The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-14
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.EHIDAY, MARCH ~. 4s7a, 8
DEFENSE o. SENATOR PaAERUF.
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Argument of Hon. Caleb Cushing.
ADDRESSED to fke, Qol4plittee ef efhe
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red by a. ". York and II. II
Simpson sssassE saszss Co.'S
The Committee is charged by
the Senate with two distinct sub
| jects Of inquiry; the first, on the
4 motion OF Senator Il omeroy, to in,
Investigate a specific charge OF bri.
bbery in the late Senatorial election
in the State of Kansas, made
against him by n NJ. York; the
Observation-Disclosures the psti,
tion OF ,. F.sSihpEoh, Y general
charge OF bribery and corruption
in that election.
The second inquiry may be dis
posed ofipsa very few words.
M 1f3 Sl1pson, With 3 associates,
fpartics, by their own confession,
to n political conspiracy the foul-
est in the annals of the country,
has been the. Attorney General OF
the State of Kansas. Two of his
fellow-eonspirators, York and
johnson, are members of the Sem
ate off that STATED The fourth
party, j. G. Horton, is one of the
agents of q great railway company,
whose intelligence is Wanted by
phiS associates as superior, in mat
tiers OF thisscalSs, to that of any
other person in the State.
These persons, under the au-
| thority of the Senate, have had
the opportunity To rake and scrape
m all the political filth which ex-
lists in the State of Kansas, in the
hope, peradventure, to discover
some peIson vile enough to come
here and belle Mr.. Pomeroy.
Their .testimon y shows their fa-l
lInilfarity with many q base persons
and many vile thing in the Legtl
islature of Kansas = From the
central point OF Topeka, the seat
of government, they could look
around on all quarters in search
OF any desperate base enough to
join them in. their corrupt plot
against, Mr.. Pomeroy. The APP
parent head OF this conspiracy,
Simpson, is himself a candidates
Tor the Senate. These men. not
content with the original eonspir-
acy. in which Mr.. York was their
tool and their victim, entered into
second conspiracy of this after
thought attack on Mr.. Pomeroy.
The Committee have seen with
their own eyes, and heard with
their own ears the result of this
second conspiracy. The effort of
Mr. Simpson has proved to be a
disastrous, contemplate, an
odious failure. Under the auspi-
ces OF one Rohrabacher, a. burg
lar convict, a person deprived of
his. seatin the Legislature ofKan-
sas for obtaining his election by
fraudulent means, and afterwards
expelled from the floor of the
House because of his ignoininy,
they bring here number of wit
nesses, trashy persons like Bond
and Bacon, TO testify to the low
gossipof Topeka nc the time of
the Senatorial election. Not one
'of those witnesses alleges that he
ever received money or anything
else from Mr.. Pomeroy rs CON
sideration for his vote. Some of
them pretend that they had talks
with friends Of Mr.. Pomeroy on
the subject; but not. one Of. them
asserts that he ever received any
thing from such friends. And the
testimony of these witnesses, if it
tends to any conclusion, is that
they desired to be bribed and did
not, succeed, On the other hand,
every one of the persons by whom
they pretend 10 ~have been. ape
preached fatty contradict their
averments. Indeed, in reviewing
the testimony of the persons who
thus accuse Mr.. Pomeroy, it is
difficult to decide which to admire
most, their folly or their knavery.
The convict Kohrabaciter is a fair
type of the set ssf s -
In summoning these witnesses
Mr.. simpson has shamefully abus-
cd the authority of the Commit
tee. He professes'to be n lawyer,
nay, God save The mark, that he
has been Attorney General Of
Kansas, and ought to have two or
three scraps of law at least in his
head, enough TO know that not
one OF these witnesses should
have been produced by him with
out testimony to connect them
with Mr.. Pomeroy. Indeed, he
was specially warned by the Com
mittee that the evidence proposed
was incompetent, without sncht
connecting testimony. With sa2I
perfluous trust in his good faith,
the Cohfniitsee allowed him to in-a
troduce bis witnesses, but as time
went on it turned out that he had
no connecting proofs whatever by
means of which TO attach the folly
of Bond, or Bacon, or Rohrabach-
er, or any of the rest of his crew,
to Mr.. Pomeroy. r-lT-l
Yes, he does make out one con-
nection, and one only. HesSimps
son, knows that Mr.. Pomeroy
promised gift of charity TO Mr..
Laughlin, agent at Washington of
q body OF settlers on certain lands
in the southern part of Kansas
fifty dollars which Mr.. PoILeroy
gave to Mr.. Laughlin At Washing.
ton after the election-and he has
the impotence and faulty TO bring
this forward as the single and sol
itary act of bribery committed by
Mr.. Pomeroy outside of the allie
CATION OF. York. y, ~t~v H{
Bravo. sAIr. Attorney General
Simpson, you come here all the
way from Kansas TO cumber the
committee with this mass of rub
bish! And that is the ridiculous
mouse out of the great mountain
OF calumny against Mr.. Pomeroy
which you have obGruded on the
\ Senate OF the United Statesi
I But, meanwhile, these conspira-
tors, with their instruments and
associates, have been busy ut To
peka. There they have had full
swing in their general charges OF
bribery, The dirt they were dig
4 ging in was near at hand, and they
could wallow in it and stir it up at
discretion Mr.. Pomeroy was
notthere TO defend himself. Ney.
erthelsss tffore, as here, they have
e utterly failed. TO prove any act OF
bribery, or to make even the least
plausible show OF proof. GO
On all this we might safely CON
clude that tlle election &C which
Mr. p omeroy was a candidate was
absolutely pure, and without |.
faint or spot of corruption or 'bri
berry, sofar as ne or anx OF hi.
: friends ayS eenc ssned 2 -
Mr., Pomeroyis spwp declaration
I. TO this effect il eon6rme1, IN mes
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