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Show lagftUa, Kansas City Star. The thoughtful and candid person ae iUainted with Kansas affairs will entertain no doubt as to the real reason why John J. lngalls was not appointed L'nited Ma' s senator from Kansas by governor Hum. phrey. To make a long story short, Mr, In. galls was defeated in this contest for it amounts to a defeat because be waa defeated de-feated in the legislature one year ago. That Mr. lngalls is not, in the Kansas vocabulary, vocabu-lary, as "able" as he was prior to the n lb of January, 18IM, and that he is not lust as firm and consistent a republican, no living being in Kansas doubts. Sir. lngalls i just as "aide," and just as eloquent and polished and accomplished and scathing," and "vit riolie," just as much a terror to the "south," and just as much the pride und hope of the "union," just as capable of tilling the galleries gal-leries of the senate, and just as full of the parliamentary knowledge, tact, courteai and wisdom which made him an ornament to the presiding oflieer's chair, as he was a few short months ago, when in the opinion of an overwhelming majority of the Kan-as rcpub. lican press, lie was the wonder of the universe, uni-verse, and the most magnificent work ., f:lr fashioned by the creative hand of God. He is the same man as when, in I he belief of adniir. ing thousauds in Kansas, the sun onlv rose to light hlui on bis path of Milium.' v mid benirici nee and set only to give the world an opportunity to rest aud reflect on the work he had performed during the day. Had Mr. lngalls been re-elected senator tiie w elkin el-kin would still be echoing these praist s, and Kansas politician! would still be prostrating themselves before him, without n doubt in their bosoms of Mr. lugall's "loyalty" to his party-It party-It happened that Mr. lngalls was beaten, and from that moment everybody should have remembered Kip Van Winkle's words, 'And are we soon forgot w hen we are gone?1 But many people forgot the law of Kansas politics, as unvarying as the statutes ,,f the Medea aud Persians, "never stand by a man after the luck changes," and so It was Hie expectation of the country outside of Kan sas that Mr. lngalls would be relumed to the position for which he was the last . xpres-cd choice of his party. Strange that in the face of history any such delusion should have been indulged. The first announce-Dients announce-Dients from Kansas were that Intalls was not iu the race. Pretexts were invented, it was discovered that the "people" had spoken against lngalls, and that iu tin- late cam Daign for county clerk in Atchison county he had not hurled himself into Hie fray with the headlong impetuosity he should' have displayed. This was trilling, but it , enough. The crowd swept from the cemetery ceme-tery at Km poria to the executive chamber at Topeka and clamored for everybody and anybody but lngalls. 8uch is life, fame, honor, glory, remembrance in the "wild west." |