Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-09
SENT TO THE SENATE.

Gov. Humphrey, of Kansas, Appoints
Bishop w. Perkins ms the Late Senator
Plumb's Successor.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. AT $3.50 Fri
day afternoon Gov. Humphrey signed
the commission appointing Bishop w.
Perkins to fill the vacancy in the
United States senate caused by the
death of Senator Plumb. The legisla-
ture, which meets the second Tuesday
in January 1893, will elect his success
sor, and the appointment makes Per-
kins the central figure in next falls
campaign.
Since Monday last, when the first
delegation arrived from Cowley coun-
ty in the interest of Perkins, he has
been regarded as the leading candi-
date. AS soon as Plumb's death had
been announced l.. S. Crum, of
Oswego, who is Perkins political lieu
tenant, sent circular letters all over
the Third district urging friends of the
ex-congressman to form delegations
and circulate petitions in his behalf. A
precedent was established, and in every
congressional district in the state a
favorite son was doomed. The Perkins
forces were better organized, with the
additional advantage of coming from
Gov. Humphreys congressional dis
trict Humphrey had announced his
intention of running for congress when
his term of Office had expired, and un-
less Perkins had secured the appoint
ment he would have been in the gov
ernor's way.
All the other candidates Immediately
Hackney, formerly of Perkins district,
on Thursday went to the governors
office Immediately following Per-
kins' departure and charged him
with being a lobbyist. who was
recognized in Washington as a
boodler. He declared that the whole
state would arise to protest against
him if the facts in his history were
known and that next fall the entire
legislature would certainly be elected
by the opposition. Hackney dictated
this speech to a newspaper correspond
ent, but after it was too late both the
Perkins and anti-Perkins forces
bined to have it suppressed. Mr..
Perkins remained in Washington until a
dispatch was received urging him to
come here and reply in person to
the charges made against him. When
the appointment was announced Hack
ney with an oath declared that he
would proceed to organize an indigna-
ton meeting, but was dissuaded by
Maj. j. X. Hudson, Joseph w. Ady and
the other candidates.
Gov. Humphrey in an interview said
that Perkins had shown more strength
than any of the other candidates and
that the charges against him were
without foundation. ''It was neces-
sary," said the governor, ito appoint a
man who could take up the work
where Plumb left it."
The scramble over the place has
broken more close political friendships
than any fight which ever occurred in
the state. Every applicant for the po-
sition will be candidate before the
next legislature and will com bne to de-
feat Perkins. In the Third congress
sional district, from which Perkins halls
the party is in a hopeless tangle. II
Humphrey desires the congressional
nomination in that district he will
probably secure it, but the opposition
to Perkins which has been manifested
Will DOlJ MIN.
Bishop w. Perkins was born at Rochester
O., and was 80 years old October 1s last. H,
was educated in the public schools and a
Knox college ut Galesburg, Ill. After leaving
college he went to Colorado and on hi.
return in 1859 enlisted in Company d, Eighty
third Illinois Volunteer infantry. HI
served as sergeant and lieutenant and in De
cember, 1863, was appointed adiutant of the
Sixteenth Colorado infantry. Later he wa
assigned to duty as captain Of Company c o
the same regiment. He was mustered out a
Nashville in May, 1855. He returned to Ill
, nois and resumed the study Of law, readn
with o. C. Gray, ut Ottawa. After ben
admitted to the bar in 1867 he locate
at Princeton, Ind, where he RENAME
until he came to Oswego Kan, in April, 1866
I The same year he was appointed county a,
torney and the following year probate judge
which office he held till February l. 1873, whe
he was elected judge OF the Eleventh iudiciu
district He was reelected in 1874 an
, 1878 and In November, 1899, was elected
member OF congress o republican. Fl
, was n delegate to the Chicago convention
$780, He was reelected to congress for thre
successive terms, but met defeat year ago d
the hands OF the Farmers Alliance He wa
: editor and proprietor of the Oswego Registe
from 1871 until appointed district Judge in lS.