St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
Col. Ingersoll Is Opposed to a
Second Term for PpeSi-
dents,
And for That Reason AdVo-
Gates Blaine's Nominal
ton by His Party.
Gov. Merriam Finds a Sup
porter in the Leader Of
Agnoptics.
Prize Fighting, He Says, Is
Unhuman, and a Blot on
Our Civilization.

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the eloquent
advocate, was a prominent arrival al
the Ryan yesterday afternoon. He left
New York some days ago, going first to
indianapolis to try law case, and is
now on his way to Butte to appear in
the famous Davis will contest, which
will be called before Judge Mediation
on Monday next. Col. Ingersoll seemed
to be in the best possible spirits yester-
day, and looked as self-satisied and
cOmplacent as though victory in the
Davis case was already perched on his
standards. He is accompanied by Miss
Maud Ingersoll, his daughter, on this
trip. the two reSuming their journey at
7:40 last evening over the Great North
ern.
i
If there is one thing more than an
other for which Col. Ingersoll is famous,
it is his ability to sit down and take a
calm and unprecedented view of the
question, and then to express it in Ian
guage that is as beautiful as it is ex-
pressive. Being no longer i'll politics
he looks on without feeling, and his
opinions thus formed ought to be worth
something. In speaking of the political
situation in national politics as between
Blaine and Harrison, he was asked what
he thought of the claim of the boomers
of President Harrison that the secretary
of state was not treating his chief fairly
in failing to admit that he is too sick to
be candidate.
Il believe some of Harrison's
friends" answered Col. Ingersoil,
think that Blaine ought to keep too
sick to run,o quit the world altogether.
This, think, is asking too much. Mr..
Blaine can hardly afford to die Just
from political gratitude to Mr.. Harrison.
The eountry is large enough for them
both, and maybe too large"
do you think President Harrison is
likely to be renominated%'
Il am not Il politician" answered the
Colonel, "but | think there is a deep
seated conviction in the minds of mil
lions of the people that no man should
have second term. do not know that
any particular fault is found with Mr..
Harrison, but on the other hand he has
excited no particular admiration or en-
thusiasm. My guess is that he will not
be renominated. 1t may be that he
does not want it again. Most Indiana
ians are modest"
II
"What do you think of Gov. Mer-
riam'S action in ordering out the militia
and stopping the prize fight, cOloDelT'
asked the reporter.
"GOv. Merriam did exactly right" was
the answer. ''He hOnored himself and
prevented the state from being dis
graced. The prize fight is the lowest
and most degraded and degrading form
of what the gutter calls amusement.
There are no words Strong enOugh-tO
express my adherence of such unutter-
ably beaStly sport All honor TO Gov.
Mer riam. Now let all other governors
foil ow suit until The infamous business
is driven from our country" Continu-
ing his discussion of prize fighting he
said:
81 would as lief see a Whitechapel
murder. OF all the brutal, barbarOus,
baboonish outrages OH society. prize
fighting is the worst. The men who be-
lieve in prize fights and attend them are
as despicable as the fighters themselves.
The day after the soul-repeling. naus-
eating battle between the two animals,
Sullivan and Kilrain, read an account
of the british exhibition called prize
fight for the first and last time. did so
then simply as kind of psychological
study of the principles of Savagery.
The account stated that about three
fourths of the loafers present re-
joiced in the happy knowledge that
they had killed their man. Now,
if Mafaism or Highbinderism is any
worse than this | can't see the distinc-
ton. The difference is only in the mat
ter of distribution, and society has
thousand fold better chance to fight an
organization of thugs than it has to con-
Il ,-f min f1f
brutaliZed rowdieS scattered from Maine
to California.
1.-The distinction between healthful
athletic sports and prize fighting is as
wide as the gulf between Tartarus and
Olympus. The one makes men; the
other graduates beasts. Every state in
the Union should have ironclad laws
making prize fighting a felony, not
mere miSdemeaHor, as the law reads on
too many of the state statute books.
Then, if the law is disregarded. put the
criminals in the penitentiaries for long
terms, and it would not be many years
before prize fights became as rare i'll this
country as bull fights are on State
street."
Col. Ingersoll never discusses his
great cases in public, and when he was
asked to give his view of the difficulty
between Judge Mediation and the Hell
ena journal editors over the article in
reference to the Davis will case, he
merely made the following very general
remarks:
81 believe that the best answer a
Judge can make to those who criticiSe
his action is just decision. There is
not in this country, l am happy 10 say.
any blind reverence for court. We
know here that judges are made of
folks and sometimes of very common
folks, and we expect them to make
some mistakes. In no country is there
more real regard and admiration for the
just and intelligent judge than in the
United States. know but little of the
merits of the controversy between
Judge Mediation and the editors of the
Helena Journal, but it seems to me that
it is rather small matter. All attacks
fall harmless at the feet of a great and
good judge. Decisions are often re-
ceived with Indignation that afterwards
command the applause of the intelli-
gent. An intelligent judge can afford
to wait for the final verdict of his fell
low men,"
AS You Like Them.
This afternoon and evening CLANS