Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-10-23
FOR CONGRESS
b L A / r L e E.,
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
LNGERsOLL VS.. INGERsOLL.

The New York Journal neatly turns Col
Ingersoll against himself. Pagan Bob, be
1t known, is going about the country advo
eating the cause of Mark Hanna and Wall
street. Bob is red hot for the single gold
standard. The Journal points out that the
eminent agnostic has frequently told us that
no is an agnostic, which is another way
of saying that he does not really know any.
thing. Now he wishes to persuade US that
he knows 1t all. For years be has tried to
make suffering humanity believe that there
was no such place as Jerusalem the Golden
Now he turns his eyes toward the golden
vaults of Wall street and says they are
earthly paradise. The truth is that Col.
Ingersoll, having labored for years to rob
humanity of its hope of eternal happiness
hereafter, is now IT, ing to blight its pros
poets OF prosperity in this life, and for and
in consideration o. two thousand dollars
speech paid by Mark Hanna, the open and
avowed enemy OF the producing and labor
ing classes.
Like Mckinley, Allison, Thurston, Alger,
Sherman and other leading lights OF the
Republican party, Ingersoll's record has
turned up to plague him, and his efforts In
behalf OF gold are made ridiculous by the
fact that less than three years ago he was
fierce in his denunciation Of the demonetiza-
ton OF silver, and an earnest advocate of its
coinage.
Among the addresses delivered by Bob In-
gersoll, lew years ago, we find the fol-
lowing:
"For my part, do not ask any interior
ence on the part of the government, except
to undo the wrong it has done. do not
ask that money be made out OF nothing.
do not ask for the prosperity born of paper.
But do ask for the reconciliation of sill
YER silver was demonetized by fraud. II
was an imposition upon every solvent man;
fraud upon every honest debtor in the
United States. II assassinated labor. 1t
was done in the interest of avarice and
greed, and should be undone by honest men.
Another thing. We've got TO make our
money. On this point l differ with some
Republicans. am in favor Of double
standard, because this is the greatest silver
producing coaatry on the earth. We want
national money"
What has converted the lngersoll the adj
vocate OF silver coinage To he Ingersoll who
is now defending the single gold standard
Two thousand night is the price paid for
this convert, and his presence on the stump
shows the desperation To which the Repub
lcan managers are driven.
There are no museums IN this country for
two-headed orators or the Colonel might
command an enormous salary. Or 1t is
possible that the eloquent special pleader
Tor soup as a substitute for salvation has
looked upon the gold when it was yellow
in the bank and become Intoxicated with
dreams of what may be his when Hanna's
campaign fund is placed where it will do
the most good.
AS for Ingersoll, his life is an attack upon
God and humanity, and therefore upon the
American home, which is the bulwark OF
the nation. Ingerscll, In this campaign at
two thousand a night, is disgrace to the
Republican party, and a menace to the hopes
and prosperity of the masses.