The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-11-19
THE v1ND1cAT1ON OF SENATOR LANE.

The returns of the election have come in slow.
large majority of both branches of the Legisla-
| ture, and the candidate for Governor charged to
be in his interest has received majority of over
Three Thousand on the home vote. Of the
members elect of the Legislature thus far known
Sixteen Senators and Forty Nine Representatives
will favor the reelection of General Lane.
No man in the history of American politics
has been so bitterly assailed or unscrupulously
beled as Senator James II. Lane. His hold on
the affections of the people, his faithful devoted
ness to their interests. and his mighty influence
with the Administration at Washington and the
leading men of the Nation, have excited the
jealousy of the dwarfs and rigmies SO abundant
in Kansas politics No charge was too false,
INSCRIPTIONS, contemplate or mean but that
these vampires hurled at him. No rule of pro-
priety, no sense of honor, have suficed to shield
the moral feelings of the community from their
indecent assaults upon this man. Nothing what
ever was left unsaid, and no affidavit unpur-
chased, which might have q tendency to corrupt
the public mind against him. Ever faithful to
the constituency which has honored him, looking
always with an argus eye to the best interests Of
his beloved State, he allowed the poltroons to
rail on unheeded. when, at the proper moment,
without any special efforts on his part, his peo-
pie have overwhelmingly sustained him. That
James H. Lane has been o true and faithful pub
lie servant to the State at large, man can deny
He has excited the railery against himself wholly
hx,< a. nf fav nd tno
disappointment of the cormorants who have not
enjoyed his confidence, has been the cymbal from
whence issued all this noise.
1t is useless to review the record which has
been so falsifed and distorted. but notwith
standing which the people have go handsomely
endorsed. No man in the Nation has enjoyed
such notoriety as Jim Lane" and hence the
people could not have been deceived and the
efforts made against him justify the conclusion
knowledge of the mans actions and claims.
Nor can there be any quibbling as to the issue
of the late election. The assailants of Senator
Lane made that distinct and positive themselves
they would admit of no other issue than Lane
and anti Lane, and the thickest of the battle
they waged directly against Lane. For instance,
in the Marshal and Riley Senatorial District,
Major Adams, the anti Lane candidate, said in
his letter accepting the nomination, that his
+" kill off Jim. Lane Well, the people said
their say. and by majority of from fifty to one
hundred, it is that he shsnt do any such thing.
Thus were the lines drawn all over the State. |
We therefore hold that each and every man sent
to the Senate and House Of Representatives BY
the party which supported the ticket nominated
on the 9Th of September, stands particularly |
charged BY his constituents to cast his vote for
JAMES H. LANE. as United States Senator for the
term Of six years from the 4th of March.
Never did people do a wiser act. The selec-
lion may not suit cliques and localities but
The great mass Of the people, and the North.
East South and West portion of the State will
reap the benefit. 1t has been charged that
Lane "runs Lincoln and the whole Govern
nent." Would it not, then, be the heighth of
oily for the people Of Kansas to cast aside an
influential and faithful public officer, and place
IN untried man in the harness with such q
vooden thing as s. c. Pomeroy? How would
Kansas stand at Washington should we be SO ;
Unfortunate as to get another such nonentity
g Pomeroy in the Senate? Run no such risk,
t least while the nonentity has two years yet
o serve. The Railroad building through the
tate, and the diverging branches which will
e commenced within the next six years, and
ther public improvement projects, will de-
nand watchful and influential guardian at
Washington. Ii
Echoing the expressed wish Of the people Of
)avis Riley, Wabaunsee, and Dickinson Rep
Districts, and of the Twentieth
enatorial District, we hope JAMES H. Lane q
lay be our next United States Senator.
STATE ELECTION. IL
The election returns have been tardy. Suf- ,,