The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Ex-senator Ingalls, Says That
Mckinley Is Beaten.
But He Did Not Say This Yes
terday.
It Appeared In the New York "Jour-
nal and Seems to Have Got Lost
in the Shuttle in Western
Prints.

By some odd chance the most i'm
Dortant of Senator ingalls, letters from
St. Louis to the New York Journal
written June II. does not appear to
have been generally circulated in the
west 1t seems to have been overlook
ed. but the State Journal gives it below
IN it's entirety:
St Louis Mo, June 1.-Two months
ago wrote from Washington that the
west would bolt Mckinley and gold at
abe ST Louis convention. AS this IS
written the west, the silver west; IS
marching out. The revolt is practical
" accomplished. The white saVages OF
silver are leaving the reservation Tor
the waTpath. Their great medicine
man, Teller, has set up the war pole
and the young bucks vie with one an
other as to who shall be the first to
strike his war axe into it, as PROOF OF
his enlistment. The mutiny is on Re
belli0n is afoOt and the silver west, with
it's own candidate and its own plat
form, will wage war on gold and the
east.
This means the defeat Of Mckinley,
possibly the death of RepubHcanism.
Not the least significant OF the signs
of the hour is the steady confidence
with which the silver forces march
away. They leave their fellows or gold
as Dundee left the WhigamOreS of Ed
inbUrgh; their feathers tossing, their
banners wide flung and free They
and the east stands defined to the ut
tsrmOst of war They. too, have a cOun-
try and a cause. There is west as
we'll as an east. Silver has its clans,
as well as gold its people The allied
natives the east forgot; the west did
not.
And so the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. Hannaism, NcKinleyism,
an oWer-reaching east playing the hogs
part in its golden selishness have split
the party. The last chance of success
for the Rem hllEanS has OlSaDDeaTeO.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth e.
e If there be lords in the LOwlands,
There be chiefs in the North.
The east can laugh at these people.
The east should laugh at people less
and study them more. This eastern
policy of the tip-tilted nose has already
cost it the south That region glOwers
at the east across its borders. and the
fires of its hatred never die. Today the
west arrays itself against the east and
begins running out its lines of battle.
The west has become ally to the south,
and the ally will be found a harder,
more tndomitable enemy than the orig
inal foe.
It is pleasant and easy for the east to
come from its baths and its gardens,
its games and its houses of marble and
gilt to idle about the forum and malign
the west and call its people GOths and
Vandals. The east might better recall
what the Goths and Vandals did to
Rome.
1neSe SILVER people are Lne SWISS OIL
America. They are poor in all save
courage. They have heard their war
horns sounding and the battle is on
They will fight with the cool valOr of
buccaneers. When the east goes against
them, pride blown, purblind in its con-
ceit of riches, yet really weak with the
possession of that which it relies most
upon-its mOney-it will be the old
story of Charles of Burgundy over
again. The Swiss will win, and where
as just terms might once have been
f1nr fhnTr hfTV Of fcp1
and wisdom the west will grant as lit
tie as II got. What was done to the
west, the west in its turn will do.
These silver men have already made
captive the senate of the United States;
there they appear the veriest spartans
of legislation; they fought the DfngIey
bill to its death; they boosted that you
should never have protection until they
had free silver; they made good their
boast in the session of congress just
ended and the D1ng1ey bill left IN
buried on the field testifieS not only to
their plans, but to their power to carry
them out. What they did to the Ding
ley bill they will return in December to
do again to any legislation they may
levy silver war against.
Mckinley is beaten, and now I'll tell
you how The silver revolt viii sweep
the west between the Missouri and Pa
cific- You may buy a gold plank in
Dakota and again in Oregon, but you
can't buy the people; you can't bride
the public in the wide region named
from the coast to the Missouri, from
the Rio Grande to the English line
Silver will sweep all before it. Teller
will get most of them, but at least
Mckinley has lost every electoral vote
after you leave the Missouri river
They win go to Populists, to Demo-
Gratis, to silver Republicans, but they
win none of them go to Mckinley, that
candidate hand made by Hanna on a
platform to which in his heart Of
hearts he is false.
Heaven hates a coward, and Nc
Kinley has not been brave. The peo-
pie are against him and the gods
will not fight his side. Give the
west to silver, California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Idaho, Ne
Vadas Utah, Colorado, wyoming, the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Tex
as Silver has already conquered
them all. And the south-NTcKfnley
cannot win or hold a foot of it. Ev-
cry former slave state, bar Delaware,
viii go Democratic. There is no doubt
in a national war with the Democ-
racy for free silver of such states as
Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland.
Even West Virginia would be hard to
hold. Mckinley may kiss hope good
bye so far as Missouri, Arkansas,