The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-04
"INGALLS OF KANSAS"

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as the Judgment of the Infinite, with the
only difference of celebrity. In the tardi-
ness of human action the will of the peo-
pie may suffer for a time, but often the
verdict comes too late to save the deserv-
ing man. Especially is this true in times
of political upheavals, when the actions
of factions are accepted as the expressed
conviction of the commonwealth.
There is no man of whom the people
of Kansas feel a greater pride than for
John James ingalls,. As beardless boy,
inspired by the same faith in freedom
that impelled his ancestor to cast his lot
with the Mayfower's heroic crew, he
left the hills of his New England home
to throw in his chances of life
with the intrepid few who landed on
the west bank of the Missouri in the
kansas and Nebraska" days, and who
by their bravery and fortitude wiped the
stain of human servitude from the
escutcheOn of Kansas, and wrote the
words ''ad astra per asperia' there. In
the thirty-three years which followed,
and whose record enfold our entire his
tory as people, the New England boy
has ever proved true to the impulses
which linked his fortunes to wilderness
environed soil Of martyrs and heroes.
Every ambition of his manhood, every
aspiration of his public career,
every word that ever came from his tren-
chant pen or that fell from his undenia-
bly, eloquent lips have been of and for
Kansas and for the principals of human
equality which have rendered Kansas as
people marked and peculiar. His bold
and clear utterances in the behOof of
these, indeed, have not only become the
admiration of true men Of all the states
but the quoted prophecies Of other ma
tons and of distant climes. Those of
the peers Of the very body over which he
by exalted choice presides, who hold to
marked distinctions and classes as against
universal manhood, have respect unto
the declarations of ''Ingalls, of Kansas"
and dread the force of his fearless enun-
Citations.
But ''time" has been reached in Kan
sas politics, period of unrest and dissat-
isfaction. The unequal and unjust oper-
erations of national administration poll
cies have been expressing honest industry
of her producers. Her own legislation
has become extremely hypocritical, wild
" expensive and extravagant, and alto
gether disastrous to her communities, so
much so that wheels within wheels have
begun to move and organizations within
organizations to plot and plan. So many
outrages in the name of progress have
been so repeatedly committed by her
legislative powers, that they stand like
dismantled monuments of reproach ever
facing the people, and a sacrifice of
atonement is demanded, not only, but is
should not be made of Staying innocent
victims for the real offenders, nor should
the movement of the smaller wheels be
mistaken for revolution of the entire
machine, nor yet resolves of sub-organi-
cations for the determination of the
whole people.
The life of Ingalls, for the past seven
teen years in the United States sen
ate has been an every day open page to
Kansas and to the world. The record he
has made stands unshadowed and with
out the possibility of a yelling or of a
misinterpretation With his mere per-
sonaI relations and personal misunder-
standings or with the conflicting ambi-
tons of members of his own party in
Kansas we have nothing to do, nor do
the people care for them. BY his politi
cal record as a representative of Kansas,
in her statehood, and as a statesman,
only should he he measured, and by it
should he stand or fall.
Preconceived notions or prejudices
touching his personality or his supposed
idiosyncracies should all be swept from
the scales and his words and deeds alone
be left to determine his worth as one of
two who has been entrusted with the
great dignity and honor of speaking for
state which encompasses the homes
the all-of million and half Of people.
No speech or act made in the face
or tendency of campaign should have
the force or weight of the words, speeches
and acts Of the record of his years, and
any demand made that he should in such
a juncture repeat in words the open
record of convictions of his whole politi-
cal life, could come only from enemies
or from those seeking to gain his place
by questionable methods. The resolve
of an Alliance. or Union, that is either
composed of a majority of Democrats,
or which is dominated by men who love
not the principles of the Republican
party ought not to be permitted to be put
in the balances against an untarnished
Republican record of thirty years stand
ing.
For years we have been convinced
that no state in the union was so com
pletely and thoroughly represented in
the United States senate as Kansas, not