The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-23
INGALLS, SOUGHT.
POpuIists Seek to Nominate the
AtchiSOn Statesman
For Congress in the First Kan
saS District.
VINO nEEn EATTH
HAVING DEEP FAITH
In His Honesty and Believing
That at Heart
He is For Economic Reform,
They Would Welcome Him.
A Story That is at Least High
" Interesting.

There is &, move on foot among the Pop
ulists of the First congressional district
TO nominate John J. Ingalls, as the fusion
CANDIDATE for congress. They say Mr..
ingalls, has been SO near the gate which
leads into the Populist camp so many
tunes that they have concluded to openly
ask nm TO come and help reform the
Mr.. ingalls,. to be sure. as mat
ter of course, has not been consulted, but
webb McNan, Governor Leedy, John
Breldenthal, q. {. Clemens and others
VIII probably be requested to act as
committee and present the matter to Mr..
ingalls, for his prayerful consideration
The POpuliStS have secured St. John and
other brainy men formerly Republicans
and are now apparently setting their
caps for ingalls,, who may at least laugh
Mr. Clemens, supreme court reporter,
said on this subject:
IF Mr.. Ingalls, viii run I am for him.
l VIII even make sacrifice for him, for
had intended to go to congress from the
First district mySeIf-as a socialist can
didate. 1 can wait awhile. and if he will
time. Why should not the fusionists run
him? only wish some of the candidates
they have proposed knew as well as In
gals does the true cause of existing eco
nomic conditions and how they must be
In two speeches in the United States
senate he arraigned the existing social
order as it has rarely been arraigned by
even the ablest and most radical of So
cialists; and those speeches were evidence
to that he had been reading and deep
~ bordering over socialism. No man I'M
familiar with the literature of Socialism
could have made those speeches. So clear
was this to me that l remarked of him:
He that knOyveth his masters will and
doeth it not shall be beaten with many
stripes He has had 'em, too. He has
not been at home for long time in the
Republican party of today.
ingalls, has Intellectual integrity and
simply cannot publicly utter what he does
not at the time believe. Little men can
profess opinions they hate; but greater
minds cannot. ingalls, cannot falsify his
have most bifteriy denounced his course.
and if he publicly says he believes in GER
tain views, L shall believe him without
the slightest hesitation. One thing is
pretty certain: You will not get him to
say that the money question is the SUI
would be well with the poor if only sill
yer were restored.
sOnally, else would not have condemned
him Occasionally: He is not a stiff He
is good deal of a Bohemian clubable
cuss. He is natural, and never puts on
almighty awful airs, like many 'distin-
He has sufficient sense of the ludicrous-
what Lowell called the balance wheel of
like dignified dullness can He is a good
fellow with a desirable streak of the
as a lecturer-he is a sort of spoiled boy,
as it Were I like him personally, and if
he should be a candidate on our ticket,
would like him generally.
'Of course. you will understand that
should be against us. In that event
shall wish to be free to remark that he
wife beating habit. stuck up beyond all
endurance, an all around bad man, de-
ceiver of the people and a hardened and
dangerous wretch. But if he will be the
fusion candidate in the First district, am
for him and will throw my strength to
him and stay out of the race Nobody
but myself can ever know what sacri-
fee this would be; for 1 have thought
I could have lots of fun running for con-.
greSS in this district, without mourning
the slightest danger of being obliged to
Governor Leedy said: There is no
question about ingalls, being a great man
and an excellent candidate for congress.
By his speech of 1891 he proved to the
people that his views are in accord with
the principles of POpulism, and if we
could get him to stand still in one place
long enOugh-that is, nail him to the
cross-he would be the very man to send
to congress from the First district"
John BreidenthaI, who is a POpulst
leader in the First district, where he
votes, Topeka being his home, said: Mr..
Ingalls, admits that the money question
is the paramount issue of the campaign
of the present. His past record shows
that he is in full accord with the POpulist
theories and platforms on this question,