The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-16
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III. Fl. MURDOCH, EdIsor.
HAD L. LINgs o. A Kansas MAN.

Success life is as often the result of luck and
Chances patient endeayor or other deseryings
Lofty aims and honest effort alike are overwhelmed in
defeat where questionable methods sometimes win power
and urels Of renown The alpine youth that
banner Of strange device lost in the SHOWS the
mountain. the peak Of which he could not reach. We
the other day pathetic account of the hard and
eeure of old who in his prime prominent
factor in the politics and public life of Kansas
young man. born the same quarter Of the state Of
Ohio that boasts the birth places of Mckinley and Garfield
and those others who became ilustrious
their battles freedom inspired by same anti
slavery atmosphere and who later fred by the debates
over the Kansas and Nebraska bill shoudered sharps
rife which had been presented to him by the printing
bce force where he was the time employed he march
ed overland to the scene Of the conflict
Landing Topeka in 1856 helped to found and pub
fish radical Free State paper. Early the following
spring this young printer company with the editor
IF the Eagle footed from Topeka the headwater
Mission creek for the purpose Of avang themselves Of the
possible perqusites pertaining to squatter sovereignty
Within the four years following our squater companion had
married the territory had became state and Ossawatoie
Brown with his Kansas band had precpitaed the great
war.
True to his boyhoods teaching and to the convictions
over his paper to brother and enlisted for duty in the
struggle which fixed the destiny Of the American Republic
for universal freedom From captancy he was promoted
to the majorshp Of his regiment and before the conclusion
Of the conflict was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel The
ended following the suicide of a Kansas United
States Senator in recognition of his ability as writer and
deserngs soldier hero chosen to seat in the
United States senate and as member Of that senate
the charge Of treason and in which the young Kansan
whose public career had been so full promise met his
waterloo going down beneath storm Of public obiquy and
denuncation, such few for the gravest of
crimes was ever subjected He voted against the convc
ton of LncoIns successor and his the casting vote
which saved the Tennessean infanmy and the gov
the United States the disgrace Of having
tmDeached President So intense was the feeling in
radical against the Senator whom the people Of
the state felt had betrayed them that judge Of the
Supreme of the State teegraphed the recalcitran
official that Benedict Arnold hell the rope with
which Judas Iscarriatt had hung himself was lost but
the pistol with had ended his life was at his
service
All this occurred many years ago. so many that com
Daratvey few Of the people of Kansas of today even
know the Of the once prominent in the affairs
turned his home find no longer had any friends
He viewed pirate as political Ieper and traitor
to all his LIES inspiration convictions Letters Of de-
nuncaon reached him by the thousand and he was burned
IL egy and all because Of this single supposed political
derilecon which IA was but conscience discharge Of
oathbound duty he understood it. Starting another
paper which he defended his vote and action over and
over and still struggling to regain the lost confidence of his
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the state poverty broken spirited and despairing IN
New Mexico he found employment as newspaper writer
and later President Cleveland made him governor of that
territory After the expiration Of his Office he bought
little job Office at Albuquerque in which he did all the work
even soliciting and in turn delivering his orders
Such in breif is the sketch of the life Of Edmund G.
Ross who old and neglected man eekng out his
ending DAYS IN obscurity alone Being nearly four
score Of bent and gzzled by the msforunes
which have accumulated with each passing year and OF no
81 purpose Of his own in spite Of rectude and the ap
proval Of clear conscience he was finally compelled to
trade his little job Office for small irrigated garden patch
upon which had been erected adobe shanty by some
Mexican in the suburbs Of Albuquerque. newspaper
correspondent found him there the other day feeby at
tempting with old handsaw the preparation of fuel with
which to cook meage meal Thus in the grasping clutch
Of poverty borne down by the weight Of many eventfu
years neglected and alone. and stn smartng under his
wrongs sore Of heart and without hope like hunted ami
nal haggard from fleeing his enemies this Kansas man Of
faaltless life save his at one time supposed political mis-
take with faded watches the declining sun Of each
heightened day as it sinks behind the mountains which
circle about him in majestic silence akin to his own and
like them waiting for the end.
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