The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-15
Ingalls, the Champion Ruffian of the
Land.

Land.
In the World of Sunday appeared a
Photographic interview" with Sena-
tor ingalls,, which is not only remark
able as an original feat of journalism
but is also interesting on account of
The light it throws upon the Senator'S
character and theories, and, inferen-
TALLY upon the principles and tenden-
cies of the Republican party.
The interview is very long, though
not too long to be worth careful read
ing from end to end. But it is too
LONG for US to attempt a general dis
cussion of it's remarkable u~tterances,
or a general refutation of its errors
and fallacies. Bat two features are
too salient to be passed without COM
ment. One is the strange confession
OF sectionalism which the Senator
makes; the other is his statement of
his objection to the Democratic party.
Speaking Of the West, or rather of
the territory between the Alleghanies
and the Rocky Mountains, Mr.. Ingalls,
INDUCES in one of the strangest rhap-
sodies, surely. that statesman ever
uttered He prophesies the tra &fer
Of all political and commercial power,
together with all social and artistic
influence to that section in the near
future-not as a result of natural
tendency, but as a matter Of right.
He speaks of the Atlantic and Pacific
seaboards as mere ''appendages" Of
this territory, and he intimates in ex-
press terms that the Mississippi Val
ley will place the coast States in COM
plete subsection in a very little while.
Incidentally, he makes a furious
onslaught on the railways which
carry Western produce to the sea.
Apparently he looks forward to the
time when they will stop running,
and ocean steamers will steer for the
Gulf and take their cargoes at the
Port Of st. Louis" which is to be
rendered accessible by improvements
in the Mississippi channel.
Whether the man who talks thus is
an envenomed partisan or only a
l~unatic, it is hard to say; but his bit
ter hatred of the older sections of the
country crops out in every sentence he
utters. He revels in a frantic ingrati-
tude to the sections which have built
up the West, which first created and
are now civilizing it, and he longs for
the tine when they shall be politi-
cally ensiaved and commercially inn
poverished.
As for Mr.. Ingalls, rancor against
Grover Cleveland, 1t is only funny. 1t
has about the same relation to trnth
that we might expect to G4rd in a
study by Benedict Arnold upon the
character and public services of g..
Washington. But the Senator's views
regarding the Democratic party are,
in the language Of the fippant, a
bad give away"
Its creed, says MI. Ingalls, of the
Democracy, lis the instruction of
Jefferson-that in a popular govern
A1cut, H0dtth, 4utClAASShCC diAd lAOIdi-
ity are ultimately no match for num-
bers." Aside from the fact that this
is an outrageous perversion Of the
doctrine of jefferson, who taught
that in the will of the ma
jority of the people the
best wisdom of the nation
prevailed. what a revelation this is Of
the position of the Senator and his
party. They have no use for mum
bers- The people only offend them.
Wealth and power, strong centralized
government-radiating from Chicago
that is their ideal, and before it the
great cities of the historic and en-
lightened East are to be made to bow.
Truly it is a pleasant thought that
IN the creation OF new Western States
the kneIl Of doom is being rung fol