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 scholar
as a man of affairs. He was born in
Pennsylvania sixty years ago, and the
foundation of his education was laid
in the country school houses of that
State.
In 1852 he was married and moved
to Indiana, settling on farm in St.
Joseph county.
In 1859 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 n whence he enlisted in
the Federal army, in August of that
year entering as private, and dis
charged in 1865 as second lieutenant.
After the war he 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 occasioned by the
war, he was compelled to leave Ten
nessee; and in 1870 moved to Kansas,
locating on government 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 1880 be was presidential elector
on the republican ticket, and in 1881
was appointed editor of the Kansas
Farmer and moved to Topeka. He
then abandoned party and politics'and
devoted himself to the study of econo-
mic questions, but when the new
movement first showed signs of life he
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 great
interest in agricultural matters, and is
thoroughly educated in bucolic science
and politics.
He ihas been republican from Ere
mont to Harrison. Is member of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Is a
master Mason and belongs to the
knights of Labor. He unreservedly
endorses the st. Louis platform and
the Ocala platform of the National
Farmers Alliance Industrial Union
the platform of the peoples party in
Kansas, believes the government
should aid in approving harbors and
rivers in the SorA &, and building North
and South railroads, in the West in
irrigating lands wherever and as fast
as settlement demands, and first of all
the issuance of money enough to see
the people on their feet again.
PETER Draws His Salary Early.
IAtlanta Journal.1
PETER did not approach The Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate himself,
but sent a friend to see how the land
lay and to find out if any Of the annual
$1,000 was available for immediate
n, eds. The friend investigated, and to
the infinite delight of PETER be was in
formed that the shekels would begin
to flow at once, and when PETER slip
ped up and signed for his first months
salary of S4l6.66 in advsaaaaeees an agriegl-
tural aureola settled down IN sa
and skulked in the meshes Of hisS2sn-
tangled beard.
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