The Indianapolis journal., 1891-01-13
CLAIMS OF KANSAS FARMERS
They Are Confident of Twenty-Five Ma
jority on the Joint Ballot for Senator,
And May Be Assisted BY the Democrats, Whose
Cry Is Anything to Beat Ingalls"-Re-
2ublicans Have Not Lost ALI Hope

TorEKA, Kan. Jan. IL. - The Kansas
Legislature will convene in regular bien-
nial session tomorrow. All the members
are expected to be present A majority Of
the Farmers Alliance members have been
on the ground for o week past anxious to
begin their public labors. When the roll
is called tomorrow in the lower house
ninety-three Farmers Alliance, twenty
four Republican and eight Democrat men,
bers will answer to their names. The up
per house stands forty Republicans and
one lone Democrat On joint ballot the
Farmers Alliance has q clear majority over
all of twenty -one. The combined opposi-
of ninety-three Farmers Alliance and nine
Democratic members, or thirty more than
the Ingcls forces.
Frank McGrath, president of the State
Alliance. and Chairman Chase, OF the !egis-
lative committee, are confident that who
ever is nominated in the Alliance caucus
will be elected TO succeed Mr. ingalls,;
They claim that the Alliance forces Will
present solid front on the senatorial
question, and they scout the idea OF any
deaertion from their ranks. Chairman
Buchanan, of the Republican State central
committee, claims TO be equally confident
that Mr.. Ingalls, will be reelected. He de-
clines to state. however, where the hepuo-
licans will gain sufficient reinforcements
to their ranks to overcome the Alliance
majority.
The Democratic members. for principles g
sake, will nominate O senatorial candidate
of their own, and they will give him q
complimentary vote unless their strength
should be needed to fill any possible breach
In the Farmers Alliance ranks. In which
event they will throw their strength to the
Farmers Alliance candidate: Their motto
Is: Anything TO beat ingalls,"
Tk - &har fffnor al aaf m
Cured at noon to-day. The ceremony was
of tho simplest possible character. The Of
fcers assembled in the ofiice of the Chief
Justice, where the subscribed TO the oath as
administered by Associate-justice Valen-
tine. All of the new officers, with two ex-
cepticns. had been re- elected. The new Of
ficers were Treasurer Stoner and Attorney
general Ives, both elected by the Farmers
Alliance.
The Alliance legislators went into eau
Gus tonight, and remained until late
hour. +. p. Elder. Of Franklin county.
was agreed upon for Speaker, and Benla-
min Machette, of Osborne county. for tenn
porary chairman No agreement was
reached on the senatorial question, and the
matter was only discussed informally.
Queer Request from . southerner
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Mr. Blanchard OF
Louisiana introduced in the House, to-day,
. resolution directing the committee on ju-
dietary to investigate the present political
condition of the State of New Hampshire
with q view to determining whether or not
q republican form of government exists
there within the meaning and intent Of the
Constitution of the United States. The
resolution authorizes the committee to send
for persons and papers and to take all &C.
tion they may deem necessary to- the inves
Ggation. A preamble to the resolution says
1t is alleged and believed that certain evil
disposed persons have in New Hampshire
by conspiracy and show of force, recently
set on foot and carried into fruition plans
by which the will of the people, as legally
expressed at the polls in the recent election
has been set aside and the government OF
the State subverted. The proceedings, the
preamble says, involve the title to the office
of the Governor of the State and United
States Senator.
A dispatch from Concord, N. H., says
Senator Chandler sent the following tele
gram tonight to Hon. o. G.. Moore. House
of Representatives., Washington, ID. c.:
Please expedite the passage Of Blanchard'i
resolution. hope the committee will come tC
New Hampshire Immediately and learn the diff
ference between the honest. peaceful and
victories In New Hampshire and the
fraudulent, bloodthirsty ana demonstrations
methods by whicc Louisiana, with Republican
majority OF many thousands, Is made to give ar
apparent Democratic majority OF $4,000. Ii
New Hampshire no Democratic voter Is moleste(
gro cabins and the blood of slaughtered Repub
licans mark the pathway to power OF the Louis
lana Democracy. w. f. CHANDLER.