Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10
THE SKINNER SKINNED.

There is one man 10 Kansas who is not
afraid of ingalls,, and he is Republican
too. His name is Gen. John II. Rice
of Fort Scott, proprietor of the Daily
Monitor, published at that place.
In letter to a friend the general
throws of all disguise and wades into
Ingalls, in way that would do credit to
even that phrase maker and hide peeler.
| He opposes the reelection OF Ingalls,
next winter to fourth term and states
his reasons in plain Anglo Saxon. elm
gals has been in offics, says he, "long
enough to draw $3.50, 900 in salary, and
his services have not been 100
cents worth of good to Kansas,
a statement that is unquestiouably true.
He Is further opposed to him. Why3
because he is q political shy ster, has
no personal integrity, and, therefore no
political honesty, beng 80 double faced
that, in the language of Madame De
Stael: IF you were to kick him behind
he would smile in 'front.' because he is
heartless hypocrite, cold blooded II his
nature. and subordinates all his actions,
words and friendships to the notoriety of
John J. ingalls,. He has no idea of any
moral element in politics, but brazenly
proclaims himself political buccanesr
and q political leper.'
Now il that Is not pretty lively skim
Mug we don't know what skinning 10.
And the beauty of it is, that 1t is entirely
and even reltgiously true, as every intel
Iigent person knows, who knows much
Of ingalls, as man and O politician.
But this is not all.
After denouncing ingalls, as fshame-
ful blasphemer" for having said in his
famous il Illustrated interview in the New
York World that, "1n the search for
truth another Christ will come aud an
other revelation be made,' he goes on
TO say Of him:
"senator ingalls, has said some smart things.
He has skinned some Democrats, played double
Prohibition ana 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 q vain excuse
for his course in ignoring the interests OF the
farmers and other laborlng classes for eighteen
years and proves him not statesman, but
utterly subservient to the interests of trusts,
corporations. monopolies and cormorants which
are preying upon the people OF Kansas and the
West, and which are largely responsible for
their present depression and poverty. In the
face OF these irrefutabe facts 1t is insult for
the manipulators and Tingsters of the Repub-
lean party, thai make 1t q point TO control
primaries and county conventions and make the
delegates to the state conventions. to ask men
of integrity, of moral sense and self-respect, to
support those who will vote to keep in office
this roiiticl mountebank. for one will not
do it,"
Gen. Rice is an old wheel-horse in the
politics of Kansas, who ever since the
war has fought the battles of the e. o.
p. as he is now fighting Ingalls,. That
many others in Kansas regard ingalls, in
much the same light as he does is very
true, but they lack the courage TO
avouch it as Rice does. They know
that the machine is true to the hide
peeler, largely through individual fear
of his awful tongue, but mainly for
political reasons.
Beyond advertising the state, there is
not society in Washington that would
not have been as useful to Kansas and
far less harmful in the senate than In
gals.