The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-21
MIrCHELL,s FAILURE.

1t was query very freely made. when,
after Elder Mitchell's Waterloo, in the
tall, he was seen perambulating the state,
working up his chances for the senate,
what his object could be. Some thought
that he was child-like enough to believe
he actually stood some chance of being
elected senator, while others, who well
knew the man, said that his object was
to get something of following that he
could turn to his own account in the way
of official position, to a successful man
In the senatorial race. 1t was known
that post chaplaincy or an Indian agen-
CIV had peculiar charms for him. At any
rate he was on hand from the first day
of the session of the legislature until the
close of the senatorial fight. And it is
an open secret that he proved himself in
all the dark ways of politicians the equal
of any. His schooling in conference pol
itics might have been useful TO him. Al
any rate he managed to keep his twenty
votes together until Wednesday night be
fore the close of the final contest, when
in consultation with couple of Repub
lican managers, it was agreed that it was
best for the Greenbackers to go to Mr.
Phillips the next day, and this agree
ment was communicated to Mitchell's
party friends, and they absolved by him
from his further support, and urged by
him to vote solidly for Phillips. Then
- hot ~, hol m
after this, after visiting the rooms of one
of the senatorial candidates, Mitchell
changed his tactics, went to the Green
hackers and urged them to stand by hin
another day. He begged, expostulated
and threatened in his well known style
Subsequent events show clearly" says
the Commonwealth, ''that while in Tho
room of the senatorial candidate he hat
made bargain to deliver the Greenbacl
vote to the anti-Ingalls element"
But events proved that he was unable
to deliver the goods sold, and thereat be
came fearfully enraged at the six Green
hackers that refused to go at his bidding
and by himself and party friends has dc
nounced them unsparingly ever since.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Marshal county, who
is one of the earliest and most earnest o
Greenbackers, becoming tired of being
called hard names by the ministerial
politician, "went for' him in lively
manner the other day, in n speech in thu
House when a substitute for the ingalls,
investigation resolution was under con
sideration, In which was developed tn,
true inwardness of Mitchell's course, by
one who knows all about it. Mr.. Ham
ilton said:
"Let your pillow go deep; scrape the bee
rock; probe the fostering postule to thu
core, and let the corruption flow forth
to be seen and smelt of all men; pr
open the doors of your inquisitoria
court, and let me have the privilege o
facing the blessed-toned, sanctimonioui
montebank, Elder d. p. Mitchell, anC
say: Thou art liarr and prove tina
your rage-equalled only by the vigor o
an Infatuated Arkansas male member o
the porcine family-is born of your ina
bility to deliver the baggage you Sold
This is certainly refreshing and show
up our ministerial reformer in rather ar
unenviable light, and is fit supplement
of the miserable cant with which Bro
Mitchell was so profuse during the gu
bernatorial canvass, when he was taking
pay as a presiding elder with one hanC
and the offerings of his Greenback PAL
tisans with the other, and doing all from
sense of duty, and the cause of his
| Master.
We would sincerely advise Bro. Mitch
ell hereafter to confine his tricks to tn
arena of conference politics, in which h
can with greater safety reward his ia
yorites with good appointments, and re
ceive from them in return official prefer
| ment.