The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-04-06
MASS MEETING IN AMERICUS.

We have been requested to publish the
following proceedings of a mass meeting in
Americas, which was called together on
hearing that the Senate. of the Legislature,
had voted for Mr.. Stanton for u s. Sena-
tor:
A mass meeting was organized in Glib
sons Hall, in Americas, Breckenridge
county, on Wednesday evening, April 81,
by electing ]. F. Gibson chairman, and
DR.. D. Swim secretary.
Mr.. McAnulty moved that the secretary
state the object of the meeting. Carried.
Mr.. Swim said the object of the meeting
was to obtain an expression of the people
relative to the U. s. Senatorsiip. He con
sidered that the people of this Legislative
District had already declared their prefer,
ence of the candidates who are now seeking
those positions, on more occasions than
one. He was at the district convention at
Ottumwa. in October, 1889, when our
present legislators were nominated. This
question was brought up in that convention,
and the Hon. G, H. Rees, our fellow towns
man, and now Representative in the Legis
lature from this district, was nominated only
with the understanding that he should, if
elected, support James H. Lane for the U.
s. Senate. Again, in the Breckenridge
County Convention held in Emporia in Oc-
tober last, to dominate candidates fer Ter
ritorial Representative and county officers,
a vote was taken for the purpose of deter
mining who were the choice of this county
for U. S. Senator'S, and the vote was almost
unanimous for Lane and PARROT. Again,
at the Breckenridge County Convention held
in Emporia in February last, to elect dele
gates to the District Convention, a resolu-
ton instructing those delegates to support
a man for State Senator who was favorable
to James II. Lane for U. S. Senate was
passed unanimously. And still again, at
the election in this district on the 5.h day
of March last, for State Senator, H. S.
Sleeper, the Lane candidate, carried this
county over the anti-Lane- candidate by
nearly one hundred majority, and the dis
ttict by majority of over three hundred
Was not this enough to show who the peo-
pie wanted ? But information has reached
US that our fellow townsman G. H. Rees,
a member of the Legislature from this dis
trict, has expressed his determination to
vote against James FL. Lane for Senator.
He believed the people had a right to say
who they wanted for that position. He be-
lieYed Mr.. G. Rees's constituents had right
at any time to say who they desired him to
vote for. He considered it the duty of Nj.
Rees, and the other members Of the Legisla-
ture from this district, TO give heed to the
voice of the people who elected them.
After few remarks from others present,
the following resolutions were submitted to
the meeting, and adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That James II. Lane, for his
many services to the people of Kansas, for
his eminent qualifications and his strict oo-
servance of the doctrines of liberty and the
rights of the people. deserves at our hands
the Office of U. S. Senator.
RESOLVED, That We respectfully ask the
members of the Legislature from this 18th
district to use all honorable means at their
command for the election of James FL. Lane
to the q. S. Senate.
Resolved, That we particularly urge our
fellow townsman Hon. G. H. Rees TO vote
for James II. Lime for the U. S. Senate. and
that We, his constituents. expect this at his
hands.
Resolved. That copy of the proceedings
of this meeting be sent to each Senator and
Representative from this district.
Adjourned. j. F. GIBSON. Chm.
D sStcia, Sec'y.