The Iola register., 1875-02-27
About Dead Osases.

SlcI L OlosAASs ~SS
About Dead Osases.
Mr, Charles Robinson has declared the
attitude of the opposition OF the Indian
question. He has requested and obtain
ed the insertion in the organ OF the
James brothers, of Missouri, and the 50
called reformers of Kansas, of report OF
Mr.. Enoch HOag, the quaker superlnten-
dent of Indian affairs Of this department,
on the killing of certain Osages within
the borders Of Kansas. This report is
prepared by the interior department az
the instance of Friend Hoag. and in the
interest of the Indian ring. This letter
of Mr.. Robinson with the accompanying
documents, presents the question
fairly to the legislature IS to whether
they propose to accept the peace policy
inaugurated by tine Quakers in control
in Washington. and thus virtually to
endorse the killing of twenty-seven OF
the citizens of the state, as against the
express command of the State admin
stration that the Indians shall remain on
their side of the land. The issue is
50 uarely met in the organ of the opposl.
ton, and the position of MIR. Hoag and
the ring in concealing, by every possible
means, all aboriginal atrocities, to the
end Of perpetuating the ascendancy OF
the Indian ring. is endorsed by the &C.
cepted leader Of that party in the sem
ate. We need only state this PROPOSE
tion to the people of the state, who are
already familiar with all the points in
this controversy between Governor Os-
born and the Indian hierarchy, to enable
them to obtain fair estimate Ex-senator
Robinson's honesty and sincerity in deal
ing with this question. But few days
aro in the city which Senator Robinson
represents, were held the imposing obse-
quies of six Lawrence citizens, the vic
tins of band composed in part Of Osa.
ges and Chyennes, while acting as gov
ernment surveyors last summer. Yet
the senator from Douglas county, while
the shadow OF this crime still rests upon
the households of our citizens and re-
mains unappeased and unpunished, in.
sists that the peace policy which is prox'
imately responsible for this brutal out
rage, shall be sustained by Kansas leg
islature. He offers as testimony in be.
half, an er pdrte inqu quisition ordered by an
Indian superintendent who demanded
the resignation of Agent Miles for tell
ing the truth about Indian oqtrages las!
summer, and declared the necessity o.
troops on the plains to repress hostile
savages who disregard reservations line
, and restrictions We need merely t.
state this position of Senotor Robinson
and his followers, to show the extremi
ties of their bitter hatred and unrelent
ing opposition to the republican admin
stration Of the state.
! But we have word or two to sa!.
: about the character and credibllity
S these afidafits, and we beg leave to assui'
Governor Robinson that we make thl
s statement on our own responsibility AM
of our own knowledge. The writer o
: this was in Barbour county in Noyembe
last, in his capacity of newspaper CORES
pondent, examining into this very que:
= ton of the killing of the Osages. H
knows, of his personal knowledge, tn
!. makers Of some of these afidavits, AM
knows them to be outlaws and hors
thieves, whose arrest for stealing horse
was ordered by Adjutant General MOI
u ris-who were examined and bound owe
J.. for trial. Mr.. Tip Mcclure, as he
u called is an elegant specimen OF the Ion
haired gentry who are found in thos
J" perts, who never see a likely horse will
out breaking the tenth commandmer
l. and fracturing the sixth the hrst col
venient night afterwsrd; who, II hsl
1. pushed, would shoot q lonely travelt
e. for a ten-dollsr bill. 1t God -almighi
4. writes q legible hand, some Of these at
davit makers bear the unmistakable II
Il. press of abandoned scoundrels on the
4 countenances, and their affidavits a
not worth the paper they are written o
N All the credible members of the milit
company including Captain Pieke
K whom we found to be a modest al
reticent man of nerve, altogether supel
a. or to the community that owns hi
have already made affidavit to state
II, facts. the exact contrary to those of NJ
Tip Mcclure and his pals, who a
undoubtedly instigated by q spirit
IT, revenge in making afidavits at all. i,
y preponderance of evidence, numerical
and every other way, is against tht
tn story. Mr.. NJ. Sutton, who prepared t
afidavits for these men to swear to, is
ty person who has. % far as we coald lear
never done an honest days work sin
X. he lived in Barbour county. He
IL utterly without credit and witho
character. In making these statemen
K we desire to be understood as declari
what we know and what wo have SEX
re These affidavits may look formidable
a stranger to the makers Of them, but
Us, who have passed them under perso
I al review, they bear the impress ol
very painful effort to manufacture e
dence on the part of Mr.. Enoch Ho'
rs. and very desperate effort to use it
III. political capital on the part of Mr.. r
,es ipson and his sweet toned organ
,u- Kansas City 7Gnes.-Tope1d Comm
.cealth.
The Manhattan Ndtionaiist says
x great mistake of the temperance men
TODAY is that their efforts are chic
'ev directed against liquor selling and sell
rather than against liquor drinking q