The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-01-22
TRUTHFUL JAMES BIG TALK.
Ingalls, Salty Speech on Republican
Shortcomings and Big Bid For the
Farmers Alliance Vote For Senator.

Farmers Alliance Vote For Senator.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. Ex-senator
John James Ingalls,, Of Kansas, made
big bid to the Farmers Alliance of Kansas
to re-elect him Senator, in his two hours
speech yesterday on the free coinage
amendments. Realizing that it might be
his last speech in the Senate he laid his
soul bare in a stupendous effort to retrieve
lost prestige and make himself once more
the idol of distracted Kansas.
He directed his attention principally to
the discomfort among the people with the
old parties which had given rise to the
new Farmers Alliance movement, of
which he is probably to be the first victim,
and with an utter disregard of the fact
that he has been always representative
of railroad interests he attacked corporate
wealth and huVged very close to the doc
trines of the Farmers Alliance, especially
on the money question. He criticised the
Republican party viciously for the unsat-
isfdCtOry silver act OF last session and at
tributed to il in a great measure the blight
ing frost which overlook the party last
November, and lifting up his hand in slow,
deliberate tones he warned the senate, the
house and the president that unless they
bowed to the will of the people the people
would fill every branch of the government
with representatives who would carry out
their wishes.
Ingalls, drew a sharp contrast between
the state of the country in Washington's
time and the present, which he char lcter-
lied as a period of tyranny--combined,
concentrated, centralized and conscience
less. We are accustomed to speak of
this as the land of the free and the home
of the brave, and it would soon be the
home of the rich and the land of the
slave. 1t was no wonder that the labor
ing and agricultural classes of this coun
try had at last awakened, and the specu-
lators must take warning.
Referring to the late election, he said il
was neither Republican defeat nor "A
Democratic victory. 1t was a great up
rising, independent of and superior to
both political parties. II was crisis that
might become a catastrophe. 1t was a
peaceful revolution.
GRANT HYPNoTIZED BY THE MONEY POWER.
He attributed the depression in the
country in great measure to the demonet-
ization act of 1873. He did not claim that
that act had been passed fraudulently.
His only explanation of its passage was
that both houses of Congress and the
President had been hypnotized by the
money power. He had not the slightest
doubt that great majority of the people,
irrespective of party, were in favor of the
free coinage of silver and had been for
the past fifteen years They had been
"paltered with in a double sense,n and
their will had been thwarted, defled and
contumeliously trodden under foot.
Warnings and admonitions had been
plenty in this debate; but he
would say to those who were
arraying themselves against the desper-
ately expressed judgment of the American
would say to the Senate, to the
House and to the executive-that there
would come time when the people would
not be tritled with on this subject. Some
time the people would elect House of
Representatives, a Senate and a Presi.
dent who would carry out the party
pledges and execute the popular will. The
political power of the nation had been
from the circumference to the
center and the people Of that center were
unanimously demanding free coinage of
silver. 1t was for that reason that he
should cordially support the amendment
Of the Senator from Nevada. In doing so
be would not only follow the dictates of
his own judgment but would carry out the
wishes of the great majority of his con-
stituents. irrespective of party or political
affiliations.