Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20
RICE ON INGALLS,.

SAOh' ASANCS VI Il VI ONOOO, Ill
a call from the people to run for the
state legislature, among many other
good things, says:
Il most cordially thank the signers
of said paper for the fiattering express
sions of confidence in me. l am one of
the people, and all the instincts of my
nature places me on the side of the
weak against the strong, ON the side of
the people of the west against the pO-
lltical and financial juggernauts of The
east.
II am also republican of honest
convictions, but do not believe that
man must be politically dishonest,
devotee to party or an enemy to his
homes best interests, to be a lepubli-
can.
IF l accept your invitation and be-
come candidate l am fully aware that
shall be denounced as 'bOlter' and
renegade, and the walls of vituperation
Will be uncorked by everyone who wOr-
ships party more than principle, and by
everyone who hangs on to the party
ring with the hope of some day obtain
ing an office. Lay on MacDuff, but let
such first cruelty Senator Plumb, and
also the republicans of the seventh con-
gresslonal district of Kansas, who, by
resolutions in their convention, in
structed their nominee to bolt Whenev-
er he thought it to the best interests
of the people.
You are correct in your statement
that 1 am opposed to the election of
John j. Ingalls, to the United States
senate, and this fact, coupled with an
other, that the republicans of this rep
reSentative district instructed their
nominees for the legislature to vote for
ingalls, for fourth term, is a potent
reason why l should accede to your re-
quest. l am opposed to Mr.. Ingalls,
reelection, because he has held Office
us years. long enough; because he has
held the Office Is years and has drawn
from the treasury during that time
about $3.50, 900, and all his services for
this time, up to June 1st, 1890, have not
been worth to the people of Kansas 100
cents; because he is political shyster
OF the first water; because he has no
personal integrity, and, therefore. no
political honesty, being so double
faced that, in the language of Nine.
| de Stael, eff you we're to kick him be-
hind he would smile in 'front.'" He is a
| heartless aristocrat, cold-bloOded in his
nature, and subordinates all his &C
| lions, words and friendships to the no.
toriety of John J. ingalls,, and now,
when his reelection is at hand, for the
| first time in all these Is years he reeOg-
niZeS the fact that there are farm
| erS living in Kansas. He has no idea
of any moral element in politics. but
braZenly proclaims himself political
| buccaneer and a political leper. This
! is fOrcibly illustrated in an arranged
interview he had in April last with the
| Washington correspondent Of the New
| York World, when he had a pho
tographer present with his camera and
his picture taken as he posed In giving
the interview, in q different attitudes,
in which interview he declared that
"Tbe publication of politics is an irri-
descent dream-the decalogue ana the
golden rule have no place in a political
campaign And IN this interview he
uses illustrations by way of argument
to show why this should be so. This
could only be the language of a politi-
cal charlatan. 1t is shameful and in
| famous. Not only this, but In the same
interview, with foul blasphemy on his
tongue, he declared that he has ''no
doubt that in response to the search for
1 eternal truth another Christ will come.
and another revelation be made" If
this is not blasphemy there is no such
| thing. A disciple of Voltairs, Gibbon,
Hume or Bob Ingersoll never did nor
| could say more. and it is not more than
| Mr.. Ingalls, said in his eulOgy upon Ben
Hill. A man capable of making such
utterances in this Christian state
is unworthy to represent the God-fear
ing and Christian people of Kansas. 1t
will be blot upon Christianity when
enough of Kansas protesting Chris
tians walk up to the ballot box and
| vote for men to go to Topeka to re- elect
| this blasphemer to the United States
| senate. make no professions of being
churchman; | do claim common
belief in God. and belief that the sys-
| tenn OF Christianity as held bv the peO-
pie of Kansas is the best thing for socI-
ETY. and the world.
| Senator ingalls, has said some smart
things. He has skinned some demo-
| Gratis, played double on prohibition, and
| recently blew loudly for time about
service pensions, as his election was
coming on. His recent declaration that
| the condition of the Kansas farmer
results from causes which legislation
does not produce and which statutes
cannot cure is VAIN excuse for his
course in ignoring the interests of the
farmers and other laboring classes for
Is years, and proves him not a states
man, but utterly subservient to the in
tereSts of trusts, corporations, monopo-
lies and comorants which are proving
ing upon the people of Kansas and the
west, and which are largely responsible
for their present depression and poverty.
In the face of these irrefutable facts it
is an Insult for the manipulators
and ringsters of the republican nartv.
that make point to control primaries
end county conventions and make the
delegates - state conventions to ask
men of integrity. OF ;::oral sense and
| self-respect TO support those ws,.a will
vote TO keep in Office this political
mOuntebank for one will not do if
We would not mind paying a small