The advocate., 1891-01-07

ANNANhlhAANuAu HHiN MHN1l NINNNb w laW AMN
dHlnction between the rights Of mon and women
ID 0Atquiro, own, enjoy and dispose OF property Of
an kinds, or their power 10 contract In reference
thereto.
TAsro shall bo state librarian, 10 be- chosen
by thb legislature on Joint vote Of both houses, 10
serve for four years, whose duties and cOmp0nm-
ton shall be prescribed by law. ANY woman a
resident OF the state for four years, and who has
attained the age Of twenty years, SHAH be eligible
10 Hald oflco
Section 40, under Che head Of
Qualifications and Privileges Of Leg
ialators," is as follows
Members Of tho Legislature, before entering
upon the discharge Of their duties, shall take the
following oath; III, -----, do a0emnly swear
lor anirm) that am not disqualified from hold.
ng Office by hha constitution OF the United States
and Of tho state OF Misaiss ppl that viii iaith-
fully discharge my duties as a legislator; that
viii as soon as practicable hereafter read COr
have read 10 mo- the constitution OF this state,
and win endeayOE 10 note, and as q legislator,
10 execute all the requirements thereof imposed
ON the leglslaturei and win not vote for any
measure or person because OF q promise OF any
other member OF thls legislature 10 vote for any
measure or person. or as a means OF influencing
him or them 20 20 do. So help me God"
Where would Ingalls, have been in
politics with a living up to such a
provisional oath in It's full letter and
spirit
Does not every intelligent man in
Kansas politics know that had the
members Of the Kansas legislature Of
1879 been bound sacredly and SOL
emnly 10 such an oath, that then Che
Senator would have been routed,
horse, foot and dragoons, in that con-
test, out OF which he finally emerged
in the year Of 1880, with a sort Of
Scotch verdict from the Senatei
The Lawrence Journal in its last
issue for the year 1880, thus makes q
confession of the great victory that
the peoples party in Kansas achieved
In 1890 in the following language:
TO the mind Of an alliance man there Is moth.
ing plainor than the fact that the movement Is
the beginning OF a social and poticalreyolutiOn
not as 10 the state Of Kansas simply, butthrOugh-
out the nation and the world AZ we'll. The par
tlal SUCCESS achieved by tho organization nc the
ate election In this state has strengthened the
belief, and that the members OF the alliance are
luse now stronger In che faith than before, Is
fact that may as well be acknowledged and
gquarely met.
But this Ingalls, organ with the usual
mental and moral obtuseness that
seems to be fSted to rest upon the OBJ
sequious votsries Of the Senator, says:
Whenever q man Is mentioned for Senator In
CALLS place the opposition lauds him 70 the skies
and declares that ne is the very man for the pO-
dtOn, no matter n he has not sense enough 10
preside over school district meeting While
this shows the desperation Of the opposition,
there Is something more In II 10 the keen perceD-
tlon OF the senior Senator and his managers. Not
one man has ~ yet been prominently mentioned
who can crystallze the opposition, and II this
state OF affairs continues the reelection OF Sem
atOr ingalls, Is az good as assured. II the OppO-
Sltion thinks that advantage ls not being taken
Of every blundeT Il makes II has not yet properly
"gized up" the resources possessed by the senior
Senator.
When the "senior Senator is about
q quarter Of a hundred votes short Of
the necessary number TO elect him, il
does not take long TO have properly
sized up the resources possessed by
the senior Senator" which will have
70 be A minus nuRDkikv Dokwitskand.