The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-31
INGALLS, DEFEAT.

The defeat of John j. Ingalls, TO
United States senator by the Kanss
legislature is OF far more than passing
Significance.
Two years ago last November Kan
sas gave the republican candidate TO
president over 81 900 majority. 1t no
turns around and defeats a man TO-
SENATOR who Is in all respects u better
man, al ADLER statesman, rs good u re
publican as the man it honored then by
such an emphatic voice.
But the defeat Of Ingalls, is not the
ouly significant occurrence or surprise
Of the past two months. During the
mouth Of December South CarOlina
surprised the people of the south and
The nation by retiring from politics a
man who was to that state pretty much
what Ingalls, had been to Kansas.
Wade Hampton was the pride of his
people. They loved him and honored
him, but he represented strife and the
people were tired of strife. They were
tired of sectional hates and sectional
aniinosities, and they decreed that
Wade Hampton being one of the rep
resentatives OF the old regime under
which strife and bitterness between
sections were fomented must be sacri-
feed.
The farmers OF Kansas undoubtedly
admired Ingalls, at M time as much ss
the people of South Carolina loved
Wade Hampton, and fairly shOwered
their fsvors upon him, and for every
favor there was a crown OF honor.
But the people made a discovery.
They discovered, these farmers OF South
Carolina and Kansas, that there was u
community of interest between each
other instead of prosperity in antag-
onism, and they asked the question,
what is friendship, what 10 comfy,
what is brotherhood WORTH aud the
answer came back, "Everythingl"
The Kansas farmer when he took his
brother farmer Of the south by the hand
Uncovered q friend and q patriot aud
not an enemy and one conspiring 10
destroy the government, as the political
demogogues had painted him. Aud
the man from the south, when he
studied the condition of his western
neighbor, found q mau struggling as he
himself had struggled, to tree himself
from monopoly's grasp, from he chain
plutocracy was forging, II he said
"Our cause is one; We must work 10.
gethsr.
Tnen these two compared notes.
they found how each had been made
ne iaprs OF designing men, OF scheIn-
/ < de,nagogues; how they had b.eu
Kept apart aud NJ Wal with Zach other
aud they resolved that in the future
they would throw off the snackels OF
Q cIional jealousy, Quench the sm"uid
d. es vi lie iaie ivIi War ana
live at keace aud uuIl, dly labor Tor n
c. IN .uon cause.
As All earnest of good faith SouIL
Carolina would offer Wade Ha.Dplu..
rs u sacrifice. AS proof thai Kansas
would De kept ~inviolate, Ingalls,
would be dethrOned. Hampton Was
retired in December, and from thai
time the decree that Ingalls, too must
walk the plank becsme iuexorsbIe.
The Significance OF all this ia hal the
farmer, politically, Is on top, that he al
last understands his power aud that in
he will not be led hither and
yon by scheming senSationslists, who
only excite his passions and arouse his
ire against his neighbors that political
thrift may come to the Office seeker and
he demagogue.
Hsmpton's mistake was that he too
often appealed to the prejudices of his
people who had come to love him as a
and honor him as q prophet.
mistake was in e~verlastingly In
and out, seeking by language he
so well how to use, to keep up q
spirit OF animosity toward the south
and arouse the ire OF his people that he
might win their acclaim and control
their action.