The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03
The Alliance Scores % Victory
i'm Kansas and Elect Prffer
to the Senate.
Wild Enthusiasm at the Result
Hats Waved and shouts
Rend the Air.

OF tnat DOdy Tor Onlteu StateS senator
many of whom were ladies. the gal
lery, lobby and flor we're crowded t.
suffocation. At II O'clock t.,
speaker brought down his gavel
and announced that the
election was con" AS the members,
names were called. they called the
name of their preference. When In
gals received a vote, vociferous cheers
were given. When PETERS name was
answered the grand army adherents
hooled, SHOUTED rats" and similar
taunts.
The vote stood. PETER, 90; ingalls,,
%; Blair, democrat, >.
When the speaker announced
the vote the scene beggars dercrip-
ton. Shouts rent tie air. Lsdies
waved handkerchiefs. Books, hats
and papers were hurled through the
house in their crazy enthusiasm,
while one wild eyed man with oat
straw protruding from his shirt col
lar took off his coat AID whirleG it
around and around in the air
shouting in a voice that was a cross
between a fog horn and a buzz saw.
In the senate the election was tame,
the vote there was ingalls,, 35; PETER,
4 Elder, speaker of the house, 1.
Senator Senior, from Coffey county,
republican, voted for PETER. the
alliance candidate. The two houses
meet in joint session at noon to NOR
row. PETER received 81 majority and
Ingalls, can dig sasssfras after March
next.
JUDGE PETERS CAREER.
William Alfred PETER il a man of
education, ability and culture. He
is a pioneer of southern Kansas. His
grandfather, William PETER, was a
soldier in the war of 1872. His boy
hood was spent upon a farm near his
birthplace, Cumberland county, Penn
sylvania, until he was nineteen years
of age. He applied all his savings to
acquiring books, and at that ACE IA
~ Ur 100 VO!umes. From the
age of ID to 19 he taught school a
portion of each year, principally in
the winter months. At 10 he was
attracted TO California, where he
spent nearly two years in the mines,
with but little pecuniary success, but
as young man of ability so attracted
public attention as to be rendered a
nomination to the legislature, which
he was compelled to decline on ac-
count of his age, though older heads
advised him to evade the question of
and accept.
In 1852 he returned to his old
home and his pursuits as farmer and
teacher, but, in 1853, being married,
he immigrated to st. Joseph county,
Indiana, where he spent six years as
4 farmer. In 1859 be removed to
Morgan county, Missouri, where he
teaching and farming until
the breaking out of the war, when he |
removed to Warren county, Illinois, |
and enlisted as private in company |
F Eighty-third regiment Iilionis vol
lnteer infantry. He was soon pro-
noted to a lieutenancy.
On being mustered out of service
he young lieutenant settled at Clarks-
vile, Tenn, where ne practiced law
rom 1863 to 1870. From Tennessee
,arly in 1870 he immigrated to Kan
as and located in Wilson county,
his pro'e sion, and in de-
'ember of the same year purchased |
he Wilson County Courier which he
conducted for three years. In 1874 |
lie was elected a senator from
Wilson and Montgomery coun-
les on the republican ticket. He
vas chairman of the centennial com.
mittee and committee on public print
ng and an active, useful member of
he Judiciary committee. As labor
Gus, working member he had few
quals and to his Legislative labOrs
vas largely due the success of the cen
ennial display at Philadelphia.
In 1873 Judge PETER removed TO
established the COfeyville
Journal and continued the practice of
aw.
He was originally a democrat, but
n the organization of the republican
arty became a republican. Some
ime ago Judge PETER joined the Far
aers' alliance and became devoted to
he principles of the new party which
as come to power in Kansas. For
en- years he has edited the Farmers
Alliance. He is so years old.
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