Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-19
The esnatorial Investigation
Again.

'SO OVpohstSVNN w tOVA " etuSAt Il
In connection with tho receut
senatorial election reported, after
patient investigation, that there was
no evidence ciiritcd tending either
directly or indirectly 10 criminatc
Bogy, we supposed tho mat
ter at an end. But tho minority
report puts a different phase on the
whole matter, aud VIC agree with the
Republican that II should DO sent
back to the committee for a more
thorough investigations. Tho tcsti-
mony Of Mr.. Essex, member Of the
Senate from Iron county, indirectly
at lcast,points to tsucticcs Oh tho part
of MIR. Dogy or his friends which
smack rather loudly Of bribery.
Tho following isa portion Of Mr..
Esscx's statement:
80: State what you know IN re-
gard to it.. A.: l only state an
occurrence that TRANSFERRED with my
self. will state this, that up TO the
second hight Of tho caucus, that was
OH Friday night (that would be on
the 10Th, Of the month";, l hai conclud-
cd, principally because 1 asccrtained
that n majority OF my constituents il
the house were for Col. Bogy, to vote
for Col. Bo8y. l went up to the
house to attend the caucus ON Friday
night, that was the 10th day of the
month. just before the caucus was
called together n person camu to me
aud told me that he wanted to speak
10 me. lilo took me out into the lob
by, to q remote corner, and we sal
down there. lie says, q will give
his words us near as | ean), "Senator,
have YOU any particular preference
rs to any person for whom You will
vote for United States ScnatorT"
l told him that my personal prefer.
encc was for Gen. Blair, but that,
under the circumstances, | did not
think l would vote for him, and that
outside of him l had no particular
preference. lie says: ut is to INV
interest TO have Col. Bogy elected -
and, surprising that he referred Ia
some political situatiomin the district
of the State in which lie resided, |
says 10 him, IF that is the case |
would be willing to accommodate
you in any way that l can properly
"Well," says he, "Now don't want
you to get mad at what l am going
10 say, and I do not want you to tel
this to any one," and surprising, not
dreaming OF anything that was co,n.
ing, that did come, l told him
that I would not. lie SAID some more
words, and then he said this: Now
l have this from headquarters. YOU
may depend upon il. | have it from
headquarters" lie then tore of ,
little piece Of paper; l think it was
the white part OF q newspaper, but
am not certain about it, but it was
very small piece. lie tore il oil an,
wrote some figures on it and laid i
on my knee, with tho figures down
[ took it up, turned it over looked
aud the figures were on it. | looked
at it probably for u second. I wa
perfectly astonisllcd, coming from til,
man that it did. l had not drcamct
of any such thing at all. fluokcd a
it, probably for Il second, and | sait
to him thus: Il had concluded, il
consequence Of u majority of my con
SsisuSuts Al tHC 1iSusc, " NOlc 1Ol
Bogy; but Il have nothing to dc
with anything of this kind and
threw tac paper OIL the floor. "Wcli,'
says he, shat settles it, and then
again enjoined me not to say any
thing about it : l got up aud left him.
The caucus was called TO order about
that timo.
1t is difficult te read the foregoing
and rcpress the suspicion that some
thin'sg wrong. We have believed and
hoped that Mr.. Bogy would come on,
ofthc Investigation unsca'hed but he
owes it not less to his party til all to
himself that he shall not accept a Goa,
of white-wash Instead of All open and
above-board vindicatioH. One point
the American people cannot afford to
yield, and that is for their offices &c
be bought and sold like stocks il
Wall street. Neither can the Demo
cratic party afford to send any MAJ
to the Z. 5. Senate who is not able t.
clear his skirts of even the suspicion
of corruption. Itseems cruel to pres
a man to the wall, and our minds re
volt from it when feelings of persona
luminosity are alone to be gratified
but a legislative committee is grossl,
dcrclict of its duty. when it allow!
sympathy for an individual to max,
botch-work OF an investigation dc
signed to purge the public service o
corrupt ofice-holders and seekers.