The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
KANSAS POLITICS.
Inssi . Likely to be Left Out in the Cold,
Cold Werld.


To?EKA, kas., Dec. l2.-Never has
such deep interest been manifested in
the gathering of any convention of men
as is now abscrvcd by politicians OF
Kansas in reference to the work of the
National Alliance at Ocala. Fla.
The Republicans. from all that can be
learned. denounced the Alliance as a
southern Democratic scheme. and warn
ed their cohorts TO be careful lest they
be entanGled in the southern isms. But
the times have changed, and the Repub-
! lican bosses in this section have been
ignored. in a great measure. and they are
extremely disyruntled-vea. dismayed-
fo. their plans failed, and now they are
at loss to know which way to turn.
For the past quarter Of a century the
preiudices of the people have kept their
nartv intact. and il was believed that
the bosses would still be able to COM
mand I solid front. But the toilers of
Kansas are reading and thinking pco-
pie. and have concluded to cut loose
from the fctters that have bound them,
and demand that a change shall be
made.
The great fight made by the Alliance
was against John J. ingalls,. The
speakers charged him with working and
voting III the interest OF Wall street gam
blers. ard Of keeping alive sect!onalisn
to the exclusion ofall questions in which
the farmers of Kansas are interested.
With the exception OF half dozen con-
ventions. every candidate nominated by
the Peoples party for the Legislature
stood upon an anti-Ingalls platform, and
out of total of 1o5 members the Alli-
ancc elected ninetv-one. The state SEN
ate holds over and is composed OF forty
senators, thirty.nine of whom are Re-
publicans. On joint ballot eighty-three
elects, so the Alliance has clear major
ity of eight over all, enough to secure
the defeat of ingalls,.
Who will succeed ingalls,? is the ques-
ton.
1t is believed John F. Willis Is the
leading candidate. lie has now forty
eight votes pledged 10 him. His election
as national lecturer of the Alliance has
given him additional prestige. He led
the fight in the recent contest, and was
the PEOPLES candidate for governor.
lacking only 5000 votes of an election.
The machinery of the Peoples party is
for him. Chairman Chase, Of the state
central committee, is confident of his
election and believes he will be the eau
Gus nominee. Willis is farmer, and
has served one term in the state leglsla-
ture as Republican. Five years ago
he left the party and has since affiliated
with the Greenback party.
Judge w. \. Petler, editor of The
Kansas Farmer, is also candidate and
has nineteen votes pledged to him for
senator. He is probably the best post
ed man on the tariff in Kansas. aud un-
til one year ago was protection Repub-
lican. Recently he has renounced his
former ideas, and is now a firm advocate
of tariff reform.
Another active candidate for the SEN
ate is Gen. John II. Rice, of Fort Scott,
and until the present summer tho editor
of The Monitor. leading Republican
newspaper. Rice came to Kansas at the
close of the war from Atlanta, where he
was engaged for several years in COM
piling and publishing Confederate
States Geography" In 1888 he took an
active part in the campaign, stumplng
the state for Harrison and Morton. At
the close Of the campaign ne became
candidate aHeScellector Of internal reve-
nue. for the district Of Kansas, but failed
through the efforts of senator ingalls, to
Get the position. He at once renounced
his Republicanism, joined the Alliance
and was nominated as its candidate the
the legislature OF an anti-Ingalls plat
from. His son. w. n. Rice, was noml-
dated as his competitor by the Republl-
cans. and was elected by twenty-seven
majority over his father. Rice's support
will be Insignificant because the people
believe he is fighting ingalls, for person
al reasons.