The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-06-28
STAND By THEoLD FLAG.

The last effort of those who would force
the Republican party into an alliance with
the abettors of treason, consists in represent.
ing that ifa straight Republican State Ticket
is run it will as surely be beaten! And this
is the last and only remaining argument fol
fusion of all the odds and ends of crea-
ton, in order that Crawford, Ross, Fletcher
& Co., ma Y. by hook or crook, get into tbs
public treasury for term of years.
Now, this kind of argument don't con-
vince us bit. We regard Kansas as one
of the most reliable Republican States in the
Union. And if this were not 80, shall we
sell ourselves to set of political shysters
to avoid being beaten? If in the "myste-
rious Providence of God," the Republican
party is to go down, let it be with banners
flying. The triumph of that party and
the results flowing from it, will make one of
the brightest pages in the history of the
Am erican people, and we don't want his
tory to record on the very next page, that
the people shrank from that triumph and its
inevitable logic.
When ever it is demonstrated that the Re-
publican party cannot or will not nominate
ticket composed of straightforward, honest,
faithful and capable men, then we will seek
elsewhere for such ticket. Until that
time we propose to ''Stand by the Old
Flag"
1t is our firm belief that this craving de-
sire for Union. with somebody or every
body, arises from fear that the Republican
party will be true to itself, and discarding
all personal and local considerations, and
looking only to the triumph of its princi-
pies, aud an honest, capable administration
of State affairs, will put in nom ination the
best men in its ranks, throwing aside at
once, and forever, the thieves and plumber
ers that have been hanging on its skirts.
Can it be an honest motive that actuates
Crawford in his desire for Union? Who
does not remember his recon- mendations to
the people of Southern Kansas, in 1853, to
vote the Democratic ticket for fear that 9th.
erwise they would not get grants of land
for railroads; how he urged, entreated, and
tried to bully them into that fawning, lick
spittle subserviency to the South, which
actuated himself? Can it be an honest mo-
tive that actuates Ross and Fletcher. of the
Topeka Record? Ross, the chief of the
Public Printing swindles of the last two
years, and Fletcher, purveyor and whipper
in for corrupt combination, whose bust
ness was to defeat measures of advantage
to the people before the Legislature, and,
falling in that, to steal the laws from the
Secretary of States Office!
Brethren of the Republican party, be
not dismayed at the howlings and revilings
of these men They are but as sounding
brass and tinkIing cymba - If We have
enough liberty loving. honest, capable me n
in the party to fill the State offices, let's
nominate them, without begging anybody's
pardon, or being frightened with the cry of
"wolf." And if the people of Kansas feel
that the stealings of Stevens, Robinson,
Ross & Co. should be laid at our door,
why let US go down
with our back to the earth
And our feet to the foe,"
and not "belly down." like piece of pump
kin pie on a dirty floor, as these sneaks
would have us