The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-26

He harbored one fellow in one of
his rooms during the entire contest,
who was q spy. 1t was useless TO
tell the 'tshrelod organizer" that that
man had been elected by Ciarke's
money and was not for him. We
can tell those who have not tried it
that it is hard work to make q
United States Senator out of such q
q stick as era wford. And then it is
pretty hard, after you have done all
in your power for him, to be abused
like a plckpocket because he de-
feated himself.
t|Man's iLhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn"
While we weep for Samuel, we
will state now that we do not intend
to ask to be forgiven for the politi-
cal sin of supporting such u man
for Senator again, if we know it
We wish we had time and space
TO examine into the charges Samuel
make9agsinst US. It seems he has
been in the business of buying
cheap fellows quite extensively,
and mentions several instances in
which he corrupted us. Then his
virtue was tampered with in behali
of our brSthers-in-IaW. 1t may be
taken as q political maxim thst
those who buy will sell, and he
must not get indignant If people
conclude from his own testimony as
given in his Nopen letter" that he
has dabbled q little too much in
promises to pay. All we remember
about the transaction with the editor
of the Walnut Valley Times, is that
he wrote us q letter that Crawford
promised him q certain sum OF
money-probably SlO0-for services
rendered. In this letter he stated
that Samuel did not anti according
to contract. He asked US to visit
the individual who occupied most
of his time in looking wise, at Sem
a:orial headquarters iIrthis city, and
ask HIM to fulfil his promise. We
took the letter and read it to the
"tramping jour-" He did not get
mad. He promised to send the
money at once. We never asked
him to pay it to US. We aver ask
ed him for $500. We never asked
any man for money we had no right
to. We don't think we sneaEed
out of his Office. Our recollection
is that we sat down and looked at
that list of eighty-seven districts
which Sam was sure to carry for
Senator. He used to like to show
it to us, and renew his premise to
US that we should have the Emporia
post Office. 0, the fat takes we all
losti AS to his statement about
Marsh Murdoch We remember lit
tie. We think that was manufac-
tured for the occasion by the
"tramping jour" Senator, as most
of his charges against us were. We
hope the MurdOcks will enlighten
as all on this subject. We can state
that Sam had a very warm side
for Marsh about that time, and
authorized US to whisper in his ear
something about the U. S, mail
agency if he would 'vote with US"
-us meaning Crawford, of course.
That's all we remember about
Marsh. OF course this immaculate
Liberal would not buy anybody's
vote, and when he got the COffey
county members in his room and
said everything was fixed up and he
just had a couple of Indian agencies
left which he wanted them to take,
he was joking. One of them re-
minded him of the gentleman who,
in early times, promised the whole
world to the Savior, when he did
not have even single farm to trans
fer. Sam beat him that much; he
had a farm once.
But we started out to say some
thing of the charges of corruption
against MS. These are only intend
ed to blind the public to Sans own
meanness. Not one of them is true.
If we cannot go before q court of
justice and prove that every single
one OF them are false, we will agree
that we are corrupt and a disgrace
to humanity, and will leave the
community. We have been
honored by this people by a
position in the Legislature for
them that we never, in any shape,
manner or form, received single
illegitimate cent of money while
acting in that capacity. We never
sold our vote on any subject. We
can say the same of our connection
with the newspaper. We have re-
ceived pay for printing political
documents at advertising rates. We
received $50 once for printing a
speech of one of the Liberals. In
early times we were the only Re
publican paper in Lyon, Morris,
Marion, Chase, Butler and Green
wood counties, and were paid for
printing hand bills, tickets, ETC.,
sometimes as much as fifty dollars,
during the campaigns, but generally
less. We never got pay for all the
work we did ia those campaigns.
This was all legitimate enough, and
there is not q thing about it that we
are not willing every body should
know. This ia the way we got that
$50 Crawford talks about, in two or
three places in his "Open letter"
and he knows IT. He is so anxious
to make case against US to detract
from his own political treachery,
that he perverts facts, and tries to
make people think we were corrupt.
Crawford says Lane told him we
were one of the most venal of his
supporters in 1865, when he was
elected to the Senate, and insisted
on being paid for voting for him /;
and that he assisted us in our can
vass. What are the facts? and
how ridiculous this statement when
they are known. We do not believe
Lane ever told Crawford any such
q thing. We left Emporia the day
of the convention which put us in
nomination for Representative, in
the fall of 1864, and was not in the
district single moment from that
time till two days before the cleo.
ton. Three fOurths of the voters
were for Lane, and we told the
ton that if elected we would
obey their instructions and vote for
him. He never spent single cent
in the canvass, because there was no
canvass made. Lane knew the SEN
timent here, and was perfectly
aware that no money was needed.
A few days after the election we
were in LeavenWorth and met Gem
eral Lane. lie said, in conversation
with US, that he expected to give us
an appointment. We informed him
that we did not come to the Legis-
lature for an appointment; that we
should vote for him SO sure az the
day of election for O. S. Senator
came around and we were able to
attend; he could depend upon that
that he was not under the least OBJ
legation to US for the vote, but that
he owed 1t all to our constituents q
that if he would do all in his power
to advance the interests of Emporia
and the district, both our constitu-
euts and Ourself would be satisfied.
Further than this we never had q
words conversation with General
Lane about our vote. When the
met he had little or no
There was not the
least call in the world for him to
buy any votes. We never in any
shape or form received from Lane
3 single farthiDg. Now there is the
truth of the whole matter. What
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