The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-08
From the .Alci!i-on Champion.
Ex-senator POmerOy.

Ex-senator POCleTCy.
The iearenwo CaH of Wednes-
dav evening last published lengthy
and earnest article, in which it advo-
Gates an immediate abandonment OF
the criminal action against ex-senator
Pomeroy. The article says many
things that are just and generous, and
it deserves the serious consideration OF
the people Of Kansas. 1t urges that
Mr.. PomerOv is very far from being
bad man: that he had many admirable
qualities that lie was kind 10 friends
and generous 10 foes: aid was always
true TO his party and the state. He Is
a physical coward. the Cal says, and
always stunned danger. His forte is
in Kindness. not in fight. 1t refers to
the great service he rendered the state
during the drouih. and says that mo
history will ever chronicle how much
suffering was averted, aid how many
lives were saved" by his work. The
work. it saws, might have been done by
other mon under like circumstances,
and il was done by him with an eye
single to his own glory. but 1t docs
not think that this should detract IRON
the credi. due him. Elected TO the
senate By grcatful people, the CAL
saws he served them, ''the party, the
state. and the nation, with honor to
himself and credit to ALL" Copper
trui,ies were numerous for him TO
make money, some honorable, some
corrupt: he embraced them ALL" But
the war, it thinks. had made every body
corrupt, and he was no more 10 blame
than the people. His reelection, il
says. was procured by money, but so
was the election of Ross at the same
time and Carney. Pomcrov's oppo-
ncnt. was using just as much money,
but not as judiciously. Mr.. Pomeroy
"becamc one of thc most expert legis-
lators ever in the senate OF the United
States. And his punishment and fall,
the Cal says, is greater than lifetime
in dungeons To most men. 1t was
from the highest altitude Of power to
the lowest condition of an ou'cast."
Concluding, it says:
"Wiil it take any disgrace from the
state to put Pomcroy in the penitenti-
Tertiary? Won't it beget for him such
sympathy that the people will demand
his pardon in such a manner that no
governor will refuse? If SO, the trial
is or will be a farce. If to destroy
him, corruption was stopped in this
state, all is done that can be. Don't
let malace rule us AT this hour, but let
generous impulses have their sway to
say to him. 60 and sin no more"
We believe the bravest and lOftiest
act the district attorney could do
would be to say to the court oh Mon
dav next. that while he believes Mr..
Pomcroy guilty as charged, in consid-
Grafton of his relation to the state and
nation in the past, and believing that
where corruption exists, more than
one party is guilty, that his corrup-
tions were prompted by a condition OF
the people, TO ask that nolle be enter
ed in the case and have Mr.. Pomeroy
discharged, and the noblest action OF
the court would be to allow the mo-
ton. Ifcither court or attorney should
fear TO DO this, lest some other than a
pure motive should prompt them, they
are unworthy the positions they hold
i'm these times. York is satisfied. He
has accomplished all that his ambition
| could ask The people would be salts
| tcd. for corruption has received re-
| ceived a blow from which it can never
recover.
Pomeroy is not to be feared he is to
be pitied Let it be done, and lei
Pomeroy 60"
There is much that is true and more
that is generous in the Cats article
| Whatever anybody may think of Mr.
Pomeroy, or of his public course. hi:
actions or his motives, there Is nc
doubt of the fact tina, he is no longer .
political power TO be feared, but a man
to be piticd. His punishment hos beer
a terrible one. He has suffered already
az few men ever have; he will continue
| to suffer as long as he lives, lie otter
pretended to be indifferent to public
sentiment; he is really one of the mos
sensitive of men, and hostile criticism
stung and tortured him intensely
Proud. ambitious, anxious for public
favor and applause, his fall 10 him like
a plunge from heaven to the depths o
the internal regions. No punishment
that can possibly be inflicted upon hin
will add to the anguish he has suffered
or will continue to suffer.
Those who pretend, or affect TO be
lieve. that he wants to again engage
in politics. are either silly or bvpocrit
zeal. We don't believe that he has an!
such desire; and if he has. it is simpl,
absurd. He would be glad, we think
never to come back TO the state, and e
disappear, as quietly as possible, from
public view. This is the opinion o
gentlemen who have seen him durin!
the past few months, as we have beef
informed by them.
The statement made by a few paper
in the state that public sentiment de
mands his prosecution, is not, we be
licye, correct. We know that some o
those who most bitterly opposed hi
election. and who would oppose hin
Just as bitterly if he attempted 10 tax
any part in politics hereafter, thinl
that he has been punished enough; tina
further prosecution would seem lik
persecution, and would excite sympa
thy in his behalf; and the best thin:
to do is to let him go. And we belicv
that in this judgement large majorit,
of the people of Kansas concur. w
have no hesitation in giving it our en-
dorsement.