The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-02
Rev. Charles III. Payne Comes
Up Smiling
From His Corner and SWats Mr..
ingalls, Again.
REPEATS THE BLOWS
Which He Administered in the
First Round.
Intimates That ingalls, Has ViO-
lated the Rules.

New York April John J. Ingalls,
letter of censure addressed to Bishop
McCabe of the Methodist church. has
been taken up for reply by Charles H.
Payne, secretary of the board of educa-
tion of the Methodist church, because
it was Mr.. Payne and not the bishop
who passed the structures upon ex-Sen-
ator ingalls, as a reporter of a prize
fight. Mr.. Payne's letter to Mr.. In
gals is given as follows in full:
Hon. John J. ingalls,. MY Dear Sir
My attention has been called TO an open
letter in the Chicago Times Herald on
March 81 addressed by you to Bishop
Z. G. McCabe of the Methodist Episco-
pal church.
The remarks to which your structures
Tetef We're not made by Bishop McCabe,
but by myself, and were attributed to
me in all of the papers that saw refer
ring to the matter except one. As I
cannot consent to have my esteemed
friend the bishop rest under any false
lmputat1On hasten to correct the mis-
take, and since justice cOmpels me to
90 this L am constrained at the same
time to reply in brief to your remark
able letter.
1 confess that read the letter with
sorrow, and would gladly pass it by in
silence If a sense of duty did not COM
pei a response. The occasion of the
remarks in question was an address on
christian Education and Christian
-ALA<-CAAoAA1Hs WHICn, III my OTncIal
pacity as secretary of the board of edu-
cation of the Methodist Episcopal
church, I delivered at the session of
Ihe southwest annual conference at
Winfield. Speaking of the necessity
Tor the publication of politics and for
a higher type of civic righteousness I
referred depTecatingIy to your well
known utterance relating to that sub
In your open letter you say. concern
ing that utterance that you said the
purlhcation of politics by the methods
proposed by Democracy and Popu1ism
was an iridescent dream
That is very different statement
from the one invariably attributed to
you If you did not say either direct
" or by fair implication that the an
phcation of moral principles or the ten
commandments, or the sermon on the
mount to politics was an iridescent
cream then you have been misrepre-
Sented and are entitled to the pri4-ilaera
OF Delng set right in that respect before
the american people. The Congres-
slonaI Record win show If YOU did
allude TO moral principles in that CON
necuOn and now attempt to make If
appear that you referred only to s.0a-
nocracy' and "Populism," you wen
know now the public will characterize
such a shifting of the issue
Having referred to your remarks As a
senator upon the very subject I was
discussing, your recent appearance be-
fore the public as a reporter of a Drize
fight naturally ELECTED some words re-
SpectlnS the marked change of Occ11-
patton, which I used to point a lesson
Tor the young men of today. The Ian
guagc attributed to me in the newspa-
per reports was not exactly that which
USED, DuC the reports We're S1lbStau-
TALLY correct. Your entire reDlv caD
hardIy fail to convince the general Dlb-
uc Ihat you have not been greatly mis-
represented in respect to your want of
4altn IN moral principle as a factor
elther IN politics or in practical life
your reference to your reporting. a
prize nght for money" as being on the
same plane OF conduct as the work of a
CnrlSuan minister who Won saw
breaches for money shows a lack of
moral discrimination which is lament
aDle- Is there no difference between
the man who employs his talents in
Such a way as will inevitably cOrr1lnt
youth and the man who seeks +I1eiT
hlgheSt good, even though both are
paid for their labor?
Equally astounding is your assertion
that TO the unregenerate mind if looks
quite as immoral to read about a dis
IepuIabIe transaction as to witness o1.
to write about it." For a minister. then
OF an educator to read your description
OF the Hght, that he might know inst
what you did say and he able to refer
10 your conduct without nisreDresent-
ing you, and thus seek to save the
youth OF this nation from the peril
Whlcn your course in this matter has
Sadly helped to increase, puts him 11nOn
the same moral level with yourself and
oIhers reporting the wretched affair
Tor money, as you yourself admit.
on speak OF reporting the ATethOdis+
conference at Winfield with ..eouaI
compoSure,' ~ as though the two era a+I1o7-
1ngs were equally hOnora BILE ana +I,ai-
proceedings OF equal value to society
can you expect that such lane-1aere %,
TINS VIII increase the respect of a Chris
tian community for yourself2 Yo1, -
Ter to criticism of your course as win
out proVocation,' as though If x,,oro =
mere personal matter. Permit me to
assure you that there was not the
SnghteSt personal element in the re-
marks to which you take exear1+ic,,,
You have for many years. been a T,I1bIic
man, occupying one of the hipbast ~
slIlonS OF the nation When. therefore
you descend from that lofty baierbt 20
give the weight of your name 80 of
your influence to an affair that +be
country pronOunces dernOralizfno or6
especially harmful to youth. Won sbo1IIJ
expect that those who wish to Dro+ec+
our youth and our cherished instit17-
tions as well viii call you to account for
such strange proceeding; and Won
cannot be unaware of the fact that the
press of the country. both secular and
relglous, has, with singular unanimity
and with almost merciless sarcasm in
many instances, assailed your new de-
parture.
You vigorously resent the challenge
made TO the truth of your statement
that those who witnessed the bloody
fight We're average American citi-
zens. I repeat what I did say, that
this statement lis a slander on Aneri-
can citizenship and an insult to Amer
lean manhood"
You cannot but know that rriza 6e-b+s
are cutlawed by every state in the
Union except Nevada. You know that