White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-08-12
Sidney CIarke's Last Exhibition
of Statesman nship.

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Of StafesmanshiP.
Sidney Clarke's labors On the Neutral
Lands have at length produced fruits
A large meeting of Land Leaeuers was
held on the 28,h Of July, at Jacksonville.
Neosho County. under the direct manip-
ulstion of Clarke and John Speer. who
we're the principal orators Of the occasion.
Senstor Pomeroy was burned in effigy
and resolutions were adopted. asking
Pomeroy and Ross to resign. which they
will no doubt make haste to do, J and
endorsing the prime mover of the meet.
ing. Sidney Clarke. The resolutions
also denounced the sending Of troops to
Southern Kansas BY the Government,
and denounced Gov. Harvey as the cause
of their being sent. Finally. they resol.
we'd to cut loose from the old parties,
and to organize a new one. to be called
the Settlers Party.
To show the cslibre of the movement
in the Neutral L,nd region. it is only
necessary to state that the two eloquent
orAtors of the occasion. besides Clarke
and Speer, were Laughlin, Clarke's too
in stirring mp discord. and (Great God!,
C. Dana Suyrs! A State Exscutiv,
Committee was appointed. composed ex
clusively of lickspittles Of Clarke. Ths
mention of the following names will in
dictate the weight of the concern: L. j
Worden, Of Douglas; A. s. Thomas. o
Shawnee W. r. Lsughliu. of Chero
kee A. G. Barrett. Of Marshall Rob
ert Riddle, of Jefferson.
Burning public man in effigy may
be allowable among decent people OF
very rare occasions. but tho disgrace usu
ally rests upon the perpetrators. 1t il
an outburst of low flung spite and impo
tent hatred. Senator Pomeroy has o.
late stood rather low in X snsas; but h,
could have wished for nothing better thar
this affair to turn the tide once more il
his favor. 1t was too plainly the worl
Of dirty demsgogue endeavoring tt
hide his own rottenness by directing pop
ular indignation against his coadj1tors.
And Clarke has in one day sccom
plished what bis enemies, unaided BY
himself, might have labored for during
the next year in vain. He has killed
himself dead. dead, dead. For him M
Senate. and no more Congress after tb,
present term. After this. all talk -sbou
his fidelity to principle will avail moth
ing. 1t was oil that saved him las
Fall, but he has kicked that prop from
under him. In the midst of an excited
throng. assembled and exssperated BY
his own instrumentality. he imagined il
was the whole State of Kansas. and pro.
ceeded straightway TO wipe out the Re.
publican party, and TO organize in its
stead great party bound together by
the magic tie of allegiance to himself
He will now, have an opportunity to re-
alize what an Insignificant thing Sidney
Clarke lie, when forced to stand upon bis
own merits alone.
We are greatly mistaken in the style
of the Administration, if Mr. Clarke
does not speedily begin to feel the effects
of his folly. He has instigated mob to
denouncs the Government for sending
troops to preserve the peace and protect
public works. and to array themselves
against the Governor of the State for
performing his sworn duty. His tool,
holding Government appointment. has
harangned an excited populsce. exhort.
ing them to form themselves into mid.
night mobs. and destroy public improve.
ments. 1t will be strange II the heads Of
Mr. Clsrke's doers OF dirty work do not
soon commence dropping into the basket.