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KANSAS.
THE LEGISLATURE VS.. THE PEOPLE.
TOO MANY GOVERNORS.
LAWRENCE, X. T., Jan. II. 1879

LAWHENCE, N. l., Jan. III, Ist~.
From Our Special Correspondent
remember an opinion as to the causes of the
Kansas difficulties offered by an old Delaware In.
dian, the force of which suggests itself now. I
had been attending Delaware festival, and, in
most philosophical spirit endeayored to draw semi.
mythical, sem-relgious comparison between the
drunken orgies of the uneouth harlequins and bet
ter things from better men, / was then introduced
10 a Delaware lndap, who, as was informed by
the interpreter leaned to the Pro-Savery side He
could speak broken, very broken, English. He de.
plored the difficulties in rather concise string of
sdiectives and expletiyes.
Heap bad-too mighty much-d-nstion"
asked my dusky acquaintance what he supposed
was the cause of the difficulties. He promptly re-
sponded:
Too many Governors Heap much too many Governors.
First have Recde-no him Then Wooonno have
him Then have ShsnnOn-nO have him Thel have Robinson
have begun TO think that the tawny philoso.
pher was more than bali right. He did not tell aU
the TRUTH but, political economists says he hit
AT general principles" In the first place, Kansas
was cursed with the organic act, which, under spe.
cious and fimsy pretenses paved the way for that
yillainy which its cOncOcters knew would follow.
Then came the Missouri BOrder-Ruhian vainy, the
iron hand of which has never yet been lifted. Then
came the greatest Border Ruian to curse Kansas
the Federal GOyernment-with its dragOsns, its
Lecomptes and CatOs-its Clarkes and Fred.
EmOrys. These two Border Ruffians struck hands,
but even with all their power and their vilany,
they could not subdue the people. The non-inter.
yentiOn policy, which repudiated the bogus Gov.
eminent of Missouri, stood like rock against all
opposition. United on that platform, the people
looked calmly in the faces of their oppressors and
bogus statutes and bogus courts dwudled into pow
eress would. be despOtisnl.
need not recaptuate all the programme Of the
past season. Suffice it to say that the people were
first induced to defer the organization of counties
under the State Government in June, thus depriv-
ing that government of its real basis of power Then
they were induced to participate in the October
election under the bogus arrangements of Missouri.
Fearful that the issue there presented would prove
too powerful for any party stand up against, many
wellmeaning friends of Kansas in il and ont of it,
| Urged such participation. The Governor (Walker)
induced them into it by promises that if they com.
mitted themselves to such policy, he would stand
| by them to maintain it. But even then the people
were reluctant to do anything that might weaken
| their own government, endesred to them by SO
many associations. Nor would they ever have done
So but every speaker whOtOOk the stump to induce
them TO such a course represented that the power
| thus obtained could be used to "wipe out, and
remove every fragment of the bogus government,
| and pave the way for the peoples government.
tutet pIOllscst INC pcoptC iciuot"uuD p"it-
| cipated
Gov. Walkers first idea had been to found
Walker Democratic party. Finding that the To-
peka Constitution stood in the way of his schemes,
and being determined that the settlement should in
any event be his own plan, whether for slavery or
| freedom, he fought that organization with a
Machiayellian skill. Fearful of losing all power with
the people, and unwilling to surrender himself I'M
cOnditiOnally to either the Border Rutfians or the
Government, he, after aiding TO carry LeavenwOrth
for the Pro-Slayery party at KickapOo, threw out
the monster. Oxford vote, and thus tOOk the hrst
| step toward redeemng his promises Too shrewd
not to see that he thus Osracsed himself from the
sympathies of the OliRarchy in the administration.
he did more, by throwing out the bogus return from
MeGhee.
But Walker had not yet made up his mind to cut
himself loose from the PrO.Slavery party Of Kansas
or the Administration. In the Constitutional Con-
yention he had his emissaries zealOusly at work.
He was duped by his emissarles-that was all.
Martin, the smooth faced, hypocritica spy, hung
around the grog -shOps of LecOmptOn, and elbowed
with the meanest and the basest of BOrderRuffi
scoundrels Walker was Outbid by the Admnistra-
ton. So were other men, now friends OF Kansas,
whose names l need not mention. That they should
be duped, was not surprising. need no. reproach
| them-for, although on the ground, and having
means of learning much that transpred at their &C.
cret caucuses must confess that in several respects
they duped me. 1t was, in fact, grand scheme OF
buyipg and selling The same men sold themselves
| to two or three masters, and swindied their pur.
chasers impudently as they did those they pre-
| tended 10 represent.
1t would be needless to dilate on what ranspred.
Walker was forced to resignation. The bogus
LecOmpton swindle WAS backed up by the General
Government after it had been repudiated by every
| body else Even the handful Of Border Ruhians
were preparing to abandon their ambitious scheme in
| dsmay, when IA Federal army, Federal secret-ser-
vice money, and Federal power, came TO urge them
| TO stand firm by their yillany-to work on, and
| hope on.
Meanwhile, Walkers work had done its mischief
| among the people. Whatever might have been ITS
motive, the result was to shatter the Free-State
column that had stood united in the breach. Ter
| ritorul Legislature, the life-blood of which was
| ebbiDg away, clings as tenacOusy to its fading
power rs drowning man to a straw. The repre-
senatves of the people ask that Legislature to full
fill the pledges ON which they were elected but al,
| though there are many good men in the body VINO
would comply. the majority had tasted the sweets
of power, aud roll it like sweet morse under their
| tongues.
This was precisely what was to have been ex-
pected 1t has been the means of dividing the
| Free-State party. We have Territorial Govern
| ment, Free-State Government. Bogus Calhoun
| Government, and now We are about to have Lee
| compton Swindle Government, and in CONGRESS
| they are about to give us an enabling ACT rive
Governments, present or prospective, aud not one
real Government among them all AS the old Dei,
aware said, there is heap too much governors.
TIE Herald has letter from Lawrence one day laer
than the above. We give it below. 1t contains some
taring statements, which give for whatever me!
| may BE- worth:
LATEST NEWS
| GREAT ExcIrFAENT-THE ToPEKA STATE GOWNS
| MEM TO BIZ PUT 1910 IMMEDIATE OPERA1iosaa
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