The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-10-30
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THE RAID AGAINST SENATOR INGALLS,.

THE RAID AGAINST SENATOR INGALLS,.
From that same Head Center whence has
gone out so many mandates for concerted
attacks all along the 1.-The on any liberal
pension measure, or some man who was
conspicuous in his championship of the vet
Grams, has gone forth the edict, Defeat John
j. Ingalls," The response has even more
than the accustomed venom and vigor. The
batteries of defamation are unusually active.
From the well-known subsidy kennels spring
forth the ours of SANDER and detraction,
barking in chorus. The political sky rings
with their baying. Nothing in derogation
of the brilliant Kansas Senator That evil in
genuity can suggest is left unsaid, and when
once said is repeated to WEAKNESS. Truth
is contemptuOusly ignored and scruples
thrown to the winds. Anything to beat
Ingalls," is the cry which urges them on,
and nothing will be left undone to compass
this end.
Were this an ordinary political fight be-
tween the two parties THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE would take no part in 1t. But IL
is not q partisan fight. 1t is personal
matter, and Senator Ingalls, is the victim OF
the organized pension-haters, who are In
deadly antagonism to him for his great
services to the soldiers in securing the pas
sage of the Arrears Bill, and other important
pension legislation, and his continual ac-
tiyity in behalf OF the soldiers. They hate
him for his splendid work in getting the
original Arrears of Pension Bill through the
Senate in spite of the greatest Obstacles
which only man Of his talents and expert
ence in that body could have surmounted;
and they hate him still worse because ne
persists in trying to get the limitation to the
Arrears Bill repealed, and they know that
If any man in the Senate can do this it Ii ne.
They rightly feel that the first great step
toward crippling all future pension legisla-
ton In to remove from the Senate this able
and fearless advocate of what the soldiers
desire. With him of the floor Of that
House 1t will be vastly much easier to defeat
any pension legislation.
For any Senator, merely as Democrat or
Republican, we care nothing. Whether
he succeeds himself or somebody Of his or
the opposite political faith succeeds him, is
of small matter TO ua. 1t is only whether
he is tried and reliable friend of the SOL
der or not. If he is, we care not for his
politics; he Is our choice.
Tried by this standard, Senator Ingalls,
rises to the full measure. We come to his
support because he Is assailed on account
of his zeal for the soldiers, and all veterans
should rally around him. His defeat would
be g personal misfortune to every one OF
them. He cannot be replaced. Though
man equal to him in ability and as de-
voted q friend Of the soldiers should be
elected in his stead, he would still lack
his commanding inaaence and the power
for good given by his long experience
in the Senate and his familiarity with
every detail OF legislation. The young
State of Kansas Is deservedly proud of the
brilliant statesman, whose reputation is
more than National. The soldiers of Kan
sas love him for his zeal for them and the
enemies he has made" Everywhere are
found veterans and their families whose
comfortable homes are monuments to his
superb work in securing the passage Of tho
Arrears Bill. They will stand by him to
the last, and We hope that for their sakes,
for the sake OF veterans generally, and for
her own fame, Kansas viii again return her
brilliant Senator.