The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-10-23
ONCE MORE 10 TIE POLLS.

"A week from next Tuesday is the
day CT our National and State elections,
and as this is the last paper many of our
subscribers will receive before that day,
we feel like urging the Republicans to
"stand by their guns" and not to relax
any effort until the f'field is cleared of
the enemy on the Sd of November. Let
us send them to their haunts complete
~ demoralized and broken. If Kansas
Republicans do their duty they will
give Grant and Colfax and our Repub-
lican State nominees fifteen thousand
majority. They ought to do it. Moth
thing short of this will sustain their
well earned reputation of doing things
in whole-souled style.
The Democratic party is badly us
ed up by the elections in Maine,
Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi-
ana, but every Republican in Kansas
should consider it duty he owes to
his country to cast his vote to make it a
complete route. The result to be gain
ed is. worth the effort. Our enemies
are clamorous for revolution, while our
watch-word is 'SPeace." Forrest.
Hampton, and others, come with their
hands dripping with the blood of muir
dered Union men, aud dictate the
terms on which they must be treated,
or they will raise another rebellion.
Dcughface Seymour, and all the army
| of doughfaces in the North smile and
smirl1 and tell them they shall have
their rights, Gas the rebels understand
them) and want to turn over the coun-
try to their bloody hands and treason
able hearts. The Republican party
want to finish the work of reconstruc-
ton on peaceable, honorable and just
basis, demanding guarantees from reb-
els before they are admitted to full fell
lowship.
"Peace hath her victories" and that's
the kind of victories the Republican
party desire and work for. The Ku
Klux, Democratic organization under
the management and leadership of
leading Democrats, who took a promi-
nent part in the convention which
nominated Seymour and Blair, are
numbering Union men by the hundred,
breaking up boards of registration and
killing the officers. Not q mail but
that brings us accounts of murders and
| Outrages in the country under the con-
troll of Ku Klux. And on the top of all
this the Democratic candidate for Vice
President, the brains and backbone of
the ticket, openly declares in favor of
revolution-of trampling under foot
the laws of Congress-of his country
if such a miserable wretch can call
America his country.
Does any citizen Of Kansas want
Blair, the drunken reVolutionist-a
man as mean as Aaron Burr ever was
at the head of this Government Does
any body want the Government uuder
the control of those who murdered
Union men in the attempt to destroy it,
and will do so again as quick as the
opportunity offers? Do we want those
who are signing for Southern Confed-
eraey and singing peans of praise to the
'lost cause in the high places of the
Government If so vote for Seymour
and Blair. II you want Peace, Pros
perity, National honor and National
integrity, vote for Grant and Colfax.
Is not this matter of enough import
ance to demand the attention of eceTy
cotcrP
We know the Republican party has
made mistakes. No party ever existed
that did not. But this is not the time to
stand back and grumblc. The issues are
too important. Every man is response
BILE for his vote, and ought to see that
it. is cast on the right side.
In the Fifth Judicial District we
want twelve hundred Republican ma
jority, and we can get it, if we will
only try. The way to do it is for every
Republican to go and vote. Can we
not get the following majorities in the
counties composing the district? Lyon
600; Coffey 300; Greenwood $50;
Usage 200; leaving Morris to reduce
this number fifty.
Republicans of Lyon, we ought to
give 600 Republican majority. We are
the banner county in the State, and let
us not lose this honorable distinction
by staying at home on election day.
Every township should cast its full
vote. If they do it we shall have over
1000 votes. Last year we polled over
800. We ought to go 200 better now.
If we do that we can leave our enemies
behind at least 600 strong.
To the polls, once more, in your
strength. Draw up your "lines of bat
tie" and march in solid column to the
last fight, on the Sd of November.
Utterly DEMORALIZED.