The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-09

u. ingalls, has fired a brOadslde a
Bishop McCabe, Of the Methods
Episcopal church. The bishop tool
occasion recently to criticise tn,
good taste of Mr.. ingalls, in report
ing the little difficulty between Mr.
Fitzsimmons and Mr.. Corbett a
Carson City, New. The Estates
man out of a job" says a few thing,
to-day 10 the good bishop in the
shape of an open letter.
Following is Mr.. ingalls, letter:
"My Dear Bishop McCabe: In
Kansas City paper which | bought
at Trinidad this morning, on my
way home from San Francisco, i fins
the following:
cat the Winfield conference
Bishop McCabe rose to question
of personal privilege, and roasted
John j. ingalls, for his report of the
prize fight. He said
4" 1t was fitting sequel to the
career of the man who declared the
publication of politics an iridescent
dream to find him sloughing off his
lsenatorship toga long enough to
prostitute his glowing rhetoric for
the sporting readers of the New
York Journal.
=" What a contrast between the
calm dignity with which John j.
ingalls, held the restive members OF
the upper house within the bounds
of senatorial courtesy, and his gen.
tie efforts to soothe the rufiian spirit
Iof Mrs. Fitzsimmons when she
shrieked to her husband: Kill the
dirty puppy ! am willing to leave
the acrobatic statesman amid such
genial environments, but as an
American citizen | protest against
the declaration that the spectators
al the brutal fistic tournament were
average citizens of this republic.
This statement is lie, an insult to
American citizenship and American
manhood.
"Not being a member of the
Methodist church, am at loss to
know how the censure of any act of
mine, no matter how nefarious,
could have been property aquestion
of personal privilege at the Winfield
conference, but my respect for your
high office, and for the great organi-
zation which you represent many of
whose members are my personal and
political friends, renders it appro-
pirate that | should not allow your
to pass unnoticed.
"Your revival of the venerable
calumny that advocated depravity,
because said the publication of
politics by the methods proposed by
democracy and populism was an
iridescent dream, requires no ex-
tended reply.
eff you think that the politics of
Kansas and the nation have been
purified by the precepts Of the OPP
ponents of republicanism, then you
ire warranted in your condemna-
ion Of the phrase which | uttered
zen years ago; if not then your quo
.ation is disingenuous and unjust.
"Your allusion to the senator
ships toga' makes it proper that
should say that left the senate in
voluntarily six years ago. | did
not slough my toga as you init
nate. The populists sloughed it
or me, very much against my in
,lination. ! Intellectually endeav-
,red to resume it at the recent
election, but the people decided
otherwise, and | am now a private
citizen, without even the vague and
'hadowy publicity that attends a
nan who is prospective candidate
or Office, for | realize that my po-
itical career in Kansas is at an end.
~ am glad to be able to infer
rom your remarks that while wore
hat garment | dishonored neither
ny constituents nor the country,
whatever may have done since.
"During the interval have been,
Ike yourself, working for my living.
lot having the gifts, faculties and
requisite for a bishop,
eing out of practice at the bar and 4
usiness being dull, | have been
Ding odd jobs on the lyceum plat
)rm and for the press. | talk and ,
rite, as you preach, for money, but
ny opinions, convictions and judg- |
nent are no more for sale than
'ours.
"From your illusions to my
glowing rhetoric and the alleged
accidents, it is evident that you
arefully read the accounts of the
brutal fstic tournament at Carson
'ity, whether from the pulpit to
our congregation, at the fireside to
our family, or in the seclusion of
our study does not appear. Tot
he unregenerate mind il looks