The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-27
This Is the way long have Sought
and was glad for E1dOradO
j fOnnd it.

This is the way long have Sought,
and was glad for EldOradO
fonnd it
1t is we'll known here that no man has
prated more about so-called Republican
corruption and rascality than the Hon.
P. B. Maxson, Greenback candidate for
representative in the SD district for this
county, and chairman of the Greenback
state central committee.
His soul is now burdened with
this song, and from every stump in the
county he is telling what he don't know.
about the shortcomings of the Republi-
can leaders-merely retailing the politi-
cal buncombe of Democratic papers. AS
he is now candidate, asking the people
to send him to the legislature, solely on
his protested purity and honesty, and as
he is engagah.in slandering the Repub-
lican party, It is our duty to let the peo-
pie read what we know about his politi-
cal transactions. Ithas long been thought
by many that this chronic office-seeker
knew good deal about political cor
ruption-had a practical knowledge of
the workings of the kind of politics he
talks so much about. Fortunately, we
do not rely on hearsay testimony, or re-
tail the campaign stories of Democratic
or Republican newspapers for our expo
sitiOn of couple of this gentleman's
honest transactions. We get our infor-
nation from the records of the govern
ment, and from parties who sign their
names to their charges. We ask the
people to read what we print below, and
to bear in mind that the charges are
capable of proof Many of our best and
most straightforward Republicans are
thinking of leaving the party, through
the representations of just such men as
MaxsOn, and it will be well for them to
reflect whether they are lettering the
condition of things before doing so. Be
it remembered that this same Maxson,
when his dishonesty was discovered by
the government, was turned out of Office,
and that it is at least reasonable to sup
pose that is what is the matter with the
Republican party in his case. We are
glad to know the Republican party turns
all dishonest peculators out of Office when
ever their rascality is discovered, what
ever may be said against it by peregrin-
ating 'reformers" and political dema-
gogues and hypocrites.
The first item we have to present for
the consideration of this anti-corrup-
ton % Greenbacker, comes from Henry
T. Sumner, of Eldorado, and is in the
shape of an item furnished the "Eldora-
do Historical Society" 1t appeared in
the Walnut Valley Times of few weeks
ago. Mr.. Sumner is writing of what
transpired in Eldorado in 1870 It is
known by some of our readers that the
government land Office was then located
at Augusta, and efforts were being made
to have it removed to Eldorado. Smell
ing little Job" thither went, onr,hOn-
est reformTE Sumner says:
About this time came one P. B. Max
son from Emporia, who was represented
as the person who had control of the To-
cation of the land Office. He promised
our people that for $500 cash in hand,
he would secure it for Eldorado. A
meeting was at once called in the Chica-
go hall, and the money laid down on
| the table. DR.. White laid down $40; as
he did so John Belts said, ''there goes
the profits on two boxes of Red jacket"
Maxson gathered up the pile remarking,
Gentlemen, 1 am glad for your sakes
that you have raised the money" The
land Office did not come; MaxsOn did not
go to Washington. Our old citizens
speak favorably of Maxson and regret
that they did not give him more.
HENRY T. SUMNER.
Those who are not inclined to take
Mr.. Summers word for the above, are re-
ferred to any of the prominent citizens
of Eldorado at that time, and they can
have Summers statement abundantly
substantiated. He was glad for their
sakes that they had paid him the money,
but he never did anything that we can
learn of to earn a cent of it. Sumner
says he never went to Washington, and
we learn from others that this pink of
political honesty never condscended 10
make the citizens of that town a re-
port of what he did with their money.
He was probably well satisfied, for the
sake of Eldorado, you know, that he was
$500 ahead.
But the richness of this expose is
from Hon. Willis Drummond, commits
sioner of the general land Office, trans
hitting the report to the Secretary of the
Interior, of Hon. w. H. Smith, who in
l rraots noTad 4I,a nhar~ae 80 o,,.-,,,4:.-.
made against Maxson in the matter of the
removal of the land Office from Neode-
sha to Independence, a few years ago.
Many of our citizens have heard of this
transaction, and have frequently asked
about the facts. The letter of Mr. Drum
mond gives them. They are plainly
stated, and we are Of the opinion that
Maxsopift explanation, which I'VE have
heard he has made to some people who
asked him about the charges, that this
money was for ''clerk hire' and other
incidentals consequent upon the remov-
al of the Office, is the thinnest kind of
moonshine.
The fact that Mr.. Drummond,s recon-
mendation was adopted, and Maxson
turned out of the Office, is sufficient evil
dence of the truth of Smiths report, and
that the weak dodge of Maxson to ex.
plain away his dishonesty, win not go
down with the people.
Now, we submit, that it is about time
for this man TO stop his hypocritical
howl about the corruption of the Repub
lican party. We submit that it is un-
bounded cheek for him to go about or
| ganizing Greenbeck clubs and instruct
ing the good people of this county how
to vote. He is hardly proper person
to do that. We know that politics and
ofice-seeking has always been his trade,
but he had better seek other fields and
pastures new in which to do his weep
ing over the degeneracy of the times
and his mourning for the down-trodden
It is just such fellows as he that are
making trouble by breeding discontena
among the people. The troubles of this
country come from uneasy politicians.
So long as they hold fat Offices it is ali
fright. 1t Is their interest when kicked