The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-15
CAN'T ELECT M'KINLEY
so SAYS JOHN J. INGALLS,, THE
KANSAS ORATOR.
~ Review of the Situation by q
Practical Politisian.

49,
Practical Politician.
v Leavenworth. Kan. July s.-The follow
8 ing letter from ex-senator John J. In
gals:
Two months ago wrote from Washing
ton that the West would bolt Mckinley
and. gold at the st. Louis convention. AS
this is written the West, the silver West,
- marching out. The revolt is practically
accomplished. The white sages of silver
are leaving the reservation Of the warpath.
Their great medicine man, Teller, has set
up the war pole, and the young bucks vie
nrSt to strike his axe into 1t, as proof OF
his enlistment. The mutiny is on. Re-
bellfon is afoot and silver West, with its
own candidate and its own platform, will
wage war on gold and the East. ~
This means the defeat Of Mckinley, pos
eibly the death Of Republcanism.
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 of gold as Dundee left
the whiGamores Of Edinburgh; their feath-
ers tossing, their banners wide flung and
free. They nail their gauntlet to the gates
OF gold and the East stands def1ed to the
uttermost Of war They have remembered
what the East forgot. They, too, have q
country and cause. There Is West as
well as an East. Silver has its clans az
well as gold its people. The allied natives
forgot; the West did not.
And so the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. Hannaism, McKinleyism an
over-reaching East playing the hogs part
IN It's golden self1shness have split the par
~. The last chance Of success for the Re-
publtcans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland.
And friths beyond Forth.
II 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 The Eastern policy OF the
sip-tilted nose has already cost 1t the
South. The region glowers at the East
across Its borders, and the fires of it's
natred never die. Today the West arrays
itself against the East and begins rum
nsng out its lines OF battle: The West has
become ally to the South. and the ally
VIII be found harder. more indomita-
Die enemy than the original foe.
Il - pleasant and easy for the East to
come from it's baths and its gardens, its
9ames and its houses Of marble and gilt
20 ioie ABOUT the forum and malign the
west and call Its people Goths and Van
GALS. But 1t may hardly prove profitable.
the East might better recall what the
Cloths and Vandals did to Rome.
THESE silver people are the Swiss OF
America. They are poor in all save cour-
sse. Tney have heard their war horns
sounding and the battle Is on. They will
nsht with the cool valor of buccaneers
When the East goes against them pride
DfoWns purblind In It's conceit Of riches
yet really weak with the possession Of thai
which It relies most upon--its money!
N VIII be the old story of Charles Bur
gundy over again. The Swiss will win
and whereas just terms might once have
been made with them, in their hour OF
might ana wisdom the West will grant q
little as 1t got. What was done to the
West. the West in It's turn viii do.
inese silver men have already made
captive the senate of the United States:
tnere they appear the variest spartans Of
legislation: they fought the Dingley bill
20 LIS 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
Dlngley bin left unburied on the field tez-
tifies not only to their plans, but to their
power to carry them out What thew
did to the Dingley bill they will return
IN december to do again to any legislation
tney may levy silver war against.
mckinley Is beaten and now will tell
you how. The silver revolt will sween
the west between the Missouri and Pacific.
You may buy gold plank in Dakota and
again In Oregon, but you can't buv 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 En-
glish line. Silver will sweep all before Il
Teller will get most Of them, but at least
mckinley has lost every electoral vote
after you leave the Missouri river. They
will go to Populists, to Democrats. to sill
yer Republicans. but they will none OF
them go to Mckinley. that candidate hand
made by Hanna on q platform to which
IN his heart of hearts he is false.
n Heaven hates a coward, and MCKINLEY
mas not been brave. The people are
against him and the gods will not fight On
his side. Give the west to silver, Califor-
MA, oregon, washington, Montana, Idaho.
Nevada. Utah. Colorado, Wyoming the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas.
Silver has already conquered them ain.
And the south-McKinley cannot win or
hold foot of 1t. Every former sIavo
state. bar Delaware, will go Democratic,
There is no doubt in national war with
the Democracy for free silver Of such
land.
Even West Virginia would be hard To
hold. Mckinley may kiss hope good bye
- far as Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana.
mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Georgia, Florida. the two Carolinas.
va SAA1 duu WARY lduO, are involved. He'll
get none Of them.
Count up the others, and see II he'd
have enough il he would carry them all.
He'll be made to sup defeat. But even
were they enough, faith has not decided
that Mckinley carry the others. He can
carry Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, the five New England states. I'm
less split occur at Chicago, and it well
may happen, and gold Democrat do in
the east what Teller is doing in the west,
Mckinley will carry New Jersey and Della.
ware.
Mckinley Is sure. too, Of Pennsylvania.
despite the cloud Of Cameron and his sill
yer lining. Steve Elkins, adept, may steal
him West Virginia. There is q streak Of
solemn Dutch all through Wisconsin,
which may save to Mckinley that sober
commonwealth. For the decency of the
thing count Ohio for Mckinley. albeit
should the Democrats name Campbell. NC
Kfnley would be driven to the buckeye
waf1 in . moment Count all those states
for Mckinley. But the others of the north
-Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan. IN
diana. and New York-are debatable
dghtable ground.
Mckinley is not sure Of any of them
IN the doctrine OF chances, he's sure I'D
lose one-third Of them. Illinois in instance
- almost certain to turn on Republics nisyn
and rend It, Tanner, whom the Ren,,h-
hcans name for governor, is bad and the
people know It. Altgeld, after one eets
through with HIS Ana rchtatic .,ao 49,