People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14
He Opens the Campaign at To-
peka.
State Capitalists Views of the Peo-
pies Party, the Tariff and
Other Questions.
ingalls, at Topeka.

has been more anxiously looked for
than any other utterances ever pro-
nounced in Kansas
After some personal explanations,
Mr. Ingalls, said:
have during the past three months talked
with scores yes, with hundreds OF business
men in New York. Philadelphia, Boston, Balti-
more and the other great commercial cities
along the Atlantic seabOard; l have talked
with them upon the sea. 1 talked with them
as met them in Europe; men who had hereto
fore acted with the democratic party, they said
to me that while the republican policy of pro-
lection was not all that they desired: while
there were features Of the Mckinley bill that
they did not like, that they had adjusted their
business to it, and that they had discovered
that the results were not what they had been
predicted.
They found that wages had arisen; they
found that the prices Of the necesSaries of life
had diminished; they found that the importa.
ton of non-dutiable goods had decreased: they
said what this country needed in its business
energies and resources is permanence and
ability, and repose. We know that if Presi.
dent Harrison is chosen for another four years,
we shall have permanence and tranquility and
repose, but if Grover Cleveland is elected we
know we shall have four years Of agitation, Of
turmoil, Of disturbance and uncertainty, and
we are going to vote for BENJAMIN Harri.
son Applause Therefore, | say to Won
fellow citizens that this campaign has been
transferred from the east to the west This is
the battle-ground Of the remaining portion of
this campaign and unless the democratic marty
can secure recruits in the great agricultural
states Of the west and the northwest. unless
they can make some inrOad into the republican
column, unless they can secure enough repub.
ucans upon one pretext or another, through the
peoples party, to vote for James B Weaver,
then the handwriting on the wall is recorded
and the doom of Grover Cleveland and the
democratic party is sealed. [Great applause. |
So say, fellow citizens we have been accus.
toned always at the outset Of every campaign.
to speak of it as being one of great gravity, of
extreme seriousness as involving mOmentous
issues that might result in a catastrophe.
l say TO you that it is not the language of ex.
lggeratiOn, it is not the language of passion, II
IS not the language of prejudice, when l say to
you that here in the great agricultural states of
the west and the northwest the battle of this
campaign Is to be waged: and unless the demo-
cratic party can caiOle, unless they can in some
Wav or other break the directness and yigor
and energy Of the republican column here. then
the election of Mr.. Harrison is as assured as
the rising of the sun on the sth of November
LGreat cheering
But l hope l shall not in any way whatever
interfere with any plan of campaign by alien
atlng democratic vote If there be in this
vast assembly, if there be anywhere within the
borders Of this state, if there be anywhere
within the reach Of the domain which these
newspapers are to reach tomorrow. any man
who believes that it is not a matter Of national
misfortune and calamity that the whole policy
OF TINS government should be reversed. that
the tide of all civilization should be rolled
backward, then | ask him to reflect before
yielding TO any seduction whatever, before
yielding to any menace whatever and upon any
preteXt casting his vote for J mes B Weaver
ana the electors upon that ticket The demo-
Gratis are engaged in very peculiar campaign
In the north in other states than this, am
told they are going for Gen Weaver. They
seem TO be going for him in the south also
lTumultuous laughter
have no desire to dig up the ensanguined
undergarment l have no purpose to revive the
passions OF the war. have heard great deal
about magnanimity and believe the platform
OF our distinguished friend, the peoples party,
declares that the war is over and that the union
cannot be pinned by bayonets. 1 beg leave to
add that it cannot be cemented by eggs lam
willing as any man to forgive and forget but
there ought to be reciprocity
believe my democratic friends saw that
there is force bill issue in this campaign: 1
don't think there is; but think there ought to
be- Ihave no authority to speak for the re-
publican organization, but affirm that this ma
ton will never be properly restored: affirm
that there never will be absolute restoration
between the two sections until ii is lust ex.
sctly as safe for James B. Weaver or any
other northern man, whatever may be his poli.
tics, 10 talk in Georgia, whatever he pleases. as
1t will be TO talk in Kansas, and affirm beyond
all that, that the mission of republicanism as
such will never be accomplished until II Is inst
exactly as safe for black republican to vote in
Mississippi as it is for white democrat TO vote
here in Shawnee county.
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For more than twenty-five years; yes for
more than thirty years, the republican marty
has practically had chlrge and controlled the
national government for under the Cleveland
hiatus, speak advisedly, for he never was
elected the senate was republican In this in.
terval the republican party has established
the supremacy Of the constitution II has
created sovereign nation: it has made free.
DOM the state indestructible and the nation
lndissoluble 1t has also enfranchised free
men and abolished slavery. 1t has invented
national banks and firm currency, and main
tanned an ofncial system OF unprecedented
strength and hexlbility. 1t made paper money
Iegal tender, and 1t resumed specie payment
1t suppressed polygamy and organized the EN-.
pire OF the west by the land laws which have
given homes to millions Of the public domain
President Harrison is the only man who has
sat in the presidential chair for the last half
century that could conduct every department
OF the government himself and run il without
Dreak. lie was gallant and heroic soldier
he was an eminent lawyer. Has been an Ell.
cient and trainedlegislator. Heis "a courageous
man He is not afraid to do right Heisa ma.
trlotic man, he believes in the American people.
and spells the word Nation" with the biggest
letter IN in the alphabet His letter in replv
to the objections Of Lord Salisbury to continue
the modus vivendi Of the sealing trouble with
Great Britain is, in my judgment, one of the
nnest one Of the ablest, one Of the strongest
state papers Of this country. He wrote il him.
sell. He had no secretary Of state. and he Is
Just exactly as competent to conduct the uepo.
tauons with any foreign power Of Euroue as
ne Is competent and willing TO look over the
private papers in the case Of a pensioner applv.
ing for pension.
The tariff We hear so much about. I bel;eve
and understand that the party believes that
everything we can't manufacture or raise
should be admitted free That is the reason
we admit products Of the soil or manufacture
with the exception Of articles Of luxury like
champagne silk and diamonds, which are chief.
ly used by the rich But upon everything that
we can raise, that we can produce or that we
can manufacture, the republican party
believes that a duty should be i'm.
posed sufficiently large to prevent
the manufacturers and producers of other conn.