News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-19
In gals PORTRAYED


tracts from an article in the Kansas
City Star by Charles S. Gleed.
The Montpelier Waterman in speak.
ing of the article, says it is ga pen
portrait and character study of Sen.
ator Ingalls, that deserves to place
its author beside Henry w. Grady in
the brilliancy of it's language and in
the clean-cut way in which the
kansan's picture stands out, cameo
like from lis splendid setting"
In speaking of the distinguished
Senator Mr. Gleed says:
His voice is a polished ramrod OF
sound, without fur or feathers, tray
ersing space as swiftly as1ight, with
out a whir or a fiutter, as if shot bv
an explosive of inconceivable power.
But all his quickness has an auto
matte character which should be dis
tinguished from the quickness of men
who rise to meet emergencies. Mr..
Ingalls, meets emei gencies without
rising to them. or not at all. He
works like the lock on a money vault
when the rings and slots are in
proper conjunction, something drops
ius6 right. Until that conjunction is
reached nothing happens, except
profanity on the part of the manipu-
latOr. lie is an OratOrical word art
list. He can be an animated stiletto
or an Infatuated hedgehog; a cooling
dove or an EoIian harp. His words
whizz from his lips like hornets dis
turbed, or futter off like rose leaves
kissed loose by the summer breezes.
They issue on cruelty bent like the
red ants of darkest Africa, tortur-
ing where they touch; or they come
like drops of honey filtered through
lilies. Fertile, felicitous, facinorous,
he is altogether mephistophelian
lie goes about among his fellows as
IN dime museum, looking at the
freaks and oddities, and pointing
them out with his bayonet-like fin
ger. His face is his fortune, it may
be, and YET he goes back on it when
he says it is the only one in the Unit
ed States to which a caricature does
no injustice. His presence of mind is
the presence of a regin ent of soldiers
armed with n1itraiHeuse. His com
passion is a cats, his tenacity bull
dogs, and he has the good nature of
a billy goat, which knocks over the
boys for fun. Mr.. Ingalls, is almost
exclusively critic, and hence | say
he is an ex-oficio statesman. His
office and his nature are divergent.
He cares as much about party plat
forms as a cannibal chief about the
Nicene creed. In such matters he is
neither hampered by conscience nor
hindered by conviction. Ingalls, may
be a puzzle, but he is not a fraud. A
fraud is one who pretends to be what
he is not. Ingalls, only pretends to
be ingalls,. For instance, he is not a
churchman. In fact he is impious.
He takes no stock in religious stock
companies. He SCOTS, and talks ag-
Mysticism, and is profane, and in
such ways arrOgates to himself a
large badness. When asked by a
newspaper symposium man if a poll
tician could be a good Christian his
answer came quickly: "All things
are possible with God" When his
house burned he congratulated his
on saving the WELL He
got on dangerous ground when he
of prohibition in Kansas
that it worked to a charm, because
people had their prohibi-
ton and drinkers had their Whiskey.
MIR. Ingalls, personal appearance is
His height is over six
feet, and his weight perhaps one hun
1red forty pounds. He is as grace
fully straight as a sunfower among
dandelions. His hair is silvery, stiff, |
disheveled. He looks old, yet is
strong and lusty, having never in
youth "applied hot and rebellious
liquors to his blood" His head is
high behind, and deep from forehead |
to back, giving the impression of
great length from the chin upward
and backward Before his forelock
Of wire-silver is a face dark and an
gular, suggesting Spanish blood, and |
MS audacious moustache and the i'm
ludent tuft of hair on his under lip
10 not belle the suggestion. His
yes may be "red, white and blue
Ike his neck, for all anybody knows.
They are hidden behind the most
brilliant eyeglasses that ever discon-
erted an interlocutor. His hands
ire bony, and when his long-jointed
myers Irvine about his pen the only
esult to be expected is the extraor-
Iinarily beautiful manuscript which
lie always turns out.