The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-05-18
From the Lawrence Journal.
ARE OUR SENATORS OMNIPOTENT?

From the Lawrence Journal.
ARE OUR SENATORS OMNIPOTENT?
We gave publicity. in our last issue, to
statement that Hon. G. B. Lines had been
superseded in the Reeeivership of tie Lee
compton Land Office. by w. W. Ross.
Esq. of the State Record. Since that
time, we learn that Mr. Lines has been re-
instated, and that he has entered upon the
discharge Of the duties of his Office. We
INDUCED in query as TO the cause of his
removal, and intended 10 allow ourselves q
free latitude of remark upon the course Of
our Senators and the Administration at
Washington, in the matter of appointments.
But that particular proyocation to free
and required expression of just and whole
some sentIments-seniiments which are
and only can be wholesome TO the FREEDOM
nance of our party in this State-has
passed by. Il is true that our Senators had
done all they could do to displace Mr.. Lines,
and had actually procured the appointment
of his successor, but were frustrated by a
timely and potent interference with their
intel ton toward him, and, it is said, drew
upon themselves a sufficiently severe re-
buke from the Secretary of the Interior.
However, not content with that abortive
attempt to turn ont worthy Republican
and most capable man, because both be-
fore and after his appointment, in the hon
est exercise of long established individu
al opinion, and in an open, manly way, he
bad opposed the Senatorial pretensions of
one of the successful candidates, these Sen
ators have succeeded in procuring the re-
moval of Col. Geo w Deitzler, who, prior
to the election of Senator's. was appointed
Agent for the Potawatomie Indians, upon,
as we are informed. the recommendations
of Gov. Robinson, Judge Ewing and Mr..
Parrot. Whether Marshal Mcdowell, ap-
pointed at the same time. and upon similar
support, is also to be decapitated, we do
not as yet know.
Now this matter may be considered by
many of our readers as purely personal to
the appointees, and to the victims of Sena-
torial prescription. But this is a narrow
view, which wholly fails TO comprehend the
great import of the matter. The case has
a significance, and is pregnant with conse-
quences infinitely beyond any consideration
due to personal merits or claims, however
good or strong they may be. A man who
has been Republican since the first incep
ton of the Republican party-one who has
been an active aud useful participant in
every phase of the struggle for free institu-
lions carried on in Kansas, since his arri-
val here in 1855-one who suffered long
and grievous incarceration upon charges of
treason and "et cetera," because be was too
brave to capitulote. and too devoted to home
duties to embrace opportunities for safe SER
vice in the Eastern States-one who has
been endorsed over and over again, by
tho nhlioanc Of HE Tpb,,ca
utation for character and capacity is un-
questionable, who was appointed. upon a
fair application, 10 an Office then vacant,
four weeks before the election of Senator's.
is removed upon the behest of those Sena-
of them, and for no other and better reason
whatsoever.
Well. Messrs. Lane and PomeroY, you
everybody expected you to exercise il, pro-
of providing for your friends. Nobody
could or would complain, if you should fill
all appointments, falling to you after your
election, with persons from the section or
sections of the party who had supported
you; but we tell you that you are breeding
a brood of difficulties in the party. when
and require the prescription of every man,
and all the men in the party. who opposed
Jour election. You we're not, either of you,
the unanimous choice, for Senators, of the
Republicans of Kansas, aud you may find,
if you will insist upon satiating your re-
morseless appetites for personal vengeance,
by prescribing and slaughtering Republi
cans. as worthy as yourselves. that you will
reduce the party to a minority, if any party
in the country, in its present state. shall
continue to exist long enough to undergo
the process of disruption and defeat. There
are thousands in this State who are devoted
Republicans. but they are also men, and
have the feelings, the impulses, and the
resolution of men. who will never submit
to the setting up of an absolute sway with
in the party. BY any man or set of men, be
he or they Senators or citizens.