White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-01-19

to command the respect Of some people, is
to kick them soundly-the harder you kick,
the better they will like you. We have two
Kansas shysters of this stripe in view
James F. Legate and Martin F. Conway
represepting the fat and the lean of the
question.
Legate was the prime mover Of the Sena-
torial election, last Winter. When no one
thought of it OF wished it, he commenced
and kept up the agitation Of the matter,
representing that he had certain assurances
from some of the most prominent men OF
the nation in favor of an election; that it
would be endorsed by the United States
Ssnate, and that it was absolutely necessa-
~ in order to destroy the evil power OF
Lane. The monotonous drone of his voice
could be heard from early morning until
the small hours of the night, exhorting
against Lane. Again, in the State Conven-
ton Of the 18th of September, the burden
Of Legatc's song was the wickedness of Jim
Lane. He made determined 6ght against
the nomination Of Lee for Congress, be-
cause Lane had Withdrawn his opposition
to his confirmation as Brigadier, and he
thought that Lee might possibly be under
some pledge or obligation to Lane, either
directly or through his friends; and he
wanted to guard against even the possi-
bility of such thing. He ran and was
elected to the State Senate as an Anti-Lane
man; and since his election, he is said to
have made tour of the State, to get up a
combination against Lane. In return for
these favors, Lane had him kicked out Of
the Assessorsbip in disgrace, and state.
ment published convicting him of pecula-
tion and dishonesty. In joint convention
of tho Legislature, Legate voted for Lane
for Senator. He made speech upon the
occasion, in which he said that the voice Of
the people of the State was SO unnnistaka-
bly, in favor of Lane, that he could not if
he would disregard it. He furthermore ex-
pressed the hope that the people of the
United States, in 1868, would elect Lane
President, with the same unanimity that
the Legislature elected him SENATOR He
followed this up, day or two later, with
officiating resolution, which, after piling
on the agony to toppling height, asked
that Lane lie made Secretary of the Interi-
or. But this disgusting suckerism WAS too
much for the Lane majority in the Senate,
and they uucer tremendously tabled his reso-
luton. He sees that strong pressure is
being made to place Lane in the Cabinet,
and he wants to force himself forward as
the leading champion. Bnt Lanes friends
know that Legate kills everybody he fastens
upon, and they mean to take care that be
does not suck the life. blood out of Lane.
Yet we are not astonished at his course
We never "gambled'' any on Legate, and
expected something of the sort. As the
fasorite nag which Legate had in training.
last September, sold out the cause to which
he was sulemnly pledged, for $4,000 in
green-backs, it is not surprising that LIE.
gate should attempt to make raise, BY
becoming Lanes champion for the Presi'
dency, four years in advance of the election
Poor little Martin F. Conway, by dint o.
perseverance and hard begging, obtained {
seat in Congress. When there, be had nc
will of his own. Even those who had beer
his warmest friends, could obtain no favori
from him, so fearful was he that he should
offend Lane by presuming to ask for fail
proportion of the Government patronage
By pursuing this course, he imagined thai
Lane would surely return him to Congress
B ut Lane sold. him out, in the Convention
of 1862, whereat he complained bitterly
Like the man who knocked out his own teeth
to spite his rictuals, Conway undertook tc
spite the people Of Kansas by playing him.
self out, by speaking crazy piece written
TO, him by William Lloyd Garrison. Fo,
this speech, Lanes organs were most bitter
in denouncing him. In November and De-
cember, 1868, Conway made canvass OF
the State, ostepsibly to set himself right
before the people; but he teld US that his
real object was to initiate a movement to
overthrow Lanes power in Kansas. Dur
ing the late canvass, he was advertised to
speak in favor of the Lane ticket; but just
then the chances looked the other way, and
he published card declining the honor
saying that, if he had any inclination to
train with that crowd, he had NO ambition
to be associated with such character as
DR.. King, of Colorado. Yet we now find
Conway travelling in Lanes train, one of
his loudest squawkers, taking leading
part in his indignation and jolli6cation
meetings; and, to cap the whole, he is re-
markably intimate with DR.. King, the clown
from Colorado! Well, we are not surpris-
ed at this; for we never invested in Con-
way. The poor little fellow is getting hun
CRY, and hopes to receive some of the small
crumbs dropping from Lanes table.
~ Do the people remember what .
cry of Copperhead went up sgainst tine
Anti-Lane State ticket. last Fall? The
Leavenworth papers we're full of Legate.
Foote and Gamble. the Coppsrhead can
didates, and it was Published far and
wide. that Col Weer, who hadlbeen dis.
g,aced BY Court Martial, was making
speeches for Clellsn, and for Lee and