Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

opponents, among whom ingalls, was
probably the most inconspicuous
Pomeroy paid a member of the Legis-
lature $1,000 to vote for him and the
next day this member, Senator York,
brought the money into the Senate,
laid it on the presidents desk and said
it represented Pomeroy's attempt at
bribery. The incident created no end
Of excitement and ingalls, was elected
as a comprmise.
Once at Washington ingalls, natural
ability asserted itself and he was soon
known as one of the foremost debaters
and most brilliant speakers In public
life The brain has been described as
"a dynamo Of intellectual activity"
He became the peer Of Conkling and
Blaine and through nine Congresses
sat as shining light. He was looked
up on as a fixture in the Senate, when
the Populistic movement swept him
out in 1891 and PETER took his seat.
ingalls,. with comfortable fortune,
retired to private life, which he has
since enjoyed. His object in life is to
get through it with as little personal
discomfort as possible, and he is doing
that very thing, regardless of criticism,
public or individual. He works. trav-
els, lectures, writes, reads, rides or
walks as the fancy strikes him.
Moneys only value is the good or COM
fort that it may buy for himself or his
family, and as the supply seems to be
abundant, he spends without stint, buy
ing horse or letting contract for a
business block with equal Indifference.
His home in Atchison is a model Of ele-
gance, comfort and convenience, and
perfect in all it's appointments. He
lives like a prince, and his family set
the pace of the local four hundred.
Dazzling Bri11iance.
ingalls, has more ideas to the square
inch than many Of his fellow politicians
have to the square mile, and his vOcab-
ulary is equal to Worcester and Web
ster boiled down and filtered through
Carlyle's "Sartor ReSartus." He is a
succession of surprises. He has as
many colors as chameleon, and he
puts on new one every hour. His
private conversation 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 illus
trations from the antediluvian periods
of geology in one sentence, takes a
metaphor from a famous English nov
elist for a second, and in the third, like
as not, gives you bit of the latest
slang from the slums.
At first you are dazzled by this flow
of words and ideas. You are blinded
by his pyrotechnic phrases, and you
give him no credit for his genius other
than that to the God who made him.
AS you go on, however, you find that
heis one of the hardest workers in pub
lie life, and that the vast mental cap
ital which he has to-day has been
largely made up by the saving of the
intellectual pennies For the past
twenty years he has been making
speeches and witty remarks In his
study in order that he may deliver them
In private conversation or on the stump.
Every bright thought and every express
sion that he has come In contact with
has been reground and repolished be-
tween the mi1lstones Of his brain until
1t has left it's original shape and be-
come new creature that of ingalls,
alone He has a peculiar memory In
that when he once writes thing he