White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-10-05

We last week commented upon an ill-timed and
iIl-grained attack upon our United States Sena-
tors, by the Topeka Record, and intimated = be-
lief that it was brought on by the failure of said
Senators to call around and contribute pittance
to keep the Record alive, when they were at To-
peka, attending the State Fair. 1t seems that We
prubed an excruciatingly sore place. 1t hurts
and the Record squirms, howls, and let's fly full
load at us, as personal personal can be. 1t
reads us our character and tells usall about our
self We do not know whether this wonderful
production is from the pen Of the old he black
mailer of the Record the junior dead-beat, or one
of the cheap hired scriblcrs who hang around the
concern. But that it was inspired by the Chief
Flathead, the signs are too plain to doubt. At
all events, it is good; and glad that he has
uncorked the bottle of wrath long laid up
against u.s.
What specimen to talk about corruption, bri-
hery, and character! Why, time and again, the
old reprobate has been charged in the public
prints, with crimes that should send him to the
penitentisry for life, if not to the gallows. Time
and again he Inns instituted libel suits against his
accusers, but has always withdrawn them before
the time for producing the proof Is his opposi-
tion to capital punishment, like his every other
sentiment OF action, based upon self-intercstf
This old scallawag was accidentally elected to
Office once; but the people hastened to rectify the
error at the very next election, by defeating him
and he has ever since been running for Office with
the invariable result of defeat. This and corrup-
ton, are the only things in which he is consist
ent.
He sold himself to JIM LANE for an Office and
vas kicked ont because he made 6ath that he was
q perjurer.
He sold himself again to LANE, and received as
pay, power press
He supported PoMERoY and SID. CLARKE; but
they, having learned the worthessness of his sup
port, would not pay him the amount demanded
fer his services-PoMERoY refusing to give him
the Topeka Post Office, (for which he could not
have procured bond if he had got it,) and CLARKE
refusing to buy him new press, to replace the
one destroyed by fire-and from that time, he
has abused PoMERoY and CLARKE.
He was q candidate for State Printer, and bored
and bummed every member of the Legislature to
support him; lied upon those who opposed him;
bribed or offered to bribe members to vote for him;
and blew his own horn in the columns of the Rec
ord. But the people in every part of the State
had seen the miserable botch he had made of State
printing, for which he had stolen thousands of
dollars from the State Treasury; and when it
came to an election, he was the "hindmost of
three Here is the nub of his bitterness toward
ns-we would not be stool pigeon for him. The
old scallawag has ever since been preaching mn
the expense and the imposition upon the State Of
the Office of State Printer.
The stock company that owns his trap has to
change base about twice year, in order to pre-
serve its existence; and the printers in the Office
are forced to strike about once month, to secure
their pay. PoNEROY and CALDWELL having fail
ed to "give down." while in Topeka, We may
shortly look for another strike in the Record Office
PONER0Y, and CALDWELL, and SID. CLARKE,
and other public men in Kansas, may not be inst
what they should be, in honesty and morals-of
that we are not At present dealing-but the chary-
es end accusations Of the Topeka Ressvd against
them or any othcn men are no evideoce of their
tlishonety or corruption; ii simply means that
they have refused to be black-mailed by the old
spider who looks ont for the flies that furnish the
meat of the establishment.
The single term he was permitted to serve. BY
accident, in the Legislature, he sold himself to
LANE, to SECURE the impeachment of State officers
for unlawful transaetions-himself 30 charged |
stuffed, and saturated with corruption that whcr-
ever he goes. he leaves smell Of sulphur, as If un
der constant treatment for the itch-an itch for |
black mail.
Long before he came to Kansas, to impose, for
brief season, upon the good natures of a people
who did not know him, he had cstablshr<i rep |
utstton as . frst-class rascal He il embslmed i'm
the supreme Court Reports of Aichigan, as the
perpetrator Of swindie: and there, when the
lawyer or Judge searches for opinions aad prece-
dents be is stared in the fase by the record o the
yllainy of this sasaking old hound the initials Of
vhose name stand for Fraud, and Perjury, and
Bribery! |
Such man to talk about bribery, corruption, |
and moral characteri
~ TIE Democratic papers call the United |
States kSadless Government. Tie difference |
between II sAA their pet chief Of slsspng-car no
tssiety is, that fhe latter is Governmentle~
head
q Read the candidates, .nncvr...,.ct.