The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-09
HE FIRED HOT SHOT
INGALLS, PEELED THE HIDE OF
DEMOCRACY AGAIN.

He Also Gives Allison a Crack in a Quie
Way and Tells of the CabaI of Politica
Poker Players Against McKinIey-H
Says No Dictionary Furnishes PrOpe
Expietives to Denounce Democratic In
competency-He Is sixteen Parts Re
publican to One Part Siiver-He Want
Protection for American Laborers.
A tremendous audience was at the
auditirium last night to hear eX-Sen'
ator ingalls, Every seat in the large
building was filled and no less than
! go people stood on their feet for TWO
hours.
Pc ably half the audience were Ia
de-. and the gay dresses, lovely head
dress nd swinging fans Of ali de.
Sc r- us made a pretty scene.
IIor. T. r Vermiliion was the chair
mn oscae meeting and the Second Reg
ir1en. band played some very beautiful
music.
When Mr.. ingalls, entered the aud
;t0rilm he was given a grand ovation
wlica fairly shook the building.
Judge Samuel Vandevort of Edwards
county, a very popular western Kansas
ca d-date for United States senator
was the first speaker introduced. He
iabored under two difficulties and he
realized them. The first was that he
had not been asked 10 make a speech
until a few minutes before the meet
ing and then was given only a short
time. and the other was that the aud
fence wanted TO hear ex-senator In
gals and came there solely for that
purpose. Notwithstanding these diff
culties, Judge Vandervoort made a
plain, practical. sensible and business
like speech. He knew the issues and
comprehended the full import Of the
approaching campaign. He was listen
ed to attentively with the exception OF
one little uncalled for demonstration
indicating that the people wanted to
hear Ingalls,.
When the ex-senator was introduced
he nimbly walked to the front of the
platform, made a profound drawing
room courtesy and apologized for not
having arrived in the afternoon. He
said, however. that he had nothing
from the committee to give him to IN
derstand that he was expected 10 speak
In the afternoon. He said he wanted
10 make this explanation 50 that the
people Of SedgWick county, to whom he
owed many obligations, would not
think that the delay in arriving was
either through Indifference or caprice.
He said that he was outside of the
state lecturing in order to earn enough
money to pay his taxes and supply the
household expenses during this era of
prosperity following the Wilson bill and
the repeal of the Sherman purchasing
act.
In the bright lexicon of Kansas he
said there Is no such word as fail. The
word impossible is not in the vOcabu-
larry Of the state. If We are told that
We cannot d a thing we go at once and
do it. Our idea is 10 perform dmpos-
sibilitieS and surpass the unattainable.
If Kansas men ever suffer from an ex-
cess Of anything it is modeSty. His
conduct is Shy and modest and back
ward ard retiring. The pages Of his
tory, sacred and profane, can be
sea rched in vain; all the rev.
erend and irreverent chroniclers
can be examined without results:
10 people, ancient or modern,
IN all the books ever written by man
~
has been found where it says that a
Mckinley corn train had ever been
struck by lightning in any other state
or nation but Kansas. ! have heard
Of men being struck by political light
ming and it did not hurt-but Syi Dixon
Of Argonia, Kansas. is the only man
have ever heard of that could stand
being struck by the genuine lightning
itself He is the Ajax OF the present
and he defies the lightning bolt The
corn train started regardless of the
lightning and IL will progress accord
ing 10 the schedule and viii arrive at
St. Louis for the ratification meeting.
It. Is not worth while to call the st.
Louis convention a convention. McKin-
ley viii be nominated by reclamation
and Kansas viii cast its electoral vote
for him regardless Of schisms. They
will vote for him without regard TO
rival ambitions: they viii vote for him
with cohesion and unanimity and will
also vote for the state ticket.
The demand for Mckinley is the most
marvellous political phenomenon in the
history Of politics. There is an abso-
lutte unanimity Of public sentiment in
his favor H was opposed by a most
formidable cabal OF rivals. favorite
sons and political poker players that
the country has ever observed.
He IS a man Of no great military OF
civil experience, no overshadowing en-
dowments or attainments. He is man
from the lowest walks OF life He was
q man compare lively unknown until
five years ago. and yet he Is first in
the hearts of the Republicans of this
country. There were arrayed against
him the tyrannical and deSpotic car
from Maine. Thomas b. Reed. the man
who took the Democratic party by the
top knot and shook all the meanness
out of them. There was Morton, the
wise and sagaciOus. eX-miniSter TO
France where ne reelected honor on his
country. member Of the house of rep
resentatives and vice president OF the
United States. There was that wonder
ful political genius Tom Plat of New
~ pr6. There was that unique character
LAX powerful figure in national poll
t.- Mathew Stanley Quay. There was
E.R from Illinois whose strongest
e'r..a was that he looked like the iul-
7l Lincoln. He appealed 10 his
people : his forty years in their ser
t-1 % i've him a complimentary vote
@ r denied him for the favoripe
son a a0Chsr state. There was ALI
r.a ~ iowa. the man who never saws
srt--1ire until all the rest have spoken.
sl5 -ls1 he is sure TO be on the right
The man who can put on wooden
and walk over a hard floor as
r..ss essly as a cat in his search for a
p1t snary bird. There was Manierson
o. zebra ska, too. with years % valiant
vice done for the people OF his great
Awarded