The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-04
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IN 4 lew, ana honor Is becoming altogether
too rare qualification for successful poii-
tician. Our own State, we are aware, stan1B
behind most Others in this respect Wedo
not elect to the United States Senate men like
Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner-men Who
are poor, who have no money to buy votes,
and who would not attemlk to buy them if
they had the millions of Vanderbilt, but
whose only capital stock as politicians or as
Senators is their manhood and high cllar.,c-
ter. Schurz and Sumner represent the integ-
rity and honesty Of the Senate, the people,
and the Republican party; Pomerpy repre-
sents barter and sale, st.alase, infamy and
corruption. Can Kansas afford To have its
good name blasted by such unfaithful ser
wants?
We are now approaching the biennial con-
test i. this State. Men are to be elected in
every county, and there are State, Congrcs-
sional and Senatorial Offices 20 I'll. Have
We weighed sufficiently the importance of the
crisis? Has each man FULLY taken home to
himself the weigh; Of responsibility that
rests upon him? What are you doing now,
and what do you propose to do?
The gravity Of the occasion ought To I've
fully appreciated by every voter. But it is
not The election Of faithful and truthful,
honest and pure man, 10 the House Of Rep
resentatives is a solemn duty. We need such
man not only for the labor he will do as a
Congressman, hut we need him still more in
order that We may be able TO say: "That is
the member from Kansas; he truly repre-
sents us; the disgrace is wiped out; you will
find that he is straightforward man, and
that Kansas was not responsible for the had
man who has been here before" A triumph
Of this kind would be Of great advantage to
our State. At present no other State in the
Union is SO constantly sneered at and ridic,Iled
on account of its representatives in Wash
ington as our own State of Kansas Pome-
roy has got so low that even old Garrett
Davis, who has been the butt of the Senate
for years, does not hesitate to insult and jeer
at him. When Pomcroy's Usage bill was
up, it will be remembered, Senator Davis, of
Kentucky, inquired of the Senator from
Kansas, If there was any stealage in the
BILL" A laugh went round the Senate
Chamber. The old pro-slavery fossil from
Kentucky had made his first joke, made it
well, and made it at the expense of n Senator
from Kansas who is always talking about
morality but whose only ambition is to steal.
This joke was caught up by every Senator,
by every reporter and correspondent, and
has gone all over the country. 1t was 30
good because it was SO true. Pomeroy' S term
has not expired, but there will soon he
in the House, and this is the time
to fill it.
Shall We send back another stealagc man?
Clarke and Pomeroy travel together. They
get up bills together and steal together, and
every appointment made in Kansas since
Grant became President has been made on
he joint recommendation of Pomeroy and
Clarke. They both sustain, shield, and de
lend that prince of thieves, John Speer, and
the brother thief puffs them in every number
Of his stolen newspaper. Sometimes, when
You see Clarke in private, he denounces
''old CUTS" as he calls him, and once, not
very long ago, he applied the flaming torch
to Pomeroy's efigy, and whoopcd and
yelled till the ieaping and cracking flames
had burnt it up. The exhibition pleased the
settlers on the Neutral Lands and did not
hurt Pomeroy or Joy, or Clarke, all Of whom
met pleasantly afterwards as they had done
before, and will do again, both in this world
and the world beneath. And sometimes
Mr.. Pomeroy falls ont with Mr.. Clarke. On
, very recent occasion, only two weeks ago,
Clarke deceived Pomeroy by breaking a
promise in regard to Il bill before a confer |
ence committee of which Clarke was i menu |
her. When it WAS reported to POmeroy,
yho Is member Of the church "a swearing,
not praying member,-he could only say:
by God, did Clarke do .hat?''
But there is never a serious rupture be-
tween these men. One is for Joy and the |
other agains, Joy Ito the public hut h'ti |
rote for the same hills. Both secured office |
through fraud and bribery, and both hold
,ffice through the same RESPONSIBILITIES
Both call John Speer nm honest man.
The discreiit and damage brought upon
,ur State by these disrcpuiable persons it is
'lmcst impossible for the quiet citizen and
honest farmer or business man 10 fully APP
,reciate. Kansas is now known in Wash
ngton and all over the county ~ the ''rottsn
commonwealth We are not known for
,ur churches or schools, for our institutions
If charity or education, for our fruit, orr
rain or for any moral or material advantage
for none of tlaeSe lalf rs widely ns for our
Infamous public men. And the strangen
ay that the whole people must be a set of
hieves when they send such rascals rs these
o the national c.api,al. Is it not time 70
make a change and a rndical change? The
lay for talk and argument has gone BY, and
lac time for honei, earnest work has come.
The presidents has finally approved the