San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-09
THE NOTED METHODIST DIVINE
HAULED OVER THE GOALS
BY THE EX SENATOR.
He Tells The Bishop Some Cold Facts
And Dives Vent To A VitriO-
lie Discharge Of Wrath
Against His Critics
In General.

st. Louis, April S.-AS the result of
recent severe Methodist conference
criticisms of his acting as a special
reporter ut the prize fight between
Corbett and Fitzsimmons ex-senator
John j. Ingalls, has made public the
following letter:
Sleeping Car Essen March 2S.
1S91.-My dear Bishop McCabe: In a
Kansas City paper, which | bought
at Trinidad this morning, on my way
home from San Francisco. find the
following:
AT the Winfield conference, Bish-
Op McCabe rose to question of per-
sOnal privilege, and roasted John J.
Ingalls, for his report of the prize fight.
He said: 1T is fitting sequel to the
career of the man who declared the
publication of politics an irideScent
dream, to find him slOughing off his
SenatOrShip tOga long enough to pros
titute his glowing rhetoric for the
sporting readers of the New York
Journal. What Il contrast between
the calm dignity with which John J.
Ingalls, held the FESTIVE members Of
the upper House of Congress within
the bounds of senatorial courtesy and
his gentle efforts to SOOthe the ruffian
spirit of Mrs. FitZSimmOnS when she
Shrieked to her husband: kill the dir
~ puppy | am willing to leave the
aCrObatic statesman amid such genial
environments. but as an AmericOn cit
izen | protest against the declaration
that the spectators at the brutal tiStic
tournament were averag" citizens of
this republic. This statement is Il
lie-an insult to American citizenship
and American manhood
Your revival of venerable calumny
that | advocated depravity, because |
said the publication of politics by the
methods prospOSed by Democracy and
POpuliSm was an irideScent dream, re-
qulres no extended reply. If you think
that the politics of Kansas and the
nation have been purified by the pre-
ceptS of the opponents of Republi-
Canism then you are warranted in your
condemnation of a phrase which | ut
tered 10 years ago; if not. then your
quotation is disingenuOus and unjust.
Your allusiOn to the 'senatOrship
tOga' makes it proper that l should
say that l left the Senate invOlunta-
rily six years ago. | did not slough
my tOga, as you intimate. The Pop |
uliSts slOughed &c for me, very much |
against my inclination. | Intellectual |
ly endeavOred to resume it at the re- |
cent election, but the people decided |
and l am now private |
citizen, without even the vague and |
snowy publicity that attends a man |
seeking office, for / realize that my pO- |
itical career in Kansas is at an end. |
Il am glad to be able to infer from |
your remarks that while l wore that |
garment, dishOnOred neither my con-
nor the country, whatever
may have done since.
During the interval, / have been,
ike yourself, working for my living.
NOt haOving the gifts, ia culties and con-
'ecratiOn requisite for bishop, be-
ng out of practice at the bar and
business being dull, have been doing
i'd jobs, on the lyceum Platform and
or the press. | talk and write, as
'ou preach, for money, but my Opin-
Dns, convictions and judgment are no
more for sale than yours.
From your illusions to my glowing
t the ringside, it is evident that you
arefully read the accounts of the bru- '
ii fistic tournament at Carson
whether from the pulpit to your con- a
at the fireside to your fam
Y, or in the seclusiOn of your study. '
oes not appear. To the unregen-
rate mind it looks quite as immoral v
D read about a disreputable trans Y
ction as to witness it and write about v
!. Your time and mine. / admit, 4
Duld have been more profitably en- b
loyed in meditating upon the male
lotions of Christ against the Phari- d
,es of his day, the canting hypOcrites v
Palestine. and their lineal descen- d
ants in Kansas, who, thanking God t
ley are not as other men. pay tithes b
anise. mint and cummin and omit ii
lie weightier matters of law. IL
'T went to Carson with authority to f;
rite as much or as little as I pleased o.
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