The Globe-republican., 1892-06-20
PRESTIGE FOR KANSAS.

IL WAS citdT1t ueluOuStIdtcu IL LIZ
Minneapolis convention that ingalls,
as the recognized, leader of Kansas
republicans has done much to reg ain
the commanding position formerly
occupied by our young state in ma
tional affairs. Though this matter is
of a political character, the greatness
of our state In other respects is much
more likely to be acknowledged by
those who are made to realize her
power in the arena Of politics, than if
she merely occupied a nominal posi-
ton among the common herd. Peo-
pie are not SO apt to say bleeding
Kansas" when her leading represen
tative in national councils is man
whose presence evokes spontaneous
outbursts Of applause from an assem-
bly, of the most eminent and digniied
statesmen of the land, and who is
recognized as peer among the limited
circle of world-famed Americans.
AS an illustration of what is really
the universal sentiment Of the outside
press concerning this gifted man, we
give below a few lines taken from the
Kanass City Stars report of the re-
cent convention on the Sth inst. foi-
lowed by howery tribute from the
Washington Post which appeared just
after the Hutchinson convention had
assigned him to his proper place amid
cyclone of enthusiasm which could
neither be controlled or side tracked.
The Star says:
Kansas made no mistake i'm sending In.
gals at the head of her delegation. His
election as delegate at large and as chair
man of the Gelega ton have done more to
give Kansas a standing and importance
than ANYTHING that could have happened.
The enthusiastic vigOr of the reception nc.
corded him AS he was recognized in the
convention hall and the further fact that
his name was among the first Oh the list
called for by spectators and delegates when
the corked up vim was being let out, are
evidences that the distinguished kansan is
by no means forgotten factor.
From the Washington Post:
INGALLS, REDIvIvUs.
All the bright and beautiful and gra-
cious things of life return to us with the
spring. The grass, the flowers, the green
leaves, and the birds, the young mans
silken surcingle. and the tan shoes of the
summer girl-all these are resrrrected AS
the suns grow feryent and tie iris deepens
on the FURNISHED dove. Spring unlocks
the fettered earth AMI comes to us with
both hands full of gladness.
This time, however, spring has brought
us special blessing in the restoration to
active politics of the Hon. John j. ingalls,.
Long had we mourned his eclipse by the
Pefferian whiskers; sadly had we missed
that radiant fancy, that searching insight,
that crisp and acid speech. An orator who
was never tiresome,a politician who never
straddled, partisan who never strained
his fealty. ingalls, was in his disappear
ance from the national arena a loss TO every
one who watched, enjoyed, and under
stood it. He did not prose and drone to
empty benches, he did not depopulate the
gallares rs though he was plague: he did
not drive his brother Senators to exile and
mixed drinks in the cloakrooms. or make
the pages old before their time with weari-
ness. He neither rested his OWL mind nor
permitted the minds Gf his hears.S to re-
pose while he was speaking. He charged
the air with intellectual ozone. He made
even the doorkeepers. grown callous and
irreyerent by long contract with official
greatness. admit that "A Senator could be
interesting. He hated humbugS. his dear
est privilege il was to fiay. impale. and
yivisect hypocrite, and. next TO that. to
bate and land a fool. There were faults
in him. no doubt. but they were bic ones
faults that you could respect and not de-
spise. Whatever his defects, they did not
come of littleneSs or dullness. or moral
coward;ce or insincerity. He was not a
sneak and he was not a bore. He dwelt
not in the gutter: he sought his quarry in
the opaleseent empyrean. and struck and
slew it there.
And, now, with the springtime. with
the birds. the flowers. and the babbling
brooks, with flannel shirts and bingham
gowns, with planked shad and tennis. and
riverside philandering. the clouds open in
the woody West. and ingalls,. erect. s,rid.
ent, and ei'ttering as ever, leans like a
panther into the ring once more. For one