The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-02

uOtIiy VIC puUiiC Oh the CQS02c Id Tue loCcs'
! ton of the meeting.
When Mr.. Ingalls, arrived here at
| O'Clock he felt so sick that he told the com
| inittee he could not possibly speak in the
open air owing to the GOODNESS Of the at
| mosphere. No other place of accumulation
could be got but the opera house and that
was engaged by the Holden Theatrical
company, who, when they understood the
situation, kindly gave way. This was at
z O'Clock so that il was impossible to thor
| oughly inform the vast multitude OF the
change.
| 1t might be added here, also, that the
local committee WAS in DO way to blame
| for the fact that Mr. Ingalls, did not arrive
on time to speak in the afternoon accord
ing to the program; but fortunately the
| afternoon was proftably spent by those
who came out to hear him, listening to
the brilliant addesses Of Judge Strang and
| Mr.. Ady.
When Mr.. ingalls, entered the
opera house the shouts of applause that
| went up was absolutely deafening ali OF
which was fine testimony Of the esteem
in which he is held in by the people OF
Kansas as an orator and statesman.
Colonel NJ. NJ. Murdoch editor of the
EAGLE was announced as chairman by j.
E. Hume, chairman of the county commit
tee, who called the meeting to order. With
a few brief remarks Colonel Murdoch in
troduced Senator Ingalls, who, upon arriv-
ing on the stage was met with another pro-
longed explosion of applause. The crowd
being still coming in Mr.. ingalls, deemed
it not practical to commence speaking sc
he waited few minutes. Before he
was talking ten minutes every seat
in parquet, balcony, gallery, stage
and boxes was filed and hundreds
were packed like sardines in the aisies and
everywhere else back to the doors. down
the entrance stairway, ont to the curb
stone, and it might be added half way up
to Douglas avenue.
THE NAN AND HIS SPEECH.
IfIngalls had lived in the days of Caesar
he would have been Roman senator, and
the peer of Mark Antony. He would be a
distinguished man in any past age. Dis
tinctiou is marked indelibly in every
feature of his personality. No intelligent
stranger could. upon seeing him and not
knowing his identity, fail to discern genius
in the man, but the difficulty would be to
find out in what particular line of genius
he excelled. He might be taken for mil.
itary commander of renown: his erect form
cool head would indicate that. He might
be taken for a great tragedian for all his
movements and actions suggest that there
is the soul of Mccullough or Barrett
hidden somewhere about him. He might
be taken as star in comedy for his humOr
is of the finest kind and its i'm
promptu originality simply grand. He
might be taken for min
lister of renown or he might be
taken for anybody else in whose success
genius of high order must be an as
sential quality. There is one thing very
certain and that is he would impress any
man, possessed of the least suggestion of a
regard for brains. with the injustice of
the existing condition of politics. How
absurd it seems to contemplate the retire
ment of such men as he is aud the ad-
vancement to political preferment Of such
men as Jerry Simpson, Senator PETER.
John Davis, Otis, Clover and men of that
stripe. The brains of all of them
could be put together and still
they would lack half of having as
much as ingalls,. To think seriously
on the fact that his seat in the senate of
the United States is filled by such a man
as PETER must necessarily result in the
thought that something is radically wrong
in the operation of politics. He is an
orator every inch and has knacx Of blend
ing humor. wit. logic and sarcasm that is
oh solrfalv nctopisl1pO Tn fno onrli-
cation of his caustic tongue would be
deemed by its victim rs species of pleas
ure. he does it so nicely. To attempt to re-
peat what he said would be an injustice to
the man and a burlesaue on his
ability as an orator. Cold type has
not the power to express language as his
tongue has or never will. He dwelt prin-
cipally on the issues of the day and on the
claims OF the Peoples party which he ex-
ploded in every particular. His discussion
of the financial question was especially
strong, practical and convincing. He paid
fine tribute to President Harrison, his
ability as statesman and his virtue as
man and made very eloquent and touch
ing reference to the deep grief he is now
in, occasioned by the loss of his wife. He
pdio uuC tItOutC W SCu& WIN equity,
Wichita city and the state of Kansas, and
returned thanks to our people for the
support they have given him in the
past. He spoke about the accumulation
of wealth and showed conclusively that in
the instances most prominent before the
American people the laws or their admin
istration had nothing to do with the max
ing of milliouaires; that all the people had
the same advantages under the law and
made a very nice comparison between him.
self and Jay Gould both of whom started
out In life about the same time aud under
similar circumstances. Jay Gould, said
he, lis now one of the wealthiest men in
the world and am nothing but political
country either" He showed the
condition of the presidential cam
paigI and insisted that it was just as
the national Democratic committee wants
it. In this connection he explained the
workings of the ELECTORAL college in order
to prove that vote for Weaver is nothing
more than vote for Cleveland.
He spoke about the campaign Of the
ongressmen-at-large and made a strong
plea for Ex-Governor Anthony and his
election. He spoke about the magnitude
of the productions of Kansas in a manner
that could not be surpassed By the talented
boom writer's, developed by the boom of
1857. He urged the old soldiers to stand
by the Republican ticket and 20 see that
their friends are kept at the helm of the
ship of state.
He took up the Omaha platform and
tore it to pieces showing As be went along
the absurdities and Inconsistencies OF it.
In fact be touched upon every issue en-
gasing the attention of the people of this
and disposed of them in way