Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-01-15
SENATORS IkGALLs.

An Interesting Sketch of the Kan.
saS senator by q Washington Cor
respondent.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Cleveland Leader gives the following
concise and discriminating sketch OF
Senator Iugalls Of Kansas: ...@.
'Thers is not more scholarly man In
the United States Senate. he is full Of
ideas and he expresses them 6uenily and
in sentences where every word tells. He
has wide knowledge Of AFFAIR.", and his
views are broad and liberal, He is full
Of pugnaoity, and Is ready TO fight for his
rights and those OF his party and his
tie az the drop Of hat. Ard he fights
we'll, tool The other ssnators are very
careful how they knock the chips of
Ingalls' shoulders. His courage ia
known, and his sarcastic tongue can cut
like . two-edRed sword in heartless
repArtee. r..."
"This Kansas senator ia curious look
ing man, and you would take him for q
Boston swell rather than for the practical
westerner that re is. He is tall and thin,
with form as straight as that Of q West
Point cadet, and clothes which 1T "a
though made by Broadway tailor. His
head ia long, his fcrehead rather high
than broad, and his eyes bright and
piercing he has iTou-grsy hair, which
falls to his forehead In sort Of bang,
aud his thin mOustaohe and whiskers ale
Of the same color Senator Ingalls ia now
81 years old, and ia In his prime. He is
a Massachusetts, man by birth and comes
OF old Puritan stock-the best stock in
| tho uuorIH 40 az -
Boston and transplant Il In rev frontier
soil where It would have 70 fight to grow.
II WAS in q little Massachusetts, village
that Ingalls, was born in the fret year Of
Jsokson's second term "a President.
Here, surrounded by abolition ideas,
hard Puritsnical manners and Yankee
common eense, he spent his boyhood.
BE wss educated at williams College, and
was there at the same time az Garfield.
After this he studied law for two years,
and year later he went to Kansas, which
at this time was the bone Of contention
between the north and the south.
Massachusetts, WAS closely connected with
Kansas in the latter part Of the fiities
and four years before Ingalls, arrival an
emigrauts' aid society had been formed
in Massachusetts to help oolonize KansAf
In the aid Of free soil. This society
sent out emigrGnts and furnished then
with arms to protect Themselves and
their rights against the pro slavery
settlers from Missouri and Arkansas, aud
in 1858, when Mr.. IugSlls moved Il
Kansas, the whole country looked upor
the territory IS the seat OF riot and law
lessnsss. Civil war wSs reiRnipg, town.
were burned, and half dozen differen
governors had failed to bring order ont o
the chaos into which the territory wal
plunged. Here 1t was that young Ingalli
decided to start his life work. HI
settled at little town near Atchisop
and hung out his shingle. The mex
year he was elected member OF the con
stitutional convention, in 1850 secretary
OF the territorial council, and In the yea
following secretary Of the state senate. II
1862 he was Kansas legislator, and q
that and the following elections was tn,
anti Lane candidate for lientenSnt-gover
nor. He then became editor OF the At
Gibson Champion, and Ben. Perley Poor
says he lie better fitted to be great edito
than any man in the country. he wa
practising law at Atohison at the tim
Of his election tu the United States Sen
ate. HE record here at Washington 1
free from stain, and he sits in the senAt
surrounded by millionaires, an exampl
Of what brains and courage can do nm
aided by the almighty dollar.o