The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-14

| he did, heard what he said, ant
I almost thought what he though
j -al1 testify With ole aec0Rds posi-
/ lively, unequivocally, to theea
| steHtion. on the part Of Mr., Ppsne
j roy, from any Illegal aet. Ehg sEint
4 improper, anything ihdelicate even
to influence the members OF tn
Legislature. -ll1iila
In view Of all which VIC thinl
We may rightfuIly Invite the com
/ mittee to stigmatize with theil
censure the fragrant injustice o
Mr.. Simpson in presenting these
false charges TO the Senate; il
subjecting the United States to Sc
much expense without cause; il
abusing the confidence of the com
mittee to bring forward witnesse,
incompetent, as he did or stonlC
know; and in thus bearing false
\ witness against his neighbor, in
violation of the law of man and
OF God.
A We come now to the only ser
ious mattcF OF MISUNDERSTANDING
made byIA. III. York. mil IL - I
| Mr1York, a member of the Sen.
ate OF Kansas, came to Topeka an
awowediopponent to the election
of Mr.. Pomeroy. For this oppo,
sition ne assigned no reason be
yond vague suspicious of objec-
ton, In tho face of which he admits
that, during higltyEo full terms oi
service + P6fneroy has been
eminehtfy devoted and seryiceaBle
to the interests of the State of
Kansas. Il 5lJ J8 &OUA
Impelled by these vague con-
siderations OF opposition, his mind
filed with suspicious having no
assignabie foundation, being, as
his acts and declarations show, a
person of credulously jealous
temperament, looking about in
vain for any specific fact on which
to stand, and discovering at length
thai the force OF opinion IN favor
of Mr.. Pomeroy, gratitude and
respect for his public services
already rendered to the State, and
Iconfidence in his ability to contin-
lie to serve it well, together with
the absence of any very prominent
adverse candidate-Mr. York,
fnding that for all tliese and other
leonsideratiOns there was an assur-
cd majority for Me- Poinaroy,
came to the conclusion that he
could only be defeated by means
of conspiracy, to be sprung at
the Last moment, so as, t. entrap ahel
vote u The Legislature as qceU as
Mr.. Pomeroy. xrsH s-
On the Saturday prior to the
Tuesday designated for the first
voting in the respective Houses
for the Senatorial election, az Mr..
York declares, he entered into this
conspiracy. 1t is in proof how
ever, that the conspiracy itself
was of much older date. The
spacial inducements then to act,
as he states, was the conviction,
on that day eRterfng 1is mind, that
money was being used to promote
the election of Mr.. rPomeroy. He
states the reasons of this belief,
which reasons are so perfectly
childish as to constitute significant
traits of the mind of Mr.. York.
One was that on Saturday evening
the number of persons about the
Tefft house, at which Mr.. Pome-
roy lodged, was greatly diminish
ed; which is accounted for by the
fact that the Legislature adjourn
ed on Friday night until Monday,
and of course many persons tenn
porarily left Topeka. & Another
was a lphor that two members of
the Legislature, Mr.. Kalloch and
Mr.. Eldridge had each a thousand
dollar draft, and were betting on
the election; which rumor on both
points Mr.. kall0eh swears to be
false, as would also Mr.. Eldridge,
if here. The third was that a
member of the Legislature, Mr..
Billings, declared TINT he was go-I
ing TO vote for Mi. Pomeroy, and
that money had not bought him
md the morbid jealousy of Mr..
Yorll's mind peryerts that limo
cent and even laudable. remark
into sign that Mr.. Pomeroy was
engaged in corruptiRg the Legis-
lature. 1t required a mind cank-
cred by constitutional suspicious
ness and credulity to deduce from
either of these facts, if true, the
Inference drawn by Mr.. York, or
to find in them anything to the
prejudice of Mr.. Pomeroy.
The explanationlot his conduct
which Mr.. York himself gives be-
long to one of the most painful
chapters in the history of the hu-
man mind, that of the pettiness,
the falsity and the inadequacy, in
the relation of cause and effect, of
the motives which impef men to
the commission of crimes.
Thus impelled, on Monday af-
ternoon and evening AIR. York
went to Mr.. -Pomeroy in his apart
ments at the Tefft house, as he
himself tells the story, with pro-
ASSSAOAo VI 1IAcuuSulpY anu VIII
promises TO vote for Mr.. Pome. oy,
III order to obtain money from him
on these professions and promises,
with the deliberate and formed
purpose, as the agent OF other
conspirators, to accomplish three
we'll defined purposes, namely: o 8
], To cheat Mr.. Pomeroy out
of an election for Senator, other
wise perfectly assured TO him.
20. To cheat the Legislature tt
self out of the free choice, either
of Mr.. Pomeroy OF, ANYBODY else.
8. To cheat Mr.. Pomsroy out
of his money. -ss.. "a
All these three objects Mr.. York
avows as deliberately concerted
between him and his fellow con-
spirators, B. F. Simpson, ". A.
johnson, and j. c. Horton, with
the cooperation of George G..
Peck and George ". Crowther, all
of them, as some of the testimony
would Indicate oath-bound con-
federates to compass an act which
should combine private cheating,
political fraud, and moral assassi-
nation, to be rerpetuated by A. NJ.
York. s-zsz -.
Remember, VIC are now dealing
with the avowals, professions, and
pretensions of A. N. York, as to
the intentions of himself and his
fellow copspirators. s. D..
To begin at the last purpose,
that of cheating Mr.. Pomeroy
The answers of Mr.. York to ques.
tiens put by Senator Aicorn are