Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — INGALLS READ OUT OF THE PARTY [ARTICLE]
INGALLS READ OUT OF THE PARTY
A Kansas Republican New spaper Says Some Hard Things About the ExSenator. For the past six weeks the Republican -State- central com nrft toe has been tn akin gefforts to persuade John J. Ingalls to stuinp the State in the interests of the party, but all to no purpose. On Monday the Tope !< a Capita I’, th e < >lt iei al S tate pa - per and Republican organ, which has for years supported Senator Ingalls, after asking the question, “What is Senator Ingalls doing for the party that honored hint so many years?'’ says that he has done no tit ing. The arti cl c con ti n u es: “Th at. he is not a leader to-day is more duo to the supreme egotism and cold-blooded selfish - ness of the mail than to his lg,c.k of ability; forgetting,the grand, self-sacrificing tight of his party, that went down to defeat with him. Tnis supreme worshiper of himself turned his back upon the political friends n”ofa’ciTHTiFy .iVs weir a s upon those who laid aside their convictions against him and gave him a loyal support No man in American history was ever so greatly honored for the single talent of sarcastic oratory. He has had great opportunities. and failed as a leader, politieian ¥ Whmd. To-day inKansas the ex-Senator is neither missed nor regretted.”
