The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-12

expenses slf tic missionaries of this fefor-
nation is yet undetermined. Guthrie,
who had already betrayed his constitu-
enis, says it was sixty on the LIST of
April
Horlon. in published letter, writes
that he never contributed anything and
was never consulted on the subject. In
October he swears he sent thirty dollars
Two months previously, which would be
in August, several weeks after the
apostles left Washington, and there
fore could not have needed it.
This would be dubious record for any
one but moralist and purifier ia poll
tics. Horton and Guthrie subsequently
attempted to patch up the ragged dis
crepancy by writing letters to-the CON-
iniitee in order to bring the dates nearer
together, ON the principle of the newly
married couple who had their certificate
dated back TO cover accidents. Ii did
not occur to these eminent lawyers that
the most obvious method of determining
both the date and amount would have
been the production of the check or the
entry on the books of the bank. Ii was
mean and base enough to give the money
fDr such purpose. 1t was meaner and
bascr To lie about it 1t was meancst and
basest of ali TO apologize for it under
| OATH, and swear to another falsehood
| about the date of the paltry contribution.
No fouier exhibition of cowGrdice and
mendacity ever disgraced the most de-
graded epoch of the English Judiciary
which witnessed the fall of Bacon, and
the infdnies of Jeffrcys and Scruggs
Instead of sitting III judgment on the
lives, the liberties and the estates of the
people, this culprit should be summoned
10 answer for his crimes and consigned
to IL felOn'S cell
Ny election was the triumph Of decen-
cy over disorder. 1t was Il victory of the
peoplc over tic machine politicians. 1t
WAS achieved against tremendous odds
and in the face of obstacles that seemed
almost ipsurnountabe. 1t ought to
have ended there but the discontinue of
the opposition was so complete and their
batlled rage found vent in an investiga-
ton before IL committee of the legisla-
turc, which WAS packed by perjured
speaker, for the purpose of convicting
me.
This SO called investigation was 4 fla
grant burlesque of justice. prodigy Of
paTiiZaH uHf;iirness. The hostile tribun
al, organized to find me guilty, sat for
weeks with closed doors, without attor-
news or spectators, no witness knowing
what had been testified, without notice
to those whose rights and regulations
were thus brutality assailed, and finally
eXOnorlted me in u majority report
which was adopted by the legislature
The chairman ofth committee, Il weak
but not wicked man, who has been re-
wardcd for his violation of his promise
Ia vote for me by the office of reporter
of the supreme court, revolted ut the in
justice that had been done, and refused
10 report against me as he had been Sc
lcCicd 10 do.
Thus having been Endorsed by the
people, elected by the legislature, and
vindicated by the committee, l had
reasonable ground 10 anticipate immuni-
" from annoyance.
Had the United States senate been Re
publican, no further effort against me
would have been made. But the senate
was Democratic and as l was a John
Brown, bloody shirt, stalwart,
! Observation-Disclosures Republican, these
shallow memOrialists reasoned that the
| Democrats would eagerly snatch at any
| opportunity TO destroy me. Extracts
| from ny speeches ut Ossawatomie and
elsewhere were reprinted and sent to
| Democratic senators, and Eggers and
| Stumbaugh like Il couple of Sedra6oei
| trundled their teculent orb of ordure,
with its egg of malice, along the dusty
| highway 10 Washington
/ nave cd OCCaSiOUS ntLilStlO cr1IlClSeu
! the Democracy with candor I shall do
so without reserve hereafter. But l
shall never forget that they dealt fairly
with me; that they refused to become
! the. allies of my enemies; that they we've
| incapable Of personal injustice for the
sake of real or fancied political advan-
! tage.
When the evidence taken by the legis-
| lature committee, with the memorial
asking for further investigation. was laid
before the senate and referred to the
I committee on privileges and elections
they refused TO entertain il, holding that
the decision of the Legislature was salts
| factory, in the absence of additional al
| legations.
| Whereupon was filed supplemental
memorial alleging that ten members of
| the Legislature, naming them, had been
| induced 10 vote for me by corrupt pay
| ments Of money or promises of office.
| The invest cation was then ordered, and
Il subcommittee of five assembled at To
! pc!la in September and sat three weeks,
| taking several hundred pages of printed
| testimony.
When the subcommittee convened,
| the mcmoriaiists promptly withdrew the
charges against seven of the gentlemen
named in The second memorial and offer
ed nothing but vulgar gossip and rumor
| about the other three. This supplement
| tai memorial was deliberate fraud and
J imposition or the senate, entirely with
ont evidence to support it. Known to be
| false by the parties who signed it, fabri-
Gated for tie sole purpose of procuring
an investigation that would not other
wise have been ordered. 1t was a foul
and cruel calumny against ten eminent
1 citizens of high character, and the crea-
tIres who made it, by their subsequent
| withdrawal Gifts statements. stand before
the world as selfcnnvicted lihelers, Sian
derers and liars.
During TIE tendency of these pro
ceedings | have invited the widest and
minutest scrutiny. No objections to ev-
| idence have been lnterposed, however
frivolous, incompetent and irrelevant it
/ might be. / visited New York and per
| sOnally impOrtuned the president of the
telegraph company TO produce all mes
s1ges without hesitation or delay. The
books and vaults of banks have been
opened for inspection and private cores
pondcnce has been freely disclosed.
Conscious Of rectitude, and confiding
in the justice of the lofty tribunal before
which | was arraigned, l stood silent
amid cHlumnious clamors. PreferrinG
that the decision should not oe biased by
| personal considerations, l made no state
/ ment and gave no testimony before the
1 committee in refutatIon of the idle inu-
! en2oes that were dignified by the name
OF evidence. / attended strictly TO my
public duties, asking no quarter, ready
to meet every accusation, exhibiting
no hesitation, concealiHg nothing,
shielding myself behind no tech
nicalities nor Prescriptions.
The conduct of the prosecution was
/ ipranrai 1lx- I,-flf.1 ND ,oxxyar,llr- ~
| content with the opportunity afforded
| them 10 defeat me before the people in
the canvass of 1878, before the legislature
that elected me, before the investigating
committee of the house at Topeka, be-
fore the committee on privileges ana
| elections, and before the senate, they
hab;iually resorted TO the industrious cir
culation of Newspaper calumnies, the in
vention of ISLANDERS and lies, to prejudice
my character and standing before the
committee and the senate One of the
| counsel for the memorialists prepared
and published pamphlet, purporting
to be statement of the evidence in the
"In9allS case" taken before the sub-com-
mittee at Topeka, which was forwarded,
| while the case was still pending and I'M
| decided, to every member of the commit
tee and to each senator and representa-
tive in congress, the president and each
cabinet officer, and TO all the newspapers
in the country! Comment is unnecessa-
~. A lawyer who, in the trial of a hog
case before a country justice, would re-
sort to such attempts to influence the
magistrate or the jury, would justly be
regarded as having poor judgment, a bad
case, and character worse than either.
And since the proceedings have ended,
the honorable member of congress for
! this district has been sending bushels of
the scuFrilous brief of the memorial
lists to Kansas under his frank, Indirect
violation of the laws of congress and de-