The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-22
PETER AND JERRY.
Leaders of Farmers Alliance in
the Next Congress.
THE LONG KANSAS WHISPERS.
sockless Simpson Denies the Sock Story;
Describes the Alliance and Talks
About Ingalls,.

WASHINGTON Cry, Nov. 16.-rspecial
Correspondence. THE Alliance conven-
ton in Indianapolis this week is the pre-
lude to the Alliance show at Washington
City during this congressional session.
The Alliance congressman viii be the
rarest birds in the whole congressional
ayiary. Every one of them has decided
individuality, and wild ideas of financial
and social legislation rattle around in their
respective brains like peas in well-dried
bladder. Their number is too small for
them to affect legislation save through
combination, but they will make great
deal of noise, and may, by combination,
succeed in passing some of their bills.
There is, however, q deal of sense mixed
up with their craziness. there is wisdom
here and there in the midst of their fool
ishness, and the fact that they to a GER
tain extent represent the farming ele-
ment of the United States, makes them an
important feature of a congress whose
chief business will be to make capital for
the coming presidential campaign. There
are from fifty to seventy-fve congressman
whose elections were secured by the aid of
the Alliance vote. and who are more or
less pledged to the Alliance There are
from ten to twelve pure Alliance men who
are for the Alliance and against either par
ty, and who will not go into the caucuses of
the Democrats or Republicans. This ele-
ment will be the leader of the Alliance
element of congress. 1t will act for itself.
and it's hope will be to form the nucleus of
an Alliance party under a separate candi-
date durisg the next presidential cam
paign.
THE ALLIANCE ORGAN.
The Alliance has an organ here at
Washington City. Its name is the
Economist, and it is edited and printed in
a shackly, tumble-down old building,
within stones throw of the capitol The
building looks as though it might have
been built in the days of George Washing
ton. 1t is next to an engine-house, and it
is dirty, rickety and gone to seed. Yoa
tramp over dirty carpets along narrow
stairs through halls filed with dry goods
boxes and documents from one story to
another, and at the top, about fifty feet
from the ground, you find the editorial
sanctum, in which a half dozen men are
writing away, mailing letters and carry
ing on the literary bureau of this party
Jerry Simpson, Senator PETER, or some
other of the Alliance congressman may be
at hand directing the work and the scene is
busy one, and you get the idea that these
people, whether they be cranks or not,
mean business and are working with a
hope to win.
SENATOR INGALLS, SUCCESSOR
Senator PETER, the leading Alliance SEN
ator, is keeping as close in the tracks of
Mr.. ingalls, as possible. He was conspicu-
Gus during the last hours of the closing
session of congress upon the floor, in that
he shook hands there with Senator In
gals, while the crowd looked down from
the galleries and wondered how ingalls,
felt. He has chosen his apartments for
the winter in the same block in which
ingalls, lived so long, and he can look out
of his front windows at the Senate wing of
the capitol across the way. He is in APP
pearance, action and thought the direct
opposite of Ingalls,. ingalls, was as
straight as a Lake Superior oak. The
back of his head rested in plumb line di-
rectly over his heels, and his lean shoulders
were we'll thrown out and his whole man.
ner was stiff With his bright red necktie
and his exquisite clothing, which fitted
him like glove, reminded you of Sir Pitt
Crawley in Vanity Fair of whom
Thackeray said he would rather die than
sit down to dinner in anything else than a
white necktie. PETER is straight, too, but
his straightness is that of jointed snake
held up by a string. He looks as though
if he dropped into a seat he would go all
to pieces. His joints are loose, and those
of Ingalls, are tight. ingalls, in action is as
quick as lightning. PETER is slower than
the wrath of the Almighty. Ingalls, had
fgg,g tsahx kx~ IL.
je7ked To kill. PETERS words flow from
his lips like the waters of q sluggish canal,
and though they are well chosen,
| you have to wade through great
| quantity of them before you find
! fish worthy of catching. Every word of
ingalls, told. He was as full of ideas as
| an egg is full of meat and he had n new
| word for every idea. He dealt in the pyro-
| technics of speech and he made the CELL
| ings of the Senate fairly blaze with his
| cutting satires and his combinations of
| comparatively unknown dictionary ex-
| pletiyes. PETERS language is that of the
commonplace. Even in private conYersa-
| ton he talks more like preacher of the
| old school than like q sharp. shrewd, active
/ man, which should be the type of q United
! States senator. ingalls, was companion
able, approachable and sociable, but he
! was an arIstocrat. He prided himself on
| his ancestry and on his New England
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| rock to Calvary and he idealized.
| though be was not overburdened
| with religion, the virtues of the
| Puritan fathers. | believe it CALLED him
| that he was poor, and he would have
| made right royal member Of the house
| of lords with a big rent roll at his back,
| and with his seat so secure that nothing
| could touch il. In such a condition. In
| gals would have been prince both in his
/ entertainments and on the floors of par
| Lament. As IL was, with a big family and
/ comparatively small means he had TO cut
| himself off to a large extent from society.
| tor he scorned to accept invitations which
| he could not repay IN kind. There -
| nothing of the arIstocrat about PETER He
| is 4 quiet, handwriting everyday man.
| not at all brilliant. and as far as can See
| not AZ all distinguished save that he is
| an Alliance member of the United States
| Senate. He has a thin. narrow face. blue
| eyes and thin hair. which is c0mbed IN
| from low and rather narrow forehead.
| His face Is not strong one, and | should
| lmaglne his chin must be small. though
| YOU can see nothing of il nor OF his mouth
/ for the great brown, curly beard which
| reaches to his waist and which forms a
| predominant and striking feature of his
! anatomy. This beard IS fully twenty
! inches long. ItCoatains about 1000 hairs.
| and Il these could be plucked out and tied
| end to end they would reach almost from
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