The advocate., 1891-06-03
MAY UTTERANCES FROM JOHN J.
INGALLS,,


lowing letter to the meeting of the
Republican editors OF the Seventh
Congressional district Of Kansas, who
were in session at Hutchinson:
Iregret that previous engagement In another
state prevents my acceptance Of your invitation
to attend the meeting of Republican editors al
Hutchinson on the 26th. should be glad to con-
fer with them and to assure them personally
of my grateful appreciation Of the confidence and
good win with which they have so long honored
me. 1t viii never be forgotten.
The Republican party Is confronted with great
problems, which threaten its supremacy. The
American people are more concerned now about
the present and the future than the past. They
are considering the finances, commerce, wages,
prices, immigration, suffrage, the unjust distri.
button Of wealth, the unequal diffusion Of the
burdens and benefits Of society, and are lndiffer.
ent to d0gmas. II we are to succeed we must
deal with the issues Of to-day as we dealt with
slavery, secession and state sovereignty thirty
years ago. The Republlcanism Of the future
must readiust itself to the changed conditions Of
Am0lIcAn uL6p OF IL Will perish.
wish to save 1t from this fate by recalling the
SPIRIT the energy, the aggressive and patriotic
force Of It's founders to the campaign Of 1892.
This win be waged upon economic and practical
questions and not upon memories and emotions.
Those who have wandered can be reclaimed by
appeals to reason and interest, but not by de-
nunciatlOn and ridlcule.
Harrison win be renOminated and Cleveland
will be his antagonist. II We have courage and
conscience 1t will be an AusterlltZ. II we dlckeE
with popular errors, compromise with unprincI-
pied leaders and sneer at honest differences OF
judgment and opinion, It viii be q Waterloo.
Your friend, JOHN j. INGALLS,.
Mr.. Ingalls,, in this letter, utters
patent truisms that he seemed utterly
unable to comprehend last year, when
he was found in harmony with the
financially devastating methods Of
the Harrison administration, and
when he appeared in an extra of the
Hutchinson Netrs in the varied pho
togrsps as he was illustrated in the
New York World.
Political defeat has undoubtedly
brought him more success in the way
of comprehending facts than he
would have were he obeying the be-
hests Of such local cast off leaders as
William j. Buchan, Theodosius Bot
kin, William P. Hackney, Joseph K.
Hudson, Joseph G.. Waters and J. G..
Wood.
At this time he says, as a matter of
course:
The Republican party is confronted with great
problems, which threaten It's supremacy. The
American people are more concerned now about
the present and the future than the past. The
Republicanism Of the future must readjust Itself
to the changed condition of American life or It
must perish.
His desire "to save it from this
fate" can never have fruition, for it is
an axiomic fact that the effete rem
nant of the once cherished orgsniza-
ton is utterly unable to comprehend
'the spirit, the energy, the aggressive
and patriotic force Of its founders"
While wanderers are not reclaimed by
"denucistion and ridicule," No sap
peals to reason and interest can be
made available by the bosses in sight
who are managing the ship and so
thrusting it into the breakers that
there is no escape from it's entrance