The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-10-06
OUR q LOCAL INTERESTS UNITED
80 STATES SENATORS.
Letter From Col. $. y, Wood.

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! 4aCoTToSwooD FAILS, Sept. "a, 1865.
EoIEDIToR OF EMPoR1A NEWS: I notice ii
The LsWFehce Tribuas a we'll written ed
ltorial on the local interests eff Dough-.
cOuntyi from WhicbaI extract the follow.
ing: - l.i ?
! =. So far. asQOuglas9 county is concern.
| ed, our people have local interests v 6ieb
III were well to look 20. Whatever ws
may say Of United States Senators beinp
menCOf enlarged and siatesmanlike views.
common experience teaches US that great
advantages are derived by, having friends
OF particular local interests. ! Would
Lawrence lave had the Union Pacific
Railroad : or would it have passed several
miles from us without Gen. Lane ia the
Senate !? Would -Aichisop have had the
Pixies Peak road. without Gen. Pomeroy?
These intsrrogatOFiss-w illsuggestothsrs."
Yes;''these interrogato ries will sug-
gest others" l am glad the Tribune
has the honesty to admit what some of us
have been talking 50 long: that the Kan
sas Valley gotta Railroad, because she had
Representatives 10 Congress. Atchison
has a road because she has Senator in
Congress. l ike to hear men talk about
United States Senator's working for the
whole State. and for one, 1 rejoice at the
ProsPeritysof' any part of Kansas; it builds
up and improves to that extent our whole
State. As citizen and = legislator, next
to my own District, I have always tried
to labor for the whole State. When it
was supposed that the Union Pacific would
avoid our Kansas river towns, Lawrence,
Topeka, Manhattan and Junction City,
offered resolutions. in the Legislature,
asking Congress to amend the law. and
require or compel the Company to make
these points. The resolution passed both
houses. Congress amended the law,
and Lawrence, Topeka, Man haitian and
Junction City to day boast their Rail
roads. l rejoice Withathem. l am glad
ne have a Railroad up the Kansas Valley
1t builds up, improves and adds to the ma
terisl wealth of notonly the Kansas Valley
6ut all Kansas. / rejoice, to some extent.
at the triumph of the Smoky Hill, asrthe
Railroad up that Valley will develop one Of
the richest agricultural regions in Kansas,
| reioce in the buildingup of LeavnworIh
and Atchison, our great commercial Git
les; bat what Wa in ASouLhsrn Ksnsas--in
Eastern and Northern Kansas-now have
to fear, is the'efort that these localities
will now make, to US tributary to
them. If our next United States Sena-
atOrs come from the Kaw Valley, Leaven
worth or Atchisen. will they not try to
Perpetuate the power they have already
obtained, and crush any Railroad project
that does not contribute directly to build,
up these localities? 1 ask the people in!
Southern Kansas, in the Neosho V .lley,
in the Northern tier, in the Border tier,
and in the Sscond tier, to note the fac,
that the Lawrence Tribune. one of the
leading papers of the State, admits, yea,
claims that Lawrence has Railroad to-
day, because they lad Senator in Con-
gress; that Atchison has Railroad, be-
cause. Atchison had Senator, and ''thess
iDterrogatUriss, 'esaysths Tribune, ''sug-
gSsts OtheFs.' To me it suggests the
fact tina! the Northern tier" had no Sen,
asor and has no road; that the Eastern
tier and the Second tier, had no Senator
and has no road, that the Nsosho Valley
had no Senator and has no road, that In
fact all Kansas south of she KaWl Valley,
over two thirds of the State, were never
represented in Congress-. and not show
81 full of dirt has been moved south of the
Ksw for any road. Yes, these intsrrog-
atories do indeed suggest others. Sup
pose, for instance, thatthe Nsosho Val
ley had had United States Senator when
the Union Pacific Railroad bill was Be
fore Congress, or suppose our Senator'S
had been men Of enlarged statssmanlike
Views." working truly for our whole State,
who can doubt but the Pacific Railroad
would have had another branch {? She
bas her Kansas Valley branch; her Atch
isOn branch, (which, by the by. her Sem
AsOrs got on the Representa- that it vas
TO connect at Topeka, the capitsilOf tbs
Stats;) her Omaha braaeh, with still an
other reaching a way to "SiOux City, ,
Iowa. Had only one man stood up in
ths Senate and said 5.i'let rs offer the, o.
i've branch to the South" and gave anoth,
er branch from Fort Smith up the Arkan
sas, the NsOsho aud Republican. aud said
to- The Senate, aud the Nation, this road
At Fora Smith will unite with road down
the Arkansas to Little Rock, and thence
to Duval's Blutfs aud Memphis, the great
Railroad center Of the South. and said
further, from Fort Smith road win soon
1 - husit IN Ckpav.arO-f - Il nnakioU .