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

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5 falsehood, fraud, deception an
5 betrayal, ar. York pretends ths
4 he received from Mr. Pomeroy, o.
: shAs AEondaS, $7,0o0 as a bribe 70
} his sotc-the fact Of reception resi-
! ing upon his sole declaration, mn
substantiated by any other person
or by any collateral fact or cir
cumstance,
/ True it is, that puerile parad
. was made by the conspirators o
, examining his person before h
: went to see Mr.. Pemeroy, to ascer
tain that he bore no money Will
i him; and when be came out to as
. certain that he did have money OF
: his person. These examinations
4 were made SO imperfectly as to bl
, entirely worthless as evidence, i
anything depended upon them
Tins incident, like the engage
ments of secrecy, only serves tc
show that, as in the case of Other
4 low minded men engaged in con,
spiracy, these men had no faith in
one another and especially none in
II York How should they? Il
4York couldb go tesi AEr. PoneFoy
/ with 8 lie ID his lneupA for the pur.
pose ofdeeeiTing, cheating, and be
| ttsying him, why, should, he hest.
/ ,tAts to deceive and betray such
linen of inferior sort. as Simpson
and Johnson rs;l4 vozslsIo : NJ. $
| | Wednesday, ex1ixes4 The friends
Of. Mr. PomerOy have counted their
numbers They know that they
have a clear and decisive majority /;
Mr.. Pomeroy knows it; the con
spiraters, Simpson, johnson and
York. know it; and aided by
another conspirator, the Secreta-
ry Crowther, York prepares to
make his final throw to defeat Mr..
Poneroy, and at the same time to
| cheat the convention out of the
free choice of any other person for
Senator. York rises and addresses
to the convention. an inaammatnry
speech, in which he sets forth in
what manner, as he pretends,
he has received and betray-
ed Mr.. Pomeroy, produces the
money which he alleges he has re-
ceived from Mr.. Pomeroy, and in
aggrayation of the falsehoods con-
tanned in that transaction, he false
" declares that five or six of the
members ofthe convention present
have the money of Mr.. Pomeroy
burning in their pockets; and
then, taking advantage of the nat
ural establishment and confusion
which his pretended revelations
produce, he and his fellow-conspi-
rators, favored by that previous
concert of arrangement, succeeded
in resisting the efforts OF Mr..
Hutchinson and others to obtain a
recess for inquiry and reflection;
and thus, by reason of these suc-
cessful frauds, Mr.. Pomeroy failed
to be elected Senator for the State
of Kansas.
In view of the considerations
and circumstances thus far pre-
sentsd, it is impossible to doubt
that Mr.. Pomeroy would be &C
quilted if indicted for bribery, on
the evidence produced by York.
/. Mr.. Pomeroy had no induce
ment to bride York. His election
was already certain. That is prov
ed incontroyert;bly by the testi-
mony of various persons before
the committee. 1t was the unan-
imous opinion of the conspira-
tors, confessed by York in answer
to q question by his counsel, Mr..
Simpson, as follows:
+ @. State when you next had a
conversation on that subject, and
with whom; and give an outline
of that conversation.
A. / think the next time I had
any conversation with any one was
on Monday night, with B. F. Simp-
soon, W. 4. johnson and j. &.
Horton, after having received my
invitation to visit Mr.. Pomeroy.
1t was the conclusion of those gen.
tlemen there, at that time, that
there was no other way of defeat
ing Pomeroy, and that he would
be elected. e.. ~-....
In this instance, as in some 9th
ers, some of the statements of
York, most damaging to him
were drawn out by his counsel. In
observing which, one could not
but query whether Simpson is re-
ally the friend of York.
Mr.. Pomeroy then had no in
ducement to buy the vote of York;
he would not get any considera-
ton for his money. It does not
appear that Mr.. York could con-
troll or influence a single vote 9th
er than his own; but, if he could,
they were not needed by Mr.. Pom
eroy. ~ ~. s-.
Then, how preposterous to sup
pose that York should be able
to sell himself as a slave to Mr..
Pomeroy? If We are to believe
the things told in these investiga-
tons, we have arrived at a strange
state of things. Some of the post
6elluB1 amendments to the Consti-
tuition: viii net permit US to buy
and sell black men. Is it to be
endured that we are to have dis
tinction of color against the white
menu An ex-lieut. colonel, and
an actual State Senator, according
to his own account of himself,
sells in Kansas for $1,000, cash on
delivery; for Mr.. York insisted on
that. But how the price of slaves
has risen! $1,000 for York! Why,
a better man could be bought in
the bagnio for ten peace, says
Anastasius!
K But what, in the presence Of q
jury, is the value of the word of a
man who ,proclaims that he went
to another to win the confidence OF
the latter with professions OF
friendship. the more easily 10
stab him to the heart. If, as
York affirms, he uttered series OF
falsehoods to Mr.. Pomeroy for
one purpose, why should he not
utter another series OF falsehoods
for another purpose? At what
point in the history of these
Jurisdictions is he to begin to lie
and cheat, and at what point is he
to stop? 1t is perfectly clear that
|! if he thinks it proper to tell ter
lies in order to accomplish q polit
| zeal object, it is equally competent
i FOX him to tell twenty lies, and still
have margin of mendacity thal
4 may stretch out to the crack O
doom.
But Mr.. York and his friend:
would have US suppose that he il
4 a7self inundated martyr in 3 greai
cause; that he lies. cheats and be
trays, actaated by high principles
Well, that is 4 little paradoxical