The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-16

objects of interest in that historic city.
It's towers and spires are visible from
the city, occupying as it does a promi-
nent place upon nigh point of land
south of the city.
WORK IN LITERATURE
During the past few years Mr. ingalls,
has spent little of his time in gAtchison.
Following his defeat for reelection as
senator. he plunged into literary work
for magazines and did feature work
for the leading daily papers of the coun-
try. The first spectacular incident in
which Ingalls, figured as newspaper
man, was a reporter of the Corbett- Fitz-
simmons prize fight at Carson City for
a New York paper. The venerable Kan
san was one of the prominent men in the
press box and his description and subse-
quent morals drawn from the incident
were of a high character. Since that
time he stayed much in Washington do
ing feature stories for the papers and
contributing special articles to various
publications.
Ingalls, was a polished orator: his
voice and language were characteristic
of the orator but when his voice failed
compelling the cancellation of lecture
tours, he employed all OF his time with
the pen He has produced a prodigious
amount of material for newspapers and
magazines his health gradually failing
of course. But only a few weeks prior
to his death did the newspaper work
stop. When the great machine began to
give way ingalls, realized it. He sum-
noned his family and with them around
him passed away.
Ihgalls had no close friends. He was
intimately acquainted with hundreds of
men in every state of the union and was
on confidential terms with the leaders
in the Republican party, but he was not
the kind of a man, to use a western ex-
preston, Ito warm up to- He was al
waysdiffident; the most exciting circum-
stances never disturbed him; he was
calm and impressive to a degree which
would drive his associates frantic in
inns Of
defeat stared the Ingalls, forces in the
face he was not disturbed. He took it
all as a matter of fact and for the men
who worked out and made the plans for
his campaign, there is not one of them
who says that he was thanked for his
trouble. Many men who were formerly
supporters of Ingalls, now alive in Kan
sas today will rise, now that he is dead,
and accuse him of ingratitude They
have been silent all these years because
they feared to openly court the anger of
the man.
LAST APPEARANCE IN POLITICS.
When Ingalls, sought a reelection the
last time the Republicans controlled the
legislature, when Senator Baker was
chosen, his friends manag ed a cam
paign upon his soldier record in the sen
ate. The records of the senate were
brought forward by his opponents to
prove that ingalls, had never been the
friend of the soldier in more than the
ordinary degree. He would never turn
his back on the soldier in Kansas but
when Plumb went to the senate, frank
open-hearteds generous Plumb, ingalls,
lost his prestige among the veterans. all
of whom adhered to Plumb as they
would brother. 1t has been said that
Ingalls, did the posing while Plumb did
the work of representing the constit-
uency of Kansas at Washington.
ingalls, was a figure of national prom
by the epithetS of his personal enemies,
but the general sentiment will be one of
mourning because of the loss of such a
conspicuous Individual and a man who
has been so closely identified with the
history of the state.
Ingalsl for a figure of national prom
inence. He is the only Kansas man
who has attained the position of vice
president of the senate at Washington
and he is the one man who contributed
much to the fame of this state when it
was strugglfng WITH. depression and
misfortpn Ingalls, commanding
voice always stilled the confusion of
the senate chamber and its galleries. He
was a man who was always pointed out
and in that way become probably the
most noted character of the west. He
was much sought after for speeches in
swell eastern functions and was one of
the leaders Of the nation in campaign
speakings ingalls, as the individual is
no more, but the reputation which he
has made. Will serve as a monument so
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