The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-09-14
pLuHB's REELECTION.

tors: each fret their lives out to secure these
places and neither is remembered long. Let
u, pity while we elevate them. In fact the
modern and very iron shovel il making sad
work with all kinds OF the most immortal OF
mortal mnortals. Pompeii, Hercnlane,im,
Hissarlik. Nineveii dug up. Agamemnon, |
dsd1 androa. King Of men, dug up by schhe-
mann, or said TO me, or his mask. or his gold, !
or his wifc--all the assertions OF the shovel
are disputed-but he aud they, in their ashes,
might have been dug up. aud so the fact IN
regard TO the vanity of earthly immortality
remains the same. An emptiness, void ana
a chaos. Hence it becomes us all to go to
meeting with great regularity aud to make
sure thing of the next world, since this is
nothing; no more 20 the AleXanders and the
Caesars than TO you andm There's nothing
so became their life as the leaving Of 1t.
Meanwhile Plumb Is to be elected Senator
next wnter--a worthy and an able man, ut
for the place, in life, character and m ntal
force.
Plumb the printer came here early and OF
course rom Ohio There he hadbe part
ner of our Hawatha Rev. J. ID. Liggett.now
OF DclFOlt. III tuc newspaper oNStHeSr' Wv
bright aud nervy men were these. Both have
sat at our desk. on chance calls, and written
articles for us that bristled with points and
were full of sinewy strength. Once we re-
member Plumb wrote at our request on the
loyal or Pin Indians. lie had been down IN
to the Nation: had seen Indians joining
Union regiments, as hundreds Of them did.
and he was enthusiastic over the fact that the
rebels had an enemy on their flank and Kan
sas 4 friend below our southern border.
They were called Pin from the simple badge
adopted by the loyalists when they banded
themselves together aud voluntarily swOre
| allegiance to the Onion.
In those days. when Plumb was anajor,h he
was the very picture of mental and physical
health; good height. with no superfious flesh,
straight. alert. vigorous, thousand miles Of
march in him without thought of tent, sleep
or food. Not the beefy prize-fghter, pictured
in the autographs. but the wiry Greek a'h-
lete, the marching American Indian. When
the American sculptor first saw the Apollo.
| that type of all grace, that comes to us from
| Greece. and in which Athenian art still lives,
| he exclaimed: He l. a mohawk" Plumb
was never beauty but the swinging OF
hand printing press had given strength to the
arm and leg. and when the war came this was
the kind of volunteer il found in the shops
| and on the farms al, over the North. The
verdict OF European commanders who saw
our armies was that the race was not deteri-
Grating. Thcse "raw levies.' with their
swinging gait, their alert eyes, warm hearts
| and thrllin. nerves were such soldiers as the
world had never seen before. And it was
right there that the Republic had proved it.
.elf the hes, government: il had made the
| best men.
Kansas sent out many thousand of them /;
each a Republican government in himself;
the Constitution, the Union and the enforce.
ment OF the laws: TOTES, teres atQns rofandas.
Plumb was only one OF many who did his
whole duty in quiet and modest way, who
did not seek notoriety and who arrogated to
| himself no honors that did not belong to his
men.
| Asa civilian his career has been marked,
unique; probably il has no parallel in Kan
sas. And il is as a civilian that we need him
as servant.
1t can be so briefly stated that il will be
read. Plumb came here poor twenty-siN
lyears ago: worked as sprinter in Lawrence
was foreman of the Herald Of Freedom Office
went to Emporia. started the .fe,rs and, with
a few others, started the town, on Il raw quar-
ter. Emporia now has six thousand people
and is P!umbs monument in every brick ant
EN- quad. II is three years ahead OF liiawa
tia because the Neo>ho river runs down
, there. and there don't mo river run W
here Emporia. like Hiawatha, has Away.
been AZ anti-saloon town. Emporia was the
first of Kansas towns TO make flour an indus
try and to export il in wagons, to Colorado
more than twenty years ago. when ever!
pound of flour used in Leayenwoith came
from Missouri; the icea IT'LL prevailed tbs
E corn was our only crop. Emporia has alst
been at the head in schools and churches
Plumb's old paper, the Aers. now Stotleri
leading in every good work.
Onr major found time-the busiest man i
the man who finds the most time; the loafe
is the only man who SAYS. al haint no time
to study law, TO be clerk of the Supreme
, Court. TO edit law book. 10 go TO the Leg
islature and 20 be speaker. Time also TO lin,
that Kansas could not only raise wheat bu
cattle in fact that cattle should be the mail
reliance of the Kansas farmer for ready none,
and handsome returns Plumb event into
cattle. and made money. as he deserved TO do
, reaping the fruit of his brains, economy ant
industry. lie was also the means or cause o
MANI other men ''gOing into cattle and max
| ing snug fortunes Just now Major Plumb
as il seems The most natural TO call him, Il
developing an industry in the Arkansas Val
ley, irrigation, that vii; do Kansas more gooa
than any other movement that has ever beef
within our limits. Plumb has put mor'
money into that enterprise than AIRY othe
man. and his example. in an industry that il
hooted at and sneered ut. is more valuable
than his dollars. Every gardener in Kansas
must. of necessity, he an irrgator, and ever,
farmer who lives by the side OF a stream viii
be an irrigator Thousands of farmers witt
live on hills viii compel the wind to waite
their fields.
tits said that Plumb has become rich; i
was inevitable. His silent mottois: Through
economy. industry and good habits to thu
"A
5 State seal. From Ben Franklin's day to our
Q they have meant nothing but success to thu
a poor American boy.
oil Politically I'VE first heard of Plumb whei
0 he made vigorous and courageous speecl
y against Lane. in Territorial convention
4 boarding the lion in his den. And Plumb
0 has continued [ be heard Of. Now, in thu
D Senate. he is one of the most able men in tina
: body, handling the deepest subjects with Ell
fectiye skill. and speaking. rs ever with tn
rapidly of lightning. Plumb is not an ora
tor; not u magnetic speaker; but he cal
think on his legs and carry his points, ant
that is what we want in Senator. He ha
power without prettiness, grace, rhetoric Of
very much humor. They listen to him ant
hard sense controls.
But enough TO day. We hear OF no candi
date for the Legislature in Northern kansa
who is not in favor Of the re-eIection of Pres
ton b. Plumb WI. iider in he Hiaeath'
World.