The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-31
SENATOR INGALLSSPEECH
Washington Correspondents. Who
Don't Slop Over, According It
the Highest Praise.


Don't Slop Over, According It
the Highest Praise.
1t seems to be almost universally
conceded that Senator ingalls, speech
was a most masterful one, and cores
pondents, without reference to party,
speak of it in the highest terms OF
praise.
The correspondent of the New York
Herald, professedly Democratic, has
this to say of it.
Senator Ingalls, made his long ex.
pected speech on the race problem in
the South to-day to an audience which
represented scarcely fraction Of those
who sought admission to the galleries
without obtaining it. Senator ingalls,
is happy speaker at all times, and
he was especially happy in his deliv.
cry to-day. He loved his theme-that
was evident-and he presented his
arguments with so much force and
clearness that those who differed from
him were interested, in spite of them.
selves.
Mr.. Ingalls, audience comprised the
best representatives of the wealth,
beauty and fashion of the capital city.
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Morton were
also among the listeners. The public
galleries were filled with a motley as-
semblsge Of male humanity, among
whom the usual number of cOlOred
faces were visible.
But if the audience in the galleries
was a fiat.ering testimonial to Mr..
Ingalls, engaging personality and
graceful Oratory, what shall be said OF
that still more distinguished audience
of his peers which gathered about him
in the Senate chamber and followed
his eloquent worps with hardly a
break in their ranks dnring the hour
and forty.five minutes that he held
the floor? have witnessed many Oc-
casions similar to the one in the Senate
chamber to-day. have heard COnk-
ling, Blaine, Thurman, Vest and Ben
Hill at their best. l have heard them,
too, when their associates of the Sem
ate end House gathered to do them
homage, but never before have ] seen
so many members of both houses pres.
ent to hear single speech as were
there to-day when the brilliant Kan
san arose in his place and began his
remarks.
Mr.. Ingalls, is never disappointing.
He il at his best when the most Is ex-
pected of him. He affects dark cOlOrs
in dress and wears his coat buttOntd
tightly about him. He gesticulates
gracefully, and his enunciatIon aud
delivery even Booth and Irving might
study with profit. AS he arose to
speak and his eyes took in the sur
r0undings-the beautiful women in
the galleries and the m IN of distinction
on the floor about him-his pale face
for moment flushed with pride.
1t was a scene long to be remember
ed. 1t was the greatest occasion of his
life. Every member of the Senatorial
body was in his seat. A roll call of
the House would have disclosed the
presence of more than half the mem.
bers of that chamber. These latter
came tiptoeing in through the various
doors, looking trifle out of place, yet
as eager to hear the orator of the hour
as the men of Athens in the days of
Paul. They ranged themselves about
walls and wherever they could find a
temporary Judgement for their tired
limbs, and there they stayed, Repub-
lica Is and democrats alike, until the
last words of the speakers perora.ion
fell upon their ears.
This is what the New York Tribune
correspondent says of it:
1t would be no exaggeratiOn to say
of Mr.. Ingalls, speech In the Senate
tnis afternoon that it surpassed in
brilliance and effectiveness even the
most sanguine expectations of the
Kansas orators admirers and friends.
Senator Ingalls, has made addresses be-
fore this as polished and elaborate; he
has, at times, been more mercilessly
sarcastic; his wit has had a sharper
point, and his epigram q more caustic
sting, he has engaged in passage at
arms with other senators more person.
al and more full of vehemence; but in
nc other speech of bis, so far, perhaps,
have all the characteristic qualities of
his oratory been so happily combined
and blended. TO-day's address was
strong, serious and forcible: it dealt
directly with a question of grave pub.
lie importance. and at the same time
Of contemporary political and partisan
interest; in some of its passages it rose
to plane of dramatic intensity; it was
interspersed with skits of wit aud
sarcasm; never falling below the level
of dignified discussion of great
problem of State, it was nevertheless,
dashiDg and epigrammatic; and,
though two hours long in delivery. it
tagged a. little as the almost breath.
less attention with which it was
listened to on the crowded floor of the
Senate aud in the still more crowded
galleries.
The correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer says of it.
He swayed the vast audience from
the beginning to the end Of the two
hours occupied by his remarks His
words were mild and well tempered,
but backed by indisputable facts bold
ly stated, aud stirred the Southern
Senators to the quick. The speech il
the topic of very general praise in add
ministration, congressional aud polit4
zeal circles tonight. Ii is conceded To
have been the most finished and schol
arly Grafton delivered in the Senate
for many years.
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