Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-13
ROASTED BY REID.
Ex-senator Ingalls, Not Liked by the Tt
hume Editor for His Late Remarks.

Ex-senator Ingalls, Not Liked by tho Trt-
hume Editor for His Late Remarks.
CHICAGO, July l2.-llon. Whitelaw
Reid, who with his family has been Sec
| ing the worlds fair, putting ten or
twelve hours day in in that way for
some days past, was caught by re-
| porter just as he was starting for New
York The reporter asked Mr. Reid II
he had read ex-senator Ingalls, criti-
cism of his candidacy for the vice pres
| idency.
NO." said Mr.. Reid with a laugh,
"but You know | was not in favor Of
that nomination myself, so probably
the ex-senator and / would not differ
materially"
The reporter then showed Mr.. Reid
the passage in which Mr.. Ingalls,
sneered at him as "uxorious and an
archistical,' objected TO his dress, man
ners and ways, and spoke OF his super
cilious insults TO laboring men"
That" said Mr.. Reid, with more Sc
robustness, sis absurd. have been q
laboring man myself, far more than
Mr.. ingalls, ever was, and he would
probably be puzzled to specify any In
suit, supercilious or otherwise, that I
ever offered to labor or to any honest
laboring man. All this talk about hos
tility to the national ticket last year
ON account of the ffteen-year-old
strike, which was settled TO the sat
isfaction of the labor unions them
selves, is sheer clap-trap any way.
There never was n thousand votes af-
fected by II in New York, even when IL
nttaatfAn
after it was settled to their entire sat
isfaction, the labor unions still carried
IL into politics, is to accuse them not
merely OF bad faith, but of n systematic
violation OF their own cardinal prin-
ciples, and is thus offering them the
grossest insults. doubt IL Mr.. Pow
derby or any other equally reputable
and responsible labor leader will say
that that question turned thousand
labor votes in the United States last
fall. Certainly IL did not turn one
where single rifle shot at the Carnegie
works turned thousands.
what about the uxuriousness and
the aristocracy," urged the reporter.
20 pshaw" said Mr.. Reid, ''who ever
heard before Of n rational mans at
lacking a candidate because he was de.
Gently fond OF his wife? The rest Of
Mr., ingalls, complaint seems to be that
In other particulars also I act like a
gentleman. Well, out in Kansas they
surely did not bring that accusation
against him And yet when he was last a
candidate, although he abandoned his
supposed principles and crawled in the
dirt before them, Mrs. Lease and Mr..
PETER thrust him into the gutter. He
has been laying there ever since, spout
ing mud and bad language"
What can be his motive for the at
tack?" pursued the reporter, !"
How do l know? And what's the
good of guessing? He seems 10 lack
employment since he was thrown out
OF office-holding, and suppose the man
must make a living by lecturing or
writing for the syndicates We have
dozens of such statesmen out of a Job
applying TO us for work after every
election and fancy your paper has the
same experience. And with CHEEKY
goodby the New York editor swung int.
a car and started for his train.
DIR. Fraker, of Excelsior Sprinps No
hAS been drowned near Camaan, Nc.