The Iola register., 1890-05-02
Mr.. INGALLS,. SARCASM.
Political Prognosticsti0ns BY the Ele
auent Kansas Senator.

Mr.. INGALLS, SARCASM.
Political ProEnostic.tions BY the Ele.
quent Kansas Senator.
The New York World prints a three
page interview with Senator Ingalls,, OF
Kansas, on the present political prob
lens, candidates and hundred and one
other questions of interest In reply to
the question: "What do you think Of the
modern Democracy the Senator said:
1.-THE Democratic party, having
neither conscience, convictions nor de-
fined principles. inevitably allies itself
with discomfort and is arrayed against
social order 1t it strongest where pub
lie and private morality is weakest. Its
citadeis are in the South, where society
is distinctly feudal, and in great cities,
where the ignorant and criminal ele-
ments are most energetic. 1t has no be-
liefs, maxims or formulas. Its creed is
the instruction of Jefferson-that in a
popular government wealth. intelli-
gence and morality are ultimately no
match for numbers. For twenty-five
years its only policy has been " COM
plain, to oppose, to deny, to protest, and
ultimately to acquiesce in what the Re-
publicans have done. So, when Cleve-
land came IN, being without plans, pur-
poses or policy, his administration
floundered pitiably both in domestic
and foreign affairs, was contemplate in
many things and feeble in all, and left
absolutely no impression whatever upon
history except in the matter of vetoing
bills for pensions and public buildings"
''Do you imagine, Senator, that Mr..
Cleveland will be nominated again BY
the Democra' for the Presidency?'
20! yes; Cleveland will be the nomi-
nee in 1892 even if New York should be
divided or against him. This is newt
able 1t is written. He will be the
first and the rest nowhere. Democracy
never had such an ideal exponent and
representative. His dull, heavy, ponder
Gus wooden platitudes, laboriously writ
ten out and committed to memory; his
stolid and shallow conceit; his affecta-
tion Of wisdom, purity and patriotism
and what he calls his solemn sense OF
duty impress the average Democrat
which the Chinese laundryman feels for
his Joss.
"What is your idea. Senator, Of a def
inite American policy?"
''The American policy should have for
its object the unification of the continent
The Polar Sea should be the northern
boundary of the Republic and the south
ern boundary should be the interoceanic
canal. Look at the existing conditions
We have practically reached the limit
of our agricultural domain. We are ap-
preaching that period spoken of by
Macauley as dangerous to republican
institutions, when the vast migrations
to these undeveloped regions will
have ceased, and when the artis-
ans and toiling masses concentrated in
the large cities will have no out
let for their surplus numbers and no de-
mand for their labor. / expect to see
the valleys OF the Mississippi and the
Amazon linked together by the great
agency of modern civilization. The
overflow of population will thus find
peaceful fields of profitable effort.
"The interests of the West and South
are identical and they should be unified.
Their alliance upon all matters affect
| ing their natural welfare is inevitable.
If they coalesce they will be invincible.
We shall hold the purse and WELD the
swords of the Nation, and we shall use
them, not for oppression, but for justice.
| These great communities, that were
only separated by the system of slavery,
have since it's destruction been alienated
| by factions that have estranged them
only to prey upon them, and to main
tain political supremacy by their aliena-
ton. Unfriendly legislation has i'm
posed intolerable burdens upon their
energies: invidious discrimination has
been made against their products; unjust
tariffs have repressed their industries.
The ultimate coalition of all the politi-
cal forces of this section is inevitable.
The West will then secure its emanci-
patton from the control of the Atlantic
seaboard This is one of the events OF
the near future. We will then treat
these Atlantic and Pacific appendages
with justice-in fact, may say with
more justice than they have hitherto
shown to MS