The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-21

statues here. a thousand debates a
score. beating down the limitation
shall survive the sculptured, and art.
preserving what history cannot save,
shall have survive dboth, that, then,
some one may still remember ingalls,,
ingalls, OF kansas, ingalls, the lncau-
tous, the daring, h unique; remem-
Der him as one who preserved his
own personality, persisted in his own
point OF view. gave audience to i'm
pulse voice to impression as one Who
upon occasion, loved a whim as dear
~ as a conviction, and both in the
gravity of a small crisis, and the ADAM
don OF a cataclysm, remained the
same ingalls,, surrendering no shade
of native resolution upon the demand
of any man or situation whatsoever.
And Kansas gives a statue notably
exceptional herein: That before this
day no commonwealth has ever given
to a satirtst in political life. a statue.
Literature too seldom so rewards
thems for there is no Cervantes, mar
bic or bronze, I am told, in all Spain.
Dean SW1fts memory, if we depend
ed upon art for it, would rest with a
bust. Ancient Athens. I have read
had, at time, more statues than
people. with not a s~atirist. I daresay,
among them.
This is the wonder in this earnest
of ingalls, permanent renOWn: He
remained through life himself, creator
and sole sponsor of the chance chill
dren or his brain. He resisted analy-
sis. He defed the political yardstick.
No single phrase will measure him. No
strictly partisan mind ever compre-
hended, and no partisan pen ever de-
Scribed him. Long activit in Wash
ington works to a aver
age, seeks to put a common stature
upon all who grind through it: it
never cut the personality of John J..
Ingalls, an inch, or stretched it a bar
lGUC0Tn- He knaTU dana06 TIn0T1 II
the fixed and rudimentary methods of
personal politics, and he scorned
them.
TT is noteworthy, I think. that a
divert the march away from the bad
and to the good. It is within all
precedent, I am certain, that he
should ave suffered for his challenge.
clare, Mr.. Speaker, that after such
splendid hardihood the Satirist should
be at all and SO soon rewarded"
Senate Longs Speech.
Washington, Jan. 21.-In the senate
today a resolution authorizing the
committee on interstate
commission to sit during sessions of
the senate in order to permit the tax
ing of testimony of the railroad rate
question, was passed.
Mr.. DIETRICH presented. but did not
read, an article written by himself in
support of his bill giving local self
government to Alaska.
The senate then entered upon the
ceremonies incident to the acceptance
of the statue of the late John James
ingalls,, for Is years a member of the
United States senate from Kansas,
which has been placed in
There were seven addresses. Before
they were begun Mr.. Long presented
a letter from the governor of Kansas
rendering the statue and a resolution
of acceptance. Pending the adoption
of the resolution Mr.. Long addressed
h senate. He devoted the greater
portion of his address to a considera-
ton of the reasons why Mr.; ingalls,
was not reelected in 1891, and said:
"And then as if in some measure to
atone for the injustice they had done
him the people of Kansas provided
that his marble statue should stand
forever in the hail lea the chamber
in which his great work was done.
Past political affiliations were forgot
ten when the resolution was passed.
In the legislature were some who had
belonged to the party which was or
ganized to retire him from public
life. They Joined his old friends and
supporters in preserving his stately
and imposing figure in the capitol of
n nation and today Kansas will be
gratiied to know that while the voice
of John J. IngalIs-Hiu be heard no
more, yet in cold marble but in strik-
ing and perfect likeness he has as
cended his pedestal in the old hall of
the house of representatives, there to
remain for all future time as a worthy
and fitting contribution to that historic
a~ssemblage."
Mr.. Long called attention to the fact
that tomorrow Kansas will celebrate
the ffty-fourth anniversary of her ad-
mission to the Union and to the fact
that Mr.. ingalls, had made an unavail-
ing effort to have John Browns statue
placed in the national capitol.
The other speakers were Messrs. AL
lisOn, COckrell, Platt Comm, German
Spooner and Daniel.
Congressman Champ Clark, Of Mis-
souri,, spoke as follows:
Mr. Speaker, in the very heart of
the continent, lying side by side. are
the magnificent commemorative of
Missouri and Kansas. Neither north
ern nor southern, nor eastern nor west
ern. they are the great central states of
the Union. A circle with Kansas CITY
for its center and with a radius of 300
miles would contain more land of the
richest quality h any other circle of
equal size on the habitable globe. With
in it's circumference can be- all
the necessaries and most of the lux
uries of human life. Cultivated as sci
enti1cally aS Belgium and Holland.
Missouri and Kansas could sustain a
population equal to that of the entire
Republic at the present time.
ut is. however, not in their phenom-
email wealth of material and
most richly blessed, but in their superb
citizenship.
I'm the early day Missourians and
Kansans. inheriting from the h a
historic quarrel for which they were in
no way responsible, were at daggers'
points, and led the strenuous life
Now, acting on the noble philosophy
tina Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war; they are illustrat-
ing the virtues of the simple life
Love, which laughs at locksmiths has
broken down the lines of demarcauon.
Missouri boys have married Kansas
girls, and Kansas boys have married
Missouri girls. until we are all getting