The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-01
THE REPRESENTATIVE NAN.

mere anu HA0e aHOln6E speech l8Sb
night. 1t is not for the pur-
pose of saying something about
him that we allude to him now, but
to notice the fact that he is the lead
ing honest man among the Gree
leyites here. He seems to be the
man of the concern,
and we are perfectly willing they
shall have him in all his glory and
beauty. The assistant Democrats
of Emporia have played him as
their sileading card" during the
latter part of the present cam.
paign. 1t is unnecessary to COM
ment upon the condition of q
cause that puts its reliance on
such man. He was here some
three weeks ago and made that
speech of his, with which the older
settlers are all familiar, merely
varying the anecdotes to suit cir
cumstances. It was q funny speech.
A. correspondent gave, at the time, 9
uery good report of it. The boys
laughed; the gloomy Liberals for
the hour grew fat. There had been
so much corruption that the good,
the pare Sam had consented to re-
buke it. That was funny. No
wonder the Republicans laughed.
Every Liberal Democrat caught
himself by the pantloons and lifted
himself from the floor with Joy,
exclaiming Eureka n We have
found the great and good nan At
last, who can give the Republicans
fits. The babboon told those old
personal anecdotes 10 . nsV crowd
and they took, and so the jubilant
Lbs. announced that they intended
to have him show here every week
till the election. Well, that suited
the Republicans, because wherever
this Immaculate embodiment of
Greeley reform and Greeley honesty
I Is known he does good for the Re-
publican cause by making . speech
against Grant. Bills were circulated
around town last Friday that this
great "Chaw-a-man-up" would ex.
hibit at the court house that eve
ming in "war paint" on which occa-
sion he would do some terrible
things. He came, he spoke and ne
went away, and we have not heard
his speech spoken of since. Such
speeches as Sam makes are always
fiat on being repeated, and conse-
queAtly there was no "sensation."
He never discusses political issues,
because he has not got sense enough.
He has a few "set phrases" about
the principles of government, and q
harrangue about political dishon-
esty, which business he has prac-
ticed long enough to know ali abeut
"a few stale anecdotes which are
funny the first time, and that's all
there is of this political nondescript.
He has had, for some years, pretty
good success in being defeated for
Office in Chase county, and that WA
enough to make him q Grseleyite OF
the strictest kind. The announce.
ment on the bills that he would ap.
pear in "war paint" was entirely
gratuitous. His personal habits are
such that he appears that way at al
times. His aversion to water and
soap are so great that his "color" il
naturally at war with the more
clearly instincts of mankind in
general. He always carries his
"color" and shows it to the bes
advantage when he takes stranger
around to "see the sights" in hi
pet town, Raymond. From the day
he was ordered to charge the rebels
who were about to stake him in,
and obeyed the order by sitting OF
his horse at the head of his com
pany and yelling, "ShooI shoe =
the Raymond affair was never
eclipsed by this great and pur,
patriot and statesman.
We understand that on this las
occasion, as usual, Sam paid hi
respects to The News. We did no
impure what he said, and don't care
If we had our choice we should al
ways ask him to ego for US" in hi
best style. His endorsement IL al
ways suspicious. We arc entirely
unconcerned as to what o man like
Wood, who has been accused of al
most every crime In the catalogue
and is believed by those most init.
mately acquainted with him to be
guilty of many of the accusations
thinks or says of US. When he dis.
poses OF the indictment for perjury
in Douglas county; when he clears
himself of the charge of stealing
State and school bonds from Chase
county; when his ewn relative
ceases to go about telling that he
stole a yoke of cattle; when the
time comes that his own political
associates shall not apply to him
the-to him-sweet name of seattle
thief;" when he ceases to be regard
ed as q scalawsg, trickstsr and dead
beat generally, it will be time to
feel bad about his denunciations
and criticisms.
The half has not yet been told,
but we merely give these items to
show what splendid reputation he
has for honesty. He viii do for .
simon-pure Greeley ssunsper. One
of this pure mans hobbies lie oppo-
sition to Pomeroy. The naked
truth is that this same Wood voted
for Pomeroy and worked for him
both times that he has been elected.
Who, then, is more responsible for
for the States having Pom.
eroy in the Senate than Sam
Wood? He now goes over the
country denouncing himself for his
own action; at least that is the logic
of his present position. The most
objection we have to Pomsroy is
that Sam Wood always votes tor
him. If the antiAPomeroy indigna-
ton of the Greeleyites is sincere
they ought to get after Sam Wood
and run him out OF. the State. He
has helped do ali this mischief. and
yet they set him mp as q model of
honesty and purityi, For the sake
of the honest Greeleyites we don't
want to hear any more such twad-
die about honesty. 1t is thinner
than the thinnest kind of Cruel. It