The advocate., 1891-06-10
ACTIVE COALITION OF THE CONsERvA-
TIVE FORCES"

the moral forces which give a nation
strength, duration and grandeur; he failed
to comprehend the supreme obligation of
law as the bond which unites society, su-
perior to the will of individuals and the dis
content of minorities. In the last analysis
all governments, the just and the unjust,
rest, not upon consent, but upon force.
The party to which Mr.. Ingalls, COM
mitted his political fortunes are boldly
proclaiming that Alexander Hamilton
is their patron saint" and hence the pa
triotic Jefferson, who was 80 largely In
strumental in organizing political party
whose object it was to subordinate the
interest of the classes to that Of the
masses, might be expected to receive the
kind of encomium given him as above
by the late departed leader of Kansas
Republicans, who has oft been referred
to as the leader and the bright, particular
gem Of the United States Senate, which
as member and presiding officer of the
same, will know him neVermore, hence
forth and forever!
This departed statesmen's choice and
neat epigram, which might be fitting
inscription on his political tomb, Is, "Poli-
tics is the metaphysics Of force"
Here is the ex-Senator'S serious avowal
and Illumination:
More than one million skilled and un-
skilled laborers are now unemployed or en-
ployed at wages inadequate for the support
of themselves and their families. Trade
and industry are menaced by unlawful COM
binations that resort to the destruction Of
life sand property to accomplish their de-
signs, and the hour is approaching when the
active coalition of the conservative forces Of
the country will be necessary to prevent de-
structive organic changes in our social and
political system. Unity of purpose and in
terest does not exist.
Remembering that at the municipal
election in Chicago in April, 1887, John
A. Roche, the Republican candidate for
mayor, had q most triumphant election
by reason of "the coalition of the conser-
vative forces" the then Senator con-
tinued his matter as follows:
The atrooious murder of policemen in
Chicago, found its apologists, and 90 feeble
was the force of public opinion that at the
next municipal election it required the CO.
operation of both political parties to pre-
vent the capture of the city government BY
these execrable malefactors, whose insolent
challenge should have been met by the
bsyonet and the gallows.
Appleton's Year Book for 1887, in It's
notice of Chicago's municipal election
said:
There were only two tickets in the field.
Republican and United Labor-Roche, Re-
publican, was elected mayor, receiving, 51,-
OS9 votes, while Nelson his opponent, OBJ
tanned only 22,848. The Democrats largely
voted the Republican ticket in preference
to allying themselves with the Labor candi-
dates.
Now, in the June following, an election
of circuit judge for Cook county, ILL
nois, was held, and the Chicago Republi-
cans voted for the Democratic state-attor-
ney, Julius s. Grinnell, as matter of
reciprocation, which was "the active
coalition of the conservative forces"
Now, as a sort of pertinent sequel to the
foregoing, let one come down to June,
1891, and notice this from the bulletin Of