Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-01
TALK ABoUT INGALLS,.
Topeka Cor. Kansas City Tfmes.l

there was little circle in which We're
Senator Chester 1. Long, Senator john
son, the newly appointed bank examin-
er, j. II. Reeder, of Ellis county, one
OF the republican leaders in the house,
and Captain John II. Smith, secretary
OF the republican state central commit
tee. Secretary of state William Hig-
gins also formed one of the party. They
discussed the peoples party manifesto,
the proposed republican manifesto,
Senator ingalls, and the republican
party in Kansas in general.
The consensus of opinion IN that little
crowd seemed to be that the effort of
Speaker p. p. Elder and his committee
In making political capital out of the
work of the legislature was a down
right failure. They laughed and made
light of it in such a way as to indicate
that they believed the whole thing a
huge joke.
1t Is almost too easy to be true"
said Secretary Smith. ''All we need to
do now is to make plain record of the
session. That is all the political capl-
tai the republicans want"
If the committee that gets up our
manifesto even so much as mentions
either party it ought to be discharged
and new one appointed in it's place.
We want nothing but the unadorned
records" added Jim Reeder. THAT'S
all" put in Senator Long, I'VE can do
all the lying that is necessary on the
outside"
Senator Johnson never does talk
much, but he was discoursing lightly
upon the exceeding unsubstantial char
acter of the new party's campaign
thunder, and remarking what snap
the republican committee had to meet
1t, when bystander, who had no bust
ness whatever to say word, remarked:
Its lucky for you fellows that you have
got committee to get up your mani
festo, as you call it, for if this Topping
continues for the next two weeks as
fast as it has been going on for the last
two there won't be enough left OF the
republican party in Kansas to consti-
tute a committee
What do you mean?" asked Captain
Smith.
''Mean?" replied the outsider. II
mean that Ingalls, and Anthony and
Ralph Easley and the Atchlson Cham
pion and any number of other fellows
who have heretofore been the main
stay of your party have jumped the
traces and gone into the alliance with a
rush."
20, ingalls, has not hurt us any," said
the ever confident captain, 'he's just
just played the traitor and traitors do
not have any following when they leave
their friends and go over to their ene-
mics. Why, he could hardly wait until
he got out Of town to get down and
crawl before the very fellows who had
whipped him. He won't do the alliance
any good, you can bet on that"
John, you don't know what you are
taking about" chimed in Jim Reeder.
You live out here among the aristo-
Gratis and don't know what is going on
among the people. 1 say that ingalls,
interviews have cost the republican par
ty $1,000 votes in Kansas. 1 have been
among 'em and know whereof l speak.
Its not the men who stood by ingalls,
and worked for him but the fellows
who have been looking for an excuse to
jump, and find in his utterances just
what they have been seeking. The re-
suit will be that every broken down
office hunter and back number politi-
clan in the state will join the citizens
alliance and their votes count if their
influence don't. would have joined it
| myself but l couldn't. When my ap-
plicatiOn went in there were not
enough black balls to go round. In
gals Is an migrate if there ever was
one. If he'd been half man he would
not have insisted on the party defeat
ing itself to stand by his personal ambi-
ton. When we knew there was no
show for him we stood up and fought
for him out of friendship, and this is all
the thanks we get."
I'VE could not expect anything else
from Ingalls, spoke up Bill Higgins.
He always was kicker except when
he had things his own way. Thirty
years ago he was with the same crowd
he's gone with now and that's where
he belongs. 4 topper once a topper
always"
HE licked the hand that smote him, -
quoted Chester 1. Long, land we all
know what kind of an animal 1t is that
does that"
"Well, it's an ungrateful return for
our hard, up hill fight, anyway" said
the new bank examiner.
The outsider had stirred up the ami
mails, and he listened quietly while they
gave vent to their pent up feelings. 1t
was not his fight. but he seemed to en-
joy it, and as his thrust had brought
forth cry from each of the quintette
of politicians, he thought he would try
again and remarked:
"This may be a desertion on the part
of Ingalls, and the others, but look at
it differently. Ingalls, is too smart to
go into the alliance outright. He will
| simply talk semi alliance doctrine and
gather about him what brains there
are in the republican party, cut loose
from the radicals and reorganiZe 1t on
an entirely new basis. / believe it
means new organization for Kansas,
one that will be in a position to fight
the alliance with its own weapons"
No one replied to this. Good ma.
tured John Smith looked at the quiet
looking outsider inquiringly, then from
one to another of the boys who had SC
freely expressed their opinion of the
ex-senator who had proven such an iri.
descent dream to them. When he spoke