The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-13

them) without rails or tiess never did. Yet
l don't advise force 70 prevent this most dam
nable railroad sw1nd1e, but know that these
accidents do and will happen in the best regu-
lated communities. Now, gentlemen, If any
suen thing should happen to this swindling
1T happens, or as soon after as possible"
The same letter says that at the close
of, MIR. Clarke's speech a motion was
carried nominating him for the next
United States Senator from Kansas.
Now the term of Mr.. Ross expires in
1871, and that of Mr.. Pomeroy in 1873.
1t is very proper to ask whether these
statements are true or not. They come
from responsible sources, but we are
not disposed, without the most convinc-
ing proof, to believe that Mr.. Clarke
would use such atrocious language as is
here attributed to him. Nor do we
wish to believe that, in the hope of
ousting somebody else and reaching
the Senate, ne has permitted friends
who nominate him for that position, at
a meeting where ne was present, to
adopt resolutions cutting loose from
the Republican party" without any pro-
test on his part. Either these state
ments are entirely untrue, or Mr.. Clarke
has himself cut loose from the only
class of men who can ever successfully
support any body in Kansas-the sober,
honest, and law-abiding Republicans.
There are enough of them to swamp
any party of railroad burners or law
detiers at any election. There are enough
of them to teach any whom it may con-
Germ that Mr.. Pomeroy does not own
the Republican party of Kansas, and
that Mr.. Clarke cannot break it up. 1t
is high time for uneasy politicians to
remember that the people care not a
button for their selfish wrangles, and
value men only when they suppose
them to be faithful representatives of
great and just principles.
We have spoken frequently and
frankly of the corruption of the gen.
Grafton of Kansas politicians who fol-
lowed in the footsteps of Lane. These
men seem to think that it is the hight
of folly to waste anything like good
faith, sincerity, or honesty, in political
struggle that principles are merely the
painted cards with which the game is
played that the good people are made
to be cheated that government is an
institution devised for cheating them,
and that he is the greatest statesman
who can cheat them most thoroughly.
Until Kansas shuffies that sort of men
under the ground, politically, it will
continue to be political Botany Bay.
That Mr.. POmeroy has served himself
rather than the people of Kansas, they
ought by this time to know if they do
not, nothing that we can say would en-
! Tighten them.
Charges of serious character have al
so been made against Mr.. Clarke, but
in regard to the Usage treaty we recen-
| thy gave his own account and denial.
| We do not wish to think that he is the
man to speak as he is represented to
have spoken to the Leaguers. AS we
have often said, we think the Joy treaty
a swindle, and hope Mr.. Clarke, with
the evidence gathered from the Indians,
will be able to induce the Government
to set the matter right. But because
the treaty was wrong, it does not follow
that it is right to resort to violence, out
rage, and defiance of law to prevent
the building of a railroad, and we hope
Mr.. Clarke has not been counseling q
people already reckless and lawless
enough, to any such course. It is the
misfortune of Kansas that no such
question can there be considered, as il
might be elsewhere, calmly, temperate
ly, and with regard for order and law
but it must always be seized upon by
demagogues and hungry politicians tt
make political capital for themselves
In opposing the custom of selling In
dian lands by treaty ratified by the
Senate only in secret session, Mr.. Clark
has done right. In denouncing tn,
Usage treaty he has done right. Blu
if he has been advising Leaguers t.
violence or lawlessness, or if he ha
/ been planning division of the Republi
can party, he will find that he has takeI
one step too much.-St. Louis Demo
!. craft