The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-17
OUT OF POLITICS.
Senator ingalls, Says He Quit
on November 4.
Not Saying Picturesque Things
But Drops a Few.
is NOW IN COLORADO
On a Lecturing Tour Unpleas-
ant But Lucrative.
Says Wave Of Prosperity Is
Sure to Come.

Denver. Nov. 17-Eloquent, acrid-
tongued John J. Ingalls,, ex-United
States senator of Kansas, was at the
Oxford hotel from early yesterday fore
noon until a little before o'clock this
morning. At the hour named he board
ed a Cheyenne train to fill lecture en-
gagement at Laramie City this evening.
He has taken the lecture platform to
remain on it for some time to come.
His season opened at Hastings, Neb.,
last Friday evening He will
lecture in Laramie, then comes Chey-
enne, Greeley, Pueblo and Trinidad. It
shall probably put in the latter part of
November in this state" explained the
ex-senator, after which I shall fill
some dates in Illinois and Missouri.
Then am going clear to New Eng
land, to show the people there the spec
tacie OF a wild, untarned Westerner- By
the way I am a New Englander myself,
both by birth and ancestry Ny Origi-
nal ancestor was the first white settler
Of Lynn, Massachusetts, and / was
born in the town of Middleton, in that
state.
I am thoroughly westernized now,
though. I first came here in 1861, when
Denver had a population of from 800
to 2 600 settlers.
About my lecture tour? I really do
not like the lecture platform, but it is
lucrative; that is why have returned
to it. I have a theme I call Problems
| Of Our Second Century which enables
me to say anything please. To con-
meet the small with the great, the topic
of my lectures is like Henry Ward
Beecher's Reign of the Common Peo-
pie it admits of very much variety.
You might compare it to the hook in a
newspaper Office on which you hang
copy of all kinds"
In response to a request to SAY pic
turesque things about the political af-
fairs of Kansas Mr.. ingalls, Snl1ngly
I said Saving nfcfuTREU11a things
good deal like making photographs
People imagine they are all Impromptu
said just like you would take snap
shot with a. kodak. But after the Pho
/ tographer gets his negative of the pic
ture it has to be developed and polish
ed into the perfect photograph. In the
same way your picturesque thing is
usually carefully prepared polished
and revised before the orators utter it
so iauntfly 1 would like to say a pic
turesque thing for you, but 1 cannot
! frame one at the present moment
ANYWAY I do not wish to talk much
picturesquely or otherwise about poll
tics in Kansas. have been out of pol
itics ever since the 4th of November i
was in the Kansas campaign from early
in June until election day; now am
Iecturing."
Upon further urging ex-senator In
gals continued:
'sWeII. in Kansas the Populists are
now in absolute control of every de-
partment of the government. They have
/
Judges five out of six appellate judges,
six out of eight members of congress,
the governor, all the state officers and
working ajOrity over all opposition IN
both branches of the Iegisla ture. They
carried the state pretty thoroughly.
I really do not care to state any par
tieular cause for the POpulist victory in
our state. Kansas has always been a
mercurial state. 1t has great political
versatility. In 'S8 it went $4,000 for
Harrison, in '92 it gave Weaver 1000
1-ra Eqrrrr
by about Il, 900. The people Of Kansas
have always been the first to take up
new movements which they usually
abandon when they find them impracti-
cable or Improbable. They are an en-
tirely rational and intelligent people
when they reject the bad and hold fast
to the good
Il cannot tell whom they are likely to
elect to the United States senate next
January to succeed Senator PETER. Can
didates for the office are plentiful
enough to give them a wide field for
choice. Senator PETER, I presume, is
not averse to reelection. Then there
are ex-senator John Martin, Congress-
man Simpson, Breidenthal. who man
aged the state campaign, and a. gentle
man named Munger In my judgment
they will have Mr.. PETER to succeed
himself -
How do you regard Mr. PETER as a
statesman % was asked.
Il do not think Senator PETER has
ever been regarded as an Intellectual
I L.
yet come to look upon him as a great
power in our political life so far as I
can learn. No; do not care to contrast
/ Senator PETER with any of the other
/ aspirants to the senate in my state 1t
would be an ungraciOus thing for me
to draw disparaging comparisons be-
tween one Populist and another.
No; I cannot tell whether or not it
is true that Jerry Simpson does not
wear socks. That is q matter I have
never cared to investigate personally
The charge against Mr. Simpson to
which you refer is, I think nothing
more than the contribution of a Darti-
san press to gaiety of the nation He
is a shrewd, good humored fellow. of
hard horse sense. He has a very decid-
ed capacity for reaching the views of
the great mass Of the people. from whom
he is not very far removed by superior
ity of attainments-
Mrs Mary z. Lease has not been in
Kansas at all in this campaign and I
do not know anything about her
We have had very large crops of
corn and wheat in Kansas this year
deviated Mr. ingalls, with evidence of
relief and the prices of both are ad-
the collapse that followed the boom of
six or eight years ago, but most of our
debts are now Iquidated and / think
we are about to enter on a decade of
prosperity"
DO YOU think the financial question
viii continue to be the leading political
issue until the next presidential cam
paign2' brought him back to politics.
That have nothing to say about
was his decided reply. since the cleo
tion is all ever he went on, 7 can say
I believe the result is being generally
acquiesced- in by the American people
The advance agent of prosperity may