The advocate., 1891-06-10

gals, in his second race for lieutenant
governor, craved the support and
diligently worked for the same end
by soliciting the votes of those who
supported George B. Mcclellan for
president. We're it any wonder that
this superficial biped should fail to
appreciate the true worth and inher-
ent greatness of Abraham Lincoln
the master man in the presidential
chair? And does Senator Ingalls, re-
gard James A. Garfield as q repre-
sentative of that tendency to medi-
ocrity and pusillanimityw What an
Ingallsl What a conception the man
has of the presldentsl
Reports come from Washington,
D. G., that the explanation of the re-
cent purling of Ingalls, over Presi-
dent Harrison is the hope that he
may attain to the position of a cabi-
net officer and here is something from
the Washington correspondent of the
st. Louis Republic of June 2, 1891,
which may be interesting reading:
In view of the many reports that Secretary
Noble Is to retire from the cabinet, of course
gossip regarding his successor has been preva-
lent in Washington for several days. TO-daythe
report is abroad that ex-senator Ingalls, Of Kan
saS, is to be given the vacant place If it becomes
vacant In the immediate future. When Ingalls,
retired from the Senate he was In bad OdOE with
the Republicans. They declared that he did not
die game; that he weakly yielded to the Farm
| ers' Alliance In Kansas and made bid for the
Alliance support in his speech delivered In the
Senate on the silver question the day before he
| left for Topeka to seek reelection. Since then,
however, Ingalls, has been coming around, and
in an article published in New York weekly pa
per few days ago he took occasion to laud Har-
risOn to the skies, to declare him one Of the big
geSt men Of the country and a statesman of great
learning and cOmprehenslvenesS This might
look as II Ingalls, was bidding for a seat in the
cabinet, for everybody here knows that Ingalls,
is In love with Washington and that he is tired
OF AtchisOn and his fOrty-ac farm by this time.
In connection with the speech Of Ingalls,,
which gave so much OffenSe to the Republicans,
1t might be well to call attention to the fact
/ stated In these dispatches at the time that In
gals prepared two speeches. One OF them was
an Out-and-Out Republican effort, bloody shirt
from beginning to end, savage assault on
Cleveland and the Democracy vigorous attack
on the Farmers Alliance as an element Of COM
munism, a rattling defense of the Republican
party and Republican principles as the safe and
reliable c0nservatOrs of liberty and government.
This was the first one prepared. The next one
prepared was the speech delivered In the Senate.
He dictated both speeches to his stenOgrapher.
He worked hard at both, labOred several nights
and the greater part OF many days, and had
both written out In typewriter and carefully
edited.
Up to within ten hours before he made his
speech In the Senate he had not made up his
mind which Of those speeches he would deliver.
He received word from some friend at Topeka
that there was some chance Of the Alliance nOm-
mating an ex-confederate farmer residing near
Topeka for the Senate, anil that II he made an
effort to mOliiy the Alliance break might be
secured that would result in his reelection.
Therefore he delivered the speech which gave 80
much offense to the Republicans, but which did
not pull the wool over the eyes Of the Alliance.
ingalls, was the chairman Of the committee on
the District Of Columbia, and few days before
the adjournment Of the Senate he made the mis-
take of dismissing his stenOgrapher, who was
the clerk OF this committee, and appointing his
son in his place. Through this his dupliclty and
lack Of character and sincerity came TO light.
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