Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
ROASTED BY INGALLS,.
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no objection to the Vice Presidents, and
they were considered elected.
INGALLS, MAKES HIS BOW.
AWITTY, SARCASTIC AND EPIeRAMMATIc
EFFORT.


Ev erything Good in Politics Ascribed to the
Republican Party-An Argument in
Favor ofPart isnns nnship-Matcrinl Growth
of the Country Described.
President Oliver, in few words, intro
duced Senator Ingalls,, who made the speech
of the evening. The Senator wore light
colored suit, and Prince Albert coat,
which was closely buttoned around him. In
strong, oratorical voice he commenced his
address, which lasted over an hour, and was
intently listened to. At one stage, when he
spoke of stopping, his auditors begged him
to 60 on. His effort follows:
Believe me. Mr.. President, ladies and gentle
men of Pittsburg. that am not Unconscious
OF the honor of your attendance here in such
numbers this evening, nor insensible to the cor
dlal1ty OF your greeting and your saiutation.
IL Is, am sure, unnecessary and superfuous
for me to say that am not here for the pur-
pose of interfering with, giving advice
concerning or commenting upon the local
affairs of Allegheny county or the State
OF pennsylvania. There are moments
when the stranger intermeddleth not.
And 1 feel that it would be inappropriate, un-
Just and undeserving of me and the occasion
were to assume to give advice or counsel to
the Rep ublicans of Allegheny county as to
their du ty in the contest that is before them.
And yet may be all owed to say that 1 am not
on this occasion wholly an intruder, a volun-
teer or an unbidden guest. have come at the
invitation and request and at the instance of
the Executive Committee of this county and
of my friend, Senator Cameron, whom hope,
will be returned by the people of Pennsylvania
this winter to the seat which he adorns, and to
my distinguished friend,
THE TACITURN SENATOR QUAY,
he who says little but does great deal-to ap-
pear before you for the purpose and for the
sole purpose of saying in such ways as I may
and with such arguments and reasons as may
present. why it is that the Republican party is
entitled to the continued confidence of the Re-
publicans of Allegheny county, and why its as
tendency and supremacy should be maintained
in the State of Pennsylvania and in the nation
Fellow citizens of Allegheny county, in a
popular popular representative form OF government,
w hen there is no dynasty, no reigning family.
no hereditary nobility. no prerogatve nor class
distinction, the Government is the party in
power, and hence it is that every American
citizen should be a politician. Not in the sense
OF being candidate for office, but In the
larger, in the wider and in the nobIer sense of
[Applause.i
And from the spectacle see before me
should be inclined to think that in the sense
which l describe, the Republicans of Allegheny
county need no further instructions from me.
And not only should every citizen be politi-
clan, but partisan politician. 1 never have
learned the lesson of belonging to the Repnb-
tbe never have
upon the Republican ticket occasionally. A
man ought to be a 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 noblest and most deserving of his devotion,
or he is not worthy of having wifi, children,
city, State. or country.
PRAISE FOR PARTIsANs.
There is a certain class of politicians some
times belonging to one party and sometimes to
the other, who are so extraordinarily perpen-
dicular that they lean over a little backward.
Who are never quite sure that they are be-
longing to party unless they are voting for
and comfort to their adversaries. Therefore
Mr.. President and fellow citizens of Pittsburg.
| confess to being partisan politician, and
have no sympathy with those who roll up their
and hold up their hands in holy horror,
and enlarge the borders of their ph1lac.
tories. and stand on the cor
virtues, and thanking God that they are mot as
other men and not as other Republicans. If
man is Democrat in Gods name let him be a
DEMOCRAT. He that is filthy let him be filthy.
And If he is Republican. in Gods name, let
him be Republican in off years as well as in
Presidential years. Fellow citizens, 1 am
often awkward, being what is common
hat is, as we say in the West, "A
Republican from the head of the creek" in |
WHOM their is no variableness nor shadow of |
turning. l am asked what is the difference be- |
,ween Republican and a Democrat, or the |
difference between the Democratic and Repub- |
lean party? What odds does it make except !
hat one or the other shall have the offices? L |
lave one observation to make on that point |
ellow citizens. have one slight difference to |
uggeSt as to the difference between the Demo-
ratio and Republican party in the off years. as |
veil as in the Presidential year, and that is.
hat upon every issue, upon every ques-
ion affecting the honor. the welfare, and
he prosperity and the existence of this nation
or the last 80 years. the Republican party has
lWays been right and the Democratic party
HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG.
And is just exactly as wrong at this par
ocular moment oftlme as it was in 1851 or any
ime since 1851. Slavery, secession, State SOW
ignity, reconstruction, the public credit, the
ayment the coinage of silver, protection to
American labor-and the tariff for the protec-
ion Of American industries. I say to you
hat upon every one of these questions, from
he beginning down to the last syllable of the
ecord of time-even SO late as Thursday of
ast week-the Republican party has always
cen right and the Democratic party has al
rays been wrong. [Applause.l And it will
Ia voice-Senator, did you ever read the
'lblef How about the old soldier?]
suppose, fellow citizens that in the suburbs
Pittsburg-at least in the suburbs of most
tiles with which am acquainted, there is
acant space of common land in which the
eighborhood deposit what they have got done
nth. Where you will find empty cans, the
ast-of clothing, refuse of vicinities with
Thich the community. having had the usufruct,
J fatigued and desires finally to dispose of
'ithout further comment. The Democratic
politics In the nineteenth century.
very excluded heresy. every abandoned heresy
that the nation has got done with
nd tired of and has cast away to be trodden
nder the feet of man, is the heritage of the
democratic party. And lest this may seem to |
9 harsh. censorius criticism, lest 1 may be
allied to account for some of these Wholesale
:atements and charged with defamation. as
have sometimes been, I beg to say that have
cen in public life for over Is years. |
nd during that period of time the
party have had control of
or IA years, and If any Democrat, or any
lend of that organization-(turning to Mr..
liver) and by looking at you l don't mean
single specific act that the Democratic party
yer did, or ever proposed to do, for the well
IRE OF Advancement, either of the moral, in
,llectual or physical condition of the country,
pause for reply.
READY TO BE CONVINCED.
II it can be pointed out or designated, will
,nfess to my error, and if any member Of that
-ganization will point out to me any act that
ley have ever performed, except to resist, to
eevishly complain, to attempt by revolution
y and intolerable measures to defeat the
reat benehcent statutes that have been en-
tied by the great Republican party, which
icy have not afterward themselves Endorsed, |
I'D which they have not asked the American
eople to forgive them for having tempted to
efeat and overthrow. I will agein confess my
ror and ask to be forgiven.
NV fellow citizens, have erred in calling the