The morning call., 1894-07-22
YET HE IS A REPUBLICAN.
One of the Sort That Will Be Re-
publican to the Last
Ditch.

fREDoNIA, Kans., July 21.-It was a
battery OF big guns that fred the opening
salute OF the Third District of the Repub.
lican campaign here. Ex-senator INGALLS,
ID on. Bernard Kelly and Colonel Dick
Blue spoke before vast audianrss in the
afternoon and evening. The brilliant
Ingalls, was received with the enthusiastic
ovation always accorded him. He said in
the course Of two hours address.
II am here to-day to make Rannhlicon
speech. L responded to Senator Kirkpat-
rick's invitation because he is the same
kind of Republican that | am. without
varia beness or shadow of turning. Yonr
chairman, in introducing me, said that 7
had retired from public life. That ia q
mistake. / was retired. My retirement
was purely involuntary.
while l probably have as much cause
as any one to find fault with the Populis's.
| have always said that the campaign
waged against me, unjust as it was. was
the most scientific on record in politics. II
resulted in throwing me higher into the
atmosphere than anything else that has
been recorded since the COW jumped over
the moon"
Getting into his speech Mr.. Ingalls, said
that there was one thing worse than Pom
nlist. 1t was Democrat. The Populists
had fallen from grace, but the Democrats
furnish an Illustration Of original sin and
total depravity. Whom The Lord loyeth
ne chasteneth," he said. Therefore we
have this epoch of Democratic and Popu
list administration. l want to declare nv
belief that for the condition in which the
State finds itself to-day the Democracy is
strictly and wholly responsible The
Democrats Of Kansas have always been
ready TO make Illicit alliances to thwart
the success Of the Republican party. and
whatever be their professions to-day |
want to say to you that in the Legis lative
and Congressional contests you have ex-
actly the same opponents as heretofore.
The great question before the American
people is not the tariff or silver, but
whether we are to have any Government
in this country at all. We want to know
whether this is Government or a Gov
eminent of men. This is question for
the Republican party. because every
other party has shown itself incompetent
to settle it,"
Mr.. ingalls, spoke at length of the re-
cent strike, denouncing his own detention
in Chicago as a prisoner of war He
spoke most bitterly against the attempt of
the workingmen TO prevent others from &C
cepting la Dor at wages they had refused.
He regarded such action as an abroeation
of inalienable rights that made the cOnstf-
tuition seem ironical and the Government
no better than if dispensed by ear.
''NO ruler in the old world" he said,
could have inflicted such conditions upon
the people without precipitating reYolu-
ton In twenty-tour hours. For the con-
diion of affairs in Chicago no man is more
responsible than Governor AlIgeld. for
when he psrdoned the anarchists he said
it was safe to burn, pillage and shed blood
Grover Cleveland, in telling Altgeld that
the United States would protect It's cltl-
zens. blundered on the first serviceable act
of his two terms. The question of the
hour is the survival of the constitutional
Government among men. Unless the Re
publican party is able TO accomplish the
task, tell you, it is gone"
The ex-senator announced he was OF
posed to woman suffrage because his
mother, wife, sisters and daughters do not
want to vote. He thought that when the
women wanted to vote they would make
it known. He said the prohibitory law
must be enforced or repealed He spoke
against indiscriminate immigration. and
ended with a discussion OF the money
question, in the course of which be said he
was a bimetalIist pure and simple, as ne
had been for twenty years or more.