The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-19

had succeeded in electing him he wrote
me a warm letter of thanks for my efforts
in his behalf and showed his appreciation
of the same by7voting for me along with
each of the other delegates for the posi-
ton of national committeeman. l men
ton this for two reasons: First, that the
action of the: delegates gives the lie to
the statement that the convention passed
a resolution against my election to that
place; and, second, because it is the only
instance in his long political career with
in the memory of anyone, where Mr..
ingalls, ever showed any appreciation of
a favor bestowed.
INGALLS, FAMOUS SPEECH.
"Just before the senatorial election in
1891, Ingalls, made very foolish, wild and
socialstic speech in the United States
senate, hoping thereby to give Populist
members who had heretofore been Re
publicans an excuse for voting for his
reelection to the United States senate,
and in the campaign of 1892, and every
campaign since, this speech was printed
and circulated as Populist campaign
document. At the beginning Of the CAM
paign in 1892 meeting was made for him
in Topeka, where he was expected TO
sound the keynote of the campaign. 1t
was expected, of course, that he would
remain silent about his POpulistic speech,
made in January, 1891 and his equally So
cialistic interviews had in 1891, or else
that he would retract them entirely and
make an old-fashioned Republican speech
and no doubt it was his intention to do SO
until he was made the victim of the ma
chinations of John w. Breidenthal, chair
man of the Populist state committee
Breidenthal bought 10000 postal cards and
had them addressed to Senator ingalls, a
day or so before the speech was to have
| been made. purporting to have come from
as many different Republicans, each one
| urging him to stand by his speech that he
| had made in the senate and to make more
emphatic his interviews had in 1891.
"Ingalls, as you know, is a very vair
man, utterly without conviction, and was
led 10 beIieveFhat he could take the Re
| publican party with him, capture large
number of the Populists and be supreme
! in the state; hence, instead of giving US g
| Republican speech, he delivered another
| vitriolic TRADE against Republican princi
! pies that was also quoted against us dur
! ing the entire campaign by the enemy
/ This. of course, hurt instead Of helping
! us. so he had to be retired from the cam
| paign. We lost the state in 1892 by {
| close vote, and ingalls, contributed more
/ to our defeat than any fifty Populists IL
| the state. 1t was thought that he woulc
! never be a Republican any further.
DID MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
an 1894, however. during which year
| was chairman Of the state central com
| rnittee. I discovered that he still wanted
to remain in the party and indicated hi.
! willingness to help. We put him OF tn
! stump, but his speeches wereso tainted
with Popullsm and other uu-Republicag
/ principles that that he did us more harm
/ than good. Notwithstanding this, We car
| ried the state that year. electing our en-
! tire state ticket and Republican legisla
ture. which in 1885 elected a Republican
! senator. ingalls, had been a receptive
( candidate throughout the entire contest
and his name was formally placed befor'
the Republican caucus. but he receive,
! only one vote. Immediately after tn
/ election OF senator BAKER ne openly al
nounced his candidacy for the senate il
/ 1896.
During the year 1ss5, and Up TO tn
time the national convention adjourne'
| at St Louis through public addresses an'
! interviews. he emphatically espoused IN
cause Of free silver. and did much TO ere
/ ate the sentiment among certain lin
( OF old Republican friends in the state i
/ favor OF the white metal. he waited 70
| six weeks after the convention ad5ouTns'
| at ST. Louis before he announced his sup
| port for Mckinley. and then DID it in I
/ ridiculous and foolish speech in Ric'
! county that did Us great harm throushoG
I the campaign The battle IN Kansas II
1875 however. was fought along homes
/. lines. s4uareIy on the St Louis platform
| and although we increased our vcte IN
| Ill il was the greatest we had EsoIled sinc'
I ISIS. We lost the state by q sr--all ma
/ jority. caused by a number % EepGbf
/ cans who had beea pupils Of senator IN
gals boiling the party and voting 70
! free silver and Bryan
BURTOS-INGALLs CAMPAIGN
Mr.. Bzrtoz and Mr- I,gzlls were ~