The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-01-25
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faI soSS-PoNE20Y lxDoells.
Some weeks ago Ex-U. s. Senator Ross
attacked Senator Pomcfoy; in his paper
at Coffeyviile, charging him with divers
manners of corruption in the use Of bus
position, and said: I" Eleven years ago
he went into the Senate, still compare
lively poor. To-day he is reliably re-
ported to be worth three millions OF
money. He has vast possessions ofiands'
bank stock, railroad stock, government
bonds, State bonds and county bonds
How did he get them?" Pomeroy re-
torts in severe terms, in Gan open 'et-
ter" recounting some of the scenes 81
the impeachment trial Of President john
son and Ross vote against the impeach-
ment, stating that the lands he owned
eleven years ago forms "the basis OF all
the property he now owns and oner'ne
all his worldly possessions tor seventy
five thousand dollars. Ross rejoins with
more causticness and nearer the point.
aft he is worth but seventy-fve thou
sand dollars" he says, show does II
come that he owns and lives in /" thirty
thousand dollar house in Washington,
furnished with thirty thousand dollar
outfit-mirrors imported from France
and carpets from Belgium-that the four
quarters of the globe have been put un'
der tribute to minister to his luxurious
habits-that by his own statements he
spends from ten to fifteen thousand dol
lars wear in living-that The boasts an
elegant mansion in Boston, where he
spends much of his timc-that he has q
two thousand acre farm in Kansas, stock
ed with expensive cattle, horses and
sheep, where he spends very little OF his
time" We further make the following
extracts from Ross article to more clear
IL define the nature of the charges:
Then, again, if Mr.. Pomeroy is so ut
tcrly landless, wc would like to ask who
owns the two hundred lots in the town
of Ncodesha that were set aside and trans.
ferred as the consideration OF the removal
of the Land Office of this district to that
poiut. Who owns the half OF the town
site Augusta, another Land Office seat
and the half of the town site OF Concor'
dia, another, which was transferred III
consideration oft location OF the Land
Office, there? Why did he locate the
Concordia Land Office away out on q
piece of bare prairie, miles away from
any scttlem ents, without !. house or q
shelter of any kind, at the time, Tor the
records of the office, if he had no land
speculation in it ::Who received the hun
dred ,own lots and several quarter sec.
tians of land in and around the city OF
Ottawa, which somebody got in consid'
GRAFTON of favorable action on tho Otta'
wa treaty? Who owns the 10000 acres
Of Potawatomie lands, which the A., I.
L S.F. r. r. expected to get by the Pot
awatomic treaty, but didn't get, and
somebody else did get? Who owns the
40. 900 or SO, 900 acres of kickapoo lands
which the Central Branch Railroad had
to give up for getting the kickapoo
Treaty through How about that -,
900 acre tract of Kickapoo lands that nc
lately sold to Swedish colony at 81 O0
an acre! Who presented Mr.. Pomeroy
in the sixteen divisions that were made
of the Delaware lands, by which those
Indians were robbed of their lands fol-
the benefit of few spectators! lfMr
Pomeroy does not own this vast array
of lands and stock. who does? The cor.
porations that had them to pay, would
like to know. They supposed they were
going to Mr.. Pomeroy, and still believe
that they did. The property was given
for the purpose named, and If Mr.. Pom
eroy didn't get it, he knows who did
Let him tell. Did nc own these lands
eleven years ago, and did they "form
the basis of all the property he now
owns! ?"
His proposition to sell all his property
for 81, 900, is all bosh. Perhaps he has
no more in his own name, probably not
that. The man who would accept his
offer would likely get cheated. But ii
he will turn over what other persons are
holding for him, we will let him keep
what he has in his own name, and fee
confident we can find him a purchaser
about twenty or twenty-five times the
sum he names, and then the purchaser
would make handsome fortune.
! He winds up his communication with
the remark that he has now done with
this distasteful business. We have nc
doubt it is distastefnl to him. The pros
pect of being brought to justice is always
distasteful to tho thief. But If he Is
done with us, We are not done with him
The opposition to Grant for the presl'
dency seems to be increasing. How II
will terminate, no one can tell. AT the
National Republican Convention, in our
opinion, the whole thing will be AMIGA
bly settled. We can not believe with
some that G ants opposers in the Re
publican ranks will unite in the forma
ton Of a new party on distinct party
platform, but will push the claims Of
their favored candidates at the conven.