Wichita eagle., 1888-03-06
PLUMB, INGALLS, AND THE PRESI-
DENCY

what have the friends OF Senator PLUMP
to say about sending the delegation TO the
gals for president? Senator Plumb is a
man of the people, in harmony with the
party of Kansas, and is recognized as
standing at the very head of practical and
useful statesmen in the senate.-Capital.
The '.friends of Senator Plumb"
almost to man. are in favor of Mr.. In
gals for president II he should be
nominated. Mr.. Plumb will be the ''senior
SENATOR" and that would please all of his
friends. By the way, we do not believe
there will be single vote against Mr..
Plumbs reelection when the time comes
to elect. Commonwealth.
We desire to add that not only between
Mr.. Ingalls, and Hlr. Plumb do the most
harmonious relations exist, but so far as
we know, outside of the personal ambi-
tons of few individuals, the Republi-
can party of Kansas are proud of these
men, and the records they have made,
and would listen to know proposition to
displace either. AS to Senator Plumb's
reelection, the Commonwealth may well
speak so confidently. If his physical
health and mental vigor are spared him,
he will be worth to the state and to his
party any two dozen men who may or
might desire to beat him for the purpose
of securing the place themselves. With
his experience, his brains and his
energy he is simply host among his
compeers. As for work, systematic eff
fective work. few men, however ex-
TO I,
him. A prominent Democratic senator
said to the writer but few weeks ago
that Plumb of Kansas, did double the
work of any man he knew, either IN pub
lie or private life, and that such was the
general recognized fact about the CAPT
tai and the departments. He is out of
bed by half past four or five o'clock in
the morning and from that time till half
past nine, his breakfast hour, he applies
himself to his correspondence and to
laying out the details of the work for
the day and for which the letters
may call. A hurried breakfast over
he is off to his committee room
where he is busy until the meeting of the
senate at IL o'clock. As soon as the
morning hour is over, unless some de-
bate or some measure in which he is
particularly interested. is coming up, he
rushes down to the basement restaurant,
swallows hasty lunch and is off for the
departments. His dinner hour is 6
o'clock, but more than half of the time
he misses that meal, in which case you
will find him in his room, around on
Thirteenth street, buried, not metaphor
ically, but absolutely buried in heaps of
letters, bills, papers, documents, Stats
teal pamphlets, etc. 1t is no use to say
that the work he accomplishes would
break down nine men. out of ten, for the
reason there could not be found one man
in hundred who could go through with
it all even if they didn't break down.
No, the politician or the combination
that undertakes to break down P. B.
Plumb viii not only be compelled to
break down the Republican party of
Kansas, but to defeat the will, practi-
cally, of the entire people of the state.
If there is vote against the re-elCc-
ton of Plumb in the next legislature it
will be by some Democratic member
who loves his party to that degree that
the good of his state becomes only sec
ondary matter and the company of a
meager minority more to be desired than
a triumph for the right.