Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-18
A pEMoRALIZEp PARTY.
As Evidenced by Senator Ingalls, Letter
Recently Published.

hcCoHtAy EuDnSneOs
Twelve years ago the Republican party
was in q broken and demoralized condition
1t was confronted by an aggressive De-
mocracy with a leader, Samuel j. Tilden,
! respected throughout the country for his
sturdy fight for honest government. 1t
offered an issue in it's platform, administra-
tive reform, coupled with reform of the
tariff The Republican party was unable to
meet the man or the issue, which swept the
! great doubtful States, cut down Repub-
lican majorities all through the North and
! gave the Democracy an overwhelming ma
! iority in the House of Representatives.
The situation to-day is the same. The
Democratic party presents a leader and an
issue which broken and disorganized Re-
! publicanism is unable to meet. Such was
the meaning of the prolonged and bitter
struggle at Chicago. But words need not
be multiplied in interpreting that situation.
The decentralization it stands for is attested
by the highest Republican authority. John
James ingalls,, Republican president pro
tempore of the Senate is summoned to the
stand. He writes in letter made public
recently:
"VICE-PREsIDENT's CHAMBER, WASHING
TON, June l6.-Yours OF the 18th at hand II
does not make much difference who is nomi-
mated, in my judgment The candidate will
cut but small figure in the fight We can
elect anybody, or we shall fail. The least con-
! spicuous, and therefore the least complicated
man will be the best-somebody like Hayes in
1876.
Among all the men named there is not one
leader no one whose personal or historical
relations to the people would make a difference
OF one thousand votes in the canvass Sher-
/ man, Allison, Harrison, etc, have records that
would be awkward on the tariff. the currency,
tae Chinese question ETC. Depews connection
with railroads and n n
heavy load, especially in the agricultural
/ States We might well nominate Gould or
! Vanderbilt at once.
my impression is that Alger or Gresham
come nearer filling the bill than a1y OF the 9TH
/ ers, with some fellow like Phelps, of New
Jersey, who could reach the conservative
forces of the East and get contributions from
the manufacturers and Wall street. But you
can judge much better than what is best after
I consult ng with the delegates,
II have the use of the wires during the con-
vention, by the courtesy of the company, and
you can therefore telegraph me fully at all
times il any thing of interest transpires
! Truly yours. JOHN ]. INGALLS,"
! As in 1876. what is wanted is a man with
out record, somebody like Hayes In
1875 fraud in the Southern States was
counted on to win the day. In 1888 the
least conspicuous man, with contributions
from the manufacturers and Wall street, ~
Is all that Republicanism has to offer It
may call this programme protection to
American labor,n or by any other high
sounding phrase it chooses. What it means
and all it means is the abandonment Of
every principle and every purpose in gov
ernment and reliance on money This is to
be the last campaign Of the Republican
party.
KAISER WILHELM during his four mill.
tary campaigns performed 72S days Of act
ual service IN the field.
QURES VIcToRIA's message toYictoria, of
Sermany, on the accession OF Frederick III.
was; My daughter: nv sister,