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day's calendar. When a bill was reached he would get up and
make a pretty sharp attack on the measure, full of wit and
satire. He generally knew very little about it. When he
got through his speech he would disappear into the cloak room
and leave the Senator who had reported the bill, and had expected
to get it through without any difficulty--the case being very
often absolutely clear and just--to spend his time in an elaborate
and indignant explanation.

Mr. Ingalls disliked very much the scrupulous administrations
of Hayes and Harrison. He yielded to the craze for free silver
which swept over parts of the West, and in so doing lost the
confidence of the people to whose momentary impulse he had
given way. If he had stood stanchly on the New England doctrines
and principles in which he was educated, and which I think
he believed in his heart, he would have kept his State on
the right side. Shortly before the campaign in which he was
defeated for Senator, he said in the cloak room, in my hearing,
that he did not propose to be a martyr. He was the author
or a beautiful poem, entitled "Opportunity," which I think
should accompany this imperfect sketch.

OPPORTUNITY

Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace--soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate!

If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.
I answer not, and I return no more!

Ingalls was a native of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Somewhere
about 1880, being in Boston, he gave an interview to one of
the papers in which he commented very severely on the want
of able leadership in the Republican Party in Massachusetts.
I suppose the criticism was directed at me, although he did
not mention my name. In 1880 Massachusetts gave a Republican
majority of 48,697, and Kansas a Republican majority of 41,897.
Mr. Ingalls's leadership in Kansas had been manifested very
largely in the control of official patronage. He said in
the Senate that he and his colleague sought to get rid of
all Democrats in office in Kansas as with a fine-toothed comb.

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