The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
7 COUNTY OFFICERS.


Mr.. EDITOR. "Uncle Tom" having
given some ''hints and suggestions con-
corning county officers, asks that he may
hear from others through your columns.
Z ANY ''hints" from your present cor
respondent may seem superfiuous after
.:'U T's" effort, but are too, feel Interested
in the ''bOring" process so feelingly al
luded to in his article, and that is our
sole excuse for intrudimg upon your
notice. 1t must have been. terrible
state of mind that dictated that article
and state that demands some cOaSOia-
ton at the hands of the people. 1t is
always n touching sight to a human
man to see fellow being drowning,
struggling with the waves, with only a
straw to cling to. He evidently felt
that the arguments he put forth were
almost convincing, but could not avoid
feeling of "reminiscences for fear the
people might not .'see it." ta
He asks In such a touching and con-
fiding manner why it is athat our elec-
lions cannot go off without so much
opposition7--Andy Johnson, in the in.
nocent simplicity OF his heart, no doubt
wondered at that popularity of. our
election last November. and was aston
ished that all coullipot see.i as, he did,
and be Feadysto retain the. iIicumbents
then occupy ing piaees..i In aWashingtoh.
He of; course. considered that we then
/, had .'Ea. competent set OF. men around
the @NNhite Honsey. snuifaru,'a, no ,su.st
But alas for Andyt Tn boc cdse rs
az ms necessity suggested 4 slight
J change" and he realized the axiom OF
I, longsagO, and now bcIieves that poets
illusions are not an fiction, as ''The
best. laid plans of mice and men, aft
gang agee." 1!sif509 o5i i, fc;lai
'Firstly, "Spicer is Clerk of Court.
Yesl But why may not Spieer- grace
| fully yield the place as In,Iny good
man has before him, to some other nun
equally, as good, without asking another
Office to repay him for the sacrifice.
And here we would say that one notice.
able feature of the reign of the present
batch of county officers is that while
doing well for the county, SELF has not
been entirely forgotten, but they have
! prospered amazingly, and laid up any
amount Of umbrellas for raiI weather,
and mnst be, by this time. well prepared
fOr-even--a deIuge. Why may it not
be good time fOrit next November.
5 Bnt Uncle Tom, while not wishing to
give Spicer the go-by evidently desires
to dispose of o. u. Hart and the Regis
l ter question in order to provide for
bancroft. HesPenned the article without
consulting the present Register, for we
are ALI aware that he is alive to his in
terest and does not Intend to yield the
I Registers Office even for another with
ont struggle. We wonder why gu.
T." did not think of turning the sheriff
over to the Dist Clerks Office and thus
! Obviate the necessity of 50 much hoei5,g.
| 1t is quite funny to see him providing
a place for o. Y. Hart, believing as he
does that the competent set of men
around the Court House. should be
kept there, aud il never occurring TO
him, that he, having held the Office for
three terms aud prOspered we'll in the
mean time might be as well able to set
tie down into the shades of private life
\ and domestic retirement as some of the
I producers so eontemptuousiy mention
ed. Those same incumbents have some
singular ideas. Now o. Y Hart fully
= believes that If another man is elected