Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — An Idea for Ingersoll. [ARTICLE]

An Idea for Ingersoll.

Col. Robert Ingersoll, in addition to being a good many other things, is also a hero worshiper. But there are heroes and heroes in this world. His appear to be altogether of the earth, earthly. There was Blaine, his plumed knight, his paladin, his archangel wiWi a flaming sword in his hand, guarding forever the delicious recesses of his party’s paradise. Do you know Blaine? He wrote some damaging letters once to a man and had desperate need one day to have them back. First he sought them with the abject fervor of a guilty pleader. Next he borrowed them to read and kept them as though he had borrowed a horse and buggy and held on to both. Then he read such of the mass as hurt him least, suppressed the balance that told of absolute crime, fell fainting in the arms of his partv, and was justified and glorified. Ingersoll’s exultation over him amounted to almost positive idolatry. He threw about him the arms of his rhetoric and embraced him as though he had the beauty of a Madonna and the holiness of a Christ.— Sedalia {Mo.} Democrat.