The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-02-27
WASHINGTON.
Sketch Of Kansas POliticS---POme.
roy as Falstaff Banished--
Hl-DOing Caldwell.
Harlan's Moral CalisthenicS--.
Mems. En- Route.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL, 1873.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. IL, 1873.
PICTURE OF KANSAS.
Kansas appears to have been the corrupt
Offspring Of belligerent freedom, debanched,
like the daughter Of Gnstavus Adolphus,
while all the soldiery Of PrOte-tantism were
away fighting out her cause.
The firrt ensnarer Of this young State is
said to have been Tom Carney, trader and
shaver who became Governor, and got the
maggot of the Senate on the brain soon after
the war. This is the same man who took
SIS, 900 from Caldwell for getting of the
track in 1871. Although beaten in pslitIcs,
he IL successful in business, and has become
a wholesale grocer in st. Louis.
PIFF-PAFF-PoM.
Mr.. Pomeroy was also wholesale grocer
ia the important article Of beans,-nOt to
mention vocal praise. lie fell into the prac-
tice of all Kansas Senators, of being possess
ed in fee simple by somebody else. Gaylord
owned Pomeroy, just a. Len Smith possess
ed good deal of Caldwell, and Jim Legate
of Carney. Mr.. Legate attempted TO sell
Mr.. Pomeroy's vote for 500, 900 in the I'm
parchment trial; and Gaylord, his brother
| in-law, il New York metropolitan at pres.
en,, with clear million. Pomeroy lives at
Atchison nominally, where he has large
farm, over which roam herds of Angelo
goats, trained to utter religious sounds and
further stupeiy the men OF prayer in kaE-
sas. These goats utter cry which is said
to sound wonderfully like the word ''smen, F"
and many of them continually do cry the
same whenevery Mr.. Pomeroy is known to
be at home, so az TO convey an impression OF
his orthodoxy. He Lives, however, in fact
and in intention, at Washington City, with
alterations OF Massachusetts. He married
for the third consort n very agreeable and
spirited Massachusetts lady, OF gracious
fortune in her own right, who Is well
thought of at the Federal Capital by ell scrts
OF people.
In bearing, worldly tone, and understand
ing, Pomeroy is the superior of anybody We
have seen here from Kansas. Tolook upon,
he is baidish, large, cheertul-faced, and
looks like the proprietor Of a large hotel
who was fond OF having a clergyman for a
guest. His most sia,ssmanlike motion is
the picking OF his teeth and the writing oil
his autograph. He bears no malice, is
always gIaddeneI TO have an opponen; make
it up and be neighborly, aud deprecates
! agitation, journalism, charity outside the
party, and ali other such dangerous pre-
cedenis. He holds it TO be more beautiful
&C; of ones life to kick Democrat out Of
his seat tnan TO expose party associate who
has stolen into it. In like manner, he would
hold the door TO prevent scandaious wit
nesses looking in upon good man tenn
porarily in temptation, and, if necessary 10
compose the good man temporarily, would
have the door held upon himself. In short,
weli-resu!ated, bodily-enjoying, morally
squ,nt-eyed man is Pomeroy. without in.
dignations. talents, or anything more than
business love Of money. He holds that
what ever ia, is right. lie went to Kansas
when all the yonth and fortitude there were
alert TO compete with armed slavery, and the
~espon WAS a bag of beans. The wind
naturally resident in the bean-as too many
inventors know who have sought to extrac,
it-took Pomeroy into politics. He came
in, and went out on his belly. With him
retires the nearest approach TO Falststf vino
has been in the Senate since Humphrey
Marshall or John II. Clayton. They pos
sessed none of Falstaii g dishonesty, and
Pomeroy none OF his wit; but there is a
yeritable humor in The latter's utter want OF
moral nature, and easy assumption of it
Like Falstatf, he was once General, and
Phillips Letters on Kansas show him
parading around in this title, like "Judge"
Sloanaker subsequently in Louisiana.
In Massachusetts, PomerOy had been
member of the LEGISLATURE; this fact, the
Generalship, and the beans put him into the
Senate in the same combination with that
great border rntfisn of the North, i'm Lane,
of Kansas. His first term, like the second,
was distinguished by that close attention TO
committee business and Postmasterships, and
perfect Indifference 10 individual expression
and National influence, which seem 20 b.
the surest roads to reelection nowadays. In
1867 he beat Carney and A. L. Lee-the
latter a General subsequently in Banks
army. The only acts recorded Of him in
twelve years, according TO McPherson's
political histories of the rebellion and recon-
s,ruc,ion, have been: Feb. L, 1865, to sub
stitute the word condition" Of rebellion for
Estate" of rebellion; in January. 1865, to
admit the Senators and Members from Ar
Kansas moral ofishoot of Kansas in Re
publican politics; and April 10, 1870, to
make Georgia 'ihe Third Military Dis
uiCt, III
following November.
"right' and steadily with his party on every
question, from qualification to San,o Do
mingo. do no; believe that he would have
ever sold bis vote on the Impeachment trial;
he was too good party man and too arran,
4 coward. Inside that psr'y lire where
meanness could creep and he covered, he was
like jackal proving under the cover of
darkness. But the spirit of a martyr to the
faintest degree, he never possessed. lie lost
twenty six pounds avoirdupois in two days
when the Legislature of Kansas passed
articles against him for bribery; and, when
he arose TO talk in thcSenaie, the other day,
it WAS like Falstaf after the Prince had cut
him: His nose was sharp AZ 4 pen, and "A
babled of the green fields, and =, could
never abide carnaticn; twas color he
never liked"
THE BUNGLING BRIBER.
Caldwell came up TO the Senate hy the
good, broad, shameless road which Carney
and Poneroy had made. They had walked
the pave until any ,imorOus nymph could
venture TO face it the FIRST step is half..the
journey, but Twelve years of Pomeroy might
have made all Kansas Csldweilian.
The present accession ION the town"
was eristly, little, and with no naturally
immoral constitution. Nature did not con-
tribute to his longevity those bury hips and
shoulders, that back of the neck, and per-
feet fistness of foot, which she gives to her
legitimate jobber III politics. He was
scrawny, and the color of his hair was like
the leaves of the nub6in-pine in winter,-l
brittle and undecidedly red. Ii might have
been seen with half an ere that. Caid xeli |
would slip up in politics, being too vulgar |
and direct a; it. He k'pt no Amen goats, |
exuded no oil on the soft evening before the
and looked GU, of place with a |
handkerchief. He was, in truth,
express clerk from Pennsy lvania,
VINO appeared in Kansas just prior TO the
war, and settled in Leavenworth City. Hav.
ing some aid from the East. t. variously
stated by himself 70 be derived from Cam
aron and Scott,-he picked up money in
speculation, and, in company with an unei-
heated, but adroir, contractor named
Leonard Smith, lie shared in the profits of
he overland trade from Fort Leavenwor,h
10 the Plains, being first book keeper, and
ultimately General Superintendent, of the
overland Frelghting Company. They are
70 given 10 SANDER in kansas politics that
here is no reliance TO be placed rpon the
.harge that he undid his employers by peep
ne at their proposals, nor that he claimed to
,c cousin of Simon Cameron, nor that he
aid Tom Scott would back him for the Sem
tie to any amount. The business OF
reighting 10 the amount Of two
Millions per annum gave Mr.
CALDWELL ''claims" on the Quarterma>ter's
of course. Nobody ever worked