The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-11
INGALLS, WICHITA
In an Unusual Original and
Witty Mood.
Exeorfates the Democratic Par
ty With a New Whip Cracker.
The Ex-senator Says We Need a Con
stantly Increasing Volume Of
Currency.

The Wichita Eagle publishes the fol-
lowing account of ex-senator ingalls,
speech TO an immense audience in the
Auditorium at that city Monday even
ing.
when the ex-senator was introduced
ne 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 un-
/ derstand that he was expected to speak
in the afternoon. He said he wanted to
make this explanation SO that the peo-
pei of Sedgwick county, to whom he
owed many obligations, would not
think that the delay i'm arriving was
either through indifference or caprice
He said that he was outside of the state
lecturing in order to earn enough mon
ey to pay his taxes and supply the
household expenses during the era Of
prosperity following the Wilson bin and
I the repeal of the Sherman purchasing
act
In the bright lexicon of Kansas he
said there is no such word as fail The
I word impossible is not in the vOeabu-
larry of the state. If we are told that
we cannot do a thing we so at once
and do it. our idea is to perform inn
/ possibilities and surpass the unattain-
able. If Kansas men ever suffer from
an excess of anything it is modesty-
/ His conduct is shy and modest and
/ backward and retiring The pages of
( history, sacred and profane, can be
I searched in vain. all the reverend and
irreverent chr0niclers can be examined
without resultss no people, ancient or
( modern, in all the books ever written
+ by man or by inspiration, not a word or
/ syllable has been found where it says
/ that a Mckinley corn train had ever
4 been struck by lightning in any other
/ state or nation but Kansas L have
Z heard of men being struck by political
I lightning but it did not hurt-but SyI
/ Dixon of ArgOnia. Kansas. is the only
/ man 7 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
Y the lightning and it viii progress ac-
/ c0rding to the schedule and Will arrive
/ at St. Louis for the ratification meet
4 ing lit is not worth while to call the
! St. Louis convention a convention Nc
J KinIey Will be nominated by acclama-
I ton and Kansas viii cast her electoral
vote for him without regard to rival
/ ambitions; they viii vote for him with
! cohesion and unanimity and viii also
vote for the state ticket.
The demand for Mckinley is the
most marvellous political phenomenon
{ in the history of politics. There is an
I absolute unanimity Of public sentiment
in his favor. He was opposed by a most
I formidable cable of rivals. favorite
sons and political poker players that
I the country has ever observed
He is q man of no great military or
I civil experience no OVershadowing en-
I doWments or attainments. He is q man
: from the lowest walks of life. He was
/ q man mparatiVely unknown until
! I'VE years ago and yet he is first ia
7 the hearts of the Republicans of this
/ country. There were arrayed against
] him the tyrannical and despOtic car
I from Maine, Thomas B. Reed, the man
who took the Democratic party by the
/ top knot and shook all the meanness
I out of them. There was Morton, the
I wise and sagacious eE-minister to
I France where ne reflected honor on his
I country member OF the house on rep
! resentaUiVes and vice president OF the
I United States There was that wonder
/ full political genius Tom Piatt of New
| York. There was that unique character
Z that powerful figure in national poll
I ties Mathew Stanley Quay There was
I CuIlOm from Illinois, whose strongest
! claim was that ne lOOksd like the inn
[ mortal Lincoln He appealed to his
/ people by his forty years in their ser
I vice to give him coTnpImen tary vote,
] but they QeIlleQ MN Tor the NDllLE
/ son of another state Lnere was Alil-
4 son of Iowa the man who never says
Z anything until all the rest have spoken
I and then he is sure TO be on the right
/ side. The man who can put on wooden
shoes and walk over hard floor as
| noiselessly as cat in his search Tor a
pet canary bird There was Henderson
OF Nebraska, too with years OF Nallanl
service done for the PEG pie of his grea.
commonwealth But the juggernaut Of
/ public opinion demanded Mckinley
Na1 ,
strength is that ne sprung from the
people. Every Republican leader sprang
from the people Abraham Lincoln
was so obscure that he didn't know
much about himself IT, S. Grant was
a tanner boy. Henry Wilson was a
shoemaker. Garfield and Sheridan trOd
the tow path Of a canal, and Oliver p
Morton told me with his own lips that
the pr0udest moment of his life was
when he entered his own town at the
head Of a band when he was a hatter's
apprentice. The Republican party has
/ always been in active sympathy and
cooperation with the masses. This is
{ a peoples year Ihey are Iatlgued with
] cahal5, 2ntr1gueS ana Vaccinations,
They are aroused and they exemplify
the fact that this government is based
on public opinion. Great reproaches
and scandals come from the NEGLECT
of the people believe in senators be-
ing elected by the people That right
was taken away from the people by
those who dlsLrusred the capacity of the
people. Tt was an outrage. In Ken
lucky the militia was called out because
of the rivalry of candidates for the Uni
ted States senate. There would be nc
necessity for that if the people had the
power to elect them directly. I would
vote to abolish the antiquated. clumsy
and supertiuous system. This is one OF
the planks of the Omaha platform but
ii is right and we shall new
err have cleansed and purified
senatorial elections until it is
/ accomplished Until then the people
4 should do the next best thing and vote
for honest men who VIII prove honest
when 1T comes to electing a United
I States senator
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