Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-12
KANSAS AND SENATOR INGALLS,

The following reflections from the Hiawa-
tina World are in Web. Wilder's character
istic wien:
Next month the state legislature will meet
The officers ofthe two houses viii be elected
Gov. Martins message read, and, not many
days thereafter, Mr.. ingalls, will be reelected
to the senate. We happened to be presen,
on the day of his first election-the famous
York-Pomeroy scene, SO often described. 1t
was on the 18th 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 Psmeroy
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.
lie 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 years of life in Kansas.
81 never saw ingalls, idle said Judge King
men were law partners. An omniverous
reader, frequent writer, a 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, Mcawbers. shallow politicians. Ingalls,
liked the free life of the west, its freedom from
cant and formality, 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 at arms, our citizen
abundantly proved that he stood at the
front, abreast with the best thought of his
times. His brother senator's found out the
same fact, incredulous at first but soon con-
WINGED. Mr.. Conkling found it out; so did
Mr. Joe Brown of Georgia, and all the
benches between. When Henry Wilson, or
Arthur, or Edmunds wished to vacate
the vice-president's chair, they called
more frequently upon the Kansan
than any other senator; he is the best parlia-
mentarian and presiding officer in that body;
he learned the business, thoroughly learned
it, in the Kansas legislature as clerk and as
a member ofthe senate representing Brown
and Atchson counties). 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 TO the territory-a 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 pauper then armed with knife
and revolver. Now the Kansan has home,
school, church, college, railroads through
Every county, and has papers and books
cheaper than drink Of the early frontier
whisky.
To the wise man all conditions of life are |
school. Both houses of our legislature |
will coon give this man vote nearly unan- |
mous. Fortunate Kansas The senate is |
now the only barrier between the union and |
he confederate sides. The rebels have elect
d the house and the president. The senate |
tands guard over the rights of the veteran
older, and is the sole defender Of the new,
mended, free constitution. Kansas needs
trong men in that body, and she has them.
10 intrigue or ambush will catch them nap
ling. They have been schooled in the west,
he hardy nurse of brave men, and Kansas
proud of her soldiers in body where al
most half the seats are filed with rebel
,ri1adiors