The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
INGALLS, SHARP FILINGS.
The Kansas Senator Opens the
Campaign in Pennsylvania
His Sarcastic shots at the Democracy Re-
ceIved with TumuItuous Applause
Emil Text of the Mastery
Address as Delivered.

PITTSBURGH. IA, sept l0.-SenabOr
Ingalls,, of Kansas opened the Repub-
licsn Gubernatorial campaign in Penn
sylvania at the Grand Opera House Sat
urday evening. He had an audience OF
nearly 5000 persons, all of them voters
save few ladies in the boxes The
Senator was in splendid voice and good
humor. His sarcasm cut like razor
and ne scored the Democracy unmer-
cifully. The reception accorded him
was overwhelmingly cordial. Senator
nalamater, the candidate for Governor,
was present with Senator A. L. Watres
and Colonel T. ]. Stewart, the other
candidates on the State ticket Henry
W. Oliver. the millionaire steel manu-
facturer, presided. and hundred or
more leading Republicans occupied the
platform. In the course Of his address
Senator Ingalls, said:
"Fellow-Citizens of Allegheny Coun-
ty: In popular representative form
of government political parties are an
indispensable necessity. When there
is no dynasty, reigning family, no
hereditary nobility, no prerogative nor
class distinction, the government is the
party in power, and hence it is that
every American citizen should he poll
tician. Not in the sense of being a
candidate for Office, but in the larger,
in the wider sense, and in the nobler
sense of taking an intelligent interest
in public affairs. Applause. And not
only should every citizen be a poll
tician, but a partisan politician.
never have learned the lesson of be-
longing to the Republican party little
never have learned the lesson of vot-
ing for the candidate upon the Repub-
lican ticket occasionally. Applause. |
A man ought to be a politician as in
every thing else, partisan politician.
He ought to believe that his wife is the
best, his children the most attractive,
his city, his State and his country the
noblest and most deserving of his devo-
ton, or he is not worthy of having a
wife, children, city, State or country.
IApplausel
There is certain class of polit-
icians, sometimes belonging to one par
ty and sometimes TO the other, who are
so extraordinarily perpendicular that
they lean over a little backwards lap-
plauseE who are never quite sure that
they are belonging to a party unless
they are voting for the candidates of the
other, and giving aid and comfort to
their adversaries. Applause There
fore, Mr.. President and fellow-citizens
of Pittsburgh, confess to being 4 par
tisan politician, and l have no sympathy
with those who roll up their eyes until
you can see nothing but the whites and
hold up their hands in holy horror and
enlarge the borders of their phylacter-
les and stand on the corners of the
streets magnifying their own virtues
and thanking God that they are not as
other men and as other Republicans.
IApplause. If man is Democrat, in
Gods name let him be a Democrat
Applause He that is filthy, let him
be filthy still. Laughter and prolonged
cheering. And if he is a Republican,
in Gods name let him be Republican
in of years IS well as Presidential
years [Applause-l
Il am asked what is the difference be-
tween Republican and a Democrat, or
the difference between the Democratic
and the Republican parties. What odds
does it make except that one or the
other shall have the Offices? / have
one observation to make on that point,
feilow-citizeus, l have one slight differ
ence to suggest as TO the difference be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
party in the off years as we'll as in the
Presidential years, and that is that
upon every issue, upon every question
affecting The honor, the welfare and the
prosperity and the existence of this Ma
ton for the last thirty years, the Re-
publican party has always been right
and the Democratic party has always
been wrong [applausel, and it is just ex-
actly as wrong at this particular mo-
ment OF time as it was in 1861 or any
time since 1861.
Slavery. secession, State sover-
eighty. reconstruction, the public
credit the National currency, the re-
sumption of specie payment, the coin
age of silver, protection to American
labor cheers and applausel and the
tariff for the protection of American
industries-I say to you that upon
every one of these questions from the
beginning down to the last syllable of
the record of time-even so late as
Thursday Of last week the Republican
party has always been right and the
Democratic party has always been
wrong Iapplausel. and it will continue
to be wrong, world without end, amen
prolonged cheers.
The Democratic party IS the polit-
ical dumping-ground of politics in the
nineteenth century. Laughter and
applause.
Every excluded heresy, every aban-
doned heresy, every thing that the Ma
ton has got done with and tired of and
has cast away to be trodden under the
Democratic party.
My fellog-citizens. l have erred in
calling the Democracy a party. 1t is an
aggregation of the ignorance. the i'm
becility and the disloyalty [applausel
Of this country Applause. Strongest
where public morality is weakest,
reinforcing all the dangerous and
destructive agencies OF society and
having neither conscience nor cour-
= "a SSAfANs-SASs ~ - TIC yer
petual and constant menace to the
prosperity, the honor Of the American
people, and yet, fellow-citizens. l &C.
casionally hear some poor mortal COM
planning of the Republican party be-
cause it has had many ihdefensible poll
cIeS- Well, / have beea somewhat of
kicker myself. Laughter. There have
been Republican leaders that did not
like; there have been Republican poll
cies that did not approve of and in
dorse, and have said so without hest