White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-30


PoLIrIcAL DrscussIoS.-Several Of the
candidates Of each Of the opposing par.
ties. favored our citizens with speeches
on Tuesday evening. On the Free State
side were Messrs. Lewis and Larzelere
and on the Pro-Slavery side, Messrs. Pen
ny and Wrigley. The two last named
gentlemen are lawyers, and much the besi
speakers but they had not the ground t.
make favorable show upon. The fac
is, men occupying the position they do
cannot make favorable show, no matter
how much ability they possess.
The Pro-Slavery speakers bitterly de,
MED that they were Pro- Slavery-on the
contrary, asserted that they were Free
State 'uen. Yet we see their warnesi
advocates the old Pro- Slavery leaders o.
the County. And while here. who sur
rounded them. and who sympathized
with them 1t was the small faction
who have always voted the Pro Slavery
ticket. and who voted for the English
Swindle. We submit the question to
any reasonable man. If these signs do not
indicate something not right. In their
speeches, they declared in favor Of silen-
cling the niger question; yet their whole
haranguc was niger. Abolionist, negro
equality, and all that sort of thing--the
very dirt which the Pro- Slavery party
have heretofore delighted in throwing at
their opponents. These speakers also tried
to make vast deal of capital out of some
expressions which the Free State candi-
dates had understanding they would
do, if they lived in Slave State. They
proved the Free State candidates to be
Pro Slavery men and AbolitionistS and
as the two articles are utterly antagonist
lie. the proof amounted to just-nothing
at all.
Mr.. Larzelere was the principal Free
State speaker. He is plain farmer. but
can tell some cutting truths. He has
witnessed the Pro-Slavery wire-working
from beginning to end, and showed up
the FRO Slavery trick most beautifully
how they got up ticket Of profesSed Free
State men. whilst they themselves lie be-
hind the curtain. and pull the wires. He
utterly demolished his opponents, not
withstanding their smooth eloquence and
sugared words.
AT the close of the meeting, the follow
ing resolutions were offered and adopted /:
LIST. Resolued, That this meeting
heartily endorses the action of the Free
State Convention which met at Troy, on
the 18th inst, and, although disappoint-
ed in not getting one Of the candidates
for Representative from White Cloud,
yet we have full confidence in the honesty
and capabilities of the gentlemen then
and there put in nomination. And we
hereby pledge to them and the party, our
cheerful support on next Monday.
End. ResolUsd, That we recognize ia
the late Union Democratic Convention
the same old enemy, that, ever since our
has been laboring to enslave
Kansas and that we regard National
Democracy, Union Democracy, and Pro-
Slaveryism, as synonymous terms.
We do not think the Conservative I'm
ion Peoples Free State Pro-Slavery
Democratic candidates made much capt.
tai here-nor elsewhere in the County, so
far as we can learn. In what we say in
regard to the candidates on that ticket,
we do not wish to be understood as being
personal. We are acquainted with sew
eral of them, and esteem them highly as
gentlemen /; but it is their political posi-
ton with which we have to do-and we
think that position miserable one and
that, by their present course. instead of
manufacturing popularity, they will lose
more than they can redeem for years.