The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-05
STATESMAN OUT or A JOB.
when Bounccd From the Senate ingalls,
Said So of Him.
self.
he WILL PROBABLY Be TAKEN BACK.
Interesting Matters Concerning the
Man With tho Tongue
of VitrIol.

his life to get back to the United States
SENATE There is a fair chance that he
will succeed. If so, he will be q greater
man than ever in the eyes Of the Amer
lean people. He has been taught les
son by his defeat He has had a chance
TO study himself and his possibilities, and
j. he is returned he will play Ingalls and
I2ga!isisn for all it is worth. He has
given up all desire for the prominence
which blinded him when he was president
o. he senate, and be viii take his place
CT the floor as one CT the brightest, cool
g; and hitterest fighters that body has
ever known. writes Frank G. Carpenter in
the Chicago TinlesHerald.
ingalls, is now in the prime of his in
tellectual and physical existence. 1t is
true he is SO, but every atom OF his thin,
angular frame is as tough as malleable
iron. and his yitriolic brain is a dynamo
OF Intellectual activity. He has more
ideas to the square inch than many Of his
fellow politicians have TO the square mile,
and mis- vocabulary is equal to Worcester
and Webster boiled down and filtered
through CarIyle's "Sartor Resartus." He
has as many colors as a chameleon, and
he puts oD a new one every hour. His
private cony ersation is full Of meat, and
when he talks every sentence makes you
think. and every word weighs a pound.
He is a man Of broad reading, and he
draws his illustrations from the antedi-
iuvian periods OF geology in one sentence,
takes metaphor from a famous English
novelist for a second. and in the third,
like as not. gives a bit Of the latest slang
from the Sums At first ne dazzles by his
flow OF words and ideas. One is blinded
by the pyrctechinal phrases, and he is
given no credit for his genius other than
that to the God who made him. He is,
however, one of the hardest workers Of
public life. and the vast mental capital
which he has today has been largely
made up by the saving of the intellectual
pennies For the past twenty years he
has been making speeches aud witty re-
marks in his study in order that me may
deliver them il private conversation OF
Cn the stump. Every bright thought and
every expression that he has come in
contact with has been reground and re-
polished between the millstones Of his
brain until it has left it's original shape
and become new creation, that OF Ing
a,ls alone. He has q peculiar memory,
in that when he once writes q thing he
pens it. as it were, on the tablets OF his
mind, to be left there until occasion shall
cali it forth. The books he reads are al
WAYS interlined and filled with marginal
notes and these notes are often finished
Sentences which he makes thus and lays
away for future use. He is a great stu
dent of the dictionary He knows Rog-
ers' "Thesaurus or English Words" by
heart, and is happiest when he is study
ing Crabbe's Synonyms" He likes odd
words, and is always looking for them,
and in the making Of his speeches some o.
the sentences. ordinary at the slant, are
changed and rechanged until they become
oratorical surprises which go ringing
round the world.
There will undoubtedly be much oppo-
sition to Ingalls, during his present CAM
raign. His speeches will be full Of bitter
things against the populists, and he may
nave chance to re-enact some OF the
experiences of his youth. He came to
Kansas as a boy, with little more than the
coat OH his back and volume of Black
stone under his arm. He had been brought
up in Massachusetts,, and he jumped at
once into politics. He was a free soiler,
and the pro-slavery men attacked him
at every point During one Of his first
campaigns he was billed to make speech
in Atchison. where he now lives. party
of border ruffians called upon him and
warmed him not to speak. They had pis-
80. l%J% Sro fS,nI1s
har1s. and they swore that they would
haTsi him il he said anything against
them ingalls, looked them in the eye
eni told them to hang. He said that he
was billed for the speech and he was go
ing to make it. He did make it, and that
IN 40 measured terms. don't know why
it was, but for some reason Or other he
was not disturbed. This same crowd that
threatened him had already committed
a number of outra ges-among other
things tarring and feathering preacher
named Butler, and then putting him stark
ngthing but q Bible and his feathers to
float down the Missouri River.
At another time ingalls, was sitting one
day eating his dinner at a hotel in Atchi-
son. Ii was in the days of early Kansas,
ken ruffian entered the room. He saw
ingalls,, and, pointing a revolver at him,
said:
See here, my boy, they say you are the
best speaker in all Kansas These gentle
men here are my friends. and we want a
speech. Now, you get up on that chair
and give lis speech, or I'll shoot you. -
The future senator looked the man
ctr 81 rha and rocjIy- tl1 a
he did not intend to make a speech for
the man lourished the pistol and jumped
up and down threatening to kill him.
He may have been pale, and his heart
must have jumped to his throat, but he
did not move. Finally the man happened
10 hit the pistol against his boot as he
jumped up and down in his rage. 1t went
off and the ball struck his leg, filling the
boot and blood. This sobered him some
what, and he left the dining-room. Ing
alls then went upstairs, brought down his
pistol. and laying it beside his plate, Went
On with his eating. The drunken man was
killed that afternoon in an ARRAY on the
street.
1t was not long after this that Ingalls
was sent to the United States senate. His
election was one of the most remarkable
that ever occurred in the history Of TIL
country. It created a great sensation g
the time, and made him a national chas
actsr at once. He succeeded the notoriou,
S. c. Pomeroy, VINO through some of hi
votes as senator, was nicknamed "Suhsidy
Pomeroy." ingalls, was candidate, Blu
had little hope Of being chosen. Pomeros
had come to theslegislature with a barre
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