The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-12-01
our FoR GOV. CARNEY.

The OskalOOsa Independent takes up
the cudgels in defence of Gov. Carney.
As matter of sheer justice. We publish
the principal portion Of Its fenarks:
As the trieade of other candidates
have seen proper 20 cay hard things with.
out ashadeW OF proof against Mr.. Car
neg. We desire 20 state = few facts. aim
Epiy that justice may be done. and not for
the purpose Of iDjuriug Others-a system
tof warfare utterly at variance with good
feeling. good policy or good sense, where
all are of one party. We should all work
60 that In the end there will be harmony
not acrimony and rancorous feeling.
Mr.. Carney was Governor of Kansas
for two years, aud the most bitter malig
nifty has not only failed to discover a stain
upon his admistration. bat the attempt 10
fnd fault resulted in establishing the fact
that his administration Of the affai re- oil
the Siats was eminently wise, judicisus
and patriotic. A bitter outcry was rails
ed against him ia consequences of the pre-
mature election to the United States Sen
ate-aginst bis judgment-and Legisla
ture elected largely opposed to that meas
ure, numbers of whom we're decidedly
hostile TO Mr.. G. Bat this body, acting
under the solemn sanctions of their oaths,
after the most care full scrutiny into the
acts of his admin istralioE from first to
last, unanimously endorsed It as being
tOise and patriotic. This certainly should
satisfy the most skeplical as to Mr.. Car
ney's official career. His enemies them
selves being Judges. he ie lauded for his
services as Chiet Magistrate of the COM
mouWealIh.
Many stories have been set al Dat since
then touching Mr.. G. But in tracing
Them up, We have found them the out
growth OF malignity and personal hate.
Some have thought him too cnnserva
tive. But it is fact worthy of ncte.
that ia his annual message to the Logis-
lature, he tOlk advanced ground on the
leading questions of the times. He sub
mitted his message to leading men of the
Republican party, and at their request,
for the good Of tie party. as they claimed,
land doubtless honestly believed he
struck out one Of the most radical parts
of the message before submitting it to
the Legislature. Some of the men Who
advised the Governor to strike out that part
Of his message. and to a0hOse judgment he
then acceeded. nOw charge that lie IS not
Radical enough! So the world goes
We know Mr.. Carney to be radical
10 his Views-more thor oughly so
than many who charge Linn with
conservatism. Hs is not a whit be-
hind The leading minds of the Republi-
can party IN his firm adherence to the
principles of liberty and progress. aud il
elected to the Senate, would never be.
tray his constiluents-never. This much
for his official Tecord-Which all. even his
| enemies, admit it without biemish-
aud his political sentiments. Aud We do
not speak at random T5 -. ..a t
AS 10 material interests, no man in
Kansas is be tier qualified to look after
Them! His position as business man
TO- day demonstrates this fact. He would
! probably do more for US ia this direction
! which is of vital importance now
than any other man; and being fully re-
liable on other matters, there is no rea,
son at all for the wicked charges made
against him by personal enemies and poll
tical antagonists. Aud we do hope thai
hereafter the policy of slandering one can
didate to further the interests of anoIhe
will be abandoned as unworthy of gen
tlemen and Republicans.
We make these remarks not as tht
champion of Mr.. Carney, but as . simpl'
act oil justice, having,always detssted IN
fairness and 'despised maliguity in th'
conduct ola political contest. ''Let jus
tice be done, thou Oh the heavens fall"