The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-05


I think, overheard by eavesdropperss
placed for that purpose In an adjoining
room or outside of the door by York York
insisted that he must have $4,000 for his
vote, and Pomeroy, at the last interview,
gave him $4,000 in cash, promised him
$4,000 the next day and $1,000 additional
after the election was over. When the
legislature met in joint session, York got
up and walked down through the hall
with two bundles of greenbacls in his
hand. He said that these bundles con-
tanned 81 900, and he asked the speaker to
count them. The speaker did so, and said
that the count was correct. York then
told the story of how he had been bribed
by Pomercy, and asked that this money
be used to prosecute the senator for brib-
cry. AS he proceeded with his speech
the assembly went wild, and when the
ballot was taken, at its close, there was
not man who dared to vote for Pomeroy.
Ingalls,, who was to have received the
complimentary vote as the opposition
candidate, got large majority, and was
declared United States senator. Pom
eroy, when arrested, denied York's story.
An Investigation Of the matter was held
at Washington, and the senate white
washed him. He was, however, after
ward arrested for bribery in Kansas, and
the result OF his; trial there was that there
was not sufficient evidence to convict
him. AS for York, he came to Washing
ton and expected to be rewarded by get
ting an Office. He was disappointed, and
was soon despised and forgotten.
1t is not generally known that ingalls,
bad chance Of defeating PETER III much
the same way that Pomeroy hoped to
succeed himself The story was told by a
Kansas congressman. 1t puts the senator
in a good light and shows how he resisted
temptation when lie would have given
the half Of his oui to have been retained
in the senate if he could have done SO
honestly. Said this man:
ingalls, has plenty of friends in Kan
sas, and lots of rich ones. The people
out here know that he lis conser vative,
and that he is never going to espouse
any cranky or crazy idea of a socialistic
or anarchis1ic nature. Some of his friends
had made all arrangements for fixing the
legislature They had the promises Of
fourteen Of the populists--I won't say how
they got them, but they had them, and
these fourteen men had agreed to go back
on their party and vote for ingalls,. This
would have carried the election. At the
very last moment Ingalls, was told that
these men were to vote for him. He
suspected at once as to how they had been
gotten, and when he learned the truth, he
refused to accept a reelection that way.
He said he would expose the whole plot
il the attempt was made to corrupt any
of the Legislators, and in the fifty ninth
minute Of the last hour before the cleo
ton he spoiled the whole game. What
we should have done was to have gone on
and finished the election before telling
him anything about it. He could not
have gone back upon us after he was
elected.
"His defeat was the surprise Of his life.
ingalls, had no idea of the change which
had been going Oh in Kansas during his
last days in the senate. Had he accepted
our advice he might have carried the
election and killed ropulism. For seven
months before the election we told him
that the state was going to the dogs, and
that the populists would surely carry it
if he did not do something. He could not
realize that it was true. He was president
Of the senate. He knew that he was a
great national figure and he did not be-
lieVe that Kansas would so back on him.
He paid but little attention to the state,
the time of the election. Then he went
out home and found that we had been
telling the truth But it was too late to
remedy the situation. He saw he was 60
ing to be defeated, and the fact hung over
him like a pail. Fer several weeks he
lived at A tch;son, seeing no one, brooding
over the possibilities. Then he bright
ened UP a. little and fought to the close.
After the election, when he came back
to the senate, he was still deSpondelt,
and he did not get to be himself until
some months after he left the United
States senate He was only seen when he
was presiding over the senate, and he
spent all the remaining time either at his
home or shut up in the committee-rcom.
I have called many times at his rooms
when I knew he was ill., only to find the
door locked. When I met him he had
but little to say, and he seemed to shun
the society of men. You cannot appre-
ciate the blow his defeat was to him.
He had, you must remember, for eighteen
years been one of the leading characters
of the United States. He had supposed
that his position was secure for the fu-
ture, and rather prided himself on his
disregard for the feelings and opinions
of other men. When he was cut off in
the midst of his fame without word,
it stunned him. All the light seemed to
have gone out, and he did not know which
way to turn. He soon recovered after he
left Washington, however, and he is now
brighter, Drawer and brainier than he
has been iii the past. He has learned a
good deal during the last few years, and
when he comes back he will be a bigger
man than ever.
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