The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-08
INGALLS, IN POLITICS.
Formally Announces That He
Is Once More on the
Firing Line.

Ex-United States Senator John J. In
gals has formally announced his return
to the Kansas political field In an in
terview published in this weeks Mail
and Breeze, he said:
THE use of my name in connection
with First district congressional nomi-
nation has been without consulting me.
It is a proposition upon which am
wholly uninformed."
But will you be a candidate?"
& am for Charley Curtis. I think he
is a most valuable man, whose retire
ment from congress would be a serious
loss to this state. I hope to see him re-
nominated, and I hope my friends will
support him. I have heard of an alleged
agreement at the Horton convention,
but so far as I am able to learn that
matter receives little or no attention in
this part of the district"
Then you may be a candidate for
United States senator?"
L am for Mr.. Baker. I understand
the race is between Mr.. Burton and Mr..
Baker I have nothing against Mr..
Burton, but if Baker and Burton are
the only gentlemen in the contest am
in favor of giving the present senator
a second term"
Then you expect to take a hand in
7 certainly do." replied the senator.
when the campaign comes on shall
do my share of the work to secure Re
publican ascendancy in Kansas, as I
have always done in the past / am for
a reorganization of the Republican par
ty in Kansas. for a new deal as the
boys say I think we are badly in need
of some new blood in Republican poll
tics in this state.
The Populist party is rapidly disin-
tegratIng- The members of the party
who have Republican antecedents will
resume their relations with that party.
The greenbackers. union laborites, anti
mOnOpOlists and kicl1ers generally will
form another opposition party. OF
course in this state we have an incOr-
HI l. -
always be hostile to the Republican
party as it would be hostile to the Dem
Ocratic party if it was in power. But
the POpulists as party will disinte-
crate; and as a matter of fact, they
never had any occasion to exist. re-
gard Kansas as a safe Republican state
in the future, and if the real senti-
ments of the people had been expressed
it always would have been a Republi-
can state.
"McKinley's denomination is just as
certain as though the decree was al
ready registered by the national con-
VentiOn," said Mr. ingalls,; 'and at the
present time regard the denomination
of Bryan by the Democracy as just as
certain The Democracy will blunder as
usual and oppose the war in the Philip
pines as imperialism and military dom
nation That will be the chief issue of
the next campaign, with 16 to 1 on the
side. But the trust question is really
the most important and significant of
all the political problems of the times
in which we live. Both parties will un-
dOubtedly incorporate in their platforms
planks against the restraint of trade
and the destroying of the opportunities
for American citizens in the race for
life. Unless the trust epidemic is ar
rested, at the rate things are now going
we will have a. financial crash within
five years that will make the panic of
'93 seem insignificant. When that oc-
ours the readjustment will take place.
There is a tremendous undercurrent of
indignation and alarm about the indus
trial situation. In the last 80 days
prices of a large number of necessaries
and staple of life have been raised by
the trusts for the purpose of increasing
their inOrdinate profits. I think a very
large proportion of the strikes of the
| present time are really instigated by
| the trusts to give them an excuse for
stopping production and raising prices
| on stocks on hand"