The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-03-15
POMEROY AND PAGE.

Antecedents OF the Man who "COrrobOrated'
Old POmeroy-What IL Thought of Him al
His Home-That National Bank Dodge En,
I plOded.
! Correspondence Of the Kansas City Timcs,l
INDEPENDENCE KANSAS, Feb. 81.
1t has been believed by Yorks friends, and
all others who were frank enough to confess
it, that Pomeroy would resort to foul means
to sacrifice York pending the York-Pomeroy
investigation. The committee rushed the in.
vestigation to u close by having laid before
it Pomeroy's written statement, which was
corroborated by j. Q. Page, of this place.
Why did Pomcroy commit his testimony to
writing? Was he afraid to trust himself?
York did not have to write down his testimo.
ny before he gave it, Reason why: Men who
want to tell the truth and nothing else are not
afraid OF cross-eXamination.
| now propose to notice Pomeroy's and
Pages testimony in connection with few
other facts, and leave the reader to form his
own conclusions. Pomeroy says that he
handed York $1,000 to hand to Page to aid
him page to start a National Bank here.
Page at the time and for several days prior
had been in Topeka, and remained there I'M
til after the election. He was there in the
interest OF Pomeroy, and was in PonerOy's
room half his time. 1t is said that Page had
been promised an Indian Agency, which
have no doubt is true. These being the facts,
what could have induced Pomeroy to hand
York IAN avowed enemy the $1,000 at two
O'Clock in the morning to hand to Page when
Page himself was in the city and in his room
a dozen times day?
Page did not return home until Saturday
after the election, and in conversation with
different gentleman in relation to the election
said that York, after getting the 81 900, ought
to have kept it to himself and said nothing
about it; that he himself would have done so
had he been in York's place. or words to that
effect, and then at Washington swears that
Pomeroy had sent the money to him by
York to put in National Bank here. If
this last statement is true | should think that
he would have arrested York for stealing
Over one year ago certain gentlemen APP
piled for, and obtained, charter for Ma
tiOnai Bank here, the stock of which was all
provided for. Consequently Mr.. P0meroy,
MIR. Page, nor any one else, except those di-
rectly concerned could not get any stock, as
it was all otherwise provided for. Up to the
time of the Senatorial election, nor since, is
it known that charter has been obtained for
q second National Bank here, nor is it prob
able that a charter for two National Banks
could be obtained for this place, as the new
ness of the country and the circumstances
would not warrant it. The foregoing being
facts, the reader may harmonic them with
Pomeroy's Pages testimony, if he can. This
being the home of Page and York, the mat.
ter has been pretty thoroughly discussed to.
day, and the verdict, as far as have heard
it expressed, land l have heard quite "a num-
Der express themselves,) has been almost in
variably Ill these words TOO thin, too thin"
If you know what that means, you know the
sentiments of at least three-tourths of our
population. "And nothing more"