Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-08
The President of the Kansas
Farmers Alliance.
A Bribe Offered Him by Con-
gresham Turner.
A Deep Laid Plot to Down Senator
ingalls, Exposed.
Deadlocks in Eastern Legislatures = A
Monkey and Parrot Time at the
Nebraska Capital.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Topeka, kan., Jan. line Alliance
Advocate, the organ of the Kansas State
Farmers Alliance, in today's issue pub
lished letter from Congressman +. ].
Turner, OF Kansas, to Frank McGrath,
president OF the Kansas Farmers Alli-
ance, in connection with the pending sem
atorial contest. The letter has created
considerable sensation in political circles.
The following extracts are taken from
it.:
'Ingalls will try to force his election
or drive the Alliance men into caucus
to agree upon their man in order to force
the election of an Alliance man, SO he
can carry the party down with him. 1
have Just received letter from Farwell,
at Osborne, and he says their represen-
tative does not like Alliance candidates
and would vote for some go cd Rcpubli-
can, but not for Ingalls,. Farwell
wants to know if l want his vote. He
thinks it can be had. l saw Senator
Berry, of Marshall, here yesterday. He
is positively opposed to ingalls,, but will
vote for him if there is no other Repub-
lican. Judge Perkins asked me to talk
in his (Perkins's) interests, and did SO.
told him to talk to Senator Wilson, of
Hays City, as thought he felt us Berry
did. l shall write Wilson tonight, and
ask him what he thinks about the posi-
bility Of my election. l have no money
to spend in the fight. If succeed l
could and would put up $4,000, but it is
difficult to use it that way; yet you may
have some friends who would be willing
to take such chance.
''Now will leave the whole matter
with you and Wilson, and abide the re-
suit with content. Unless Ingalls, gets
some Alliance votes, he will go in with
sixty-two, who will vote for him reas-
enable number Of times, but as soon as
their Instructions are coDpleted, they
will leave him. Some OF the Alliance
candidates may expect to get some Re-
publican votes when they leave ingalls,.
That could keep all OF them in the field.
Codding thought he could get the Re-
publican vote when Ingalls, was out OF
the way. OF course, the Alliance caucus
would name the man, and thus set
tie it.'
This letter came to McGrath's Office
with other correspondence, and was
opened by his confidential clerk, who
turned it over to Chairman Chase of the
Alliance legislature committee. Copies
were made of the letter and the original
was turned over to McGrath. The
Alliance leaders then asked McGrath to
give the letter to the public and clear
himself of any suspicion which might
attach to the proposition contained in it.
He refused to give the letter to Chair
man Chase for publicity knowing moth
ing of the copies having been made.
Chase then turned over his copy OF the
letter to the editor of the Advocate.
Accompanying the publication is a
note by the editor, DR.. McLallin, say
ing: ''We regret the position in which
the publication Of the etter places the
president of the state Alliance and
member of the executive board (Cod-
ding.) We leave them to make such
personal explanation as they may have
to make. The schemes that are con-
tanned in this interesting document are
worthy of some consideration at this
time. We expect this publication to
lead to other developments which we
shall sa,sn give to our readers as the plot un-
4 McGrath, tonight, said the Alliance
officers were at liberty to inspect all his
letters. He could not prevent people
from writing to him. Further he would
not talk.
KANSAS Cry, Jan. IA Times Wash
ington special says: A Times represen-
tative interviewed Turner on the subject
of the letter alleged to have been writ
ten by him (Turner) and published in
the Advocate. Turner said he had not
seen the text of the letter. He said,
however, he had written no letter offer
ing to give $4,000 to McGrath in event of
his (Turner's) election to the senate to
succeed Ingalls,.