The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-02
SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPorNsED.

CRAWFORD SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPOINsED.
Hon. Alfred Gray, who was appointed
special commissioner from Kansas to attend
the Paris expedition, found it necessary to
decline the pro6ered honors in the interests
OF his public duties at home, and F. p. Ba-
ker, OF the Commonwealth, was thereupon ap-
pointed. No man is our State did more for
Kansas during the Centennial year than
George A. Crawford who is peculiarly fitted
and certainly, in justice, should have re-
ceived the appointment-kinsiey Republican,
THE SENTIMENTS OF NINErEEN-TwENrIErH
OF THE PEOPLE.
We believe we speak the sentiments Of
nineteen-twentieths Of the people of Kansas,
when We say that the appointment of Geo.
A. Crawford, upon the resignation of Mr.
Gray, would have been the appropriate,
and upder all circumstances the Just one to
make.-Houard EIcmia1.
HIS REPUrAIIoN Is BAD-HIs APPOINT
MENr WAS GRAND MISTAKE.
AT the Centennial exhibition held in
Philadelphia, two years ago, Kansas took
the premium for the best display of agri-
cultural products. To-day the State is
reaping its reward BY daily influx Of hun
dreds of we'll to do immigrants. The
grand display made by Kansas first origi-
mated in the brain of the Hon. George A.
Crawford, of Fort Scott. When the United
States determined to send Commissioners to
the International Exposition at Paris, the
Commissioners of Agricultural, appreciat-
ing the valuable services rendered by Mr..
Crawford at the Centennial, recommended
him as a man eminently qualified to dis
charge the duties Of that position. The
Recommendation was a complimentnot only
to Crawford but to the State of Kansas. II
the recommendation had been made We
would have had display of agricultural
products at Paris that would have aston
ished the denizens of the old world, instead
of being represented, as we are now, by a
Commissioner who knows nothing about
agriculture, and with beggariy display
of pen drawings by school children.
Mr.. Hayes would no doubt have acted on
the recommendation of the Commissioner
of Agriculture and appointed Mr.. Crawford
had not Governor Anthony posted off to
Washington and used his influence against
him. In 30 doing Governor Anthony made
a grave mistake. Baker is not known out
side of the State; his reputation is bad.
He is not in any sense of the word q repre-
sentative man, either socially, morally, po-
litically or religiously. His appointment
is an insult to the people Of Kansas and a
burning disgrace to the nation. On the
other hand Crawford has a national repu-
tation; his moral standing is good; he is a
fair representative of the vim and energy
that characterizes the citizens of our young
and thriving commonwealth. The inti-
mate personal relations existing between
Mr.. Crawford and the Hon. John WEIGH,
our Minister at the Court of st. James, the
long continued friendship existing between
him and Bayard Taylor, our Minister to
Berlin; the strong ties that bind him and
Gen. P. Sidney Post, our Consul at Vienna,
combined with the intimate acquaintance
and personal friendship existing between
him and our Minister at Paris would have
placed Mr. Crawford, as the accredited Com
missioner of our Government, in such close
relations with the moneyed powers Of
Europe that heavy investments in Kansas
by them would have been the natural re-
cult.
Gov. Anthony committed a more serious
mistake in securing Bakers appointment
than he did in sending his "melish" to En-
poria, against the earnest protest OF her
citizens. Baker may amuse the Parisians
by pointing with pride" to the photographs
Of . few school houses and a score Of pen
executed by the pupils of our
public schools, but he will add nothing to
the wealth or material prosperity of Kan
sas by reason of his commissionership.-
Wyandote Gazette.