The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
will enable AtchisOn to maintain a

will enable Atchison to maintain a
leading, infueHtial position in the pol
itics OF the Suite for years co come.
The early Free State men of Leaven-
worth are to be regarded with especial
commentator. They were steadfast
and heroic, but until June, 1857, they
lived in the shadow of as IntoieFsnt
II nd malignant a majority as eyer ruled
by mob violence. The city was trib-
uTary TO Fort LeavenworLh, and enjoy
ed the patronage of the army officers
stationed at the Fort, all of whom,
without exception, were violently pro-
slavery in their sentiments. 1t was
here that the pro- slavery vigilance
committee was organized and directed
! that lynched Phillips, and gave him n
coat of tar and feathers for protesting
against fraudulent election, and d 3
nouaced Delahay as q traitor for pub
| fishing a newspaper that advocated
Freedom for the Territory. Here, too,
the claw and Order" party was organ
lied, in whose name more crimes were
committed than were ever recorded,
and In fact all the most violent and
Villainous measures of the prO-slavery
party originated here.
Phillips, Parrot, Dslahay, Adams
and others, were the leading Free State
men. Under the LeaVenwOrth COnsti-
tuition Delahay was nomin Ated for
Congress and Latta for Supreme Judge.
In June, 1857, Henry j. Adams was
elected Mayor, and this was the first
distinetively Free State victory. He
was also subsequently named as Gov
ernor under the Leavenworth consti-
tuition. In the fall of 1857, Marcus j.
parrnff alnatad % rho Eran State
Delegate to Congress, the first assu-
rance to the world that with a fair
election the Free State men were in the
majority. At the convention that plac-
ed in nomination the State officers, I'M
der the Wyandotte Constitution, Leav-
enwOrth appeared with two candidates
for Governor, and q divided delegation.
The Convention admitted four of each
faction, and this resulted in the defeat
of both johnson and Adams, and gave
the nomination where it properly be-
longed-to that sterling old Free State
leader, Charles Robinson--but that
city was not overlooked, and to it was
awarded the two important offices OF
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
and State Treasurer
At the next State Convention, in
the fall of 1862, held after the war had
commenced and Leavenworth had be-
come Department Headquarters as
we'll as the commercial centre of the
State, both the Governor and member
of Congress were taken from among
her wealthy and most prosperous bust
ness men. But they grew ambitious
| with their newly acquired honors, and
aspired to succeed Gen. Lane in the
Senate in the spring of 1855, and the
consequence was that at the Conven-
ton in the fall of 1854, the Lane
strength remanded them to private
life, and succeeded them by two gem
tleman whose ambition for the Senate
slum bered in the silent but capacious
cavities of their heads until long after
the death of Lane, and until the scram-
BILE for the place made their candidacy
respectable. One of them, Gov. Car
ney, struggled long and painfully to set
aside the popular verdict against him,
but judgment had been rendered on it
and no matter in what phrase he pres
ented the question that Judgment was
/ always reaffirmed. In 1868 Robert
Crozier succeeded Thomas Ewing, jr.,
as Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court,
and during the years 1868 and 1864
LeavenwOrth monopOlized the three
most important elective offices in the
State, at the same time enjoying her
full share of the Federal patronage.
Since that time, that locality has had
no occasion to complains as Judge
Brewer has for years been one of the
Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court. T. A. Osborn was for four
years Governor, and was succeeded by
the present Chief Executive, Geo. 7.
| Anthony, all three of whom have long
been residents of that city, and fully
identified with all of its various inter-
ests. For two years, from March
1871, to March, 1873, that city had q
Representative 10 the United States
Senate in the person of Alexander
Caldwe and his election was particu-
larly and peculiarly a LeaVenworth
triumph, as he was entirely unknown
in the politics of the State, and known
to but few persons personally outside
of Leavenworthn county. Whatever
acquaintance and standing he had
prior to his election, was that of q
business and commercial nature, and
his election partook largely of the
same character. When he resigned
the Governor appointed very worthy
land accomplished jurist of Leaven-
worth, the Hon. Robert CroZier, in his
place. This locality has therefore fur
nished two members of Congress, three
Governors, three Supreme Judges, one
State Treasurer, one Attorney General
one superintendent OF Instruction, one
Insurance Commissioner, two United
States Senator'S, three United State;
Marshals, one United States District
Judge and one District Attorney, two
Surveyor Generals of Kansas and Neb-
Taska, two Foreign Ministers, anC
numerous other officials, and has il
fact enjoyed more public patronage In
proportion TO population than any
other favored spot on earth,-except i
is the city of Atchison.
The Doniphan county element hal
played an important part in the politi
cal history of Kansas in the last tel
. years, little town opposite St. Jos
, eph, Mo-, being the original base o
their operations. GOV. Osborn, Web
Wilder, A. Lice, Ed. Russell, w. 81
Smallwood and J. B. Shaffee, Senate
from Colorado, are among those VIII
watered their ElwOod town stock 81
: much that It drifted away and left
them nothing but politics. But tn
! Elwood investment was a paying one
after all, for they have all prospereC
: away from 1t. Osborn hailed iron
: there as State Senator, Lieutenant
> Governor and United Slater Marshal
3 After he received the latter appoint
ment he made Leavenworth his home
2 After this he was Governor for Ewt
. terms, and Is now Minister to Chill
, Lee was District Judge, made MajO
In the Seventh Cavalry, promoted {,
: be Brigadier General, and was success
6 sively q candidate for Congress, an
> United States Senator. Web. Wilde
is Just as much part of Kansa
: as the Neosho Valley, but is tempora
!. lily absent in Missouri, vindicatlng q
q earlier attempt TO publish q radica
9 newspaper,-wasS urVeyor-General O
:, Kansas and Nebraska, editing leadin
: daily papers at LeavenwOrth and Fol
: Scott, and was then made Auditor {
n State. Ed. Russell was for years
}, leading member of the Legislature
8 Auditor of Leavenworth county, Con
q missioner OF Insurance, and is one
: the best political organizers in Cd
n State. Smallwood was Secretary {
: State for four years, and then sOugf
70 the nomination for Governor with
q strong following, aud is now land o.
i ficer in Washington Territory.
n January, 1873, Thomas A. Osborn Wa
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