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

lad never said anything to York
about the national bank; that he i
lsi said TO York that if Pom.
eroy gave him package of money
20 bring it to him. York called n
room several times on
Monday night; called at a time
when u number Of Pomeroy's
friends were there 1.-THE only OH
iect was TO obtain money for his
friend Page, why was the payment
Of the two thousand dollars post
poaed till after midnight-after the L
room was deserted and all had gone /,
10 bed-Ilo witness, no receipt, no
written acknowledgements, not q
single. solitary, isolated fact, to sus-
tain toLtering fabrication. It is
sometimes but not often possible,
for shrewd and cunning man to |
swear TO falsehood without being
detected on the spot; but when two
men try to commit Joint periery. I
il. We may be allowed the express
sion, no amount of skill can saYe1
them from an ignominious expos
ure. Page aud Pomeroy, in swear
ing to this wonderful banking trans.
action, contradict each other in sew
eral vital points. PomerOy did not
snbphmua BoFiand, the all-import- |
ant witness for him. He gave Bor-
land no receipts. Bankers do not |
do business that way. He gave |
ork two Thousand dollars the first |
night, but did not give him the |
other S5.oOO though he had It already |
IN his YalIse in the same room. |
Senator Thurman asks him why he
did not give him the remaining five
thousand. He gives, as a reason,
that Kit was not accessible, and
that she acdnted TO see Page AGAIN"
But why want to see Page again T? |
Page had told him to send the mon.
ey by York, and he had given York
! $1,000, but thought it prudent to
reserve the remaining 5000 until
he could see Page.
Confidence is plant OF slow
growth, and perhaps it is unreason-
able to expect the Senator to have
more than $4,000 of that commodity
in York fuRil he could sec Page
the next morning." But il he was
to zee Page the next fnorping. why
give York the $1,000? This being
firancial conundrum IL might be
well 70 note that an application in
due form would have to be made to
the Comptroller of the Currency for
the establishment of national bank:
that certain preliminary steps had
TO be taken that at least five lirec-
tors Lad to be named that the min
| imum stock OF a national hank is
! fifty thousand dollars, and some ar
rangement had to be made to that
effect. All these things are obvious
and not We. mentioned.
Another phase of this financial
problem is characteristic. Why did
not Mr.. Pomeroy geta draft payable
TO the order of his friend Page from
cashier. Borland? Would not this
have Deen better than to send seven
! PACKAGES of one thousand dollars
each by York to the independence
banker? Another question-Pom-
| eroy states that this $1,000 belongs
10 Page; that it is Page's money.
| We do express the charitable hope
that through the intervention of
Kansas jury Mr.. Page, banker, at
Independence, will attempt to es-
| tablish his claim TO this money.
| The result OF that attempt may fur
| nish Mr.. Page some slight remuner-
| alton for his vast expenditure in the
| Kansas Senatorial contest of 1873.
| Would that 81 600 satisfy him +? An
1 action might be instituted at the ex-
| piration of the forty days by Pom
eroy against Page TO recover the
loan of $1,000 In such an event
Page might be led to think that
York was O respectable man and u
| creditable witness.
The sworn attachments of York,
W. Simpson and Rohrbacker, fasten
| Bacon, Bond, O'Dfiscoll and
| Mat heney 1asten offers of money
and knowledge of brides on the con.
| fidential friends aud advisers of the
| Senator. Can IL be possible that all
! the propositions were made and all
this money offered to procure the
| election OF POmeroy and he not
know it? These witnesses, at least
| some OF them, say they could not
afford TO pay money to members to
aid the election of Pomeroy; at The
same time they deny that they were
authorized 10 pay by Pomeroy. Is
q class of men who come upon the
| stand and admit that they offered
money 10 buy votes entitled to a de-
gree OF zeretiiI6iliiy that would
warrant this committee in finding
as fact that which they assert is
| true?
Their assertion that Pomeroy
knew nothing. of this is neither
| probable or reasonable.
| First, consider Works statements
and all the attending circumstances.
He was nominated aud elected by q
constituency opposed to the re cleo
| ton of POmeroy, and in his public
| addresses, during the canvass and
before the election, he made repeat
ed promises TO vote against Pom
eroy. He attended all the anti
PomerOy meetings and was the Sec
rotary, and was also one of the most
active leaders and managers of
tho anti-Pomeroy forces, and
made public speeches at the
various meetings of the MEM
bers of the legislature that were
held in opposition to the reelection
of POmeroy. What possible differ
ence does it make that as the day
of election approached York sought
Pomeroy or Pomeroy sought York
They had an interview. The re-
suit of that interview was the pay
ment OF money by Pomeroy to
York in consideration of g promise
made him by York that he acoaf2d
rOte for him. Criticise, If you please,
the motive of York; the fsct that
Pomeroypaid him money for his vote
still remains to be explained. No
matter what motive actuated York,
if Pomeroy had not been corrupt
no "plan, - "plot," or conspiracy"
would have resulted in his political
death and public disgrace.
a Senator of the United States
seeks TO extend u heightened lease
of political power and official posi-
ton by the use of money. Day by
day majority in opposition to his
pretensions is reduced by corrupt
appliances; darkened room is
chosen, within whose walls the cam
didate seeks to aebsuch one of the
most trusted leaders of the opposi-
ton. The intended victim of Sem
atorial debauchery pockets the bribe |
money, and at the proper time and |
place publicly exposes the carrup-
ZIONIST. And yet the man who ex-
poses the villain is denounced as a |
Judas, while he who attempts to de- |
file is the sympathetic subject of a |
conspiracy"
What possible motive could York |
have but an honest one? BY silence |
he could have procured money and |
official promotion; by exposure he
meets Yituperation in our public /
press, censure in the council cham |
bers of the nation, and the muttered |
threats of the pensioned horde of
the i-llen. When the postoffice de-
Partment suspicious thieving post
master of larcenous propensitIes,
they send out decoy letter to de-
tect the scoundrel, and yet the off,