White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1864-03-03
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has met with q sad bereavement. in The
loss of "Baffalo Jones" somstimes call.
cd, through courtesy. "Jones Of Saline. u
Jones was q member Of the House, two
years ago, and was appreciated. For
why . Should Jones be chosen . mem.
Der of an egg-sueking society. he would
be appreciated. for be has voice pc.
culiarlyl adapted to sucking eggs. Th.
House, two years ago. was composed
Of material suitable fcr5Jim Lane to WELD
That mas Jones' style. Therefore, Jones
was appreciated. Besides. Jones had
just been reading Shakespeare; AMI in hi.
many .oratcrical efforts. delivered upon
every occasion, upon Road bills, Estrsy
asts. Amendments to the Code, 0encnr.
rent Resolutions. and impeachment c ases,
be drew heavily ipsu Shakespeare. The
members, not being wellrsad in Shake
psars. supposed the speeches were orig
inal. and pronounced Jones pumpkins. "
Coming from the Legislature. with the
lsurels fresh upon his brow, Jones offered
himself to the State Convention of 1862,
as candidate for Superintendent of Pub-
lie distraction. But Shakespeare not be-
ing one Of the branches taught in the
Common Schools of Kansas, Jones was
not appreciated by that Convention, and
retired to the rural and Occidental Saline.
where he remained until last November,
when he again became the accidental
Representative Of that pastoral region in
the Lower Houes.
Coming to the Capital. fresh from The
perusal of Gullivsr's Travels, his elo-
quenee rang out in the Legislative Halls.
this time copiously embellishod with
choice extracts from that eminently truth
ful work. Bn. alas for Jones. Moat
of the members chanced to be Guliiverian
scholars, and discovered him to be bogus.
They preferred the original work, to
which they had free access, in the State
Library. The charm of Jones eloquence,
the magic Of his melodious voice, had
departed. He delivered his one hun
dred and tenth batch of choice extracts
from Gulliver. upon the occasion of the
election Of United States senator-sut
without effect. The Legislature was steep.
ell in fraud, and the glory had departed
from Jones. In his own language. his
usefulness in the Legislature was at an
end" He occupied his seat in moody
silence, while yet an entire volume Of
Gulliver remained to be drawn upon to
supply him with eloquence.
We have read the story of an sged In
dian woman in Connecticut, one Of the
remnants of her race in that State, who
one day suddenly burst out weeping as If
her heart would break. Upon being in
terrogated as to the cause of her sorrow,
she replied that her poor. dear husband
had died fourteen years before, and she
always thought it would kill her, and
now she couldn't stand it any longer
Sc with Jones. He submitted to the
outrageous fraud for ten long days, at
three dollars per day. Sundays included;
thsn, unable to stand it any lsnger, and
while ten days of the session still remain
ed, Jones deliberately, and with great
presence of mind, drew the salary due
him. appropriated by the perpetrators of
the fraud, then sent in his resignation,
declaring that he could not, consistently
with self.respcc,, longer remain q mem
Der Of body that was guilty of such a
dsmnable fraud, and that would not be
governed by an Insignificant minority,
aided BY Gulliver's Travels. This man
ifesto he asked to have spread upon the
Journals Of the House; bat having ceased
to be member Of the House. his privil-
sges in that line were ended, and the re-
quest was refused. Tins finished Jones'
hope Of having his Indignation appear
in the public documents of the State,
"printed by authority" that be might
refer to it in after years.
Brt Jones has become 3 martyr upon
the alter of purity. With one volume
Of Gulliver yet untouched, and thirty
dollars in the State Treasury which he
might have had just as we'll as not, he
washed his hands of the fraud, (snd It !.
emily spon great occasions that be does
wash his hands. and departed from the
Synagogue. Turuing his back upon the
house of frani. and upon the antoschsd
volume Of Gulliver, he wended his way
to Lawrence. there to tell the assembled
indignation of Douglas County Whist be
had suffered, and what he had done-ts
be there canonized. and receive an en-.
dorsement for 8 position on the State
ticket, next Fall. Until the "sign is
right" he will retire to his beloved
Saline. where he may read Gulliver un-
disturbed, live uncontaminated by fraud.