The advocate., 1890-12-17
MONUMENTAL IGNORANCE on A AsEEATOR.

sented from the stock OF lngallsism:
The story IL told by a state house oficor AZ 70
peka that the week following the election Ex'
Governor Thoa A. Osborn, who represents
shawnee county In the state senate visited
United States Senator ingalls, NJ hIs home In
AtchsOn, for tho purpose OF getting him out OF
the race for reelection. The two politicians
spent several hours together, and the state house
officer says that In substance the following con-
versatlOn took places
SENATOR" said the ex-governor, "theae ALI
ance fellows are not pledged against any ropub-
llcan, but only against y0u II you will only get
out OF the way we can elect a republican 10 sue.
ceed you, Iiyou continue In the aght you will
bo defeated, and they will elect some fellow who
will be q discredt to Che state"
"WhAt you say ls probably true replied In.
galls "but don't you see II stay In the nght and
get beat, II is the republican party that Is beat
n 20 out OF the way and some fellow labelled
republican" gets In, II IL ingalls, who IA heat,
and can't afford that. II you will look up the
returns you will SEQ that the aggregate vote for
the Legislative candidates who we're Instructed
for me Was something over i25,OOO, which was a
larger vote than any republican candidate ON the
ticket received. was nominated by the repub-
liCan party for United States Senator and be-
lleve can come nearer maklngl II than any other
republican In the state"
IL we're no wonder that Senator
Osborn should refer TO this would-be
distinguished political potentate as an
extremely selfish man, and, as the
monstrous republican obstruCtionist
Of Kansas.
The declaration OF Ingalls, "that the
aggregate vote for the Legislative
candidates who we're instructed for
me was something over l25,OO0, which
was a larger vote than any republ-
can candidate on the state ticket re-
ceived," ;" would count but little, iftrue,
when a hundred Of his l25 Candi-
dates were fully beaten at the polls;
but when il is self-deluding fiction,
though itmsy be comparatively harm.
less to himself it is hardly just to the
general public.
To tell ialsehOods about election
results, may be good republican cam
paigning, but it is considered of quite
doubtful morality by the average
good citizen.
Taking out AtChison county from
the cOunt--where ingalls, pleaded for
home support ct a very costly tune
and where his Legitimate candidates
we're ahead OF other republi-
can candidates; and, it appears
that he was $50 votes behind
the aggregated vote for the republi-
can candidates for congress in the
eighty-seven counties in which votes
we're cast for the 125 candidates for
representatives.
The republican vote in the nineteen
Undistricted counties, was a little eover
four thousand, the whole vote having
been $500 in these counties, and the
republicans 4SO short of a majority in
this sparely settled region.
The Senator'S ability to divine
events might be illustrated by disinCli-
nation TO attend a meeting Of the
Union League club at Chicago, on
February %, 1891, which is thus OK
pressed;
l fear it will be impossible for me TO accept It
wfI1 ha a unagniaaant nacoatOn and n ynAUnfn0ant