River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
SENT TO The SENATE.
Gov. Humphrey. of Kansas. Appoints
Bishop W Perkins as the Late Senator
Plumb's Successor.

Wv. humphrey hGbsass appoints
Bishop W Perkins the Late senator
Plumb's Successor.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. AT $50 Fri
day afternoon Gov. Humphrey sigued
the commission appointing Bishop w.
Perkins 20 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, 1928, 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.. 5. Crum, of
0swego, 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 nm
less Perkins had secured the appoint
ment he would have been in the gov
ernor's way.
All the oIher candidates Immediately
hinaA Darlysns w
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
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 newspaper correspond
ent, but after it was too late both the
/ Perkins and anti-Perkins forces
combined to have it suppressed. Mr..
/ Perkins remained in Washington until
/ 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 20 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. ut was neces.
sary," said the governor, Ito appoint
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 a candidate before the
next legislature and will com bine to de-
/ feat Perkins. In the Third congress
sional district, from which Perkins halls,
/ the party is in a hopeless tangle. If
/ Humphrey desires the congressional
nomination in that district he will
probably secure it, but the opposition
/ to Perkins which has been manifested
1 will bolt him.
Bishop w. Perkins was born at Rochester,
/ O., and was 80 years old October IS last. He
was educated in the public schools and al
/ Knox college at Galesburg, ILL., After leaving
/ college he went TO Colorado and on his
return In 1862 enlisted in Company ID, Eighty.
4 third Illinois Volunteer infantry He
served as sergeant and lieutenant and in De.
4 cember 1863, was appointed adjutant of the
/ Sixteenth Colorado infantry. Later he was
/ assigned to duty captain Of Company q OF
/ the same regiment He was mustered out at
/ Nashville in May, 1856 He returned 10 iii.
( nois and resumed the study of law reading
with o. G. Gray, at Ottawa After being
admitted to the bar "a 1861 he located
/ at Princeton, Ind, where he remained
until he came to oswego Kan, in April 1869
! The same year he was appointed county at
torney and the following year probate judge,
which ONCE he held till February ], 1873, when
/ he was elected judge OF the Eleventh judicial
district. He was reelected in 1874 and
/ 1878, and In November 1892 was elected a
member of congress as = republican. He
was delegate TO the Chicago convention in
4 1880. He was reelected TO congress for three
successive terms, but met defeat year ago at
/ the hands of the Farmers Alliance. He was
editor and proprietor of the Oswego Register
1 from 1871 until appointed district judge in 1853