The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-26
Another Letter from DR.. Armor.

small space IN your columns to Vlndlcate
myself.
The reasonI made the proposition was,
I thought if was SO very shallow as 10 be
opposed to the interests of the district and
county in which lived and in which most
of my property lay, wanted to be fined a
small sum for my folly.
The first argument you advance to prove
that am opposed to the interests of this
district and county, is based on the old
county seat gu estion. To make the thing
clear, it is sufficient to state that at that
time Emporia, Americas and Fremont were
candidates for the county seat. voted for
Fremont, but never left my business more
than half day to take part in the matter,
one way or the other. Emporia was then
within gun shot of the southern line of the
county, and to be reasonable and just to
other portions of the county, l could not
vote for E mporia then. Had Gen. Wash
| ington recommended the removal of the
National Capital from Philadelphia to Bos-
ton or New Orleans, instead of to some
more central location, he people would no
doubt have thought strange of it. On the
county seat question / took Washington for
an example, prefer that KIDD of company.
Hence it is plain had the county lines been
where they now are, should have voted
for Emporia.
As your remarks on county lines admit
of at least two distinct interpretations, and
not knowing which Interpretation to take,
I will merely state my often repeated posi-
ton Cd that subject, viz Whenever ma
jority of the people land the larger the ma
jority the better) of portion of a county
wish to attach themselves to another couu-
", let it be done.
Your second argument is founded on the
idea that because have opposed those. in
some instances, who you say have done the
most in public way to promote the inter
ests of the district. To this 1 reply that
| profess to belong to that small number
who maintain in principle and illustrate in
practice that plaindealing Is better than
double dealing, and that honesty is better
than knaVery. hal rather fail hundred
times in the ways of truth, than succeed
once by fraud and deceit. l have said il
before, and 1 will say it again. that so long
as such men as F. R. Page, G. v Eskridge
and S. N. Wood are elected to the Legisla.
ture, just SO long will frauds and ''swin-
dies" abound in the Legislature. Ihave al
ways opposed this class of men for Office
| and l always expect to. If this be opposi-
ton to the interests of this district, make
the most of it.
Your third argument (Which you refer
to with considerable gusto) is founded on
the very small vote [ received at the recent
election. l have no quarrel with the result
of that election as far as [ am personally
concerned. On the contrary rather like
it in some respects, but If it is conclusive ev-
idence that am opposed to the interests OF
the district, l must see through a glass
more than dimly, for I cannot see it at all
Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan were
elected by overwhelming majorities, and &C.
cording to your argument should have made
very good Presidents, whereas it is gener.
ally admitted that they were the two weak
, est the country ever had. Unchastity in
woman, according to public opinion, is q
terrible crime, while in men it is so small
:. thing as to be scarcely noticeable. We
all have to submit more or less to MAORI,
ties, but at the same time it must be evil
dent to every discovering mind that public
opinion is often very poor standard to 60
by, and instead of it being conclusive ev-
i idence,' it may be just the reverse. Some
people are easily deceived-moFe easily de-
ceived than they imagine. Had the people
of Ephesus known all about Diana, they
would not have shouted them selves hoarse in
her praise, l am sure. Neither would they
have believed the lying words of the town
clerk when he said, ''Seeing these things
cannot be spoken against" &c. The idea
l wish to illustrate is this Many candi-
dates get Office by promising every body ev-
erything, being everything to every body,
or mounting some particular hobby, or
more frequently getting in the train
with some great man or party, and thus OBJ
tain Office when really they are neither hon
est or capable. James Buchanan is a nota-
bic example.
But am opposed to the interests of the
county and district, you say. In 1860
was instrumental in having the constitution
of the County Agricultural Society altered
so as to include mechanics" and when