The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17

each other and to see the President
whom they had elected, because they
wanted to and not because somebody
ordered them to. They looked, and
they were, contented and happy, and
there wasn't calamityite among
them. And they were sober. In two
days we didn't discover symptom of
whiskey. 1t was a typical Kansas
crowd-the best kind of crowd that
can be found anywhere on earth.
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And the way they took up Ingalls,!
He went out to the grounds Thursday,
all unheralded, but he had not been
there 10 minutes before everybody in
the camp knew it, and after that he
couldn't stop to shake hands with q
friend but there was crowd gathered
and he had to make q speech. Men
who had never seen him before, knew
him the moment they put eyes on
him, because he doesn't look like any
body else on earth. He was passing
the New York headquarters and our
Capt. Travis, who had never seen him
before, stopped him and said '"rhis Is
Senator Ingalls?" Before they were
through shaking hands there were a
hundred men around them. "Selia-
tor, here is q table," said Travis.
They "boostedn him onto it and he
began talking. In five minutes in
stead of a hundred men there were
1000. And it was that way all around.
The Senator made four speeches in as
many hours, and after each one the
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to shake hands with him, shook hands
selves, they felt SO good. We never
saw a crowd so wild with enthusiasm
for one man. In the parade the next
day the cheers for the President were
hearty; the cheers for Ingalls, were
tumultuous. At the grand stand the
people clapped their hands for the Pres
ident; they shouted and swung their
hats for Ingalls,. Talk about the old
soldiers going back on ingalls,! Why
even Chauncey DeClute, good Demo-
crat though he is, said at would be an
everlasting shame for Kansas to take
that man out of the Senate" And
there are about three hundred thous-
aud other voters i'm Kansas who will
say the same thing.
When the grand parade came to be
formed McCook Post stepped to the
front with three commanding officers,
III. F. Travis in command of the
New York troops, 7. 8. Slower in
command of Maine and r. s. Moore
In command of West Virginia. 1t is
a way we have.
Capt. Travis found three men of his
old regiment and they sat down under
tree and fought the war through
from Bull Run to Appomattox.
On account Of some misunderstand-
ing the President did not dine with
McCook Post. But If he had we could
have given him some of the best beans
and black coffee he ever tasted in his
life.
McCook Post kept open house day
and night and everybody who passed
that way seemed to consider himself
at liberty to pitch in and help himself
to whatever was in sight. And we
guess he was.
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member of his company whom he had
not seen since the Franklin fight
where he was captured.
"Der Praisident he say he cannot
speag to ten acres off peoble," said old
man Wisborg, shut dat man ingalls,,
he speag to quarder section off peo-
BILE, so easy as noding."
Capt. Travis: This is the first re-
union I ever attended, but I am going
to every other one as long as live.
The train that took us i'm to Topeka
was polled and showed III votes for
Humphrey, % for Robinson and for
Willitts. That was about the pro-
portion all the way through the crowd.
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They tried to charge % cents for
seats in the grand stand. But the
crowd wouldn't have it that way.
There was a grand rush and after that
everybody went in free.
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The speeches made by the President
and Senator Ingalls, are printed in
full on the inside of this paper.