The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

him by the neutral land representatives. and
his violation Of pledges made to them before
his election proves him unworthy any position
at the hands OF the people"
We are not in the habit of abiding 70
articles personal to ourseIf either friend
ly or unfriendly, but It will be seen that
the above sentence contains charge
against our honor as an officer. Mr.
Sanford was one of theRepresentatives
in the last Legislature from the Neu-
trail Land, and consequently the charge
that we violated pledges made to him
to obtain his vote on the Speakership,
might have some weight with persons
not acquaintef with either party We
therefore feel called upon to say that
when he charges US with having either
made or violated pledges, either before
or after the election, he is liar. We
told Mr.. Sanford that we sympathised
with the settlers on the Joy land-that
we had always considered die sale of
the 100000 acres of land to him at a
mere song, one of the most Outrageous
swindles on the people that had ever
been perpetrated. But the Government
had recognized Mr.. joys claim it had
gone so far as to issue patents to some
of the land, and as we looked at the
matter the law was against the party
known as the Leaguers. We said to
him if we could be convinced to the
contrary we would go as far as any man
in support of the settlers. We told Mr..
Sanford, further, that if we were chos-
en- to preside over the deliberations OF
the legislature il would be our aim and
determination to be strictly impartial
and see fair play between him and his
opponents. That's all we told him.
We kept this promise faithfully, and we
defy him to prove to the contrary. On
several occasions we went so far as to
vote with him in order to give him ev-
cry chance in the world to make out his
case. In addition to the question OF
law, we could not sustain him in preach.
ing his open rebellion against the au.
thorities of the government, nor could
we vote to sustain him and his friends
in the outrages they had committed al
the instigation of their master. Be.
sides all this, Mr.. Sanford was not tbs
real representative of Cherokee county
as was clearly shown by the facts OBJ
tanned by the committee on elections
and therefore we had no right to take
him as an exponent of the real views o.
| the settlers themselves. The truth IS
in making these statements about US
this would-be martyr is doing the dir
ty. work of man for whom he is
mere tool. As we ask nothing of hin
why does he thus attack us. Does h
not remember how often he wanted tt
die last, winter for the ''peops,". and
how we always coaxed him not to if h,
could help it? Does he not remembel
how we saved his bacon one da!
in the house when O member was abou
to show up his villainous character il
Illinois-how we interfered to proven
that member from telling that he cam
out fan Illinois prison to Kansas, wher
it is said, he had been incarceratet
as swindler! Mr.. Patrick Henry, g
slow. The day is not far distant whel
the people on the Neutral Land vii
come to the same conclusion as those o.
of it, that you are using their cause an
raising the cry of working men" an
working women" merely as hObb
to ride into office that you know 20
cannot obtain on your merits. Yo
have already injured their cause MOI
than You have done it good. You
threats about what is going be don
this fall have no terrors for us-not
terror. When we want Office we wi
/ try and get it, but never expect to oil
: tain it by currying favor with such hun
l bugs and demagOgues as we belieN
3 you to be. ae-
If there is any one thing we have trie
to be, in what little we have had to {
in politics if there is any one thing "
3 have kept steadily in view in our C
4 pacity as an officer, it has been to
+ upright and straightforward. We ha'
D always thought that success obtain,
by any sort of deception was Q succe
: that did not pay. Therefore we ca
t not permit such charges as are made
3 the above extract to go without chara
terizing them as they ought to be cha
, acterized, as wholesale falsehOods.