.
What He Thinks about tho Repub-
leans and the Republics
Future.

WASHINGTON, December7.-In arecen
interview Col. Ingersoll, who Is know.
to be particularly intimate with Gar
field. expressed himself in the following
fashion: What is your opinion of max
ing ex-Presidents Senators for life?''
Il am opposed to it. am agains
any man holding office for life, And
see no more reason for making expires
idents Senators than for making ex
Senators Presidents. To me the flea i:
prcposterous. Why should ex-Presi
presidents be taken care of? In this coun
try labor is not disgraceful, and after {
man has been President he has still the
right to be useful
What phases will the Southern
question assume in the next foul
years.
THE next Congress should promptly
unseat every member of Congress ir
whose district there was not fair anc
honest election. That is the first hare
work to be done. Let notice in thl:
way, be given to the whole country
that fraud cannot succeed. No mar
should be allowed to hold seat by
force or fraud. Just as soon as it is un
stood that fraud is useless it will be
abandoned. In that way the honest vo
ters of the whole country can be pro
tected.
AN honest vote settles the Southern
question, and Congress has the power
to compel an honest vote, or to leave
the dishonest districts without repre-
sentation. l want this policy adopted
not only in the South, but in the North
No man touched or stained with fraud
should be allowed to hold his seat
Send such men home. and let them
stay there until sent back by honest
votes. The Southern question Is a
Northern question, and the Republican
party must settle it for all time. We
must have honest elections or the Re.
public must fall. Illegal voting must
be considered and punished as crime.
Taking 10000 as basis OF represen-
tatlon, the South, through her astound-
ing increase ofcolored population. gains
three electoral votes, while the North
and East lose three. Garfield was elec-
ted by the 10000 colored votes cast in
New York.
Are we not entering upon the era
of our greatest prosperity!
I'VE are Just beginning to be pros
porous. The Northern Pacific Rail
road is to be completed. Forty mil
lions of dollars have just been raised By
that company. and new States will soon
be born in the great Northwest. The
Texas Pacific will be pushed to San
Diego, and in a few years We will ride
in Pullman car from Chicago TO the
City of Mexico. The gold and silver
mines are yielding mere and more, and
within the last ten years more than for
ty million acres of land have been
changed from wilderness to farms.
This country is beginning to grow.
We have just fairly entered upon what
| believe will be the grandest period OF
national development and prosperity.
With the Republican party in power:
with Gal field President; with the Chi
nese torger in the penitentiary: with
the Democracy demoraized and defrat-
ed; with good money: with unlimited
credit: with the best land in thc world
with 10000 miles OF railway: with
mountains of gold and silver: with hun
dreds OF thousands o! square miles of
coal fields: with iron enough for the
whole world: with the best system of
common schools: with the telegraph
wires reaching every city and town,
so that no two citizens are an hour
apart: with the telephone, that makes
everybody live next door. and with the
best folks in the world. how can We help
proSpering until the continent is cover
ed with happy homes?
What do You think Of Civil Service
Reiorm?
Il ain in favor of 1t. | want such civ
ii service reform that all the offices will
be filed with good and competent Re-
puhiicans. The majority should rule.
and the men who are in favor Of the
views Of the majority should hold the
Offices. am utterly opposed TO the idea
that party should show its principles.
Men holding Office can afford to take
their chances with the rest of us. If
they are Democrats they should not ex-
peet 10 succeed when their party is de
ieated.''
SALT LAKE. December THE recon-
mendation of the Presidents message
respecting Utah gives great satiStac-
ton to the Gentiles here. The Nor
mons affect to regard them with cnn-
tpmnt