Show HIS WATERLOO ja THE fiery ingalls has at last met his bis waterloo by an overwhelming majority the kansas legislature rejected him as its representative in the united states senate he fought vigorously for a fourth term he is supplanted by a gentleman named a of ef the farmers farmer alliance of kansas and editor of the kansas farmer ingalls delivered a speech in the senate about two weeks agos ago which attracted much attention if was said to be a bid for the alliance vote and a shrewd bit of diplomacy to enlist in his behalf the farmers and ers ere of the country one paragraph from that speech will illustrate the tenor of the whole here it la Is the evil mr president the second to which I 1 adverted as an threatening the safety t if nut not endanger the existence of I 1 t the le b is in the tyranny myrann y of combined 0 concentrated centralized and incorporated capital and the people are considering this great problem now the conscience of the nation is shocked at the injustice of modern modem society the moral sentiment of mankind has been aroused at t the unequal distribution of wealth at ahe th the unequal diffusion of burdens the benefits and the privileges of society at the beginning of our second century the american people have become profoundly conscious that the ballot to is not the panacea for all the evils that afflict humanity that it has not abolished poverty verty nor prevented in justice they have e discovered that political equality does not result in fraternity that under a democracy the concentration of greater political power in fewer hands the accumulation and aggregation of veater greater amounts of wealth in in individuals visuals is is more possible than under monarchy and that there is a tyranny which is more fatal than the tyranny of kings this is a vivid picture of the existing social and industrial condition of the united states it had oo Do effect ort on the kansas farmers far mera evidently they do not believe in mr ingalls as a political regenerator in a speech in the senate a short abort time before he said that the golden rule and the decalogue did not inot belong to american politics and to hope that they ever would was only an iridescent dream commenting on these speeches abe the indianapolis news expresses itself as follows the thoroughness the depth sound ing the corkscrew cork screw penetrating power ower of the revolution wrought at the polls po a in the last election wa was perhaps not realized in au its extent until the speech of senator ingalls last laet week the way in which he arrayed himself on the side of the people and purity the way in which he recanted the way in which he testified that the things he once hated now he loves and the things he once loved now he hates has hardly been equalled equal led since the conversion of saul of tarsus which it will be remembered le ie came with such power as to make him blind ingalls Tn galls wore before whom purity withered as flowers wither in mephitic vapors who sneered at virtue as the stuffed doll or senseless plaything of a childish age who held the covenants of public morality as the object of bitter gibe and smart phrase making this ingalls now would pose as an inspired prophet who had never bowed the knee to bailor who had braved daily with ida his face to the east amid a willful and perverse generation herr most could not rave against the malignance of money henry george could not demon the injustice of the system that makes progress and poverty with a zeal more perfervid and a sincerity pawing passing the performance of ingalls it is one of the most salutary sights that has been presented in a long time here was a pan nian who entrenched in long public ser alce had elevated it to a station his supremacy seemed to him so absolute his hii mastery so complete that he was not as aft other men were he re seemed to become possessed of the spirit of herod whom no title could suffocate with its greatness he posed before the country to in pictures and text ane ning ening at the virtue of the age trampling on the moral standards of civilization making sport of its beliefs as superstitions the ex plop ions of which were long known to superior beings like himself and behold iii he has withered at a touch I 1 it is not generally known that amrin galls was in 1864 the nominee for lieu lieutenant tenant governor of kansas of what was then called the anti lincoln party the chairman of the convention which nominated ingalls said lincoln has damaged the country and overridden law and the constitution the government is falling to pieces from inherent imbecility the republican state central committee issued an address to the loyal voters of kansas kane to pause and think before voting for Thatcher ingalls and lee the candidates of the copperhead balters bol what a strange revolution in a ili ethne efte ingalls was then a now BOW he depends on the G A B R for support and he be is the champion of the soldier and the pensioner 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