Source:? "Mr. Peck Fills Senator Ingalls' Appointment," The Oakley GRAPHIC, Oakley, Logan County, Kansas; Friday, January 3, 1890, Volume 1, Number 7, page 1.? Microfilm available at Oakley Public Library, Oakley, Kansas; filmed for Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Peck Fills Senator Ingalls' Appointment. Topeka, Kan., December 30.--The twelve or fifteen hundred teachers in attendance on the convention had been determined to remain through the entire convention in order to listen to William T. Harris, the commissioner of education, and Senator John J. INGALLS, who was billed to speak on "The Problems of the Second Century."? Mr. Ellsworth INGALLS arrived from Atchison to say that his father had contracted a cold on his way from Washington to Atchison and was utterly incapacitated for speaking in public.? The disappointment of the convention when this announcement was made seemed to be speedily cured when John McDONALD offered a resulution requesting the Hon. George B. PECK to take the senator's place.? The resolution was adopted with enthusiastic unanimity, and a committee was selected to wait on Mr. PECK, who consented to deliver in substance his recent address before the teachers at Concordia and he was accordingly introduced to two vast audiences one at the state house and! one at the Grand opera house.? His preliminary remarks appropriately expressed the regret of the convention that the expected speaker could not be present and sufficiently set forth the absent senator's claims on Kansas for love and admiration.? The topic discussed by Mr. PECK was "Temperament." Noted in the December 20, 1889, issue of The Oakley GRAPHIC on page 3, column 2: The Union Pacific railway will sell tickets to the Kansas State Teachers' association at Topeka at one fare, $9.30, for the round trip December 24 and 25, good to return January 3, 1890. ? Transcribed by Cic. Stetter ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.