The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-11
KANSAS AND SENATOR IN
CALLS

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The following reflections from the
Hiawatha World are in web. Wilder's
characteristic vein:
Next month the state legislature will
meet. The officers OF the TWO houses
will be elected, Gov. Martins message
read, and, not many days thereafter.
Mr.. Ingalls, will be re- elected to the
senate. We happened To be present on
the day of his first election-the famous
York PomerOS scene, SO oit-n described.
1t was on the 29lh day of January,
1878, exactly twelve years from the day
when President Buchanan signed the
bill admitting Kansas into the Union.
And twelve years have gone by since the
exposure Of Pomt roy and the first cleo
ton of Ingalls,. These two terms ia 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 seD-
ators as their peer and by the people al
large as d brave, earnest and effective
defender of the rights OF the people.
He went to the upper house we'll
equipped. To the SQUAD education re-
ceived IN early life he had added much
study of men and books during his If
teen years of life in Kansas. II never
To us many years ago, when the two
men were Law D IrIners. An omniV, rOus
reader, frequent writer, a constant
worker The young man who comes to
a border territory from an eastern COL
lege is very apt TO forget his books and
adopt the easy life OF the young men
around bim-land spectators, MicsW-
bers, shallow politicians Ingalls, liked
The tree life If the west, its freedom from
cant aud fOrmality, but he chung TO his
studies; to his leaders, the
books. Probably not one of
his college classmates, blessed with the
advantages afford,d by large cities and
big Libraries, kept up his study SO faith
fully as this young lawyer on the Mis-
souri, river bluff. We think when they
found him in Washington that they saw
no trace OF the borderer about him, and,
If there happened an intellectual TILT al
arms, our citizen abundantlY proved that
be stood al the front, abreast with the
best thought of his times His brother
senators found out the same fact, incred.
ulous at first but soon convinced. Mr.
Conkllng found it out; so did MIR. Joe
Brown of Georgia, ana all the benches
b,tween When Henry Wilson. or
Arthur, or Edmunds wished 70
vacate the vice presidents chair, they
| CItlr-i uHOu NuC NSuc6u
| than upOa any other senator; he Is the
best pArliament4rIan and presiding Off
| Ger 10 that b,dy; he learned the bust
uess, thoroughly learned 1t, IN the Kan
| sas legislature as a clerk and as a mem
b. r at the senate Representing Brown
| and AtchisOn countits). The young
| Kansas boy who reads these lines need
not Sigh over the lack of opportunities
for 81 dy and observation afforded by
this state; they are fifty fold great eT
than they were When Ings!ls came to the
| territory tract of country with no
school houses, no libraries, no railroads
no wagon roads, no bridges, no fences
no barns. hardly a good house any
Where-twn weeks from New
York daily paper and no good
dailies this side of that city
Kansas was a pauper then armed with
knife and revolver. Now the Kansau
has home, schOol, church. college, rail
roads through everv county. and has pa
pers and books cheaper than q drink o
the early frontier whisky.
To the wise man all conditions of life
are n school. Both houses of our legis
laiure will sonn give this man q vnt,
nearly un4ni,n"Rs. Foptnnatc Kansas
The senate is new hid AnlV barrier be
TWEEN The nni'n snd the coufPderst
SIDES The rehels-have elected the haus
ard she PRESIDENT The senate staTd
guard over the rights of the veteran sol
, der. aud is The sole defend, Of the ne y
amended, free constitution. Kansa
needs strong men in that body aud sh
has them M intrIgue or ambush vii
catch them mapping. They have heel
SchOOled in the west, the hardy nurse u
} brave men. and Kansas is promo of he
sOldiers in a body where almost half III
seats are filled with rebel brIgadieFs