The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-19
Judge PETERS Career.

PETER, ingalls, successor in the Sen
ate, is man of education and ability,
with no irreproachable personal char
acter, though not as much Of a scholar
as a man of affairs. He was born in
Pennsylvania sixty years ago, anu the
foundation Of his education was laid
in t.e country school houses of that
State.
In,lS52 he was married and moved
to Indiana, settling on a farm in st.
Joseph county.
In 1869 he again moved to Morgan
county. Missouri, and there distin-
guished himself by his utterances in
favor of the maintenance of the union.
In 1862 he was once more compelled
by circumstances to make change of
base, and moved to Warren county,
Illinois, fro u whence he enlisted in
the Federal army, in August of that
year entering as private, and dis
charged in 1865 as a second lieutenant.
After the war be settled down in
Clarksville, Tennessee, and engaged in
the practice Of law, acquiring some
local reputation by his opposition to
move Brewlem's radicalism. After
four years of unsuccessful struggle to
help the differences occasloned by the
war, he was compelled to leave Ten
nessee; and in 1870 moved to Kansas,
locating on a go ,rnment land claim in
Wilson county, engaging in farming
and the practice of law.
In 1874 he was elected to the State
Senate as Republican.
In 1875 he removed to Coffeyville,
an adjoining county, but in the same
congressional district, where he estab-
lished the Journal, conducting it as a
republican newspaper.
In 1850 be was presidential elector
on the republican ticket, and in 1851
was appointed editor of the Kansas
Farmer and moved to Topeka. He
then abandoned party and politics and
devoted himself to the study Of econt-
mic questions, but when the new
movement first showed signs oflife be
Immediately stepped to the front as
leader, and by hisspeeches and writing
did more than any one man IN the
State to bring about the political revo-
luton of last November.
During the campaign be was de-
clared candidate for the position to
which he has been nominated by his
party and he has always taken a great
interest in agricultural matters, and is
thoroughly educated in bucolic science
and politics.
He ihas been a republican from Ere
mont to Harrison. Is member of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Is .
master Mason and belongs to the
knights of Labor. He unreservedlJ
endorses the St. Louis platform anc
the Ocala platform of the Nationa
Farmers Alliance Industrial Unior
the platform of the peoples party il
Kansas, believes the government
should aid in improving harbors anc
rivers in the South, aud building Nortf
and South railroads, in the West il
irrigating lands wherever and as fas
as settlement demands, and first of al
the issuance of money enough to SCI
the people on their feet again.
PETER Draws His Salary Early.
Atlanta Journal
Pefer did not approach the Ser
eeant-at-Arms of the Senate himself
but sent a friend to see how the LAM
Law and to find out if any of the annua
5000 was available for immedlat
n, eds. The friend investigated, and t
the Infinite delight of Peffer lie was in
formed that the shekels would begl
to flow at once, and when PETER sllI
ped up and signed for his first month
salary of s4l6 6e irfadvance, an agricu
tural aureola settled down upon an
and skulked in the meshes of his en-
tangled besrd.