The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
SHARP KNIVES
For Ex-senator ingalls, by the
Million Club Folks,
Because He Disappointed Them
So GrievOusly.
NO EXPLANATION YET
From the Ex-senator as to Why
He was Absent.
He Didn't Want to Draw a
Crowd for Burton.

"Every member of the Kansas crowd
that attended the Million club meeting
at Chicago, went into a hardware store
and purchased big long bowie knife
and rammed it down in his boot before
he started for home" said a member of
that party to a STATE JOURNAL reporter
today.
"The disappointment in Ingalls, failing
to appear at the meeting, where he was
the chief attraction, ID something we
kansans can't get over.
"When we arrived in Chicago Billy
Edwards received letter from ingalls,
saying it was impossible for him to be
there; we thought it was funny, but
when the chairman of the meeting an
nounced that Ingalls, was detained in a
snow blockade we wondered how the
letter got through a snowdrift he could
not step over.
ave did not believe the snow story,
and some of the fellows telegraphed up
to Janesville aud learned that there was
no snow there to speak of, and that's
what made everybody hot.
"lhere is no doubt that the attraction
at the meeting for Chicago people was
to be John j. ingalls,. The evening pa
pers Monday still announced that Ingalls,
was to be at the meeting and of course
the crowd was there to see and hear him.
F'The meeting would have been held
ten days earlier had it not been that In
gals requested that Dec. be fixed as
the date SO that he could be sure to be
there.
monday he telegraphed Billy Ed
wards that he would explain later, but
the explanation has not been received
and the general impression is that In
gals just got angry because j. R. Burton
was being pushed into prominence at a
meeting where he was to be the drawing
card''
Several other explanations have been
volunteered by interested parties, one is
that Senator Ingalls, had in some way
got the idea that the meeting was to be
fizzle and he did not want to be in the
tizzle.
A friend of the Atchison statesman
suggests that Ingalls, has contract with
his lecture manager and the lecture mau-
ager has a Chicago date for him and
would not allow him to speak at the Mil
lion club meeting, as that would clearly
ruin the attendance at his paid lecture.
Secretary of State Edwards, who man
aged the meeting, said today: 81 do not
feel like criticislng Ingalls,, for when he
made the date it was with the under
standing thas he was to get two of his lee
ture engagements cancelled, and | think
when he wrote me that it would be impos-
sible for him TO get there that he mea Mt
that he could not get his other dates can
celled. l think he would have been
there if it had been possible for him"
Ii is said that Senator Ingalls, himself
never said that it was snow storm that
blockaded him.
Governor Morrill, is very much pleased
with the way the Kansas crowd was re-
ceived in Chicago at the Million club
meeting, The governor said:
Il think the audaclty of the Kansas
fellows in going down to Chicago unin-
vited, and boarding the lion in his den,
made the affair d success. Tue Chicago
papers treated US splendidly. The amount
of advertising the state of Kansas has re-
ceived through the Million club move
ment couldn't have been purchased
for $@5,U0O in cash. l am con
vinced that the meeting, or rather
the fact that Kansas developed the
| energy and push necessary to get up
such an affair, has done US a world of
good. 1t shows that we are pushing,
energetic and successful and those who
were not with US can have no idea of the
talk the affair created, and all of it was
credita BILE to our state. Wherever one
turned in Chicago on Monday and Tues
day he could hear the word 'kansas' in
every mouth, and that was because the
newspapers made SO much of US. There
is no middle ground for such an enter
prise as the Million club meeting. 1t
must be either a failure or a success.
This Was a perfect success and now that
it is safely over feel greatly relieved" "
HOnOrs for Young Churchill.
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