Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-14

go feet in the air, and there are in parts of
the State ponds of oil eight feet deep, where
the oil has run out from natural wells and
has been caught in basins. 1t is not really
known how valuable Wyoming is, and the
State is in its babyhood, materially as well
as politically
PLUMB HOPES FOR INGALLS,.
Senator Plumb tells ME that Ingalls, will
probably be returned to the Senate. and that
he has a number of friends among the Al
lance Legislators which, in addition 10 his
Republican friends, will secure his election.
Senator ingalls, himself will say that he
| considers his success certain. There is
general desire here that Ingalls, be returned
to the Senate, and expressions of this kind
are common even among the Senators who
have been the most bitterly attacked by him.
The newspaper correspondents without e1-
ception are anxious that he should remain,
as he furnishes better descriptive material
than any other man in the body, and always
has new IDEA to offer upon every subject
that comes up.
l find general impression that the Alli-
ance party will be ephemeral, and that it
will not have much influence on the next
election. Senator Plumb said last night:
You can't tell what will he the state OF
things two years from now. Times may be
better, and the effect of the Mckinley bill
may show that it will be a good rather than
4 bad thing for the country. The Farmers
Alliance party will have a number of offices
to distribute. Its leaders will probably
quarrel among themselves, and it may all
go to pieces before the Presidential election"
FORTHCOMING THE ALLIANCE.
Judge Tyner, ex-Postmaster General, and
now Attorney General of the Postofice De-
partment, thinks with Senator Plumb, and
he says 1t reminds him of the granger move
ment which struck Indiana about the time
he ran for Congress. He was advised not
to accept the Republican nomination on ac-
count of the strong farmers element of the
district, which would certainly be against
him. He took this advice, and another man
was nominated. He was weaker candidate
| than Tyner, but be was elected because the
grangers fought among themselves, and
could not at the end agree upon candidate.
Roswell P. Flower thinks the Alliance
has too many crazy ideas as to hat money,
etc, to hold itself together, and George 0.
Jones, who was the Greenback candidate for
the Presidency some years ago, believes that
the old Greenback element will unite and
that they will rally around Senator Stan
ford as the next candidate for the Presi-
dency. / called on Senator Sanders, of
-hOubduos laos l1S ouNiC oAS NV
Alliance people in Montana, and ventures
the statement that the Alliance party will,
within two years, be thing of the past.
MUST BE ABOVE BOARD.
"The people Of the United States, I" said
he, Twill not support any party which holds
its meetings in the dark. Such actions are
against the spirit of American institutions,
and they are a part only of the craze of the
times. We are growing insane over secret
societies If you will 60 into any crowd
you will fiud more buttons and badges than
you can count, and it would take more
learning to read their meaning than it
would to write history of Moses and the
prophets.
Parties have been in a transition state
for the last ten years. and just now there is
going on all over the United States disin-
tegration of parties and change of social
conditions, which make 1t almost impossible
to prophesy for the future. This is an age
of trusts, of false values and of great fort
unes. II is an age of fortunes made dis
honestly, and it would seem to me that
day of reckoning must come sooner or later
Our great corporation values are based on
false estimates. Our railroads are operated
so that their directors and managers and
great proprietors are little better than
thieves in regard to the public. and the bal
ance sheet must be made up sooner or later.
As 10 the Alliance party it is only an evil
dence of the discomfort"