Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-27
Mr.. INGALLS, SAYS.

Average Kansas republicans swear
by Senator ingalls,, and as they do, we
want to tell them that their prophet
and little god is of the opinion that if
his party fails in this campaign it will
be their last fight, and after the presi-
Dental election he says the historian
may write the history-of the republican
party, add the word Fins at the end
and close the volume. But, he says.
there is one plan of campaign which
can bring victory and that is the plan
which has been outlined by himself in
recent speeches. The tariff question.
he says, is not as much as fly on the
cart wheel. 1t is only, he says. a pre-
text which the democrats mean to en-
ploy TO distract public attention from
the real issue; only an instrument which
the democrats intend to use to amuse
and bamboozle the public; only a pre-
text for political jugglery. The aim of
the republicans, ne says, should be to
oppose solid north to the solid south.
which is sure for the democracy. The
only plan of campaign that affords a
chance of republican success is the one
which makes the Issue clear and points
out the dangers involved in allowing
the solid south to have control of the
government. The solid south, he saws.
is the only part of the democracy that
has sand, courage, backbone. If the
republicans allow the democrats to
fritter away the campaign in merely
mounting about tariff, it will be a re-
publican mistake and the end of the
republican party. The north can be
carried solid, he says, if the issue is
properly made by the republicans. If
the opportunity is lost, then all is over.
How does this suit the oyer taxed,
Over-worked and under-paid farmers.
laboring men and consumers of Barber
county? They are told by this after
war soldier that the issues of the war
must be revived and that one section of
the country must array itself against
another section. They are told that
for the mere sake of restoring hungry
republican office-hunters to power that
the north must secede from the south
and that the questions settled by the
bloody butchery of 1S6l-65 be re-opened
and fought over again. This reckless
and impractical legislator would have
this country again forced in debt to the
amount of billions of dollars that the
money lenders of the east may again
grow rich off of the bonds that they
would buy at discount and sell at a
premium.
ingalls, and the monopolists he repre-
sents want everything but peace and
contentment. Their happiness is guag-
ed by the discomfort of the masses.
| Their mission would end with a united
and prosperous country-their ocGupa-
ton would be gone.
Take away from Ingalls, and his party
the bloody shirt and they would have
no issue. They cannot hope to convert
anyone to the doctrine of high taxation,
high tariff, big surplus and financial
depression and so they dismiss these
things as of no more importance than
1.-THE fly on the cart Wheel and call for
a solid north against a solid south
Where is the reasonable man who be-
lieves that the tariff question is not the
question beside of which all others sink
into insignificance
Abusing the secessionists of 1861 will
not make blankets cheaper. Exposing
Voorhees, war record is of no interest
to western farmers who are figuring on
bills of protected lumber for their
homes and their barns. Vilifying the
democratic administration Is no off
set for keeping up the prices of all the
necessaries of life while the luxuries
are made cheaper. And yet these are
the things that Mr.. Ingalls, and his
crowd would do. They regard the
tariff discussion las a mere fly on the
cart wheel" That fly is growing and
multiplying and it may be of such i'm
portance by the time Mr.. ingalls, is a
candidate again, that he will recognize
it as having the power to keep him out
of seat that should be filled by rep.
resentative Kansan, some one who will
look after the interests of his constitu-
ents rather than waste his time and
energy In reviYing and discussing the
dead issues of twenty-five years ago.