The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-02-11


grass. When tileil names were called
they feehy voted for Iugalls and suhsi-
ded. 1t was rout and a slaughter
The battallioIs had gone for 1t in all the
pomp and pride aud panop'y of Pome-
royi,m and patronage in the morning;
they were Sinking, suave, quiescent at
noon.
THE DIsGRkCED SENATOR.
With all his power, and his money,
and his prestige of yesterday. to-day
Pomeroy found rot even a Postmaster
so poor rs to do him honor. The evil
news had been carried to him, and his
room was locked in the face of ali comers
The old man was crushed at noon.
as the ballot was finished and ingalls,
declared elected. 1 went down to the
Teift House to see Pomeroy, but he had
no use for the represen,ive of the Re-
publican In fact, he had no use for
any body, but the Sheriff had some use
for Pomerov. The excitement here Is
intense. never saw such 4 reyulsion
of sentiment in my life. Joe Hookers
bleeding army that recoiled from the
Chancellor hosts was victorious host
as compared to the Railroad and Pom
erny Ring here to-day. Ney, when he
desperately y tried to hold the old Guard
on the hill-s!ope of Hugomont, was a
victor crowned with laurels in compari-
son to the crushed and stricken old man
who, yesterday Senator and Christian,
to-day sits locked in bis room, with a
+4DeeetJt Sheriff, helted and armed, pa
cug in the corridor oatside--,Ehe ex5
citement in the city tonight reminds
one of the war time, when the news of
victory came. The first result Of the
exposure was sort of numbness. Peo
pie could not realize what stupendous
| political drama had been enacted in their
midst, and it was not until they had dis
cussed the matter ali the afternoon that
it was fully realized and appreciated. -
There was talk among the half crazed
young fellows, who had got drunk over
the affair, aholt lynching Pomeroy and
treating him TO summary coat of tar
and feathers, if not rougher handling,
but this sentiment was speedily frowned
down, and the news of Pomeroy's ar
rest about six o'clock p. H. satisfied the
app elite for vengeance Then the crowd
hunted up Colonel York, carried him
down into the Office of the Tefft House
on their shoulders, and nominated him
by acclsmation to succeed Caldwell,
whose Senatorial estate they saiG was
ready to be administered upon A little
after six O'Clock / gained access to
Pomeroy's room. He vas not at liber-
tv, but tue correspondents of the Re-
publican and Chicago Tribune were per-
mitted to converse with him. He showed
more grit than gave him credit for =
Said he. My friends, or those who
were my friends, are worse demoralized
than l am am going to stay right
here and face this thing in all its phases.
1t was foul conspiracy from beginning
to end, and it has accomplished its pur-
pose. But l can at least save my repu-
tation." This talk about reputation,
coming flom Pomerey, fatigued your
correspondent, and he left the presence
of the great subsidy manipulation, be
lieving that the Subsidy operation that
broke him up in business was the last
he could indulge in tor some time, un-
less, in the course of legal events, he
should find it necessary to subsidize a
Court or two.
THE SENATOR ELECT.
| The Senator elect, Hon. John James
ingalls,, is lawyer of Atchison, ma.
tive of Essex County, Massachusetts
and is thirty eight years old. He is q
graduate of Williams College, Massa-
cbusetts, aud came to Kansas in Octo
her, 1858 He was member of the
Wyandotte Constitutional Convention
Of 1859, and was elected to represent
his county in the State Senate in 1861
He ran for Lieutenant Governor on the
Anti Lane ticket in 1862 and 1864, but
was not elected Since that time he has
not been in political life except as &
campaign orator. He is a man Of ex
traordinary intellectual power, and i.
geheraIly conceded to be the most schol
arly and cultivated man in the State
As his entire political life has been &
long and unwaveiing fight against The
rings of Lane snd pomeroy, it is safe
presumption that he will not fall int
the practices that have made them sc
odious. He is in moderate circumstan
ces, and is man of exceptional purity
of charater and spotless reputation
His election without money, withon
patronage ard without any prestige tC
back him hut that Of honesty and abil
ity, is justly hailed here as the opening
Of set of new books in which to keel
the political account of the State ot
Kansas. The following official docu
Iment has been prepared here by The
newspaper syndicate, which pushed The
claims of Mr.. ingalls,, and will be for
warded to Washington:
"Hon. 0. P. Morton, Chairman of the specia
Committee:
"SIR: We have the honor to report
that the share we undertook of the tast
of re-habilitating the fame of the rotten
Commonwealth, to-wit: Tire elimination
of the Christian statesman, and the sub
stitution iu his place of a man of brains
and of honest impulse, has been sue
cessfully executed. assisted by an sc
complished detective, Colonel A. NJ
York, of Montgomery County, and also
by the Hon. Ben. Simpson, of Paoli
fSenatcr johnson, of Anderson Coun
ty, and other gentlemen. We have Sc
cured the scalp of The distinguished
subsidy grabber. Our candidate, tbt
Hon. }. j. Ingalls,the new Senator elect
! will present you our compliments. l
remains for you and the honorable Com
mittee whereof you are the Chairman tt
, complete the programme Of purifcatioI
! by reporting in favor Of the expulsion
of Mr.. Caldwell from the United State:
Senate Signed by Jas. w Steele
editor of the Kansas Magazine; w. F
Rassington, correspondent New Yorl
Herald; p Fl. Gilman, editor Fort Scot
, Monitor; Dwight Thatcher, editor Law
renee Journal D. Y Ross, editor Law
renee Evening Paper; Wilson Shannon
Lawrence Standard; H. Downing, Leav
enwolth Commercial; and B, CORES
pondent of the Missouri Republican.
The election of ingalls, is fair an(