The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-16
INGALLS, IS DEAD.
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mics. This condition has never chang
ed. ingalls, died hating Judge Horton
and Judge Horton cordially recipro-
Gated. During this session of the legis-
lature REPETITION of the Pomeroy scam
dial was threatened, and Mr.. ingalls,
methods were questioned by some OF
his opponents, and the senate and
house. which passed the amendment to
the constitution creating the prohibit
tory law, exonerated Mr.. Ingalls,. 1t
was charged that ingalls, had paid
money for votes. The committee of
United States senators subsequently in
vestigated Ingalls, and also exonerated
him.
In 1882 when deep water and deep har-
Dor conventions We're fashionable, as
they are now, Senator Ingalls, presided
over one Of them held at st. Joe to dis
cuss the navigation of the Missouri
river. In 1888 Senator Plumb was elected
to the senate, and with ingalls,, for an
uninterrupted period of several years,
represented Kansas in what the Repuo-S
licans have been pleased to designate
as the most successful and comma nus
ing manner known in the history OF the
state" ingalls, was the bright partlcu-
lar star in rhetoric and in eloquence;
Plumb was the substantial one of the
pair when 1t came to figures and speech
eS for the voters. 80
INGALLS, IN THE SENATE.
ingalls, represented Kansas in the SEN
ate for three terms. His record might
epitomized in three words: The eloquent
Ingalls, He was a master of invective
cation was ready to defend his state
with his eloquence. One of the elements
which the new reform movement used
against the Republican ticket, and In
gals particularly, in 1890 and 1891, was
the charge that he talked much and
worked little.
1t was charged that ingalls, was un-
grateful, that he accepted the service of
his political friends without so much as
thanking them for anything which they
might do. Among other things ingalls,
was charged with being a plagiarist.
The eloquent speeches which he deliver
ed, by some inquisitive individuals, were
said to have been cribbed from the SER
mons of ancient priests All of these
things ingalls, did not heed, but the re-
form movement which had set out
against the Republicans, finally resulted
in ingalls, undoing. He wanted to be re
turned to the senate. The opposition to
the Republican party carried the state
and chose Senator PETER. While smart
ing with the sting of defeat, Ingalls, sub
mitted to an interview, in which he adj
mltted, to the great CONSERVATION or the
Republicans, that a great many things
demanded and claimed by the Populist
party, were right His enemies, who had
by this time become quite numerous in
Kansas, Immediately charged that In
gals was openly bidding for re-elec-
ton to the senate at the hands of the
Populists. This ingalls, did not deny,
but six years thereafter when the United
States senator was reelected, Ingalls,,
who had been in seclusion more or less,
came to the front, a Republican can
didate, and he travelled from one end of
the state of Kansas to the other, proving
beyond peradventure, that he was still
in sympathy and in harmony with the
Republican party. A reporter for the
Journal. at that time employed on an
other paper, went with Mr.. Ingalls, upon
one of these trips In the course of a
conversation on the train, and after
wards reiterated on the platform, Mr..
Ingalls, said:
1T has been charged that am not a
Republican; L let my record speak for
me on that subject. 1 say to you now.
the honor to be associated. is today the
party of progress; it is the party of the
people; it is the party which represents
only the good in government, and which
offers to the people those remedies, for
present depressed conditions which are
demanded.
speech, to which reference has been
made, as in other speeches which he de-
livered, he said:
INGALLS, SARCASM.
lam the only man in kansas VIII Who wants
to go to the United States senate, but"
own mind that 1 am the best man in
sight This was one of the few attempts
of humor which Ingalls, attempted in his
speech. He never attempted a speech
without careful preparation; that is to
around in his head. and delivered the one
which most beftted the occasion.
Ingalls, mas confessed to lying awake
grams to be used in public speeches. The
gGase which 0 he used was not ma natural
because in youth he was a slim, shy in
was a huge red neektie, and whose shy
ness prevented him from seeking the close
pastime in dull hours caused him to take
to the dictionary. He would study words
and their meaning, and their origin and
derivatives, and would frequently commit
to memory the one line or two lines of
poetry from some of the ancient authors
OF the past used IN the dictionary to eX-
plain the meaning He soon took great
fancy for this sort of work. and it was
H iife 'i me principal 0''up ''''0''S 0i MS
What success Ingalls, achieved In this
direction is best illustrated by the fact
that in the Kansas Historical society
rooms there is an ingalls, alcove." This
is filed with contributions to the society
from Mr.. ingalls,. and there are perhaps
two three million words contained in
sketches and magazine articles, Comment
ing upon the life and work of the Kansas
No literary volumes are more frequently
consulted in the Topeka Libraries than
are those records concerning Ingalls, The
embryo debater and public speaker goes
to Ingalls, stuff to find an inspiration.
Ingalls, ideas have been worked up into
several very presentable speeches. and de-
livered in Kansas by rising politicians,
language therein contained was such that
students of Ingalls,. and ingalls, himself,
never recognized it, the speech has
passed for original.
INGALLS, AND THE GRAND JURY.
One incident in ingalls, life involves
some Topeka people. Democratic papers
charged that he, with other men who
were in with him, packed grand jury
in Topeka to save some of their friends
from places in the penitentiary. Ingalls,
called public meeting. and then denied
the charges. and the mastery manner in
which he characterized and satirized his
asailants is something which will never
be forgotten by the hundreds of Kansas
people who hSard it in Union hall
In the political complication which arose
during ingalls, term in the senate, he was
charged with selling postoffice appoint
ments charging fee for the support of
measures in which Kansas was interested.
of collecting a premium from men whom
he endorsed for office. and if there was
any crime in the political category for