Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-12
CONCERNING INGALLS,.
A Few Straight Democratic Remarks |
 a Kansas Newspaper.


 a Kansas Newspaper.
 Perhaps when Senator Ingalls, made his attack on the Democratic party and in cluded Hancock and Mcclellan among the allies of the Confederacy, he knew ex- actly what he was doing. 1t depends upon whether he was playing for national influence or for strength with the Repub- ican machine in Kansas. If he intended to rise higher in the estimation of the country he has blundered for the best Republicans have unreservedly con- demned the tone of the speaker. He has no prospect whatever now of 8 nomina- tion which calls for 8 vote of the people.
 If he had in view the party machine in Kansas, the worst sentences of the speech were the best. Standing on the senate floor in Washington he pulled exactly the strings which led by the shortest cut to the hearts of the Republican local leaders in his home state, and it seems that he made them dance exactly as he had culcu- lated. He has made himself hero with men who have pushed themselves forward by means of the superior energy of their hate and the more intense malice of their selfishness. The convention of Republican clubs at Topeka was so gleeful in it's in dorsement of the objectionable parts of the Ingalls speech that it had no memory for anything else. They could not see the vileness of a charge of trachery against the character of noble hearted Union general, nor could they penetrate the disgusting low breeding of an abusive attack upon the personal attributes of the president of the United States, de- livered in the senate chamber and for no reason connected with any subject the senate was discussing. No; these clamor- ing Republican state candidates saw only that he sshad shot it into old Cleveland '' That fired the embers of their burned out hearts. The antique blatherskites who made the very atmosphere muddy with speeches and resolutions at Topeka have no part in the peaceful prosperity which abides in all corners of the land in 1888. They still live in trouble. It is the food of their stornachs and the vesture of their hidebound bodies. No milk and honey for them. Disorder, enmities, islanders. dissensions and plunder are the intoxicants demanded by base appetites which con- tracted the habit thirty years ago. The prize fighter who shakes hands with his in their estimation. Reconciliation is for those who are still obedient to the teach ings of the Sermon on the Mount. These men never read that part of the Bible. They probably would advise their follow CTS not to buy meat of Democratic butcher, not to borrow money of Demo- cratic capitalist, not to bury dead Demo- crat, and not to travel on & railroad which carries Democrats. A gay old carnival of relies was that convention
 Though MT. Ingalls, may have caught the rheumy fossils and may through them work into reelection to the senate, he must not imagine that he has caught the people of Kansas. The state is growing, changing and broadening. The thousands of new settlers in towns and on farms bring desire for continued peace and it's accompanying rapid increase of wealth and comfort. They want capital for rail roads, for banks, for credits. They want plenty of free movement in all sections of the country that men and money can travel to the west. In their calculation it would be better that Kansas should have reputation for generosity, cordiality and good manners, than for malice, party malice carried to the point of frenzy and intending abuse of Democrats. Neither MT. Ingalls, nor the gyrating old retired list at Topeka really represents Kansas Kansas City Times.