The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-12
POLITICS In KANSAS.
A Lawyer Writes of the CHANGED Si,na
tiOn in that State.


Especial Cor. of STATE CHRoNIcLEl
EMPORIA, Kan, Dec. 4-The excite
ment incident to heated and acrimoni-
Gus political contest has about subsidized.
and We in calmness, contemplate the
situation. A wonderful Transformation
has been the result. A revolution has
taken place. A political cyclone has
rushed over us and purified the atmos-
phere.
One ancient Republican was heard to
remark on the day after the election,
that the Rebels had captured Kansas at
last. From a Republican majority of
$4,000 for the State and presidential
ticket IN 1888, they now have an aver
age plurality for State officers of 6,O7O,
and their Attorney General beaten by g
plurality of 2,44S.
The Alliance has elected five members
to Congress, and with the Democrats
have s3 majority in the lower house of
the Legislature, thus securing United
States Senator. A majority of the town
ship and county officers throughout the
state have been elected by the new
party.
The following is the vote on governor:
Humphrey, Republican, 1924
Willets, Alliance, 1O6, ,94S
Robinson, (re-submission and
Democrat,) 71,26s
Richardson, Prohibition, 1.147
1t will de seen from these figures that
the combined opposition vote is 179, ,358
or an opposition majority against the
republican nominee of Ga, ,234.
This State for the past twenty-five
years has not only been Republican by
overwhelming majorities. but during
that period has been the theatre Of the
intensest sectionalism. have made this
city my home for the past twenty-five
years and speak not from heresay Why
she has possessed these characteristics to
such an extent has been problem The
writer is of the opinion, that since the
war. and in those States north and east
of Kansas, when political contests would
at times wax warm, and Republicanism
was on the Wane, or in minority, then
these sanity fellows would fold their
tents and HE away to these Elysian
fields of Radicalism, believing and hop
ing that when death came it would find
them in them in the same hallowed at
mosphere Prior to their departure from
these States, and after their arrival here,
they feasted on the political food that
Mr.. Ingalls, gave them the Senate and
as each succeeding year has rolled around
that man would charm them most who
could, like Ingalls,, say Or write wither-
ing sarcasms and anathemas of and
against the Southern portion of our
country.
They cared not for the tariff; they
needed not the demand for more money
to carry on the industrial pursuits OF
life; they turned deaf ear to forty cent
!, wheat and ten-cent corn.
:, The Alliance, under the astute ant
able leadership of Hon. L L. Polk ant
his coadjutors, has achieved result thai
will start US on the incline to prosperity
And why should we not be prosper
ouss We have a genial, healthful eli
mate, and the eastern half of the Stat,
possesses unusual depth and fertility O
f soil, with rolling prairie, watered b.
, numerous streams and rivers. Sta
,, tistics will show that, for {
given period of ten years, Kan
, sas produced more grain, grass, fruits
:, vegetables and live stock to the acr,
> than any other State in this Union. Th
elevation in the western portion is to
great, hence the scanty rainfall there.
. Our Alliance friends are in earnest an
. say that the struggle for reform and
peoples government is in it's incipiency
They tell us that the tales of sectional
ism to divert their attention from thei
own interest will be heard no more; tina
although some are benighted and hav
n been unable as yet to wrest themselve
from the spell of monopolistic and part
san influence, yet the light is breaking
9 and 1892 will find them in the paths tha
6 lead from bondage to political freedom
Respectfully,
! W. T. MCCART9.