The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-27
Ingalls, and the Alliance.


Senator ingalls, is in Kansas seeking a re-
election. The alliance is determined to de-
feat him, but it is not certain that 1t will
succeed. He is now gagged ia the greatest
political fight of his life, and the chances
are against him.
The Kansas legislature is composed Of 165
members-40 senators and 125 representa-
tives. OF the senators. thirty eight are re-
publican, one is democrat, and one an
allianceman. OF the representatives,
ninety-One are alliancemen, twenty-eight
are republicans, and nine are democrats.
II requires eighty-three votes to elect a
senator. The alliancenen, therefore, can
elect the senator if they will vote solidly
for an alliance candidate.
But can any candidate be named who
can get the entire alliance vote! The In
gals men answer this question in the mega
tive. They name quite a number of alliance
men who will vote for Ingalls, under any
circumstances. Nearly all the alliancemen
were republicans before they became al
liancemen, and many Of them, therefore,
have strong leaning toward Ingalls,.
The contest has already developed a very
bitter feeling. The alliancemen are hold
ing secret meetings and are making ex-
traordiEary efforts to whip the alliancemen
into line. Threats of one kind and another
are freely made, but the alliancemen who
are supposed to favor Ingalls, do not seem
to be disturbed by them.
Ingalls, bases his hope of success upon hiss
ability to break the alliance lines He has
behind him the shrewdest political workers
in the state-men who know all the ms and
outs of the politics Of the state, and who
have been mainly instrumental in giving
the republican ticket the big maiorlties for
which Kansas is noted. They will spare no
effort to secure ingalls, reelection.
Strange as 1t may seem, it is said that
four Of the ten democrats will vote for In
gals, and that all Of them may do SO, unless
tho alliance candidate should be man who
leans strongly toward the Democratic
party. They prefer Ingalls,, they say, to
an alliance republican.
Even il ingalls, should be beaten, he might
manage to keep himself in the Senate.
There are nineteen counties which are
not represented in the legislature In 1885
law was enacted providing that the number
OF representatives, should not exceed l25, and
there has been no reapportionment since
that time. The nineteen unrepresented
counties were organized since 1885. If In
gals is defeated he may ask the United
States Senate to declare that the senatorial
election was illegal, because the nineteen
coun ties in question had no voice in it. If
the Senate should do so the governor of
Kansas would have to appoint a senator to
fill the vacant senatorship until the legisla-
ture filed it regularly. OF course the
governor would appoint ingalls,. The ap-
pointment would keep Ingalls, in the Senate
until March, 1892.
1t is urged that if ingalls, should be elected
his opponents would take the advantage of
the fact that nineteen counties are not rep
resented in the legislature, and try to keep
him out of the Senate. They would hardly
succeed, however, because the republican
senators would prefer republican to an
alllanceman as senator from Kansas.
After March the republican majority will
be rather slender and republican senators
would strain point to keep Ingalls, in his
seat just as they did to seat the republican,
instead Of the democratic, claimants for
seats from Montana.
In Alabama and Georgia in the election
of q United States senator the contest was
between alliancemen and democrats. and
the democrats won. In Kansas it is be-
tween aliancemen and republicans
The feeling that marked the contest
in the two southern states was mild
in comparison with that which is being dis
played in Kansas. and the contest has
scarcely begun. The contest is certain to
reach degree of intensity seldom or never
witnessed in a senatorial election. Ingalls,
is not the man to pour oil on the troubled
waters. fThe greater the excitemnt is the
better his chances for reelection will be-