Arizona republican., 1900-09-10
AN INTERVIEW
 WITH INGALLS,

apprna cbable and unusually amabe to newspaper men whom he trust. d-but there we're certuin periods in his career for publication. and 1 was assigned to eXtrac; an interview from him during on of those periods" said one of the Chicago correspondents. 1t was short ly after Ingalls, had been beaten Tor tha United States senatorship. He ditftei into Chicago d few week. after the un- fortuna:t et- nt--as unfortunate for Kansas as it Was for Ingalls,. Tn my opinion-anl D,~, up as usual, tn. old Grand Pacific hotel. I was hotel repur- ter for my paper al that time, and my city editor rounded nle up and tod up that he wan;ed me tn drill long, high grade Interview out of Ingalls,. l fath- CT felt that l Was Cp dgdins it when l got the assignment. for Ingalls had been as close -mouthed $ clam since his defeat. contenting himself wi,h sI-- donically telling the newspaper men in other cities who approached him that il his canacity cf statesman out of a job he hadn't anything to say that wouli be of interest to the pCblic. I had of ten met Ingalls and knew him pretty well, and I was quite familiar with th fact that when he didn't want to tall: he had a knack f flaming interview CTS such as few men in public life n his day possessed
 However. I set of one dark after noon, the day after Ingalls, arrived ln Chicago, to get the talk out of him. When I told Paul Gore. the Grand Pa cific's chief clerk to send my card up tu the senator. Paul leaned over the hotel desk and whispered to me that Ingalls, was in a very crusty frame of mlnd, and that. although he had received representatives from a number of the papers that afternoon, he had passed em all up,' as Gore put it, withou; giv- ing them so much as phrase that could be twisted into an interview. IL was d good tip. I snt up my card. anyhow. and shortly the bellbny brought back word that the slnator would see me in the parlor in about a quarter of an hour. So I went up to the second iioor where the big. dim-lit parlor of the Grand Pacific was locat- Cl.
 Tt was dull work sitting th,re and .widdiing m! thumbs while l waited for the statesman out of d. job to
 
 piano over at one end Of the parlor I crossed over to 1t ard sat down before ihe insrume mt Tn my early youth I had been clubbed into practicing ;hrea ol four hours a day on the piano. so that I was able l. strum pretty fairly on the instrument. put my foot on the soft pedal and began to run over some Cf ,he old things I remembered
 of (, and small section pr thc other-just to divert myself until the eminent Kan san made his appearance. became so interested that l didn't notice the pas sag of time, but played n softly, try ing to dig up remnants of my repertoire when I heard a sight. half-r- pressed cough behind me, and wheeled around on the stocl. Thers, in the dark cor her opposite me. sitting on a sofa wi-h his long legs crossed and d peculiar smile on his thin featur S was MT. In gals. l jumped up. of course. and started ever 70 him.
 Don't stop said he motionIng n back to the piano. Go right ahead. I'd rather listen than :alk'
 'I had quite a natural feeling that he was jollying me, and so I shook my head in my well-known gracious man aer. took his extended hard and said.
 "'Wcll. senator. begin at the begin ming and tell me the whole thing. omit ting nary a detail. You n edn't hurry. I've g. lots of time. You can take the narrative back twenty years if you so desire. All I want is a whole lot. that's all. I'll take you down in shorthand. so that you'll be sure your quo: eG right. What, for instance. is the con- dition of politics in the state of Kan-I sas?'
 MT. Ingalls, looked me over with a quizzical smile, uncrossed his legs and rocrossed 'em the other way, cleared his throat and said:
 As between music of she Italian and music of the German schools I find myself in a. dilemma. The sansu- ousness. the passion. the warmth. the melody, the heart interest. the hu- mancness, so 10 put it. appeal to me strongly and sometim have inspired me to-
 "'To flights of eloquence such as i: would be delight to listln n to, sena- tor I interrupted. did one not partic- ularly want to find out something at frst-hand a 70 tn condition of poli- tics in the state of Kansas
 and som tim have inspirei me to dream that with the vast annual in lux of Italians to tn se shores. We Americans shall a some remote day develop composers worthy to class with The most eminent Italian masters of the amiable and elevating art of music Yet, for all that. I ar that there is a soporific and saccharine quality in the great bulk of Italian operatic music IL is too sugary. mos of i-, IL appeals to the senses, but not . the intellect. Therein lies the diff renee be.ween Ital- ian music and German music. German music-'the music of Wagner, we will eay-appeals directly and ConvinCingly to the intellect. It is neither tawdry nor maudlin. It containcth no candied ballads to my lady's eye Drcws. It is masculine music. whereas much of the Italian music. melodious as it may be and admittedly is. seems 70 me to be ef- minate and emasculate. Poor Nerdi's Aida" beside Wagner's 'Lohengrin:' both works are masterpieces. Well. Aida is Nile music: il is dreamy: il 1,s