Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-11
KANSAS AND SENATOR INGALLS,.
The following reflections from the Hiawa-
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The following reflections from the Hiawa-
stc wien:
Next month the state legislature will meet.
The officers ofthe two houses will be elected,
| Gov. Martins message read, and, not many
DAYS thereafter, Mr. Ingalls, will be reelected
to the senate. We happened to be present
on the day of his first election-the famous
York Pomeroy scene. SO often described. 1t
| was on the 2Sth day of January, 1873. ex-
| actly twelve years from the day when Presi-
dent Buchanan signed the bill admitting
Kansas into the union. And twelve years
have gone by since the exposure of Pemeroy
and the first election of Ingalls,. These two
terms in the senate have been wisely used BY
Mr.. Ingalls,. Although not much past fifty,
our Kansas man has made national name
He is regarded by the first senators as brave,
earnest and effective defender of the rights of
the people.
He went to the upper house well equipped.
To the sound education received in early life
he had added much study of men and books
during his fifteen wears Of life in Kansas.
Il never saw Ingalls, idle" said Judge King
man TO us many years ago, when the two
men We're law partners. An omniverous
reader, a frequent writer, n constant worker
The Young man who comes to a border terri
tory from an eastern college is very apt to
forget his books and adopt the easy life of
The Young men around him-land specula-
tors. Micawbers. shallow politicians. Ingalls,
liked the free life Of the west, its freedom from
cant and formaity, but he chung to his
studies; to his leaders, the books Probably
not one OF his college classmates, blessed
with the advantages afforded by large cities
and big Libraries, kept up his study so faith
fully as this Young lawyer on the Missouri
river bluff. We think when they found him
in Washington that they saw no trace of
the borderer about him. and, if there hap
pened an intellectual tilt nj arms. our citizen
abuudantly proved that he stood at the
front. abreast with the best thought of his
times His brother senators found out the
same fact, incredulous at first but soon con-
WINGED. Mr.. Conkling found il out; so did
Mr.. Joe Brown of Georgia, and all the
benches between. When Henry Wilson. or
Arthur. or Edmunds wished to vacate
the viee-president's chair they called
moro frequently upon the kansan
than any other senator: he is the best psrlia-
mentarian and presiding officer in that body:
he learned the business, thoroughly learned
il, in the Kansas legislature AS a clerk and AS
member ofthe senate representing Brown
and Atchison counties1. The young Kansas
boy who reads these lines need not sigh over
the lack of opportunities for study and OBJ
servation afforded BY this state; they are fifty
fold greater than they were when ingalls,
came 10 the ierritory-s tract of country
with no school houses, no libraries, no rail-
roads. no wagon roads. no bridges. no fences,
no barns. hardly good house anywhere
two weeks from New York daily paper
and no good dailies this side of that city.
Kansas WAS psuper then armed with knife
and revolver. Now the kansan has a home,
school. church. college, railroads through
every county. and has papers and books
cheaper than a drink Of the early frontier
whisky. !
To the wise man all conditions Of life are
school. Both houses Of our legislature
viii soon give this man n vote nearly unsn-
imous. Fortunate Kansas The senate Is
now the only barrier between the union and
the confederate sides. The rebels have elect |
cd the house and the president. The senate |
stands guard over the rights of the veteran /
soldier. and is the sole defender of the new, |
amended, free constitution. Kansas needs |
strong men in that body, and she has them. |
No intrigue or ambush will catch them nap /
ping. They have been schooled in the west,
the hardy nurse of brave men. and Kansas
is proud Of her soldiers in q body where al
most half the seats are filed with rebel |
brigadiers.