The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-01-29
< INGALLS, Is DI!!ATEN.
THE KANSAS FARMERS RrPU.
DIATE THE soU'rH-HATEg.

The Decalogue and the Ten Command
ments Take q Place in Modern Poll
tics--G is successor an xbie Man.
lBy United Pressl
TOPEKA, Kan Jan. 26.-Jujge =. 4.
Peffer was nominated and received 98
votes for Senator in both houses Of tho
Legislature yesterday. The joint COZ
vention today voted as follows: PETER,
l01; ingalls,. IS; Blair, 5; Batten, /;
Merrill, /; Kelly, |.
1t is glory enough. INGALLS, is retired
TO the shades OF private life. Els politi
cal success is nov Ike an ssirridescent
cream, and time and opportunity are
gwen him to stndy "the decalogue and
the len Commandments
IN the caucus Of the Peoples Party
ali outsiders were rigidly excluded. It
sss al exciting time. The leading car
didates were JUDGE PETER and Mr..
| WILLIS
The next to the last ballot stood:
| Willis, A6.
| PETER, 4S.
Ga the final ballot:
| PETER, "a
Willis, SO.
The Democratic members were not ii
caucus, their votes not being necessary
IN event OF adherence to keep majority
Judge PETERS Career.
Pefers ls man of education and
ability, with an irreproachable personal
character, though not as mnch scholar
as man Of affairs. he was born il
Pennsylvania sixty years ago, and the
foundation of his education was laid il
the country school houses Of that State
In 1852 he was married and moved tt
Indiana. settling on farm in St. JOSEPH
county.
In 1889 he again moved TO Morgan
county, Missouri, and there distinguished
himself By his utterances IL favor OF th
maintainauco OF the Union. In 1873:
, he wes cree more compelled by circum
stances - make change of base, an,
,aoved to Warren county, Illinois, fror
whence he enlisted in the Federal army
+ in Aug. Of that year entering as private
and discharged 10 1865 as q second Lieu
, tenant, after the war he settled down i
, Clsrksville, Tennessee, and engaged i
, the practice CT law, acquiring some loca
: reputation by his proposition TO NOV
, BreWlem's radicalism. After four yeal
{ Of unsuccessful struggle 30 help the dii
, feFences occasioEed by the war. he va
q compelled to leave Tennessee, 4nd i
! 1870 moved 20 Kansas. locating on
claim OF government land iuWiIson coul
r ty, engaging Il farming and the pr,
+ tice Of law
y In 1874 be was elected to tie Sta
:. Senate as Republican.
;, In 1885 he removed to Coffeyville, 6
!, adjoining county, but in the same col
IS ! gressionai district, where he estahlisAt
n the Journal and conducted it as a Repu
d lican newspaper.
y In 1880 be vas Presidential elect
+ on the Republican ticket, and in IS;
n WAS appointed editor Of the Kansas Fa
K mer and moved to Topeka. He ths
+ abandoned party and politics and
+ voted himself to the study Of econom
~ questions, but when the new moveme
nr fnk showed signs Of life he immediate
70 stepped to the front as leader, and
10 his speeches, and wiring, did more tn,
any one man in the Stgte to bring abo
"a the political revolution Of last Novel
X ber
es During the campaign ne was dec!t
Ie ed candidate for the position to VIII
" he has been nominated by MS party a
in Judge PETER has always taken q gre
7 interest in agricultural matters, and
oe thoroughly educated IN the bnco
he science in dolitics.
ar He has been Republican FROM F
4 mont to Harrison. Is member Of I
an Protestant Episcopal church. Is a mas
oo Mason and belongs to the Knights
al Labor He unreseryedly endorses I
"a st. Lonis platform and the OcaIa pl
1a form CT the Nat. Farmers Alliance a
oi Industrial Union and the platform Of
!, = Peoples party in Kansas, believes
an government should aid in irnprov
1st harbors and rivers in the South, 6
art building North and South railroads,
Ike the West in irrigating lands where
m. and as fast as settlement demands, :;
first Of all the insurance Of money enol
he to SEQ the people on their feet again.
'oa MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS ii
in NEso'
-; A Friend from New Y ork Says She i