The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-05
INGALLS, AND THE BISHOP.


Ex-senator John ]. ingalls, account
of the Carson fight has been as bread
cast upon the waters. At a recent con-
ference of the Methodists, held at Win
field, Kan, Bishop McCabe rose to a
question of personal privilege and then
sailed into" Mr.. Ingalls, because he
had gone to Carson and reported the
Corbett-F itzsimmons fight. The
worthy but unwise bishop said:
It is a fitting sequel to the career of
the man who declared the publication
of politics an iridescent dream TO find
him slouging off his senatorship to go
/ 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 FESTIVE men,
! bers of the upper house of congress
within the bounds of senatorial court
esq and his gentle efforts to soothe the
ruffian spirit of Mrs. Fitzsmmons when
she shrieked to her husband, xiii the
dirty puppyi' I am willing to leave
the acrobatic statesman amid such
genial environments, but as an Amer
lean citizen 1 protest against the
declaration that the spectators at the
citizens of this republic. This state
ment is a lean insult to American
citizenship and American manhood.
We said the bishop was unwise. and
the sequel will prove he was. ingalls,
is no worm, but when he is trod upon
he turns as readily as any worm, and
when he comes back at one with his
pen, sit biteth like a serpent, and
stingeth like an adder" He has come
back at Bishop McCabe
The ex-senator says that not being
a member of the Methodist church, he
is at a loss to know how any act of
his, no matter how nefarious, could
have been a question of personal privi-
lege at the Winfield conference. Then
he says that his respect for the great
organization which the bishop repre-
sents renders it appropriate that he
should not allow his comments to pass
unnoticed.
He then makes a very sarcastic
reference to the bishops allusion to the
iridescent dream "calunny," as the
ex-senator terms it. Following this, he
states that he involuntarily left the
senate six years ago, but Il did not
slough my toga as you intimate. The
Populists 'sloughed' it for me, very
much against my inclination" He
then goes on to say that during the in
terval since he laid off his toga, he has
been, like the bishop, working for his
living. He hooks" the bishop beauti-
fully when he says that not having the
gifts, faculties and conservation requi-
site for bishop. being out of practice
at the bar and business being dull, he
has been doing odd jobs on the lyceum
platform and for the press. Il talk
and write, as you preach, for money"
What else the ex-senator says in re-
ply to the bishops roast can only
be told in his own language. He says:
From your illusions to my glowing
rhetoric and the alleged incidents at |
the ringside, it is evident that you care
fully read the accounts of the brutal |
fstic tournament" at Carson, whether |
from the pulpit to your congregation, |
at the fireside to your family, or in the |
seclusion of your study, does not ap-
pear. To the unregenerate mind it |
looks quite as immoral to read about a |
transaction as to witness
mine, l admit. could have been more
profitably employed in meditating upon
The maledictions of Christ against the
PhariseeS of his day; the canting hyp-
0crites of Palestine and their lineal de-
scendants in Kansas, who, thanking
God they are not as other men, pay
-ithes of anise. mint and cummin and
omit the weightier matters of law.
L went to Carson with authority to
-r-if
n any vein, as / saw fit, and my pur-
pose was to tell the truth about the
the audience and the moral
environment as 1t appeared to me. Had
been requested to attend the Winfield
conference and write my Impressions
# its proceedings, 1 should have done
o with equal composure, had the COM
'ensation offered been satisfactory, and
10 other occupation prevented
Had 1 heard you distort and miscon-
true the language of man who had
ways treated you with courtesy and
poken of you with respect; had | heard
GU apply injurious epithets gratuit-
uSly and without provocation to one
Tho had endeavored to endure adver- I
ity with fortitude; had l heard you de-
ounce as lie a statement of whose ,
ruth you could personally know moth
lg, should have said so, in the same
pllll Will WHICH, QtoIA lJCl NIdl tOOh
lace at Carson; and l might also have t
dded that you exhibited all the char
cteristics of the gladiator except his
OuraSe.
1 heard no such language at Carson 4
5 is imputed to you at the Winfield S
Inference. It's only parallel is the fic- C
tious exclamation which you incor- n
city ascribe to the frenzied Mrs. Fitz- 6
mmons. :
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