The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-24
INGALLS, ON STANLEY
Says Wichita Mans Election
is Inevitable.
RESULTS OF THE WAR
viii Be the Expulsion of
Spain From this Hemisphere.

Ex-senator ingalls, wrote when Mr.
Stanley was nominated for governor that
a new era in Kansas politics was dawn
ing and prophesied an utter route Of
fusion forces and Populist plans. In an
interview at Atchison the other day In
gals said:
Political prophecy IN Kansas is very
much safer after the even has taken place
than before it has happened. Barring
the unexpected, which is always liable
TO occur, especially in war, Republican
success this year appears inevitable. We
have an irreprOachable ticket on an in
Vulnerable platform. Stanley is a strong,
clean, broad man, with no erlbarra sRlg
complications; an eloquent and persuasive
speaker; capable Of the leadership in the
new epoch the country is entering; ambi-
tiOus, but not a conspirator; not ashamed
to be accounted moral temperate and
active in church and Sunday school and
yet not a bigOt, nor fanatic nor hyp-
ocrite. He has d great opportunity and
is fortunate in his associates, his envir-
onment and in his adversaries"
Asked his opinion of results TO come
from the war he said:
The war can have but one result and
that is the expulsion Of Spain from this
hemisphere. the loss Of her cononlal pos
Sessions, and her degradation to the low
est rank among European powers. Poor,
ignorant and exhausted Spain is a cay
ing nation like an old rake who has
squandered his fortune in play, wasted
his strength in debuchery, and is proud
only Of his dishonor."
Imperialism?
imperialism is a word invented by fools
to impose upon towards. It has no place
in the dictionary Of Democracy. nor is
there any possible condition to wA.ch it
applies. Our mission in this world has
been to disclose to man his capacity for
civilization and self-government. The
timid and apprehensive spirits who dread
the extension Of our boundaries forget
that since the thirteen colonies achieved
their independence, by the Louisiana pur-
chase, the acquisition Of Florida, the war
with Mexico, the Gadsden purchase, and
the cessiOn Of Alaska by Russia we have
enlarged our frontiers without detrimert
TO the equality Of man, or harm TO the
the constitution. or disrespect to the mem
DRY OF George Washington.
The annexation of Hawaii will not i'm
pair the franchises Of freedom in Kansas.
Whether we take Cuba, Porto Rico. and
the Philippines under our control depends
entirely on the capacity Of their people
to govern themselves. 1t Is crtain that
they will not be surrendered to the ty-
ranny and extortion OF Spain, nor to the
squalid barbarism OF the native popula-
ton"
''Mr. ingalls,, what effect If any. viii the
war have on the silver issue and Bryan
ism, and if it does. do you think the next
national campaign viii be fought out on
new issues?'
I'VE have had no war when the party
which conducted It successfully did not
control the politics of the country for the
next generation, and il will be so now
We shall have another quarter of a CEN
fury Of soldier politics, camp fires, re-
unions, military candidates, and war is
sues. Bryan saw this and he is going 10
Cuba just as General Pierce and the 9th
er Democratic candidates for the presi-
dency OF that day went to Mexico. The
war expenditures make money plenty. |
Times Will improve. The old economic |
and social questions will disappear tenn
porarily. till the next flepression /.
brings them to the front again. The next /
national campaign will be waged on is
sues growing out Of the war; territorial
expansion; the empire Of the Pacific: the /
Nicaragua canal. an increased army and /.
navy and methods Of the revenue taxa
ton"
DO you think Mckinley makes a good
war president?"
In every way admirable As events 4
proceed, the wisdom Of his policy from 4
the beginning becomes evident. Those I
who were SO jealous for the recognition /
or the Cuban republic now see that there /
has never been any Cuban republic 10 /
recognize and that such action would /
nave resulted in the most destructive I
complications. Gomez has had no army .
and his disorganlzed guerriilas will neith- |
er work nor fight L Will he quite as
difficult 10 deal with tho insurgents as /
win Spain, and tohe military occupation
Of Cuba by an army Of twenty-five thous- /
and men for The next fifty years is not /
a. all unlikely