Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-31
THE ALLIANCE LEADERS.
INTER EsTING INTERVIEWS WITH THE
TIVES AT WASHINGTON.
What They Have to Say.

bonnet. Not content with furnishing
the row which generated Douglas and
Lincoln, not content with furnishing
John Brown and his arsenal full OF
pixies, not content with furnishing
Ingalls, and his phosphorescent rhetoric
and fiery tongue, 1t has now furnished
PETER and John Davis and Jerry Simp-
son and their farmer allies and their
revolutionary theories. Kansas will
certainly be our salvation yet, or else
the other thing.
called on Judge PETER yesterday.
He is not handsome. A little over six
feet tall: somewhat lank and ungraceful;
keen kindly gray eye-two of them,
in fact; a sloping forehead; a light
brown thatch of hair ard dark brown
beard that hangs down about the but
tons of his vest, cOncealing the place
where his necktie ought to be, and look
ing as if it might belong to some other
man: plain gray business suit, bearing
jauntily upon the lapel pair Of gold
eyeglasses-the only visible sign of
opulence-this is PETER.
He is cordial in his manner, but not
at first. No, not at first.
SIS this Senator Peffer?" / inquired
after had been summoned up to his
room and was rapidly making the above
inventory as he rose to receive me.
''It is" he said in cold, cold voice,
like a Kansas blizzard blowing down
the waste pipe on the northeast corner
of the Office of the Kansas Farmer, and
he frowned down darkly or me and
spitefully clasped the chair in front of
him with both hands he added in bleak
tones: What is it,"
II would like to talk to you about
the situation,"I answered, trying to
smile.
commercially or otherwise" he
asked with severe reflection.
Commercially" I replied as calmly
as | could. 81 am paid for my letters
mo; mean commercial between YOU
and me-" he explained.
IL suppose So" [ answered, vaguely
charger" And tried to estimate how
much my newspaper would allow me to
pay him.
He looked mad for moment and
then his long, coffee cOlOred beard
quivered with merriment, as he said
II mean, do you expect am going to
pay you anything to interview me?"
NO" | remarked, catching my
breath once more and joyously hinging
my whole weight on my other leg
"What on earth put such an idea into
your head?"
well, there have been half dozen
fellows here Offering to write me up for
money!" he exclaimed; ''they must be
crazy to think want any such noto-
riety as that"
PETER had little schooling but he
served three years in the war, rising
from private to lieutenant Being ver-
satile and of general utility he was de-
tailed for various service-aS adjutant,
as commissary, as quarter-master, and
finally as judge advocate of military
court. Here he won the title of Judge
which has always stuck to him.
When he was completely treasured,
Senator PETER was cordial: he talked
freely and with the continuity of cul-
ture. He offered me seat and took
one himself.
His entire family is in Kansas, but
later in the season he will bring hither
Mrs. PETER and one son. He has five
grown sons and three daughters and
they are all supporting themselves
working at their trades.
'Yes, believe all children should be
given trades" he said, $50 as to be self
supporting. Even my youngest daugh-
ter could earn enough at typesetting to
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