Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-28
MR.. INGALLS, DEFEATED.
w. A. PETER Supported by a Majority q
the Kansas Legislature.

w. A. PETER Supported by a Majority OF
the Kansas Legislature.
The defeat OF Senator Ingalls, was foreshad.
owed in the dispatches to TIE STAR yesterday
The two houses Of the Kansas legislature bal
loted separately for United States Senator
Mr.. W. A. PETER. the nominee of the Farmers
Alliance, received SO votes and Hon. John J.
Ingalls,, republican, the present Senator, Sc
votes. Mr.. PETER had majority in the house
and Mr.. Ingalls, carried the senate.
IN THE HOUSE.
The house was half hour late in assembling
The attendance Of spectators was large. The
senate's chief clerk appeared at II o'clock and
presented a request from the senate that the
house return for further consideration to the
senate its concurrent resolution providing for
joint session of the two houses today at noon
Senator. The request was refused by an over
whelming vote.
Mr.. Douglass Of Sedgwick moved for q recon-
sideration Of the resolution and the granting
of the request.
The debate developed the fact that the ALI
ance feared that the request of the senate con-
cealed a snare.
The motion was finally voted down. There
were no nominating speeches. The result Of
the ballot was:
II. D. -. -,
%; Gen. George W. Blair. 5.
IN THE SENATE.
At noon the senate proceeded to ballot for
Senator. There were no nominating speeches.
Tho vote was: Hon. J. J. Ingalls,, So; W. A.
PETER, 2; G. W. Blair. l.; Senator Kelley (rep.)
l; Congressman Morrill,, L. Senator ingalls, was
declared the choice of the senate amid consid-
cradle enthusiasm.
There was some talk of the senate declining
to meet with the house in representative hall
Speaker Elder has issued all the passes to out
siders, and the house declined to return the
senate joint session resolution to be amended
SO as TO permit Lieut.. Gov. Fell to also issue
passes
now PETER WAS NOMINATED.
The alliance caucus that nominated Judge
PETER did not adjourn until 1:15 o'clock yes
terday morning. There were seventeen candi-
dates. and on the "drop-one' rule it took an
equal number of ballots to arrive at final
choice. The list of candidates in the order of
their strength on the first ballot fol-
lows: W. A PETER. &c; Elder, speaker of the
house; John Willitts, defeated alliance candi-
date for governor; John Davis. Congressman
elect from fifth district; j. W. Bridenthal. from
Chetopa; Frank Doster. judge of the district
court OF Holton; A. ii. Snyder. formerly union
labor organizer: Judge vrooman of Kansas
City, Kan; Gen. J. II. Rice OF Fort Scott, W. s.
Cogswell, David Oyermyer, formerly demo-
crat, of Topeka; s. NJ. Scott. Jas. Maxen, W. A.
Olds, John Hart of Sedgwick county, j. Il.
Osborn, defeated alliance candidate for secre-
tary of state, and W. A. Harris, stOcI raiser, of
Ieavenworth county.
On each ballot the candidate receiving the
lowest number was dropped. The names were
dropped from the bottom of the list in about
the order named. The balloting finally mar
rowed itself down to PETER, Willis, Elder and
Doster. The latter was dropped on the four
teenth ballot. The next ballot threw out Mr..
Elder and the final ballot stood: PETER, rs:
Willis 80. The Elder forces. it is said, took
this defeat very bitterly and there was "a rulnor
that they might not stand by the nominee.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE.
Judge PETER is the son CT farmer and was
born in Pennsylvania He picked up AN edu-
cation in the country schools in the winter and
at the age of fifteen was a teacher himself at a
salary of Sic month. He bought books with
his savings and took part in the debating
society's deliberatiors. At the age of seven
teeE years he declined an opportunity to take
n full course at Dickinson College and refused
to study law because he believed a successful
lawyer could not be an honest man. In 1852
he went to Indiana and in 1857 to Missouri
Union speeches. These not being well re-
ceived by his Missouri neighbors, he went to
Illinois and enlisted in the Union army. He
was attached to the western army and attained
tue ranh OF ueuRnaEt- AFTER the war ne set
tied in Tennessee and prospered. In 1870 he
went to Kansas, set up as q farmer. opened a
law Office and started a newspaper called the
Kansas Farmer. In 1874 he was elected to the
state senate. In 1850 he was one Of the repub-
hcan presidential electors, but he then
abandoned party politics. and from that time
until 1888 he confined his politics to the tariff.
With that exception he has been a republican
from Fremont 70 Harrison. He is a Mason,
knight of Labor and member Of the Pro-
tesLant Episcopal Church.
Ex-sEcRETARY Villas ELECTED SENATOR.
Both houses of the Wisconsin legislature yes
terday voted separately for United States
Senator. Ex-Secretary Of the Interior Vim. F.
Villas, democrat. received majority over John
c. Spooner, republican. who at present holds
the seat.
SENATOR INGALLS, PLANS.
Topeka special says: To o reporter Mr..
ingalls, said:
Il have no plans for the future. only know
that shall remain in Kansas. l came to the
state three years before its admission into the
Union. have lived here ever since. All nv
belongings are here. All of my children were
born IN Kansas: my dead sleer in her bosom,
and hope to mingle my dust with her soil"
Senator Ingalls, VIII so from here to Atchi-
son. his home, in few DAYS and will then re-
turn to Washing ton, where he will remain I'M
I'll the end OF the session.