The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-09-18
MALLS SHARP. FILINGS.
The Kansas Senator Opens the
Campaign in Pennsylvania
His Sarcastic Shots at the Democracy Re-
cf'vcd with Tumuituous Applause
~I'uli Text of the Mastery
Address Ms Delivered.

fiNah 'uOtttdtOIlu CHIn pulRu III IbUn-
sylvania at the Grand Opera House Sat
urday evening, He had an audience Of
nearly 5000 persons, all of them voters
save a few ladies in the boxes. The
Senator was in splendid voice and good
humor. His sarcasm cut like q razor
and he scored the Democracy unmer.
cifully. The reception accorded him
was overwhelmingly cordial, Senator
Delamater, the candidate for Governor
vas present with Senator A. l.. Waitress
and Colonel L. ]. Stewart the other
candidates on the State ticket. Henry
w. Oliver, the millionaire steel manu-
facturer, presided, and a hundred or
more leading Republicans occupied the
platform. In the course of his address
Senator Ingalls, said:
"Fellow-Citizens Of Allegheny Coun-
ty: In a popular representative form
OF government political parties are an
indispensable necessity. When there
is no dynasty, reigning family, no
hereditary nobility, nc prerogative nor
class distinction, the government is the
party in power, and hence it is that
every American citizen should be n poll
tician. 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 poll
tician, but a partisan politician. |
never have learned the lesson Of be-
longing to the Republican party a little.
1 never have learned the lesson of vot-
ing for the candidate upon the Repub.
lican ticket occasionally. Applause.
A man ought to be a politician as in
every thing else, a partisan politician.
He ought to believe that his wife is the
best, his children the most attractive,
his city, his State and his country tho
noblest and most deserving of his devo-
ton, or he is not worthy of having a
wife, children, city, State or country.
lApplausel.
"There is a certain class OF polit.
icians, sometimes belonging to one par
ty and sometimes to the other, who are
so extraordinarily perpendicular that
they lean over a little backwards APP
plause 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 adversaries. Applause. There
fore, MIR. President and fellow-citiSens
of Pittsburgh, l confess to being Il par
tisan 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
pnlQrpn tho hnrlnrC nf thnir ,ly1n,.ou
les and stand on the corners of the
streets magnifying their own virtues
and thanking God that they are not as
other men and as other Republicans.
lAppeause. If a MAJ is a Democrat, in
Gods name let him be a Democrat.
Applause. He that is filthy, let him
be filthy still. Laughter and prolonged
cheering. And if he is a Republican,
In Gods name let him be a Republican
in off years as we'll as Presidential
years. Applause.
81 am asked what is the difference be-
tween a Republican and a Democrat, or
the difference between the Democratic
and the Republican parties. What odds
does it make except hat one or the
other shall have the offices? | have
one observation to make on that point,
iciiow-citizens, | have one slight differ
"nce to suggest as to the difference be.
tween the Democratic and Republican
party in the off years as we'll as in the
Presidential years, and that is that
upon every issue, upon every question
affecting the honor, the welfare and the
prosperity and the existence of this Ma
finn for thn lout tl;,., 1900. " n
publican party has always been right
and the Democratic party has always
been wrong l%applause and it is Just ex.
actly as wrong at this particular mo-
ment of time as it was in 1861 or any
time since 1861.
Slavery, secession, State sover-
eighty, reconstruction, the public
credit. the National currency, the re-
sumption of specie payment, the coin
age OF silver, protection to American
labor lcheers and applausel and the
tariff for the protection of American
industries-I say to you that upon
every one of these questions from the
beginning down to the last syllable of
the record of time-even so late as
Thursday of last week the Republican
party has always been right and the
Democratic party has always been
wrong l~applause, and it will continue
to be wrong, world without end, amen.
Prolonged cheers.
The Democratic party is the polit-
ical dumping-ground of politics in the
nineteenth century. Laughter and
applause.
Every excluded heresy, every aban-
doncd heresy, every thing that the Ma
ton has got done with and tired of and
has cast away to be trodden under the
foot of man, is the heritage of the
Democratic party.
"My fellow-citizens, l have erred in
calling the Democracy a party. 1t is an
aggregation of the ignorance, tho i'm
becility and the d~isloyalty [%applause]
of this country. Applause. Strongest
where public morality is weakest,
reinforcing all tho dangerous and
destructive agencies of society and
having neither conscience nor cour-
age of convictions, it is the per-
petual and constant menace to the
prosperity, the honor of the American
people, and yet, fellow-citizens, / &C.
casionally hear some poor mortal COM
planning of the Republican party be-
cause it has.had many indefensible poll
clos. Well, | have been somewhat of a
kicker myself. Laughter. There have
been Republican leaders that / did not
like; there have been Republican poll
cies that | did not approve of and in
dorsc, and ! have said so without hesi-