The Advocate

INGALLS' IRIDESCENT DREAM,

He Went All the Way to Chicago to Exhibit His Monumental Gall.

For a man who don't sleep anywhere near as much as Ben Cloyer, John J. Ingalls is a very enterprising dreamer. He thinks that Kansas is a diminutive satellite revolving around his person. He seems to think that Kansas, without Ingalls in office, is absolutely without light and stumbles through space in utter darkness. He regards Kansas as in the position of the prodigal son coming from darkness into light, the light to appear when the process of revolving around the dreamer begins again. His talk would indicate that he is conferring an inestimable favor on this afflicted State by permitting himself to be revolved around. When he wakes and shakes his dreaming garments he will find that the conditions of January, 1891, have not materially changed and that Kansas has gone out of the revolving business. Here is a dreaming talk that he worked off at Chicago, October 18:

"I expect to go back to the United States Senate on March 4, 1897. I have been a candidate to succeed Senator Peffer since the day when he defeated me in Topeka, nearly five years ago.

"I might have gone back to the Senate this year, when Lucien Baker was sent there. I could have got the office hands down. But I would not take it. I would not even allow my friends to mention my name for the place. I was not a candidate for the Senate to succeed John Martin. I am a candidate to succeed William A. Peffer. That I can do so, I have no doubt.

"Populism in Kansas is falling to pieces. Most of the Populists were once Republicans, but they have realized that the remedies which the Populist party offer will not cure the evils of the time. Most of them have gone back to the Republican party. The present Legislature, which sent Lucien Baker to the United States Senate, is strongly Republican. The next Legislature should be even more strongly Republican."