The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-15
SENATOR MGALLs.


The following excellent sketch con-
,erning John ] Ingalls,. who will be
elected to his third term ia the United
States senate in few days. by the legIs-
ature. is taken from Washington let
Ter to the Cleveland Leader. Il VIII be
read with great interest and feelinz Of
pride upon the part of
the constituency and the people in this
state.
The enthaslastlc and harmonious sup |
port that Mr.. Ingalls, receives from Kan
sas renders his remarkable ability and |
strong influence douhly powerful at !
Washington. In returning its senior |
senator TO his seat 10 the higher house |
OF congress. Kansans do themselves
proud and rest firmly in the feeling that
they have in him the peer of any men,
Der Of the senate and one who copes
tearlessIV with the brightest iEtellects OF
the nation a champion who keeps before
the public through the halls of congress.
the towering prominence which this
great state feels and has in its relations
to the union The following are the
words of the correspondent:
The senatorial election in Kansas,
which will take place next month, will
be remarkable IN that II will return Sen
ator Ingalls, by an almost unanimous
vote. This is the triumph of worth and
integrity over money, ana it Will elevate
Kansas TO 3 higher plane than she has
heretofore held IN our political lie
Prior to the election of Mr.. Ingalls, in
1873, the chances of Senatorial candi.
dates were measured by their unscEuru-
lousness. Pomeroy and Jim Lane were
the two leading senators who preceded
him. Pomeroy has been charged with
bribery again and again, and he has
been made the subject OF several
Congressional Investigations, and Lane,
brave in many respects, was
INSCRIPTIONS in others, and he
ended his life by committing suicide in
1866. When Mr.. Ingalls, was elected to
the senate for the first time in 1873, Pom
eroy was q candidate. and bribed right
and left to defeat ingalls,. He would
have perhaps succeeded had not men,
Der named York accepted bride of
81 900, and on the day of election ex-
posed the fact to the legislature. York
held out the money IN his hand and said
it had been gwen him t. vote for Pome-
roy. He described how he had been ap-
preached again ana again, and finally
bribed; and the result. was that when the
vote was taken the members who had
been bribei to vote for PemerOy dared
not do go, and they went over in q suffl-
cient body TO elect Mr.. Ingalls,.
Mr.. Ingalls, second election was also
close, aud there was some trouble about
his getting his seat, thlnk. He tri-
| umphed, however, aud he has since
ranked here at Washington as tue BRAIN
lest senator of the west. There is not
more scholarly man in the United States
senate. He is iGIl of ideas, and he ex-
presses them fluently and In sentences
where every word tells. He has q wide
knowledge of affairs. and his views are
broad and liberal. He is full of pug
nacity, and is ready to fight for his rights
and those OF his party and his state at
the drop of hat. And he fights well,
| too! The other senators are very care
full how they knock the chips off In
gals shoulders. His course is known
and his sarcastic tongue can cut like a
two-edged sword in the heartless repair
| tee.
This Kansas senator is curious look
| ing man, and you would take him for q
Boston swell rather than for the practi-
cal westerner that he Is. He is tall and
thin, with form as straight as that of
a West Point cadet, and clothes which
fit as though made by a Broad way tailor
| HIS head is long, his forehead rather
| high than broad, and his eyes bright and
| piercing. He has iron-gray hair, which
| falls TO his forhead in a sort of bang, and
his thin mustache and whiskers are OF
the same color. Senator Ingalls, is now
| 81 years old and is in his prime. He is
a Massachusetts man by birth aud
comes OF old Puritan stOck-the
best stock in the world il
| you can get it away from Boston and
transplant it in some new frontier soil,
where it will have to fight TO grow. Ii
was in little Massachusetts village that
Ingalls, was born in the first year OF
| Jackson's second term as president
| Here, surrounded by abolition ideas
hard pnritanical manners, and Yankee
common sense, he spent his boyhood
| He was educated at Williams college
and was there at the same time as Gar.
field. After this he studied law for two
yesrs. and year later he went to Kan
sas, which at this time WAS the bone oil
contention between the north aud the
south Massachusetts was closely cen
necled with Kansas in the latter part OF
the fifties, and four years before Ingalls,
arrival, an Emigranrs Aid Society had
been formed in Massachusetts to helI
colonIze Kansas in the aid of free soil
This society sent out emigrauts and
furnished them with arms to protect
themselves and their rights against the
pro-slavery settlers from Missouri anC
Arkansas, and in 1858, when Mr.. Ingall:
moved to Kansas the whole country
looked upon the Territory as the
seat of riot and iawlessness. CIvI
war was relgniug, towns were
burned, and halt dozen dit
ferent governors had failed to brinI
order out of the chaos into which thl
territory was plunged Here it was tina
young Ingalls, decided to start his lift
work He settled at little town nea
Atchison. and hung out his shingIe
The next year he was elected 8 membe
of the Constitutional COW entlon, in 1856
secretary OF the Territorial council, anC
in tue year following secretary of thu
state senate. In 1869 he was a Kansa
legislator, aud at that and the following
elections was the anti-Lane candidate TO
lieutenant governor. He then becam
= editor of the A:chison Chsmpior
. and Ben Perley PoOre says he Is bette
2 fitted to be great editor than snV ma
= in the country. He was practicing laI
at Atchison at the time of his election {
the United States senate. His recorl
= here ct Washington is free from stair
= and he sits In the senate surrounded b
mIllionaires an example of what brain
and courage can do unaided by the al
8 MIGHTY dollar