Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

INGALLS, TALKS SOME MORE

INGALLS, TALKS SOME MORE
John ]. ingalls, was at Cleveland Ohio, last
Tuesday, and visited Hanna's home He gave
out the following interview:
81 am personally acquainted with Mr.. Bryan,
the Democratic nominee, and have been I'M
pressed with the fact that he is somewhat
stronger man than some of our friends have
supposed. He is earnest, energetic, splendid
orator, and has record of clean domestic
life. The fact that he is the youngest man
ever nominated, and that he is poor man, to-
gether with his sudden rise to prominence, all
combine to arouse sentiment in his favor
81 very much fear that some of the Repub-
licans are making a grave mistake in advocat-
ing greater use of pamphlets and cores
ponding curtailing of stump speeches. The
farmers of our great west have been reading
pamphlets for twenty years, and they have been
getting poorer every year. These men, as we'll
as the wage-earners, are far from satsfed-in
fact, do not know of any other time when
there has been such general dissatisfaction.
For years, these men have been voting with
their party, be it Democrat or Republican, and
all the time have seen their farms steadily de-
crease in value, and have heard the explanation
on one side that it was due to free trade, and
on the other that it might be attributed to pro-
lection"
John Johnson and Cap Kaufman will be fur
nished with copies of this paper, free, on ap-
plication, so they may be sent to John j., ask
imp him if he said it; and then they might see
the county attorney, and find out if there is
any law by which we can be prosecuted for
criminal libel. Then the Republican papers
might turn their pop guns on us for daring to say
anything about the great John ]. By the way,
we have some more of his sayings in this issue,
with plenty more TO follow.
LAST Monday night, after the Republican
convention in Garrett, two very wise gentle
men-one from Colony and the other from Lone
Elm-spoke to couple of dozen men and boys
in the park. The Colony mans speech was
string of words and bad grammar, well-nigh
meaningless. He produced no facts or figures
of any kind, but he informed his hearers that
"we've got 'em up to Topeky, an we'll perduce
'em when the time comes" The Lone Elm
man didn't forget his grammar, but if he made
a single point, it was so sharp that it was in
visible. He criticised the farmers for talking
politics and discussing the ''ntricate problems
of finance" when they should be at work in
their fields. He advocated "sound money!
a gold standard forgetting that, within the
past year, he said, in the same park, that he
was for free silver, first, last and all the time.
Both speakers undertook to criticise Cleveland's'
financial policy, probably forgetting that such
Republican papers as the St. Louis Globe
Democrat and the Topeka Capital have repeat
eddy endorsed his policy, claiming that it was,
and is, the true Republican policy. The Cap
ital went so far as to say that if Cleveland
continued that policy, the Republicans should
nominate him for president. The Republicans
are getting terribly tangled. 1t is to be hoped
that they will keep such men as Carmichael
and Wardrip OH the stump throughout the cam
paign They'll be up stump i'll November.
REPUBLICANS are shouting: "Be econom-
ical-live within your incomes, and you won't
know anything about hard times" These
same fellows are shouting for gold, claiming
that it should be the only money, or that it
should be the basis of all of our circulating
medium. We produce o,ooo, 900 of gold
year, and are paying out nearly $500, 900, 900
year. Please tell us how we can 60 about it to
live within our income, as a nation. How
long will our money or our basis last?
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