Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-03
KANSAS AND THE PRESIDENCY

John James ingalls,. of Kansas, for
president in 1888! That is the propo-
sition of Senator Henderson, of Ne
braska, made deliberately in public
speech recently before large and in
telligent constituency in his own state.
The nomination was warmly received,
the accounts state, by the generous
and appreciative Nebraskians. We
have revolved the proposition, over
in our mind several times, and il
strikes us still more favOrably from
every side we view it.
| 1t would be dandy nomination
surely, and suDflowers hereafter would
grow in every state in the Union.
What would it mean? What would it
signify? What would the nomination
of ingalls, typify? 1t would mean a
revivifying of the Republican party
now somewhat in state of suspended
animation, and an infusion of the stall
wart young blood into the organiza.
ton that made it invincible under the
inspirations that "Freemont and free
dom" gave to the country. Young
ingalls, in 1855, at Williams college on
graduation day, spoke on "mummies."
Ills denomination and election in 1888
would signify the everlasting burial of
the mummies, fogies, fossils and fools
that have led the party of Abraham
Lincoln wellnigh to the grave, and to
square look. at the sepulchre and the
shroud. IL would typify resurrec-
ton and new birth, a rehabilitation
ard an uprising of the heretofore in
vincible hosts of stalwart Republicans.
Ii would be an aggressive campaign
from The moment Ingalls, was nomi-
mated, and it would be methodical and
persistent, coherent and consistent in
all its parts, not spasmodic aud gush-
iIg, as was expected the Blaine battle
should be.
Ii would expect to hold the north
west, where desperate inroads have
already been made by the Democracy.
The campaign of 1888 will be decided
not on the eastern seashore, nor by
the murmuring waters of the guilt,
nor in Indiana and New York, but by
the sturdy plowmen of Illinois and
Minnesota, the wood choppers of Wis
consin, and the plainsmen of Iowa,
Kansas aud Nebraska. They be fools
who asscverate that the luminous
shadow of prohibition on the per-
turbed sky of national politics has no
further possible dcstinies in its skeie-
ton hands. Ii has defeated great
party. 1t can vanquish the victors
AT least this is among the possibilities.
1.-THE Democracy can keep up its
present gait in the northwest the
chances of winning the presidential
pole in 1888 are with that party. LII
the Republicans can hold their own
in the northwest, carrying every state |
they will in all probability win the
presidency. If the Democracy carry |
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and pos
sibly Iowa and perhaps Kansas. they
will again carry of the presidency.
The nomination of ingalls, would |
clectrify the country. 1t would solid |
ify his party. 1t would call out Conk-
ling TO the front. Oneida county |
would be heard from in different
way from what it was last year. 1t
would ibaw out that brilliant intel
lectual glacier of the Green mountains.
and the warm current of his electrical
eloquence would flow freely and per-
sistently from the azure skies of We :
mont and roll in increasing volume
across the great interior to the Pac &C
slope. The nomination of John James
Ingalls, would be bold, brilliant and
dashing movement. Every young
Republican college boy in the land
would throw his hat to the stare.
Brains everywhere would come to the
front and rejoice that in this land o.
scholars and nursery of arts and ge-
Mus scholar and an orator had been
for the presidency.
Ingalls, nomination would be the
brightest and smartest thing the Re-
publican party could do. 1t would be
a recognition of the DEGREES of fate
and round up the destiny of Kansas,
for it is written in letters of living
light upon the face of the stars that
some day, and not many days hence,
The sunflower state is to furnish a
president to the teeming millions in
his great land of the American eagle.