The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-05


On the 9Th inst, before one-half OF the
Legislative Districts Of this State had been
heard from. the following dispatch was
sent from this city to the Chicago Times:
ATCHIsoS, Gan, Nov. 7-Returns from all
over the state iudlra'r the election 0f about
thiTty straight u. 'Hcrtt~ Ia tho Legislature,
st'.d twenty or thfrty t'lcrab trkerS. senator
Ingalls, has lost his msn ia nearly ~, ~
Legislative District. having been. beaten uv
C..u-I s. Hr5. p"T :, GrC no. ckDT car iudr:1rI-
dent E"Prhl can. 81" i now considered
practically out Of the Senatorial race. Iur
Democrats cone III ted their entire strength
az rln,' hl> cane iaies wherever they cuuc.
IL il difficult to understand what the
writer of such a dispatch intended or ex-
pscted to accomplish b. such absurd mis-
representation. Fir-t, there will not b. to
exceed twenty-five Democrats in the Legs
laiure, and hall OF thee were elected On
Ind, pendent OF 4. mbina Ion tickets. Second,
there will not he To exceed fifteen Irreeu-
hackers IN the Legislature, and they wcr9
all elected on coalition tickets. senator
Ingalls, has not los, q man in auy cun-id-
cradle number OF legislative Districts and
III nearly every instance where RrpubIi-
can candidate was beaten by an lr.iepen-
dent Republicans, the latter was elected be-
cause he favored lnSa Il, and the former
def aIet because he opposed ingalls, This
was notably the casr in Reno and Ellsworth
counties where Ex-Congressman Brown,
and Fish Commissioner Long, both An
thony men. were defeated by independent
Republicans fivOring Iugalls.
Instead of being practically out of the
race" Mr. ingalls, will be- We believe, ths
choice Of nearly two thirds Of the Legizla
lure. Fully half Of the Democrats, and
nearly As large a proportion OF the Green
hackers, prefer him 10 any other Republi-
can, and as the Republicans have nearly
twu-ihiri Of the Legislature, Of course the
next Senator will be a Republican We
have looked over the list Of members Of
both the Senate and House. We personally
know 4 very large number Of them. Of the
forty State Senator's at least thirty, and
probably thirty five flavor the reelection 1f
Mr.. Ingalls, Of the one hundred and
twenty-seyen members Of the House at least
sixty-six, already heard from, favor the re-
elec ion Of Senator Ingalls, There consti-
tu;e clear majority Of the legislature on
pint ballot. And in this estimate We have
included only three or four Democrats,
who are, - We personally know, favorable
to the reelection Of Mr.. Ingalls,.
The choice Of senator next winter will
lie between senator Ingalls, and Gov. An
thony and Congressman Phillips. We
don't think it ought to be difficult for any
sensible citizen Of Kansas 10 make choice
between these three. In all the require
rneuts an intelligent people should de-
mand in their senator scholarly attain
ments, eloquence and vig-r - writer or
speaker, personal influence and character,
devotion to the interest Of the state, and
capacity to represent them u-efully, Mr.
Ingalls, is incompsrably superior to either
Anthony or Phillips lie has won, during
hi- single term in the senate, 4 reputation
that hOnors the state. Send him back and
he will, before two years have passed, be
one OF the recognized leaders, orators and
statesmen of the Republican party Of the
nation, ranking with the great leaders OF
he senate in influence, capacity and use-
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