The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-01-30
LENa:PE.
Feelings On The senatorial Question.
Reception CT the Governors Mess g..
Comments AMI Suggestion.

Few persons are 80 ridiculonsly organized
as not to desire 10 lie happy. Eu, what vir-
tuous citizen could be happy who reads in
the papers what has been done and what is
doing in the choice Of Kansas Sena.ors? If
said citizen be coveicus Of worldly goods be
will regret that his lot was not cast with the
Carney-, the Legga,es. Buffers and Byers.
If he be one Of those old-fashioned indivis-
uals who hold that neither the Almighty or
the frames of eur Republican system intend
ed that price should be fxsd upon the bal
lot, he will wonder dispairingiy how long
our Republican system can stand this thing.
If be be concerned for the fair fame Of Kan
.as in business point of view. be will re-
grei that men here should have sold them
selves to raise a little money, as if the bar
renness of our agricultural and other re
sources left them no other alternative.
To save our State from further disgrace,
and 20 ensure a more crediia5ie representa-
ton at the National Capital, it is the all
bur unanimous opinion OF those who &c.
their papers q, tie Lenape p. O. that L. S.
Senators should be chosen, as Congressman
are chosen, directly by the people. Think
ing men are also more strongly impressed
than ever in favor Of removal Of the Ma
tional Capital to the banks of the Missouri,
on ksnsas coil if practicable, or as near
thereto a. may be, for thousands of dollars
would thereby be saved to the Federal Golfers
in the item CT Witnesses mileage.
Our adyices from Topeka are somewhat
meagre owing to the irregu!ari,y of the Kan
sas Pacific trains. and the want of tele-
graphic facilities at this station. But enough
is known 10 warrant the belief that s. Z.
Pomeroy il likely 10 be q prominent candi.
date fo. the U. S. Senate. There is
friendly feeling for ''O!d POM" in there
parts, 1t being the general opinion of our
citizens that few kansans can make more
money and suifer less, morally in the Sena-
torial line than he. Another thing which
commands ''Old POM 10 favorably regard
hereab0uts, ia the fact that he does not APP
pear 10 have been mixed up in the Credit
Mobilier business, which was always regard
ed with dl-trust by the business men If the
Kaw Valley.
A very popular document in this locality
is the mersage of Gov. Osborn, evincing as
it does the part of his Exceilency, a realiza-
ton of the derlorable tax-ridden condition
of the yeomanry OF Kansas and of the nee
cessity of moderation in this matter of pub
lie expenditures. In fact We have already
ceased to think about the Ingalls, note, and
regret that st was not promptly paid on pre-
sentat;on. And now it is 10 be hoped that
the Legislature will dispose Of the Senatorial
bobberry with as little ado as possible, close
the door against the wolfish pack of place
hunters it has called to the State Capital, and
address themselves in good earnest to such
work ~ will if possible render Kansas some
thing better than merely good State to
brag upon. Let these, "a the Governor re-
commended, call Constitutional Conven-
ton; as the Constitution We now have, is in
various respects susceptible of improvement.
We should have bennial instead Of annual
sessions, OF the Legislature, thus saving from
one hundred to one hundred and City ,hous-
and dollars every alternate year, under the
existing organic law the people are too much
at the mercy OF the plumbers, in the cha.ac-
ter OF railroad corporations ard official
speculators Of ali ssr,s. Our judicial
system stands, in some respects, in need o!
reconstruction. AZ q means Of ultimate
economy, both OF money snd of public cob-
science, provision should be made for the
concentration OF all the state institutions, or
the most OF them. at the Safe capital; nor
would it be amiss perhaps, to give the doc
trine of all overruiing deity verbal recosni-
ton in the new constitution, for the poiiIi-
clans of no State are more desperately in
need of an overruling deity than those OF
Kansas.
1t cannot be doubted that our State would
profit US vastly by radical change Of our
present usrry and exemption laws. Framed
ostensibly for the protection Of the poor Inan
by csippliss credit IS they emphaticai!y
do, in all departments Of 5usIness-they are
really the poor mans heavies: drawback.
1t would also be vel for our legislators to
have an eve 10 the demands of our State m
situations; to the State University, for ex-
ample; which l.rsc,icaily contemp.ales the
education beyond ali The necessities OF good
citizenship of the weai,hier few at the ex
peuse OF the poorer many; also, to the Man
haitian College, where it is proposed to con-
vert tie youths Of the State into model lar
n.ers, by teaching them Latin and Greek.
OF ouurse nobody objects to university and
Classical education, but why should tie
whole State be sadd!ed with the tuition bills
and these bills, it must be noted, are not an
uncomfortable item of the State law.
But We must not in the ardor of our dis
ci,ssion of public men and measures, omit
the usual record of the weather." crops,
and striking occurrences which is expected
At the hands of local correspondent.
Tie annals of 'tcussedness" would be in
Complete should We omit to say that on last
Friday night, an unprincip!ed son of Ham,
named Frank King, burgiariousiy entered
the store o! Taylor and Baldwin, in De Soto,
through tack door, ibeing cold and hung
~, he kindled FIRE and comforted the inner
African with cheese, crackers and fried her
rings, making choice of suit Of new
clothes. He took of his old clothes and
thrust them into the stove, nor did he leave
the store until he had recruited his finances
with about fifty dollars Of Mcssrs. T. & BIS
money. He was arrested next morning "A
he was about TO take the eight o'clock train,
ana now awaits an introduction to Major
Hopkins Of the Penitentiary. J. A. B.
LESAPE, Jan. q, 1873.
a Hero.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
During the terrific snow storm that block
AIDED the Iowa and Minnesota division Of the
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