The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-07-07
OUR MATERIAL INTBREsTs.

The election of delegates to the Repub-
lican Stale Convention will soon take
place, and it behOOves people who take an
interest in sueh matters to be consulting
as to whom they will send, and under
what instructions, if any.
The question of candidates is most i'm
portant. Congress has given US our plat
form on which all Republicans will stand.
We Of the NsOsho Valley have an inter
est in the action of the Convention which
should not be overlooked In Kansas,
political strength means everything.
Without political strength and unity, no
Railroad or other material interest can be
advanced. From the organization of Kan
sas, to the present time, the KaW Valley
and Northern Kansas have bad all the
important offices-al the members of
Congress aud Senators. There Is an an
nuAI blow, to be sure, about South.
srn Kansas" but when the time comes
lis like the ''Proud Bird Of Freedom on
Acertain occasion:
One wing one way, and one t'other,
And each separate pin feather flying at the other.
There has never been any practical,
substantial union among the people of
Southern Kansas. And so to-day we see
the largest and best portion of the State
without railroads, or almost hope Of any,
while the Northern portion has all that
will be needed for the next twenty years.
We lave had q great many promises but
the first performance is yet to be recorded.
There is great deal of honeyed talk, a
great deal said about devotion to great
principles, and in the face of all of it we
have stones for bread.
"WhosO bloWeth not his own horn the
same shall not be blown" The commu-
nifty that fails to look out for its own in.
tsrests will see them neglected and over.
looked; and this is Just what the Neosho
Valley has Persistently done, heretofore
Now let's see if We can't effect change
in matters this fall. The great enterprise
in which we are most interested, as /,
most concerns our prosperity, is a road
along the Valley commencing at Fort Ri
ley and extending south east to the Valley
of the Arkansas. II should be built BY
the time the Union Pacific road is COM
plstsd to the Mountains. which. viii not
be over three years This Valley is the
natural route for the Southern Branch of
the Pacific RailrOad, and with proper rep
rsssntatiYes in Washington we could have
had the rOadsndoWed By the Government
a. other branches have been. The Ateb.
ison branch which, is Of no possible &C.
count to anybody except those livfug
along its line, vas endowed as a compro.
misc between Lane and POmerOy. If there
had been Senator or Representative from
Kansas interested in the south half If, n.
State who does not know that We. With
oar superior claims. might have had /.
branch of that road AZ well as Atebiso,s
The EsOsbO Valley united and ds,sr-
mined. can hold the balance of povs, :,
Conventions and Legislatures. Shall =.
not unite for the promotion of QUE inter.
Ssts3 Let's elect men for delegate ana
members Of the Legislature uDon mater-
iaiissuss-msn who win have q care for
ons1ntsFssts, and not be led 10 betray or
tefFst them We should have q Senator
OF Representative IN Congress from our
nldsk Thers ara men in the Valley full
y as competent Is any We have ever sent
% Congress. Let's unite on them. LET'S
hsgsa' Rsosho Valley Railroad man -
go1gEess. IS We have had Kansas VALLEY
Railroad men heretofore. The chsDgs
zona hurt as. Lst's Try it. Sink minor
diHsIeoces aud resolve NOT 10 be IoDesF
ths dHPss Of Politieians,-Who build them-
seivaE up at our expsn {. 4.