The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-12-12
OUR KANSAS GREAT MEN.


echoed by ether Kansas weekly papers, Of our
Kansas great men, could not help but conclude
that We are truly hard run for material out OF
which to fill our highest State, judicial, and
Congressional Offices At the time when our
first Senatorial election was pending, the Con-
servative asserted and attempted to prove that
General Pomeroy was thief, SO mean as to eteal
the generous contributions of the charitable of
other States to from suffering and starvation
the same time, other papers of the State were
engaged in proving that General Lane and
N. J. Parrot were still worse, and no more
worthy Of confidence.
But that was child's play in comparison with
the battle of stink pots" now in progress,
wherein the Leavenworth Conservative is the
champion of one side, and the Leavenworth
Times sustains the other. The origin of the fuss
grew out of a suspicion that some one felt, or
thought he felt, that somebody else intended this
winter to bring on an election to fill a vacancy
to occur in the Office of United States Senator
some time during the year 1865. Just who it
was who started this moving and damaging
suspicion no one now appears to have the reno
test idea. All parties dsclaim and scout the
suggestion, yet the fuss goes on, and the fight !;
the blood spirits, the fur flies, and the whole air
is redoent Of putrescent odor that has in 1t none
Of the SAVIOR of birthstone. jim Lane, Cart. Will
der, Mark Delahay, and Sid Clark, are the vic
tins upon whom the blows fall, aimed from the
Tunes whilst the men at whom the Conserva-
tive aims are Tom Carney and John G. Vaughan.
Gen. Lane is one of our United States Senators ;
Mr. Wilder is our Member of the House of Rep
resentatives; Mr. Delahay is United States Judge
for the District of Kansas; Mr.. Clark is o. S.
Provost Marshal of Kansas, Nebraska, &C.; Mr..
Carney is Governor of Kansas; MIR. Vaughan
was recently Military Store Keeper at Fort Leav
enworth, and holds also, we under stand, the
position of Captain of Ordnance in the United
States service. According to the Times, Lane is
murderer, liar, libertine, coward, bri-
Igand Wilder is a weak, imbecile creature, who
had to employ others to write his speeches, and
is the mere tool and toady Of Lane; Delahay is
totally unfit by nature and from want of qualifi-
cations, to discharge the duties of Judge; Mr..
Clark is mere " lightning rod pedler,' who has
been guilty of fleeing and robbing soldiers of
their hard earnings. According to the Consel-
yative, Mr. Carney is political shyster,' who
never contributed dollar of money or an hour
of time to the advancement of the Republican
cause, till he conceived the idea Of getting into
office successful speculator in the necessities
of refugee loyal Indians who owes his position
to his E.oney, which he has and is still willing
to spend like water to buy his way to positions
which he could never reach relying upon his
talents, or his intelligence; mere political
jackdaw, strutting and swelling with messages,
lectures, and speeches, written for him by John
c. Vaughan, whom, with his money. his whisky
and segars. he has metamorphosed into kind of
domestic Mephistophiles, to aid him in his low
cunning and vaulting ambition whilst the said
John C. Vaughan is himself a drawer of money
from the Government under the false prentense
of services which he never rendered, hypocrit-
cai .mouther Of virtues and decencies that he
never possessed, u liar, a drunkard, an adulterer
a low mercenary scrbbler, who, like the old
Swiss trooper, is ready to lend his pen and
his abilities to any aspiring demagogue. who
will pay him stipend, and keep him in whisky
and segars.
This is the picture of our Kansas public men,
as painted by their opponents-nay, we beg
pardon-as limned and painted by themselves
for these men, be it remembered, are all Of one
party-are all Republicans-and no single Cop
perhead pencil has given tone or color to single
| line of the picture If we believed them true we
should cry out shame! shame' upon the people
of Kansas for elevating or even tolerating such
things, such miscreants, among them. But We
protest that they are not true. The Republican
party of Kansas, from its long succession Of easy
victories over its old opponent, has become too
proltc especially Of great men, and this is the
mere labor ofthe gantess to relieve herself Of her
redundancy. These charges and allegations
must not be taken by verdant ones in literal
sense-they are mere hyperboles, figures of
speech, sound and fury. signifying nothing-the
magic cabalistic phrases by which one great
man, or the friends of a great man, seek to head
or bother rival in the race for those positions
always accorded to the competent and virtuous.
How do we know that this is so? We know it
from the fact that prairie grass has not grown
a second time since these same papers were filled
with glowing eulogies of the very men to whom
theynow apply these seemingly damagingepithets
and adieetives and the grass will not grow a
second time before these same papers will glow
again with eulogies of the very men they now
denounce, should these men be candidates. as it
is likely some, if not most Of them will be, upon
the regular ticket ii'4s
Against these scandalous vituperations Of the
Leavenworth dailies we enter our earnest protest.
There is nothing in the conduct of the men
assailed to warrant, Justify or excuse the use Of
such language towards them. As Senator,
General Lane has watched with vigilance the