The Globe-republican., 1900-08-23
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Cities and fields walk penetrate
Deserts and seas remote. and passing by
L knock unbidden once at every eatei
II sleeping wake. if feasting rise before
I turn away It IS the hour of fate,
And they who follow reach every
Mortals desire. and conquer every foe
Condemned to failure. perjury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly inplore.
answer not and return no more
John J. Ingalls, on Opportunity
John j. Ingalls, was born of sturdy
New England stock and his natal day
was December 90, 1893 His birthplace
was Middleton. Essex county Mass.
Lynn, the great shoe town of the coun-
try was settled by his American ances-
tor, Edmund Ingalls, His father, an
inventor of note, was native OF Mid
dleton, and his mother was daughter
of Samuel Chase of Portsmouth, N H.
In the public schools of Haverhi1l he
laid the foun of the splendid ed
ucation that made him pre-eninent
In 1855 he was graduated from W il
liams college. Then he studied law
and looked about him for a new coun-
try in which to try his fledgling win gs.
He selected Kansas and first put his
foot On the soil of that state on the
fourth day of October. 1853 Sumner,
a boom town near Atchison, was h is
first home place, and when 1t faded in
to a reni niscence he became a resident
of Atchison- In 1889 Mr.. Ingalls, first
actively engaged in politics. In that
year he was elected a delegate to the
constitutional convention which met at
Wyandotte, and in the following year
was secretary of the territorial council.
In SCI he served as secretary of the
state senate, and in 1862 he served
his district in the state senate
as its representative. In 1862, as the
Republican candidate for the Office of
lieutenant governor. he met his first
political defeat. For three succeed
son Champion, and for time Judge
advocate of the state militia, with the
successive rank of major and lieuten-
ant colonel. In the latter post he
took part in the battles of Westport,
Lexington and Independence during
the Price raid in 1861. In the same
year he again went down to defeat at
the polls candidate for the Office
of lieutenant governor. He then aban-
dOned active politics and for nine years
devoted himself to law and journalism
In both professions he achieved sue
cess, and in 1879 he was elected United
States senator to succeed $ c. Ponae-
roy
The downfall of the noted Brick
Pomery marked the elevation of In
gals a national cha acter As has
been stated, he had been nine years
quietly but successfully pursuing the
professions of law and journalism At
the time he had been laying po-
litical wires where they would be the
most effective, and when the time came
for the legislature to e ect United
States senator he announced his ambi-
ton. There were many candidates,
among them Pomery. who wished to
succeed himself; Sidney Clark, Thomas
A. Osborne, Charles Robinson and d.
NJ. Valentine. 1t was d battle royal,
and the hopes of Ingalls, We're hanging
in the balance until a Doodle expose
placed the mantle on his shoulders by
nm almost unanimous vote State Sen
ator Alexander NJ. York Of Montgon-
cry made the expose in a most dra-
rnatic manner. He waited until the
excitement occasioned by the canvass
was at its height, and then he ad-
eanced to the desk of the chief clerk
and laid thereon 81, 600 That sum, he
declared, had been paid him to vote
for PomerOy.
He took his seat in March of the
same year and at once became power.
He remained senator for eighteen
successive wears. From his first en-
trance into national politics he became
Il positive influence and picturesque
figure. From 1889 to 1901 he was pres
ident pro tenn of the Senate. He went
down to defeat in 1899 when the Popu-
lists elected Mr.. PETER to succeed him
The name OF Senator Ingalls, is thor
oughly identified with the best 1itera-
ture of his state and of the nation In
his early career he was a frequent con-
tributor to maya zines, and since his
retirement from the senate he became
a writer and lecturer of national re-
pute.
1t was in the year 1862 that the mot
to of Kansas was selected and the state
seal adopted. The motto was suggested
in 1861 by Mr.. Ingalls,. who at the
time secretary of the state senate, at
its first session He suggested to the
joint committee appointed to present
H. HI 81 10
rising from the clouds at the base Of
field with d constellation above and
the famous motto His idea was
amplifed, the committee Incorporating
a river view. buffalo chased by Indians
on horseback. a mountain scene and
log cabin with settler blowing in the
foreground The clouds at the base
were intended to represent the troubles
and perils of the territorial history of
Kansas. the star the new state and the
constellation the union.
He was cnar:ied, Sept 81, 1865, at
Atchisor, 70 Anna. Louise Chesebrough,
the daughter OF :. prominent merchant