The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-08-26
JEFF. DAVIS.
Will the "Petticost Head Of the Rebellion"
Deliver Addresses in the Northi

JEFF. DAVIS.
Will the 'Pet.icoat Head of the Rebellion
Deliver Addresses in the Northl
kansas City NALL
The Leavenworth TINES asks If the peo-
pie OF Kansas City intend to follow the ex-
ample set by the people of Winnebago
county. Illinois, in regard to the invitation
| extended to Mr.. jefferson Davis TO address
| the people who will be gathered nj our Fair
| in September. We take pleasure in assur-
ing The TINES very politely that they do
| not.
Isl. Louis Tirnes.l
and now the Leavenworth TrMEs is get
| ting it, back clear up over its heal, be-
caase Of a possibility that Jefferson Davis
NAV address Tie Kansas City Exposition,
| and ii wants the loyal men Of Kansas and
Missouri to howl about it in chorus. Bet
ter keep on your Linen, even if it is bloody.
You can depend upon it, Davis won: come.
Topeka Commonwealth
The Kansas City T'iimes says i; is proba-
bic that jeff Davis will be the orator at
the Exposition in that city next month. II
| he is, we predict that but few visitors from
| Kansas viii he there to hear him or 70 al
/ tend tie fair. Kansas people are not vim
| dictive, but they are not 80 foryiying rs to
| honor in this way the head and front o.
| w&r which cost IN blood and money what
| the REBELLION did.
IFot Scott Monitorl
1t is announced that Jeii. Davis has been
invited to deliver the opening address at
| the Kansas City Exposition. Ii this report
should he true, We hope and believe the
| Exposition will he Hat failure. Ander-
! sorviile, Belle Isle and Libby prison are
still fresh in The memory OF tine loyal men,
| and the arch-traitOr Davis, vino witnessed
! the cruel treatment OF Union prisoners with
| OUT lifting a finger III their pehaif, should
not be accorded even the slightest rec0sni-
ton by patriotic citizens.
GAtchison Chanp;on.l
The loyal people of this country properly
loo.s upon this thing of inviting the petit
coat head OF the rebellion To deliver ad-
dresses, as Disgusting :oadyism. JEFF Davis
was fraud and a failure, even as the Pres
ideat Of the Gefunct COniederacy. His
capture in pettiooats, and his sleeping car
adventure of LAT r. date, have made him 4
pr, per subject contempt. We cordially
e,r' &c with the 'amCnuedi;h N what it says
RESPECTING this DAD fraud.
Ean,.t, City Mail
When il was first known that NJ. Davis
had leen invited to attend the Winne6ago
County Fair, the Leavenwhorth MES
commended the .-ction of the managers Of
the association, and augured the best re-
sults from the invitation and is accept
ance. When the preachers and the sham
soldiers OF the Grand Army of the RepUblic
saw their opportunity, and raised howl OF
opposition, and Il became evident that Mr..
Da.is would Withdraw his acceptance, TIE
TN - raised its wolf Ike voice and Joined
in the chorus of the howl. Now that the
Kansas City Fair association have invited
Mir. Davis 10 visit them next month, TIE
TINES hores "the loyal men Of Missouri and
Kansas will raise their voices and protest
against the insult" As neither Leaven-
worth nor Kansas have any interest in the
matter one way or another, We fail TO see
upon what principle Of propriety TIE TINES
presumes 10 ;ntefere. Ii its people don't
want to see Mr.. Davis, they can stay away
away from here, that is all.
Lawrence Journall
Very many people in Kansas, who wish |
well of the great Exposition that our |
neighbors OF Kansas City propose to hold |
in September next, will he surprised ard |
disappointed 10 learn by this mornings |
dispatches that Jefferson Davis, the Presi- |
dent Of the Southern Confederacy, has
been invited e., speak on that occasion. |
NJ. Davis Is :: marked monument OF he |
clemency OF ii.t CongueTing North, and I'M
der the circumstances, The most fitting man |
ner in which he can show his appreciation |
I. = b,- h.,
served retiracy into which he was thrown |
by the collapse OF the rebellion.
If our neighbors must have a rebel chief |
tain TO embeIlish their entertainment, their |
are plenty of good and brave and now re-
pentant men OF that class 10 be had, whom |
the soldier-citizens of Kansas have learned |
on the field of battle TO respect, and would |
be glad to see and hear, but not Mr.. Davis. |
For the sake Of the Exposition, we regre;
this action OF the Kansas City people.
Kansas City Times
Two more Winnebago war-whoops grace
the columns of the Times this morning. |
The Radical State organ OF Kansas pre-
diets that, if Mr.. Davis is permitted to |
speak at the Kansas City Exposition, but
lew people will he present from Kansas to
hear him. The Fort Scott Monitor hopes |
and believes that the Exposition will be a |
fiat failure unless there are men in ibis |
community ready TO brave the contempt OF
the whole country by treating Mr.. DAVIS as
the Illinois Winnebagoes did.
1t is our opinion that ii the Kansas City |
Exposition depended Tor its success upon |
that small body OF Kansans who are still |
animated By this scorpion spirit, it would |
indeed lie 4 flat failure. Such men are OF; |
of place and not wanted in any gathering 1
1t will be found that the difficulty OF OBJ |
tanning a leave OF absence, from |
the penitentiary at Leavenwor,h and
the lunatic asylum at Osawatomie,
viii Keep most oi ihat kind away, no mat
ter who is the orator of the day. The great |
mass of Kansas farmers and business Elen |
have sense enough TO he heartily ashamed |
Of the position which the Leavenworth |
TINES, the Commonwealth and the Monitor
have taken On this subject, Just at the time |
when all the leading and respectable Re
publican papers OF other States are regret
ting and rebuking the Winnebago outbreak
as an exhibition of the cloven foot, and as
a miserable blunder, even from a partisan
standpoint. Only three Kansas papers
thus far have spoken the language of vul-
gar folly and hate, and even they are known
to be insincere IN II. Either one OF them
would publish S column puff of JEFF
Davis at regular advertising rates.
The publisher OF either one OF them
would come to Kansas City on free ticket
and hear Mr.. Davis speak four hours, for a
ten dollar Kansas City advertisement
Their motive is generally understood to be
petty provincial luminosity against this
city, rather than against JEFF. Davis, and
We believe that the course they are. taking
will be rebuked by the largest attendance
from Kansas that has ever been witnessed
by Kansas City exposition. The Journal,
of this city, the Commercial, OF Leavenworth,
the Times, Of Topeka, and other papers as
influential, and as well or better qualified
to speak for the Republicans Of Kansas, do
not follow the lead Of the Leavenwor;h
Tim in this matter, and that paper, We
hope, will live 70 regret its course. :.