The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-28
NOT CRACKING LICE
JOHN ]. INGALLS, CUT ING REMARK
ABOUT YOUNG RALPH BURTON.

Iridescent Statesman Said that the Young
ster had Been Trying to Get Him to
Kick Him for a Long Time. but He had
Quit Cracking Lice-It All Came Up
Over . Speech MI. Burton Made in
Wichita to the Old Soldiers in which He
EuIceized Jen Davis, and which Caused
Much Comment at the Time.
gals and J. 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 If it
can be possibly avoided. Both kicked
vigorously on account of the forthcom-
ing boom meeting in Chicago. but nei-
Their was in position to decline the in
| vitation to make a talk for Kansas.
1t is expected, however, that one of
them will get his back up soon,and then
the fur will commence to fly.
Burton is one Of the few public men
| who have criticised ingalls, without
getting 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
paers, he has said some mean things
about him, Probably the meanest
! thing he ever said about any Kansas
man was about Burton. He said 1t to
reporter at Atchison in 1893, just af-
ter Memorial day.. Burton delivered
the Memorial day address at Wichita
! that year, and in the course of his re-
! marks took occasion to criticise In
gals severely. Ingalls, made him fam
Gus, and all the papers printed long piec-
es about it.
In an article in the St Louis Globe
Democrat the Sunday before, Mr.. In
gals had said:
I'm the thirteenth. fourteenth and ff-
teenth 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 belligerents. In
them are the trophies Of the victors,
waged ostensfbly to maintain the integ-
rity Of the union and in denial Of the
dogma of state sovereignty. The fu-
ture historian will not fail to note that
the three amendments are silent upon
this subject and that two of them re-
late exclusively, and the other princi-
pally. 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 affirmed in its charter"
Mr.. Burton read this paragraph to |
the audience, and then said: 'sThe |
foregoing is characteristic statement |
from that remarkable man. Without |
discussing at length the paper of the |
brilliant literateur on the negro prob
lem, 1t is we'll to state its substance.
Because by rounding periods and happy
phrase. by an artistic blending Of falla-
cies and logic that is entirely natural !
to him, some confusion may arise to the
casual reader from a perusal of his ar
ticle. Summarized the gravamen Of
his position is this:
''The war was ostensibly fought upon
integrity Of the union, but after he con-
f1ict ended and the South surrendered
llliS PoSillOH was dDdnuOneu anu ITed- |
ty was made between the belligerents
expressed in the amendments to the
constitution. which treaty the South
has never kept and never Will keep, al
though 1t is right in the abstract, and
hence it would be better for the North
to abandon this treaty and give up this
right and compromise by an enforced
exodus of negroes to Africa. 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 returning him to
the land Of his nativity, and at another
time and under other conditions the
idea of the union must be written in
our national charter II it is ever to be
finally established.
What fearful future this contem-
plates. What an awful commentary
on the past if 1t be true. The tears
Of women and the blood of men were
shed in vain. But Ii is not true Our
women did not suffer for naught, our
heroes did not die in vain
A reporter for an Atchison paper
met Mr.. Ingalls, on the street in that |
-own and asked him to express himself
n regard to Burton's criticism. Mr.. |
ingalls, said:
This fellow Burton has been trying
20 get me 10 KICK MIN Tor fVe years.
have resisted the tempta ton. / have :
luit cracking lice
That was all Mr.. ingalls, had to say.
1t was in this Wichita speech that
Burton pronounced an eloquent eulogy
IN the character of jefferson Davis,
which got him into so much trouble
With the @. A. R. when he was run
ling for senator last winter. It is under
stood that Mr.. Burton's enemies in old
soldier circles are getting ready to
spring" the eulogy again as a cam
'aign document. The eulogy was butch
red by the politicians last winter so as
% put Burton in as bad light as pos
ible, and likely they will butcher Il
gain. Here is exactly what Burton
aid about Davis:
The last rites are being paid to the
emains Of Jefferson Davis, the presi-
lent and the ablest Of the civic leaders
Il the Confederacy. 1t is, perhaps. too
arly yet to judge this man fairly and
and give him his exact $
lace In history. And the same may be
aid Of his great opponent. Abraham
lincoln. The one is enshrined in the
earts OF the people OF the north as the :
ther is in the hearts OF the people OF !
he south. Prejudice. that black stain !,
n the soul. made by passion. has not
ct been effaced against Lincoln in the