The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-15
INGALLS, AND HIS CANDIDACY.

no question as to the correctness OF the
foregoing statement. But Ingalls, be-
ing a friend to silver and a disbeliever
in the wisdom of the Kansas prohibit
tory law will have arrayed against
him the politico- Prohibitionists and
all the skids and outriggers OF the
money power to be found within the
Republican ranks Of the state. That
is true also. The representatives OF
these minority elements constitute the
party's leaders, as they are also the
defactO rulers of the commonwealth.
Before the people, at the ballot box.
Ingalls, would rise superior to both
these forces, or could he compel the
| issue in county nominating cOnven-
tions and party primaries, majority
| Of such candidates for the legislature
as were favorable to him would be
| elected, and his return to the senate
| assured. But being out Of his place,
| and shorn of the political prestige
| which goes with it, he Is not in posi-
ton to force such an issue so must
take his chances in the results of a
campaign which will be almost wholly
directed by men who if not opposed
outright to him, are favorable to others
less pronounced touching the issues
named, and who promise more surely
to conserve the individual interests
Of said political directors and con-
trollers. Unfortunately for the state,
and for Ingalls, aspirations, and his
ambition to be returned to the place
he filled so many years, with such dis
tinguished ability, with such honor to
himself and Kansas as to force national
recognition, this coadjuvancy of man.
ipulatOrs, they and their ministrants
and ancillaries will, in calling aud
controlling the local nominating con-
ventions, wherever possible, name as
candidates for the legislature their own
creatures. They are thousand, In
gals but one.
The things wherein Plumb was
strong, is Ingalls, weak. Believing
alike in most things pertaining to the
interests Of their party and the well
fare of Kansas, ingalls, in deeply modu-
lated tones and sounding sentences.
from that exclusive forum, the United
States senate Announced his convic-
tons to the world. Plumb told the
same thing, but it was in mOnosyllabic
Saxon to some man behind the wood
pile or cOrn-crib, or to that mans wife
in the kitchen of the farm home. That
is, ingalls, held as advanced grounds
as his colleague upon the silver dues-
ton and on the demands and rights
OF labor, was as vehement in his criti- !
clSmS and denunciationS of the insid- /
ious encrOachments of the money
power as Plumb ever was. We think |
he even surpassed his friend in his !
grasp of the threatening tendencies of |
monopolistic greed and the portentiOus |
evils of class legislation. But Plumb !
being to the manner born, in more |
readily finding sympathetic ears, by !
evidencing that fellow feeling which (
makes the world akin, naturally and |
without effort, won over the owner of |
said ears for friend and into being
an active partisan and supporter. |
Where Plumb was wont to talk of the |
loaveS and fishes, their palatability |
and, incidentally, their desirability, In
gals, with no less interest In the indi-
vidual, would hold to a discursive de-
claratiOn Of fundamental principles, to
the trend of the times and to the logic
Of events. Both statesmen, as yoked
pair commanding the respect of the
mighty forum in which they served no
less than the attention Of the entire
country, the one being intensely prac-
teal, the other as intensely idealistic
and exalted.
Having known both Of these men
from their earliest entrance into public
life, the one as legislative clerk, the
other as country editor, we are con-
that we express but the simple
truth when We say that next to the
death of Plumb as 4 misfortune to
Kansas was the defeat Of ingalls,.
This being true the regret becomes
all the more profound that partisan
OpitulatiOn and the selfish interests
Of comparatively obscure political fac
tors, should intervene to thwart the I'M
questioned desire and evident wish of
the majority of Kansas Republicans,
by defeating his election, or by even
so much as rendering his return TO the
United States senate difficult and prob
lematical
Kansas never had but one ingalls,.
but one Plumb. Plumb is gone. but
Ingalls, we may have again. And
while conceding the truth that the
dominant managers of the states ad-
are either opposed TO the
of silver as a standard
measure of values and of money. or
otherwise non-committal. yet the fact
remains that the senator elected. last
winter. TO succeed Plumb. is not only
inclined 10 an independent action upon
the part Of America. on the money
question. as he is with Ingalls, in his
touching the undesirability
of Sumptuary legislation. but the chief
justice also of the supreme court of
the state is pronounced in his advocacy
of the free and Independent coinage
Of silver It, TO 1. SO. in the reelection
OF ingalls,. the body of the Republican
party in Kansas would not only find n
true and worthy representative of