The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-01-12
The Election.


Legislators viii be held on Tuesday
The ticketnominated by the Convention
will be found at the head of our columns.
There are two Independent tickets in the
field. Young America +" has substi-
tuted the name of III. j. PARRoTT, as
Lieut.. Governor, for w. Y RoBERTs, the
nominee of the Convention; and ScorT
AsTHosY, of Leavenworth. instead of
Mr.. FIoYb, as Clerk of the Supreme
Court. The other nominations of the
Convention remain unaltered. The
cause of the change is said to be the re-
fusal of Mr.. Roberts-notwithstanding
his letter, which We published last week
to insist that Messrs. CARNEY & HoL-
LIDAY shall make no use of his name.
The Freeman, Garyey's paper, states
that Mr.. Roberts denied to Mr. Dickey
and others, that he intended by his let
ter to mean anything more than that he
disapproyed of the intention to run him
as Governor and Robinson as Lieuten-
ant Governor. If Mr. Roberts, either
by silence or speech, has encouraged
Mr.. Garvey's attempt to divide the Par
ty, he certainly deserves to be defeated.
We can hardly credit the assertion of
Mr. Holiday that he has done so.
Another ticket, headed "Anti- Adolf
ton Free State ticket" has been got up
by Messrs. Carney, Holiday, Elliott &
Smith, all of whom were candidates be-
fore the Convention and defeated by
overwhelming majorities. To effect
their election, they have charged the
Convention with corruption, perfdy and
abolitionism. We hope that every man
who voted for delegates to the Conven-
ton will resent the insult thus indirectly
offered to him, by using all his exertions
to defeat the boilers.
Mr.. Holiday, the editor of the Free
man, in order to cast odium on the reg
ular nominations, designates them as the
Emigrant Aid Soeiety's Ticket, because
DR.. Charles Robinson, our candidate for
Governor, is an agent of that Society
Yet c. K. Holiday, less than year ago,
applied to that Society to be appointed
its agent. We state this on the highest
authority. Hisrequest was refused, and
since then he has been. Stringfellow and
Atchison. perhaps, excepted, the most
industrious calumniator of it. We refer
our readers to the letter of the Emigrant
Aid Society, to see how little cause the
people of Kansas have to abuse that AS
ISOLATION.
Of Mr.. Smith, we will only say that
we do not wonder that he dislikes the
nominations of the Convention, as he
was candidate for two Offices, and was
defeated on both.
Read Charles Stearns' communication
published In another column, and then
decide on Mr.. Elliott's conservative
pretences. If Mr.. Elliott is an anti-abo-
litionist, the regular nominees of the
Convention are pro-slayery men-for all
of them are more conservative on the
slavery question than he. Mr.. Stearns
is one of the three abolitionists OF Kan
sas,> for, so far as we can learn, there are
only three in the Territory.
In order to defeat DR.. Robinson's
election, which can only be done by dis
honorable measures, Messrs. Holiday
and Garvey published an extra of the
Freeman, intended for circulation in re-
mote parts of the Territory, in which it
it is stated that DR.. Robinson had de-
clined. This is false. Read the SUBJ
joined communication on this subject
EDITOR HERALD OF FREEDoM:-I no.
tice in the Kansas Freeman, published
by E. G. K. Carney, Esq, a statement
that | had Withdrawn my name from the
ticket nominated at ,the Convention of
the god ult. In regard to this matter, /
have only to say that my name was put
upon the Ticket by the Convention with
out solicitation or desire on my part but
since it has been thus used, | have not
authorized, and shall not authorize any
man, Or set of men, except the Conven-
ton, to withdraw it; and the above
statement is without shadow of truth,
as all similar statements will be.
Very respectfully,
CHARLES ROBINSON.
They state, also, that COL LANE en-
coursged the formation of new ticket
and "started the ball" in favor of it.
Read what the Colonel says in reply to
this charge -
LAwRENcE CRY, Jan. z, '55.
Having participated throughout in the
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