The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-29
THEY ARE BITTER.
What ingalls, and Burton Think CT
Each Other.
JOHN J. INGALLS, CAUSTIC REMARK.


The following lengthy article appears
in an eastern paper. 1t was written by
Topeka correspondent and contains sew
eral statements of particular interest re-
lating to the senatorial fight 10 Kansas:
John j. Ingalls, and ]. Ralph Burton,
candidates for United States senator, have
been thrown together good deal lately,
and appear to be on friendly terms, but
the fact of the matter is that they have
no earthly use for each other They
never speak from the same platform il it
can be possibly avoided. Both kicked
vigorously on account of the forthcom-
ing boom meeting in Chicago, but neither
was in position to decline the invitation
to make a talk for Kansas. 1t is expected,
however, that one of them Will get his
back I'D soon, and then the fur will COM
mence to fly.
Burton is one of the few public men
who have criticised Ingalls, without get
ting "skinned" for the pains by the
sarcastic ex-senator. But Burton will
come in for his share sooner or later,
Ingalls, never forgets. 1t is about time
for Ingalls, to draw his snickersnee, for
Burton has been pounding him, off and
on, for several years.
While Ingalls, has never attacked Bur
ton from the platform nor in the news
papers, be has said some mean things
about him. Probably the meauest thing
he ever said about any Kansas man WAS
about Burton. He said it to a reporter
at Atchison in 1893. just after Memorial
Day. Burton delivered the Memorial
Day address at Wichita that year, and in
the course of his remarks took occasion
to criticise Ingalls, Severely ingalls,
made him famous, and all the papers
printed long pieces about it,
In an article in the S.. Louis Globe
Democrat the Sunday before. Mir. In
gals had said:
"In the thirteenth, fourteenth and if
tesnth amendments to the constitution
are incorporated the final results of the
war of the rebellion. They are its
summary. These few paragraphs are
the treaty between the belligeie its. In
them are the trophies of the vIctors,
waged Ostensibly TO maintain the integ-
rity of the union and in denial of the
dogma of state sovereignty. The future
historian will not fail to note that the
three amendments are silent upon this
subject aud that two of them relate ex-
clusively, and the other principally, to
the freedom, citizenship and suffrage OF
the negro race. The right of secession,
if it ever existed, exists now, SO far as
any declaration in our organic law is
concerned. 1t has not been renounced,
nor is the supremacy of the nation az
Ermed in its charter"
Mr. Burton read this paragraph to the
audience, and then SAID: The forego
ing is a characteristic statement from
that remarkable man. Without discuss
ing at length the paper of the brilliant
literateur on the negro problem, it is
we'll to state its substance. Because by
rounding periods and happy phrase, by
& fal
that is entirely natural to him, some con
fusion may arise to the casual reader
from a perusal of his article. Sum
married. his position is this:
"The war was Ostensibly fought upon
integrity of the union, but after the con-
hict ended and the south surrendered this
position was abandoned and treaty was
made between the belligerents expressed
in the amendments to the constitution,
which treaty the south has never Kept,
and never will keep, although it is right
IN the abstract, ard hence it would be
better for the north to abandon this treaty
and give up this right and com promise
by an enforced exodus of negroes to At
RIGA. The war did not settle ANYTHING
All the blood and treasure were wasted
The negro problem might have been
solved, as it must yet be solved, by re-
turning him to the land of his nativity,
and at another time, and under other con
ditions, the idea of the union must be
written in our national charter if it is
ever to be finally established.
"Whst fearful future this coutem-
plates What an awful commentary on
the past if it be true The tears of WON
en- and the blood of men were shed in
vain. But it is not true Our women
did not suffer for naught, our heroes did
not die in vain"
reporter for an Atchison paper met
Mr.. ingalls, on the street in that town
and asked him to express himself in re-
gard to Burton's criticism. Mr.. Ingalls,
said:
"This fellow Burton has been irving
to get me to kick him for five years. /
have resisted the temptation. I have
quit cracking lice"
That WAS all Mr.. Ingalls, had to say
1t was in this Wichita speech that
Burton pronounced an eloquent eulogy
on the character of Jefferson DAVIS.
which got him into SO much trouble with
the G. A. r. when he was running for
senator last winter. 1t is understood
that MIR. Burton's enemies in old soldier
circles are getting ready to ''spring" the
eulogy again as a campaign document.
Here is what Burton said about Davis;
"Ihe last rites are being paid to the
remains of Jefferson Davis. the president
and the ablsst of the civil leaders of the
confederacy. It is, perhaps, too early
yet to judge this man fairly and impair
TALLY, and give him his exact place in
history. And the same may be said OF
his great opponent, Abraham Lincoln.
Inc one is enshrined in the hearts of
the people of the north as the other is
Ia the hearts of the people of the south.
Prejudice, that black stain on the soul,
made by passion, has not yet been effaced
against Lincoln in the south, nor against
Davis In the north. And [, the
son and brother of a veteran,
who as a child, on the border of
the conflict, witnessed so much suffering
by his kindred and friends. have come
to slowly recognize something of the
netter traits of the leader of the south in
that bloody time, but Justice compeIs
me to say, and I believe the time has
come for the great yzorId . -