The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-08-13
Charges Against senator Ingalls,.

The Kansas City Times of last Friday, contain
ed fourteen columns of charges against Senator
Ingalls,, commencing with his bOyhood, ana
bringing him down to the present time Ii they
are true, they make the Senator ene OF the mean
est men on top of ground; and IN every charSe'
the duties names, places, circumstances and par
ticuIars are given which give the charges the
appearance of truth, uncontradicted by any re-
butting evidence. The Senator's private and po-
liteaI life are both entered into, and exposed to
the world He is charged with petty larceny
when at college; with dishonesty and double
dealing in his profession; with RIGHTEOUSNESS
intrigues, and nest-hiding;" with bribing Judg-
es and witnesses; with perjury and fraud as
Legislative clerk; with neglect and ill treatment
of near relations; with iuordinate greed and av-
arice; with treaehery to friends and perfdy to
opponents; and with general system of selling
Offices under his control, and blackmailing gen.
orally. He is charged with knowing before-h hand,
of the conspiracy to defeat Pomeroy; of bribing
witnesses to testify on the investigation; and
with desperate schemes to corrupt the officers
having control of the POmeroy case, and to bleed
Pomeroy.
The Times declares itself pecuniarily response
BILE to Mr. Ingalls,, and challenges him to bring
that the only conrse left him is to accept the
challenge or rest under the charges. How much
of the matter is true, we have no means of know
ing; but from what we have learned from various
sources, from time to time, predisposed
TO believe that there was ground for great deal
1T. ----
The chief creature heOl and instrument of In
gals, in carrying ont his system of corruption
Si,, aIa To hay.. hoan n Goo
field, late United States District Attorney for
Kansas; and indications point to Scofield as hav-
ing given the principal part of the information
contained in the Times expose, together with pri
vate letters of Ingalls, and Others which came
into his possession. Whatever may be thought |
of Ingalls, offences, there can be but one opinion |
as to the baseness of the miserable wretch who |
confesses that he a tool for several years in |
carrying system of vile corruption; and |
then, when his employer was done with him,
turns round and tells of his own infamy, and ex- |
poses private, confidential letters-all for the
purpose either of revenge or black-mail.'
We suppose there very few people but |
agree in opinion as to the object of the Times in |
Publishing this batch of stuff When a newspa-
per does thing of this kind from good motives,
it does it when it gets the facts, without any pre-
vious parade. But some days before the Times
published its expose, it came out with flaming |
announcement that startling revelations would |
be made on given day. When that day arrived,
certain necessary papers had failed to arrive, but
the thing wOuld certainly come on the following
day. These were simply notices, to Mr.. Ingalls,
to "come down." A suitable amount of black
mail wonld have suppressed the fourteen columns
Of loaded miniOn, as in the case of the Lawrence
Tribune revelations; but Ingalls, not soaring
worth a cent, the world has been told all about
what bad man he is