Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-17
ABOUT INGALLS,.
The Future Intentions of the Defeated
Senator-Oners Made Him.

The Future Intentions of the Defeate,
senator-Oners Made Him.
Special Telegram 10 me Re0iSteT.
WASHINGTON, February l6.-Th,
baths of Apollo were cold, the poet tells
us, but unusually colder far is the mod
ern soup-hath into which the politician
or pnblic maa plunges who has lost the
game at which he played, and who is
about to retire from pnblic life. Th,
clients who sought his favor when the
sun of his power was In the ascendant
no longer throng around him, and the
friends who smiled on him smile nc
more, or If they do their smiles are as
cold Us sunshine in midwinter. But
Senator ingalls,, who is about TO re-
tire from public life, seems des'
tined to have different expert
ence. He may be in the soup, but
the soup is comfortably warm. There
seems to be aS much interest and even
anxiety in certain quarters as TO what
Mr.. ingalls, will do when he rctireS from
the Senate as there is about the ordin-
AIRY man when he first steps into a place
Mr.. ingalls, returned from Kansas the
other day and made his first appearance
in the Senate aft3r his defeat for re-
election, that he was greeted with great
warmth by his colleagues, who shook
his hand and smiled efiusiyely on him,
as if he had just come into new in
heritance of power. 1t does not seem
likely that these manifestations were
due TO any warm personal regard for
the cynical and keen-tongued gentle
man from Kansas. 1t has been suggest
ed that they were caused rather by re-
ports recently in circulation that
when Mr.. ingalls, steps out of the
Senate he will step on to the lecture
platform or into the newspaper arena.
If he should take either OF these courses
il is probable he would deal in his lee
lures with his experiences in public
life, and let flood OF vivid light on
the inside workings OF the Legislative
machinery. Some people have been I'M
kind enough TO suggest that the fear OF
what Mr.. ingalls, might tell If he were
50 disposed. caused his colleagues TO de-
sire to win his good will when he was
about to go out from them into new
field Of activity.
The hold which Mr.. ingalls, brilliant
intellect has obtained on the popular
imagination and Oh the newspaper men,
is clearly shown by the amOnnt OF gOs-
sip lloatiug around aS TO his probable
future movements. Various stories are
told rs to what he is likely To do. One
is that he has been offered, and is likely
To accept. the Washington correspon-
dence OF a New York newspaper, at Il
salary of Sl5, 900 a year; another that he
has been urged To assume editorial
charge OF well known magazine.
Then again it is said he is beSieged with
solicitations to lecture by managers OF
lecture bureaus, one offering him Slj,-
600 for - lectures. and another SD, 900
for 30 lectures. These stories are all
based on the assumption that Mr.. In
gals, being poor man, with no source
of income but his salary as Senator. will
have to hustle for his living.
Mr.. ingalls, has been charged by his
critics with being vain man. This
charge seems easily susceptible OF dis
proof. Vain men are never modest in
the pursuit Of fame and glory. They
always want all they can get OF them, OF
a legitimate kind. Mr.. ingalls, has al
ways been regarded as poor man, and
has never done anything to disabnse the
public mind OF this impression. II he
were really vain he would have claimed
the glory which hedges the man OF
wealth, to which il is said he is fully
entitled. Such at least is the story told
by colleague OF the gentleman from
Kansas. This colleague Is given as the
authority for the statement that Mr.. In
galls is worth at least 5000, 900, II this is
true. il would seem to dispr0ve COM
pletcly the charge of vanity that has
been made against Mr.. ingalls,, for he
had not only in one way or another
sought to convey the impression that he
was moor, but hc has even gone 81 far,
the story goes, rs to actually take means
TO cover up his possession of wealth 10y
holding his farm mortgages and other
investment securities in the names OF
other people. Nothing could more
clearly show Mr. ingalls, extreme mod
eSty than this.
one OF the very latest stories aS to
Mr.. ingalls, future intentions is that he
means to 10 into the pension business
in Washington. His fame covers the
length and breadth OF the land, and he
seems to have especially endeared
himself to the old soldiers. II
he should hang out his shingle
here as a pension agent, IL is more
than likely his success would be even
greater than that which has attended
the efforts OF Corporal Tanner, ex-Com-
missioner of Pensions, in the same
direction. A business of this kind after
il has once been established would re-
Quire but little attention or labor on the
part of the proprietor. 1T would be
nothing like as eXacting aS the profess
sion of journalism, or the career Of the
lecturer, while ii would lac vastly more
remunerative than either Consequently
II would give Mr.. ingalls, plenty Of
leisure for IA" pursuit OF those philoso-
phical and photographed studies OF
which he is so fond. For these reasons
it is held by the gossipS that there Is
much stronger probability or Mr..
ingalls, becoming pension agent than
Of his going into the newspaper ar lee
turing business.