Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-29
John ]. Ingalls, Defeated.


The Kansas Legislature last We'd
nesday 6 cted to the Senate of the
United :5:ates for a term of six years,
to succeed John ]. Ingalls,, William
Alfred PETER. of Topeka, the editor
of the Kansas Farmer. He is of
dutch parentage; was gallant Union
soldier, skillful lawyer, has been an
editor several years and served one
term IN the Kansas Senate In 1874
The Kansas City Star says of him:
He was delegate to the National
Republican convention In 1880. In
that year he moved to Topeka, assum-
ed editorial control of the Kansas
Farmer and afterwards bought the
paper He has been engaged in the
publication of that paper ever since.
The paper has a wide circulation
among the Kansas farmers and much
influence over them.
He joined the Farmers Alliance
movement a year ago and in the
spring of last year began bitter, de-
termined warfare against Mr.. Ingalls,
reelection. The Kansas Farmer
each week urged the retirement of
Mr.. Ingalls,. and when the late cam
paign was in its inception he SO di-
rected it as to make Mr.. Ingalls, the
principal object of attack. The re-
suit was the election of an Alliance
house of representatives and Mr.. PEI
fer's selection by the Alliance caucus
as the senatorial nominee.
Judge PETER is even six feet tall.
He is quite as slim as Ingalls,, being
unusually narrow-chested and lank of
limb. Thick black hair grows over
his low, retreating forehead. His
black eyes shine deep under heavy
brow. The lower features of his face
are concealed by heavy black beard,
which reaches quite to his waist. His
voice is deep and cultural, but has a
pleasant timbre. His manner of
speaking is slow and deliberate, but
not hesitating.
Up to year ago, he was staunch
Republican. when he joined the Farm
ers' Alliance.
Mr.. PETER has always been a tenn
perate man; he is now a Prohibition
ist' In politics he has been a Repub-
lican from Fremont to Harrison. He
is member of the Protestant Episco-
pal church. He is a Master Mason,
and belongs to the knights of Labor.
He unreservedly indorses the st.
Louis platform and the Ocala plat
form of the National Farmers Ali
ance Industrial union and the plat
form of the Peoples Party in Kansas.
He faYors the national party move
ment, and believes the government
should aid IN improving harbors and
rivers in the South and in building
north-and-south railroads in the west,
and In irrigating lands wherever and
as fast as settlement demands, and
! first of all the issuance of money
enough to set the people on their feet
again.
PETER MAKES A SPEECH.
After his election Judge PETER was
called out an said:
''It would hardly be proper to adj
dress this body as the joint conven-
ton of the legislature I see before
me representatives of all the people.
! We, the people have commenced the
building of a distinct and separate
political organization. Land is the
common property of men. Transpor-
tatlon IS medium of their communl-
cation and money is the lubrlcating
oil On these principals we will erect
a grand party. We are opposed to a
national banking system. We be-
lieve in the government, which is sim
ply the agent of the people, issuing
money direct to them. We oppose
taxing one industry to support an
other. We believe that free trade.
absolute. is often the best form OF
protection. We believe in distribu-
ting the burdens of taxation equally
among the people SO far as we are
able to do so.
In short, we believe in the people
ruling"