The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 25, 1891, Page 2

‘TWAS A LIFE CRISIS. 000,t roops was issued, I closed’ hostile to the president. There were not been sparticularly conspicuous, ; my Newspaper office and went to the; many awusing and ridiculous and, but the others were. The bruat of, war. The newspaper business Jidn’t ! amusing incidents.” | flourish in those days auyway. Tnen | my mind now. EDMUND G. ROSS TELLS THE STO- RY OF THE GREAT EPISODE THAT OVERTHREW HiM How Kansas Attempted to Dictate Its Senator's Action in the Johnson Impeachment Trial. “We've only a few hundred people in this town,” said a citizen of Dem- | ing, N. M., in describing the features of the place to a stranger, the other day, “‘but there's a man among ‘em. His name is Ross and they say it was his vote that saved Andy Jobn- son from impeachment.” This wae an indefinite description but was sufficient for the identitica- tion of Edmund G. Ross, ex-United States senator from Kansas, who has a0 completely passed from public life. His place of business was eagerly sought and easily found. He was seated at a desk with a pile of newspapers before him. burned cigar, a lot of manuscript and 4 Webster's dictionary were mixed ap with them. On one side of the little room were two or three type cases, in the rear a couple of impes- ing stones and a job press, in the center a stove. On Saturday of each week a newspaper, which bears Mr. Ross's name as editor, is issued from this room. This paper is the Deming Headlight During the week Mr. Ross is foreman, compos- itor, pressman, devil, proofreader, copyholder and father of the chapel. Here is a man who is surely suffer- ing from the reverses of political fortune. Ounce a United States sen- ator in Washington, surrounded by the luxuries of that gay capital, now a jourveyman printer in a frontier town. Mr. Ross was was first appointed senator from Kansas by Governor Crawford on July 20, 1866, to suc- ceed the famous Jim Lane, who was Known in those days as the “King of Kansas Politice,” and whowe trag- te death will ever be an interesting chapter in Kansas history. Strange- iy enough, Mr. Ross served in the senate with Samuel C. Pomeroy, who dropped completely out of sight when his scheme to buy a re-election was exposed. Pomeroy recently died ueglected aud alone of Mi did not actually end until Maveh 4, 1871, but his political career ended on May 16, 1868, when he refused to follow the dictates of the republi can party aud cast his vote against the impeachment of drew Johuson. The senatorial term Ross Presiden SIMPLY A HIRED The ex senator is living tem vily alone now and insists that be is simply aj weekly wages. MAN journeyman Heis runniog the Headlight for other men, doing the editorial work, job printing and set ting type on occasion and has no iu terest iu the paper further than to ake the enterprise a succes for his employers and in the opportunity it gives him to earn u living and have a say in public affairs. His family asoldier hoimeste Albuquerque, which took while governor of the territory dar ing Cleveland's administration. When Mr. Ross was asked to tell the story of the Johnson affair, he promptly answered, “No, that’s past history, let itrest.” Being urged, he consented to dietate a story, though he insisted that he had never before gone into the details of his political reverses. But he began to think about it and declared that a thousand things about the famous trial began to erowd upon his mind. Then he told this story: TO KANSAS WITH AN OX hives ou 1 near he TEAM “I went to Kansas in 1856 in a wagon drawn by oxen place in the Sentinel job office at Milwaukee and went with wy family to Kansas, driving the oxen mysel: aud living by the roadside. In those lays ady man who called cow * couldn't pass through Miss¢ avoided that state by going througi fowa and Nebraska My brother ad previous blished the I sas Tribu: ka, and I wen: 2 with him later, 1859, we established the State constitutional conve was a member, havi ed, we were sure of admission into) baits offered me but 1 didn't the union of states. so that the word In} ‘state’ im the title was justified. printer on] up IT left my} meu had assed ur. AOW | Record. The t adjourn- One comes to It happened soon T came back from the war and when | after Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase senator Jim Lane killed iimself they {announced the decision sent me to the senate a TELEGRAM FROM KANSAS “Unfortanately I began my career | sentiment. jas United States senator when the | crammed full | wounds caused by the war were sore |and before the war was really ended |though fighting with guns had ceas- jed. The Johnson impeachinent af- | fair came upon me at atime when I was ivexperienced in public life Though my acts then ended my po litical career, I have never regretted the course I took. telegraphic message from viction of the president. copy of the message: Leavenworth, May 14, 1868. “Senators Pomeroy and Ross: Kansas has heard the evidencs president. Every loyal man says impeach the president for bis crimes There is uo division here and we hope there will be none in Washing ton. D. R. ANTHONY sand others of best men.” “Of course at that time I had made up my mind to what I consid ered right, regardless of couse quences. I was naturally nettled by the demand that I should vote at their dictation and sat down imme diately, wrote a reply and then put and Oue Thou cur truest and Itillustra: tes to good degree the methods em- ployed to work up impea iment The senate chamber was of people. five colored men stood over against the wall on the republican side aud after the decisiou was announced one old fat fellow threw up his hands in utter despair and eried aloud: “Ob, my God! What'll become Four or of we poor niggers now? i g A half-/and demands the conviction of the! “The idea had been instilled into A day or s> be (them that if the impeachment failed fere the vote was taken I received a} they would all go back into slavery. Kausus | I suppose there were 10.000 men in demanding that I vote for the con’ | Washington at that tims who caine! Here is a | here under the promise ef appoint- | ments as soon as Johnson was re ;moyed aud Wade installed as presi- dent. Many bad spent all of the: mouey and all they could Lo:rrow before the decision aud, of course they were desperate They were in debt for their board and would have stopped at nothing to secure the president’s conviction. Many were actuaily desperate and beside them- selyes. How applicable in this con- nection is that admirable wail of the minister to Dahomey in Hoyt’s play ‘A Texas Steer:’ ‘Massa Brander, \office seekin’ am mighty bad busi- ness for ds white man as well as for de cullud. IT sees many a bright, smart man comme heah seekin’ office: ‘this who jforcibiy becat affair came upon me more 1 foree e Lrepresevted a The sure Was intensified by the fact that in 1857 I helped organize the republican p Kausas. I bad been a democrat until the slavery issue came up: then I beeame a re- publicau into the republi- (can party a6 au anti-slavery and war ically republican state of myc yun I wer for Infants and Children. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, y eer *“Castoria is so well adapted to children that ria « party. When the war was over the 3 eenaicee toany prescription | Scur Siounch, Diarrhinw Broctation, | negro enfranchised and the ques knowntome" HH. A. Ancura, M.D., on, Withoos mhutious medication, Tus Caxtacr Company, 77 Murray Street, N. ¥ : i 2 Bt, N.Y. j tions of reconstruction apparently 311 So, Oxford 8t,, Brooklyn, { a jeettled, I had finished with it. I cast my final vote as au anti-slavery 'demoerat in 1848 for Van Buren for president on the free soil democratic | ~ : = a on intimate terms ove. A OQ Welton! | Fancy Groceres, “I was not Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. with ‘after President the close of hever went near him during its St | > jMeney. LT coulda't afford to then. | a e 2 ; We afterward became warm person p 7 al friends and continued so as long! a8 he lived. The personality of Mr. | ‘a had little to do with my ac | { ‘tion. I thought I saw the institu |tion and disintegrating revolutionary | forces in the movement for his im- QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE | peachment. I was just out of a three | year’s enlistment inthe army for the | defeat of just such influences, aud .CICARS AND TOBACCO, | desired a speedy return to a condi- j : “ a [tonof peacs and barnony between Always pay the highest market price for Country | the sections. Though contident that | IT was vight and that the public judg-| ment in the future would so decree, | | Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- it in my pocket to think it over | he stops at de big hotels an’ voes to/ my only fear at the time was that I) was averse to dignifying the insult |de theatres; an’ when I sees him/migit ive to see the reversal of NEW FI R M? N 9 by answering it) and tty much jagain he hasn't got de office: its a} ent that has come. [ believed. | e EW GOODS e concluded uot to pay any attention! cneay r hotel an’ he gave de these however. that the change would! toit, when Genera! Ton Ewing | tres : -by. 2 den its de po'd- | coine. IT hoped to live tosee it. I] Having purchased the stock of goods known as the came into my room that bt. Helen’ bo wn denitsde login’ house |intended to anyway. and have sue: | Grange store consisting of found me alone and suffering from | way cows de buck stre-t and a bite | eeeded reasonably well, but Pye suf-) is i the effects of the exci it of thelat de free lunch wcounter. An’ den| fered the effects of that uct ever} 0 iD) day. He 1 just me. !its et de} an’ den, when | sises, financially as well as othe rwise | ry Os a He had b eo f ment tall hope’s woue an sad at heart} but that will wear out after awhile. | y and we had always been on the most with «ecarworg look ou his ~ be) Tve gota pretty stiff nerve | [ desire to say tomy miney frien that Thave re intimate terms. He spoke of having! seeks a bed down dar in de potos Before Po went to the United States | lenishedsune stoic undlnite eel heard that I had rec a 1hess jsenate T never lived ina rented house Jiaua ta raia amici hd, <a sabe tea from Kansas and t IN PERIL DEATH Taulways owned my heme. Since shape and would be glad to have all my obi fends true. I showelst to { after | “Weil, to get back tomy story: | then Ive hardly been able to pay call and see me. glancing « t he ast E had) yoy. 3 here. + life wasn't rent. much less own anything. I've | aa < : LN ee answered if. | T would have been | been a fering ‘juur printer | PORDUCE OF ALL KINDS WANT ED. “No,” I 1s 5 ined | pretty ever since | Twill eusrant ie 1 ‘ OW ous ADY about eoncl rviolence “Had T voted) for impeachmest i eit Calla Sais i tention to it to get ine | the ir wpa were that fo might} = ei a ce uae swer and show dit to him be filled by an impeacher But [| ruling element of the stuge—the = lon ag Inet convie L have taken | that Thad v Se vue i Jamoath to do impar z eS COIS, One| cording the cou: began tor sthad OF course one can't Fand trust t T sta not t Heli how these thinses will eome out. | Psu 1? ! ‘ Ito the dictates of 1 apnea viet . | F: _ me, the dogs wouldn't} er te ee for the highest rood : ere ooee bandied with are INES MEW OR THE TATA | Warman for sale iu 2 1 eee ihre |r »D. RK Anthony t others. to re-enter the hee : Ai. Biuiue. ia lus “hwente ko | Te fy t “tar sell if will be to “Well, says be, Ross, you an-j1 would be peergain t ? us Congress,” in discussing the Johr Nour ~ ~ wD swer that Now don't fail to send }Joursment o le senate, and soa a Ae s : ; 7 } “ ro es of the session L wrote to 70" ne rela ail a. /oMplete Abstracts of ili Qeol Estate in Bates County, “Treplied tak t | iuy wife at Pens See Dee cored “Aah vuilty. there was an | i t-sourl ty good care nowadays ft copee caval there | Myaniic ders atdivle sensation of relicf ou the} ed It's about Tiel nidnuigh s any chances.” send this ! olfice jus ling up for the m } and sent the tele; liished all over the ¢ morning. The tigh | A tert fun began. was taken. There was tremendous tanew ie storm was raised and the The next day the vot- | was immeuse in Washington. peculiar chain of seemed to Before I jeall not al deeision center on my { j vote knew bh }would vote I suppose a th +} soul , known that L ng to vote was pa weuld hav juumer make m my guard, tur: 1 & aud g ) said impeachment. There Wert MAKING PUBLIC SENTIMENT. It was pub | «| tid of me in those days that I made circumstances the | “Kansas being so unanimously a) 1862, when the secend call for 300,-| republican state, was i eoup to every ef i | j excitement throughout the country i: | Se: F ee By a/ Vious experience in public lik answered the reli{/gainst President Johnson I) Was a gener. } of things, among others the cha If it bad bee, tbat ke had tred to las I did. ‘teare fed the liveryiman to hitch up the! with ch lit met ime the depot. The li ened anc ri was made to « intention of arriving 2 There was a big crowd at the depe entered th» catriage and was bone. There was no trouble. “They were se intent on getting shouldn't The g that surprised me was the s r up my mind oaly thi they fact that I stood up under it as Jong Twas a young man. only 41 years old then. aud had no pre- THE IMPEACHMENT CHARGE-. There were no speciai charges There including a lot govern They Grimes of Towa, s. Henderson of Missouri. Fowler of Tennessee, Van Winkle of West Virginia and myself, Fowler, Van Winkle and myself had tupon alighting from the train I! — (see lvecie cea ee GEO. CANTERBURRY. part of others, showing quite plain-} onl a - po : Hee ip rear of Fariers’ B Sutler, Missouri £ ly that rumor had been busy wiih ‘ : his vame as that of the senator whe! * Seaman meee ar > expected to change his jx. { Again, he said: “The trial of Pres-} nt Johnson is the most made by any ng people tou depose a sove rin strict accordance with | law. The order, auity which marked | lings, may therefore be! i with pride by every Ameri-| Chicago, which many enterprises, sets the is the first) in «| th: country aw | i rthiy exam ‘i00! for colored feniale an iustit earborn street though it las not yet attai CONV “sould it % rey lack for employment. This is Other avenue of honorable emp! ment open to colored women |