The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-28

them these three men. and took away
more clearly impressed upon their men,
tai vision, the picture of ingalls, than
Of either Blaine or conkling. He YVES
indeed physically and mentally, the
most unique personality in the Senate.
His strong individuality of face, his
bearing, his incisive speech, his MAJ
Vicious expression of ideas, attracted
and fascinated all who saw and heard
him. Few senators have excelled him
in scholarship; none think in poetic
temperament; and he was the peer of
any in his knowledge of our country,
and ability in discussion. -... ..
Senatorial oratory was even then in
its trasition period. Studied, ornate,
and classic eloquence was disappearing,
giving place to precise and accurate
statement and analysis, but Ingalls, pos
sessed oratorical power all his own-a
fresh style of oratory, perfect. effective,
unmatched, either in remote or modern
times. Neither Demosthenes nor Web
ster was a more complete orator than
ingalls,. No other senator attracted so
many hearers or cast such a spell upon
his listeners. So far as I have known
the Senate, or read its history, think
no Senator has ever equaled ingalls, as
a master of language. The words with
which he clothed his thoughts may
have been studied, but seemed to be
spontaneously uttered: indeed, In the
heat Of debate, where formal pre-
paration wasimpossible, his wonder
full use Of the English language was as
striking as in his more elaborate
speeches. 1t was a delight to listen to
him, and his perfect sentences, precise
and beautiful rhetoric, will never be
forgotten by any who heard him. He
was not mere phrase maker who con-
juredr and. juggled with words and
forms of speech, but logician, whose
argument compelled attention and
carried conviction. He was a fearless
senator. He never summed a conflict;
never retreated from an opponent. He
said in magazine article, think, of
ex-senator Chandler of Michigan his
weapon was the butchers eleaver and
not the rapier. ingalls, weapon was
more like the rapier or scimiter. Sena-
tors will recall that scene in the Tails
man where King Richard just risen
from a. sick bed with his two handed
sword severed a bar of iron, and Sala-
din with his seimiter the floating and
filnsy veil of silk, Ingalls, welded the
scinniter of Saladin rather than the
sword of Richard, and the dexterity
with which he handled it was a marvel
to all. SO II
During his service in the Senate he
constantly gained in influence and pow
er and as constantly grew in the esti-
nation of his state. During all the
eighteen years of his service, 1t is no
disparagement Of all the other able
and strong men OF Kansas to say that
he was easily as most prominent and
| illustrious citizen. A son of New
England, the man of Kansas. 1t was
a strange and sad eccentricfty of Kan
sas that relegated him to private life,
It was the loss of the state rather
than his own personal loss. He was
as strong in defeat and in private life
as he had been in his senatorial career
His public life and services were indeed
btu his nature was not soured nor en-
FILTERED. All his love of the beautiful
and true of the state of his adoption
all the poetry Of his soul shone out
| more clearly than was possible while
a senator. He accepted his fate like a
hero, knowing. think, that the day
would come when his state would dc
him yet higher honor and cherish for
him still higher regard. Whether he
knew this or not. that time has come
| and to-day the state honors him In
| death more than it ever did in life by
| placing his statue alongside those Of
| the great and noble men whose lives
have been so potential in molding the
history and destiny of our, republic
From the Congressional Record Of
| Monday.