Show REED AND INGALLS The Recent Attack Made on 11 Reed by I the ExSenator An Interview in Which the Late Candidate Candi-date for tho VicePresidency I Airs ills Views CHICAGO July UHon Whiteleaw Reid exminister to France who with his family has been seeing the Worlds fair for some days past was caught by a reporter just as he was starting back for New York Mr Reid expressed great delight with the fair saying it surpasses any Worlds fair previously held in many particulars Its buildings are superior its novel picturesque effects far surpass sill previous efforts in fact it was perfection perfec-tion in all respects Mr Reid was asked i he had read ExSenator Ingalls criticism criti-cism of his candidacy for the vicepresi dency No said Reid with a laugh but you know I was not in favor of that nomination nom-ination myself so probably the exsenator and I wouldnt differ materially The reporter thought they might and showed Mr Reid passages where Ingalls sneered at him as uxorious ana an aristocrat ars tocrat and objected to his dress manners I and ways and spoke his supercilious insult to laboring men That said Mr Reid with more sfc riousness is absurd I have been a laboring man myself far more than In galls ever was and he would probably be puzzled to specify any insult supercilious supercili-ous otherwise that I ever offered to labor or to any honest laboring man All this talk about hostility to the national ticket last year on account of a fifteenyear old strike which was settled to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of labor unions is sheer claptrap anyway There never were a thousand votes affected by it in New York even when it was an open question to say that after it was settled to their entire en-tire satisfaction the labor unions still carried it into politics is to accuse them not merely of bad faith but of a systematic system-atic violation of their own cardinal principles prin-ciples thus offering tnern the grossest insults in-sults Of course our opponents made a great hubbub about i but the most of those whom they claim to have Influenced were already on their side I doubt i Powderly or any other equally reputable and responsible labor leader will say that the question turned a thousand labor votes iu the United States last fall Certainly Cer-tainly it did not turn one where a single rifle shot at the Carnegie works turned thousands H What about uxorious and aristocracy aris-tocracy urged the reporter Oh pshaw said Mr Reid whoever who-ever heard before of a rational man attacking at-tacking a candidate because he was decently de-cently fond ol his wife The rest of In galls complaint seems to be that in other particulars also I act like a gentleman Well out In Kansas they surely dont bring that accusation against him and yet when he was last a candidate although al-though he abandoned supposed principles princi-ples and crawled in the dirt before them Mrs Lease and Mr Peffer thrust him into the gutter He has been lying there ever since spouting mud and bad language tack What can be the motive for the at tackHow How do I know and whats the use of guessing He seems to lack employment employ-ment since he was thrown out of office holding and I suppose the man must make a living by lecturing or writing for a syndicate We have dozens of such statesmen out of a job applying to us for work after every election and I fancy your paper has the same experience and with a cheery goodbye the New York editor swung into the car and started for his train |