The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-05
DARING INGALLS,.
Remarkable Speech Made By
the Brilliant Statesman.
Says He Has Been VacilIating
and Changeable.
BEEN ON ALL SIDES
Of Every Public Question, But,
Says the Senator,
IL > l.
$50 Has the Republican Party
to Which I BelOng.'
1T WAS FOR SILVER,
And 1 Was For Silver; Now It
Isn't
And I am NOt-NOw Stands on
st. Louis Plank.

Lyons, Kan, Aug. 5-Five thousand
people listened to Ex-senator ingalls,
yesterday afternoon when he made his
opening speech OF the campaign The
speech was preceded by a creditable
parade of about 1000 people.
Il should be glad,' he said, after
brief introduction. of the opportunity
of representing this constituency that
has so honored me in the past for one
term more in the United States senate;
nor would limit the time to one term.
I come of a family noted for its long
evity Oaughter.) My mother still
lives at the age of IS years. am Just
past co. that would give me three more
terms, and a little to spare. (Laugh-
ter)
4 have been told that resolutions in
structing your representatives to vote
for me viii draw votes away from the
candidates. There is one thing more
important than my return to the SEN
ate, and that is the election of a Re
publican legislature. (Applause.) If
any votes will be repelled from your
candidates because of being instructed
for me, I hereby cordially and publicly,
with the concurrence of my constituent
cy, release them from that obligation.
(Cheers.) I should like very much, in
deed, another term in the senate; but,
above all, in this great crisis, this con-
test between the destructive and the
conservative forces of our civilization,
is the Importance of eIecting a Repub-
lican administration and legislature.
I have also heard it said, in censure
and reproach, that I have been tardy
and slow and delinquent in asserting
my devotion to RepubHcanism. am a
ty in Kansas. (Applause) My first
vote was cast for John G. Fremont,
and in the thirty-seven years since
then, a period which has bridged and
spanned the pathetic gulf between the
confines of youth and the boundaries of
age, I have never scratched a Republi-
can ballot nor bolted a Republican
candidate. (Applause.)
Il have also been accused of being
Vacillating. A man who has SubScrib-
ed to every Republican platform, city,
county, state and national, for thirty
seven years, has had to be vacillating-
daughter and applaUse.) have been
for prohibition and against it, though
l never was believer in political pro-
hibitiOn. I have been for and against
female suffrage, though l always be-
Heved that female suffrage failed from
the Indifference of women, rather than
the hostility of men. I have been for
and against civil service reform though
I believe it an unworthy and unpatriOt-
ic political doctrine, depriving Ameri-
can citizens OF the right OF c1tIZenSn1p
and American men of the prerOgatiVes
of American manhood. I have been for
the free coinage of silver, because in
1890, the Republicans of Kansas de-
cIared for it; I have been for bimetal-
lisnn. because, in 1888 and 1892 and on
divers and sundry other occasions, Re
publicans have been for bimetallism.
Some hostile editor has declared that
I am dilatory in defining my position
on the money plank of the St Louis
platform. It happens that I was the
first man in the United states to de-
clare myself at Wichita, on June 8.
declared I would stand on any platform
the Republican party might make. even
gold mOnOmetallism, because there is
one curse greater than the alleged
curse of gold mOnOmetalliSm, and that
is the curse of Democracy. (Applause)
I indOrsed the platform before it was
written and I climbed upon it before 1t
was constructed. I don't have to take
an oath of allegiance every other day
before a notary public or a justice of
platforms-the Republican party can't
make a platform 1 would not stand on
The fact is that to the Republican
party we owe the privilege of standing
here today But for the homestead and
Pacific railroads laws, not a furrow
would be traced west of the Missouri
river Four millions of people emanci-
pated, an indestructible and indissO-
luble Union an unbounded public cred
it universal educatiOn-these are the
monuments OF LnG EGepQDuCan party
There have been Republican leaders
whose wisdom have mistrusted, and
there will be others in the future; but
on every question affecting the exist
ence the integrity. the honor and the
prosperity Of the people, the Republican
party has always been right, and our
enemies have always been wrong. (Ap-
plause.)
gan in 1861 and it ended in 1893; for
during that indehnable and inexplica-
BILE hiatus, which Almighty God, in His
infinite wisdom, permitted to visit the
American people in the first admins
tration of Grover Cleveland, there was
a Republican senate to thwart his ne
farious designs. He gave a warning
that he would wage a war to the death
upon the protected industries of this
country. You know what happened.
Our enemies say the people have been
growing poorer, and the rich richer. I
would say that all have grown poor
alike, except the shylocks and the
nfiancial brigands." (Applause.)
Mr.. Ingalls, then entered upon an ex-
haustive presentation of statistics,
showing the prosperity of the country
under Republican administration.
L have been accused - he said, in
continuation, of saying harsh things
about the Democrats. have said some
things have forgotten and wish others