The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-27
INGALLS, DR|)IL STORY
Episode In His Senatorial
Campaign of 1879
IS SUDDENLY RECALLED
At Sight of a Recent Adverse
Editorial.

Topeka. Kan. July 3.-IngaIls' re-entry
INTO kansas politics has been demon
strated today By the circulation of an in
terview in which ingalls, comes back nj
one Of his critics in a unique Ingallsesoue
way. The interview is in the Atchison
Globe. and is as follows:
Oohn ]. Ingalls, was in a reminiscent
and phihsoph3c mood last evening. A
Globe reporter showed him an elfto-
rial clipped from epublican newspaokr
published either in northern, southern.
| eastern or western Kansas. It doesn't
much matter which. It was distinctly.
derogatory and aciduiated. ingalls, read
1t carefully and inquired the name II the
| editor. Being informed. he said: "By
some subtle association OF ideas this re-
minds me Of the senatorial election of
1872 perhaps the most sensational episode
IN Kansas politics. TT was the morning
of the last day. was alone in my head
quarters at the old Tefrt house. a oui.
sQualid, filthy kennel. which was the
boast sand pride Topeka twenty years
ago., The soft coal fires smoked and
smouldered and skunk in the rusty stoves.
The carpets were covered with dry mud
from thesstreets- had been up all night
The weather was bitterly black, bleak
and cold. My friends and supporters rad
all gone to the state house for the final
fray whose issue was uncertain. and I
was sitting like Marfus amid the ruins OF
Carthage. It was within ten minutes of
the hour of meeting for the joint conven-
tion. when one Of the members Of the leg
islature came into my room. He had been
my friend during the canvass: had attend
ed an my caucuses. and voted for me at
the previous sessions. He was one of my
original supporters without money and
without price. He seemed uneasy and fus-
trated. I asked him why he was not at
the capitol, where one vote might decide
my fate. He closed the door and said
with much stumbling and laundering
speech that he had recently bought some
type and a press, and WIS short seven
hundred dollars! The draft, ne said. was
in bank and he had to have the money
before he went to the state house.
suggested that the banks did not close
till 8 o'clock. but ne replied that the Hor-
ton managers had promised to let him
have the cash at 10 O'Clock, and he want
ed tn be able to ten them he didn't need
it, lie added that he should regret to be
placed under such obligations by my enc
mics! Queer situation, wasn't It? Odd
that he should have selected Just that
particular moment for his intimatIon.
But 1t was an emergency. There was no
time for elaboration. had to think
Quick. The roll call woulls begin in
fifteen minutes at the fartRest. The |
margin was desperately narrow, and the |
result to me Of immeasurable consequence. |
You remember Stockton's story OF the |
Lady and the TigerT Do you suppose |
the editor got his seven hundred dollar |
loan from me or from the other fellows? |
Do you suppose he voted for me or for |
Horton? Do you suppose he had really |
bought new type and a press? What |
would you have done II you had been in |
my place? What could have made me |
think OF this dron incident in connection |
with the rasping editorial?"
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