The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-03
INCA .lS'S CHANCES SLIM.
Ho >Iceds Ninety-three Votes and has
On V About Serenty-live.


Ony About serenty-Gve.
WAsu1:;GToS. November 2G.-iIX-
Governor Sharp. Of Kansas, is in the
city, and lfe makes the following inter-
csting statement regarding the situation
in the Kansas Legislature, which will
soon decide the political fate of Senator
John James ingalls,.
1T has generally been supposed that
eighty-thrcc votes would elect q Sera-
tor,' SAID he, ''but that is not so. There
arc nineteen delegate members Of tic
Legislature from the counties that have
been organized since the State was APP
porticncd in 1885. 1t Will take ninety
three to elect. and of these John J. In
sails has somewhere in the ncighbor-
hood of scverty-iive. Thirty-elght
votes IN the Senate belongs to HIM, and
these, with the thirteen new members
and twenty-tour old ones, make up the
sum total Of his strength. The Demo-
Gratis on joint ballot have eleven votes
all told. The balance is Farmers AL
lance. composed OF men who were for
merly Republicans or Democrats. but
who are neither just now. They form
a solid and purely indepcndant party.
1T doesn't matter much who the
Democrats vote for. but the compliment
will probably 90 to Click or Blair. The
Republicans, of course. will vote for In
coils. but the Farmers Alliance has not
vet decided upon candidate. Judge
PeNcr, editor Of the Kansas Farmer, is
in the field. and he has the support OF
President Polk and the National Al
lance, Another aspirant is Wllletts,
who was defeated for Governor. and
whose following is not small. PETER
and Willetts are vigorosly opposedsto
each other, and the friends OF one will
Dot under any circumstances vote for the
other. There is q man. though, on
whoma compromise is possible, but he
cannot be regarded as candidate. If
he gets the prize it Will be clear case of
the Office seeking the man. l refer to
Prof Garfield, Of the State University.
He is a Republican and q Free Trader,
a combination that has made him many
bitter enemies in the Republican party.
Garfield is an able, brainy man, one of
the most scholarly men in the West
not a politician but a great big man.
nev ertheless. If he gets the Alliance
nomination he will be elected beyond
question.
'sIngalls is not asleep, nor are any Of
his friends. How the fight will turn out
depends upon the Alliance men. If In
gals can rally any Of them to his sup
port his chances are GOOD. don't think
/ would care to be the Alliance men who
vote for him, though, Why? Because
they say out there that they will hang
any one who betrays the trust reposed
in him by the Alliance, jerk him or them
right up to the nearest lamp post in To-
peka. Personally, although l am a
Democrat. 1 would like TO see John j.
ingalls, elected, butmy reasons are pure
ly personal. I don't think he can pos
sibly secure the Democratic vote. The
seven Democrats will never vote for a
Republican unless they are so situated
that they have to decide between two
Republicans. That situation may come
up if Garfield gets the nomination, and
then they would vote for Garfield be-
cause he is Free Trader. ingalls, has
chances, but they are SLIM