The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-18
END OF THE CONE MAN. BUSINESS.

The people of Kansas, especially
those who have the best welfare of the
State at heart, are sick and tired of
Clarke and Clarke, and are rejoic-
ed at the beginning of the end" We
have had Lane and anti-Lane and
Clarke and anti-Clarke ever since the
State was admitted into the Union, in
1861. A good portion of this time q
Justice of the Peace could not be elect
ed in many portions of the State, with
out the candidates taking sides for
somebody or against somebody. This
has necessarily been the case to some
extent, we will admit, but that it has
been far too much so for the good of
the state and the party in power, all
must have seen. Our early history was
one that turned the minds of everybody
toward politics, and made us all parti-
zans. We have had but one party. and
consequently have divided on men be-
longing to the same party. Our poll
tics and the issues on which the cam
paigns have mostly been conducted
have been personal" The excitement
amid which we were born drew to US a
great many men who came here with
no other motive than to offer their SER
vices as candidates for Office. The man
who could accommodate them with the
desire of their hearts, to wit, office,
could always command their votes and
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their political god. Hence it was a
tolerably easy task for o shrewd dema-
gogue to get into power, and after get
ting once into Congress or the Senate
from this State, it has been found diff
cult job to supplant them. With the
patronage of two or three ordinary Con-
gressmen at their di4lnsais with eight
or ten hundred office holders with that
other large and interesting class of pa
triots who always hang on to the coat
tails of somebody for the purpose of
obtaining Office; with the diversified
local and railroad interests of different
sections of the State as special hobbies,
it has been hard to GUST an ordinarily
shrewd demagogue when once he got
snugly ensconced at Washington. No
matter how corrupt, or how unworthy,
they have heretofore been omnipetent.
Those who dared to raise voice against
them, were made TO feel the power of
their tyrannical reign, and even many
of those who would cheerfully hurl
them from power, were compelled, for
prudential reasons, TO seal their mouths.
Thus it has been, to the shame of
the better portion of our people. But
thus it will be no more, thanks to Prov
idence. There are thousands of new
people in Kansas who have not been
run" by two or three Office holders in
the various communities. They passed
upon the some man power" in Septem-
Der, and the "sole representative" was
thrown aside by the popular verdict.
From this verdict he appealed. BY sill
the tricks known TO gentlemen of his
school of politics, by boiling nomina-
tions, by affiliating with democrats,
and by trickery of every kind, he sought
to hoist himself into higher place. The
verdict has been rendered again, and
from the best information that can be
had, the people repeat that they want q
they are done with the
Zone man business" The indications
arc that lord Sidney win be permitted
to return to the private walks of life
after the 4th of March next.
Tho best feature of the matter is,
that after the ensuing Congress we shall
have three members instead of one, and
that the immense patronage of the State
will no longer be yielded by a "sole
Representative" TO the detriment of the
country. The eight hundred patriots
who are holding the Federal Offices, and
those two thousand others who want to
hold them, are hereafter to look to 9TH
er sources for them. rather than the Sc
lcct ''ring" which has represented us in
Washington for the past few years.
The State will be divided into three
districts. People of the various dis
tricts viii know their men, and select
them on their merits. If they do not
behave well, it will be possible for
them to confer together and overthrow
unfaithful servants. No gentleman
sent to Washington will dare to spend
his entire time in scheming and PLAN
ming for his own return. Everybody
rejoices that better day is at hand
for us at the national capitol-that no
longer viii one man run this State
that we are marching out from under
the control of few schemers-that
the interests Of somebody Or anti
SOMEBODY win no longer form the basis
OF orr Kansas politics.