The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-25

We all join the effort 20 make IL so?''
One specimen Of ColoHei Ingersoll's r.
partee was caught no down in the cen
trail part Of Illinois during the greenbaek
agitation. Il was after Colonel IngersO1l
had become a Republican.
Now. suppose" he said with an I'm
pressive pause. Suppose. and he paused
again to give his audience q chance 30
clear its mental decks for the thought
Suppose YOU set all the presses In the
you going to set 'em cut Of the hands OF
the goyernmentf'
Steal EN-" suggested an AUDITOR with
q thin voice.
~ am not talking to Democrats" was
the retort that gave the orator the middle
OF the stage once more.
One of the biggest movements OF the
conversion Of Colonel Ingersoll to Chris
tianity was launched in Cleveland. O.. by
the evangelical religious societies. At
Thanksgiving services in the protestant
churches Of that city In 1855 prayers were
publicly offered that he be made q ''eo-
worker" Colonel IngersOil said st the
time that he would not discuss the mat
ter further than to say that prayers had
bee offered for him before and that he had
declined them.
A friend OF Colonel Tngersoll once ex-
planned how the orator prepared his pub
uo lectures and speeches. He said:
when his msterial for a speech or an
extended letter Is all IN hand he dictates
the entire thing from beginning 10 end.
The photographer subsequently writes II
out on the typeWritsr, ard II Is read over
once or twice by Colonel Ingersoll. by
which time the threa dot the argument is
thoroughly fixed I'm his mind. He then
prepares a series OF headings of the var
tous points he desires TO cover. and when
ne goes into court or mounts the ros-
trum he Is armed with these headings. He
has no need to commit mere words and
figures OF speech to memory"
A sorry has been told TO indicate Colonel
Tngers6li's lack Of fear. The scene Is laid
at irginia Beach, when a storm came 10.
The hotel where .Colona .Inssrsoh was
staying was rocking IN the hurricane. and
the other guests had gathered In the
lobby at midnight. Some were praying
audibly. While the terror of the guests
was at its greatest. Colonel Insersoil
came down. He wore only his night shirt.
Are you going 20 pKay7" asked q
frightened woman.
''No, came down to see II breakfast
was real ="
Several accounts have been given OF
how the famous speech nominating Blaine
In 1876 was written. Here Is a generally
accepted version. Blaine and Morton each
wanted Colonel IngersOu to nominate him.
He was in the Illinois delegation. and was
friendly 10 both. He said he would nom
mate the one favored by the Illinois dele
cation, and that one turned out 10 be
Blaine. The speech was written In the
Palmer House Immediately after the III
nols delegation was known 10 be for
Blaine. Anothr authority says IL was
written In Cincinnati before breakfast on
the morning OF the day before II was de-
lIvered.
Colonel Ingensoll left many friends In
Chicago. OF these none was closer than
Thomas Crafty. the veteran attorney, who
knew the Colonel in Peoria
HE was a most successful lawyer at the
time first met him. said Mr. rCstty.
"and disposed to be q little Wild When
he married he quit all Of his wild habits
and became absolutely absorbed I'm his
wife and family. His law business and
politics were diversions. In all my life
never knew a more devoted husband and
father, nor q more open-hearted. gener-
ous-splrited. noble man
SIR. Crafty repeated story OF hos, Col
onel Ingersoll came to take the lecture
platform. which was tod him b. the Col
opel himself
Having gained the name OF free think
er.' as he said to me once" said SIR Graf
~. ''he CONCLUDED that he might as well
have the game. and 90 he wrote a lecture
on Tom Paine for an entertainment at a
small town near Peoria. Next year the
Germans % Peoria invited him 10 dedver
a Fourth Of July Orati0n a. Sulphur
Springs. Il CHANGED that the Fourth fell
on -<unday. and a few days before the
celebration IngersoiI was visited In his Of
fee By deputation Of church people.
I'VE have called on you. Colonel said
the spokesman, Jonathan X Cooper. a
pillar In the Presbyterian church. and .
prominent lawyer. 20 dIssBa6e you from
making an address to the Germans on the
holy Sabbath"
what objection is thsrs 70 my speak
Ing on sundayT inquired InsersoA lat
the day a good ons7'
- But think Of II. Colonel replied II
der Cooper, one % our foremost citizens
and lawyers speaking 20 the Germans on
the Sabbath The repUtAtfOn q Peoria
viii suffer will suffer AZ TV8 DO such
thing
Wet a moment Eentlemen,' said In
RersoH. With a gesture % inpstisres- a
fs~ years ago M brother wanted 10 Dc
returned - congress and yOs joined IN g.
feating hsn. because be played poker ~
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I wasn't god enough. bee<nSs I was =
free thinker. Noe yea profess % thsnk
that Tn 80 sSod thai I can hgTt The city
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