The Irish standard., 1896-08-01
INGALLS, As A PROPHET.
He SIN. u u That flckin1ey is
e a Dead.
Duck.
Comments ON Candidates and Other
r1atters of
Interest.


Leavenworth, Kan, July S.-The fol-
lowing is a letter from ex-senator John
J. ingalls,: =,
Two months ago I wrote from Wash
rgton that the West would bolt MclAin-
lev and gold at the St. Louis convention.
AS this is written the West, the silver
West Is marching out. The revolt is prac-
tically accomplished. The white sages OF
silver are leaving the reservation for the
war path. Their great medicine man,
Teller has set up the war pole, and the
Young bucks vie with one another as to
who shall be the first to strike his axe
into it, as proof of his enlistment. The
nutiny is on. Rebellion is on, and the
silver West, with it's own candidate and
IT'S own platform, will wage war on gold
and the East.
This means the defeat Of Mckinley,
possibly the death of Kepublicanism.
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 Dun
dee left the wigamores Of Edinburg;
their feathers tossing, their banners wide
flung and free. They nail their gauntlet
to the gates of gold and the East stands
defied to the uttermost of war. They
have remembered what the East forgot.
They, too, have country and cause.
There is West as we'll as an East. Sill
YER has it's clans as we'll as gold its peo-
ple. The allied natives forgot; the West
did not.
And SO the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. Hannaism, McKinleylsm, an
over-reaching East playing the hogs S
part, in it's golden selfishness have split
the party. The last chance of success for
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth.
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. The Eastern policy OF
the tip-tilted nose has already cost it the
South. The region glowers at the East
across it's borders, and the fires OF its
hatred never die. Today the West arrays
itself against the East and begins run
ming out its lines of battle. The West
has become ally to the South, and the
ally will be found a harder, more indom-
liable enemy than the original foe.
1t is pleasant and easy for the East to
come from it's baths and 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 Van
dals. But it may hardly prove profitable.
The East might better recall what the
Goths and Vandals did to Rome.
These silver people are the Swiss OF
America They are poor in all save oour-
age. 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 ccnceit OF riches
yet really weak with the possession OF
that which it relies most upon-its
mo1pey-t will be the old story OF
Charles Burgundy over again. The Swiss
will win and, whereas Just terms might
once have been made with them, in their
hour OF light and wisdom the West will
grant as little aus it 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 Dingley btl1
to it's death; they boasted 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
Dingley bill left unburied on the field
testifes not only to their plans, but to
their power to carry them out. What
thew I'D tn the Ding]ev bill they will
return in December to do again to any
legislation they may levy silver war
against.
Mckinley is beaten and now I will tell
you how. The silver revolt will sweep
the West between the Missouri and Pa
cific. You may buy gold plank in Da-
kcta and again in Oregon, but you can't
buy the people; you can't bribe the pub
lie 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 will go to Popu-