White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-05-02

The Atchison Champion denounces
Ben. Loan for having prevented the con-
firmstion Of Col. r. G. Bradshaw and
Col. james NJ. Graham ss Postmaser of
st. Joseph. and permitting the con6rma-
tion Of Judge Wyatt. Conservative. to
the same position. Without endorsing
Wyatt, our sentiment is. that 1t Loans
influence succeeded 10 shelving tho two
redoubtsbls CoIonsls. it should be put
down to bis credit. The ides that if .
msn was good soldier. it should atons
for all future political treachery and
mesupess, is one that men Of right prins
ciple will not countsuancs. II men fght
gallsntly to put down the rebellion. as
Bradshaw and Graham did, and after.
wards, out of mercenary or revengeful
feelings. unite with the party whose chief
aim is to restore the rebels to their
"rights," and destroy the results of the
war, they are not as deserving OF honor
and Office as q consistent Copperhesd.
Give us an out-and-out Conservative,
in preference to shystering. unprinci-
pied man who processes to be Union or
Radical.
Bradshaw went into the army. steady,
hard-working. uupretending man. He
fought gallantly. received wounds. and
won promotion. The latter be could not
bear; and upon returning home. he i'm
sgined the whole Radical cause rested
upon bis shoulders that be "ran" the
party in St. Joseph. and that without him
it was nothing. There were those who
would not recognize this assumption, and
Bradshaw was not honored and elevated
to the extent that he imsgined himself
entitled to. He became "sore - and the
rebel party. finding good subject to
work upon. petted him. and told him
how be had been abused. The resul.
has been. that Bradshaw has, for over a
year past. invariably made it a point to
desert the Republicans at the critical
point, and throw his influence with the
rebel party; and Bradshaw never fails
to 6gure Is candidate for office on the
rebel ticket. The Radical party is KEEP,
distracted. and the rebels usually elect q
good part of their ticket-all to crafty
the vanity and spite of this one man.
Ben. Loan did right in barring the pre-.
tentious mischief.maker ont Of q lucrative
position to which be was appointed as q
reward for his treacbery. r
Graham is another specimen. "tarred
with the same stick" At the beginning
Of the war. be received an appointment
in 9 Kansas regiment, as q Kansas man,
and served through the war. That being
over. be returned to Kansas, with the de-.
termination of living by Office. What
his former politics were, we do not know;
but when the issue arose between loyalty
snd Andrew johnson, and an effort was
made to demoralize the Republican par
ty in this State, Graham, with other
prominent politicians and military off
sers, as Kansas men, signed q call for a
johnson organization. Soon after, the
Post Office squabble in St. Joseph open
ed and Graham, suddenly recollecting
that be was resident of Missouri. be-
cause his family had visited there during
the war, put in claim for the St. Jo-
ssph Post Ofics. and came near succeed
ing. Slipping up" on this. he again
became Kansan, long enough to attend
as a johnson hummer at Topsks, last
Winter. to work against the reelection
Of Senator Pomsroy. The St. Joseph
Post Office question just then opening
up again, he recollected that he was q
Missourian. as his family resided there.
and again "went for it." Among other
help. we have good reason to believe, be
presented certificates from the editor Of
the Champion to the President. certify.
ing. that he had been bona tfde resident
of Missouri. for lol these many years.
But they did not save him, and he "went
up the spout" again.
Ben. Loan, and every other Radical
Congressman who foils the attempts of
'uch renegades and time servers to obtain
he price Of their treachery, deserves the
hanks Of all loyal and honest men.