The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-17
INGALLS, OPENS THE BALL.
THE SENIOR KANSAS SENATOR
SPEAKS AT PITTSBURG.
The Beginning of the Gubernatorial Cam
Paign in the Keystone State-He Con-
tends That Every Citizen Should
be a Staunch Partisan
Democrats Scored.
From The chicago Tribune.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. Ex-senator In
! gals, of Kansas, came TO Pittsburg to-
| day and opened the Republican guberna-
| torial campaign in Pennsylvania at the
| Grand opera house this 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 a razor and he scored the De-
mocracy numerically. Tue reception
| accorded him was overwhelmingly
cordial Senator Delamater. the can
! didate for governor, was present, with
| Senator a. L. Watres and Colonel I. j.
Stewart. the other candidates on the
state ticket. Henry w. Oliver, the
| millionaire steel manufacturer, presided
and hundred or more leading Republi-
cans occupied the platform. In the
course of his address Senator ingalls,
said:
EVERY MAN SHOULD BE A PARTISAN.
Fellow citizens of Allegheny county:
In a popular representative form
of government political parties are
an indispensable necessity. When
there is no dynasty, reigning
family no hereditary nobility, no pre-
rOgative nor class distinction, the govern
ment is the party in power, and hence 1t
is that every American city should be a
politician. 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 politician, but n
partisan politician. lnever have learned
the lesson of belonging to the Republican
party little. | never have learned the
lesson of voting for the candidate upon
the Republican ticket occasionally. APP
plausel. A man ought to be politician
as in everything 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 nobl-
est and most deserving of his devotion,
or he is not worthy of having a wife,
children, city, state or country. APP
plausel.
There is a certain class of politicians.
sometimes belonging to one party and
sometimes to the other, who are so extra
ordinarily perpendicular that they lean
over a little backwards applausel,
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 adj
versaries. Applause. Therefore, Mr.
President and fellow citizens of PIttsbuTg.
l confess to being partisan politician
and / 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 Dor
ders of their phylacteries and stand on
no Of hn
their own virtures and thanking God that
they are not as other men and other Re
publicans. Applause. If a man is a
Democrat. Applause. He that is
and prolonged cheering And if he is a
Republican, in Gods name let him be a
Republican in off years as well as presi-
dental years. Applause.
THE DEMOCRATS ATTACKED.
am asked what is the difference be-
tween a Republican and a Democrat, or
the difference between the Democratic
and Republican parties. What odds does
it make except that one or the other
shall have the offices? / have one obser-
walton to make on that point, fellow cit
liens, l have one slight difference to
suggest as to the difference
between the Democratic and
the Republican party in the off years as
well as in the presidential years, and that 1
is that upon every issue, upon every
question affecting the honor, the welfare /
and the prosperity and the existence of /
this nation for the last thirty years. the /
party has always been right /.
and the Democratic party has always |
been wrong [applause]. and it is just ex-
actly as wrong at this particular moment /
of time as it was in 1861 or at any time .
since 1861.
Slavery. secession, state sovereignty, /
the public credit, the ma
tional currency, the resumption of specie 1
payment, the coinage of silver, protec- /
ton TO American labor, cheers and APP
plause and the tariff for the protection
American industries-I say TO YOU that /
upon every one of these questions from
the beginning down to the last syllable
of time-even so Ia as Thursday of last
week-the Republican party has always
been right and the Democratic party has
always been [applausel and it will CON
tinue to be wrong, world without end,
amen. Prolonged applausel.
The Democratic party Is the political
dumping ground of politics in the nine
teenth century. Laughter and APP
plausel
Every excluded heresy. every aband-
oned heresy, everything that the nation
has got done with and tired of and has
cast away TO be trodden under the foot
Of man is the heritage Of the Demo
cratic party.
SOMETHING or KICKER HIMSELF.
Nv fellow citizens. l have erred in
calling the Democracy party. 1t is an
aggregation of the ignorance. the imbe-
cility, and the dislOyalty lapplausel of
this country. Applause. Strongest
where public morality IS weakest. rein
forcing all the dangers and destructive
agencies of societies and having neither
conscience nor courage Of convictions, il
IS the perpetual and constant menace to
the prosperity. the honor Of the Ameri-
-sn people. and vet, fellow citizens, ! oc-
hear some poor mortal com
planning Of the Republican party because
i has had many indefensIble policies.
Well. / have been somewhat Of a kicker
myself. Laughter There have been
leaders that | did not like:
there have been Republican policies that
did not approve of and endorse, and
have said 20 without hesitation. ] think
he worst Republican that ever lived j.
letter by far than the best Democrat that
ever lived. Applause. II
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