The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-28
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
Judge Lowe, p. p. Elder and Col. Phillips
In EmpOria
Foster Makes a Speech.

On Thursday evening last our court
room was well filled to listen to the
Republican speakers. Of those who had
Republican nominee for Congressman,
put in an appearance. Hon. p. P. Elder,
Republican nominee for Lieutenant
Governor, came over from Ottawa, and
addressed the meeting.
1t had been announced by hand bills
that r. G. Foster, Democratic nominee
for Congress, would speak at the same
time and place. This announcement
had been made, as Mr.. Foster claimed,
without his knowledge or consent. The
Republican speakers, in a commendable
spirit of liberality, offered him half the
time, for which he thanked them and
SO the audience was favored with joint
discussion, although this was not one of
the points put down in the programme
for the opposing candidates to meet.
Judge loves speech pleased our peo-
pie. If any of them had before enter
tanned doubts of his fitness for the posi-
ton he is running for, these doubts
were dispelled. He is an able, logical,
forcible and dignified speaker. He is
well acquainted with the issues now be-
fore the people, and discussed them in
a satisfactory manner. In Judge Lowe
the people of Kansas will have Con-
gresham of whom they will not be
| ashamed.
Mr.. Foster, according to the agree
ment made before the speaking COM
menced, next addressed the audience.
He took, for the most part, good Re-
publican grounds; endorsed the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to
the Constitution, and rejoiced at the
triumph of the Union arms and the
overthrow of slavery. If Mr.. Foster
makes the same speeches in strong
Democratic communities as he did here,
the old copperheads will not vote for
him. He found fault with the Repub-
lican policy in relation to revenue and
tariff laws. He can get many Republic
cans to agree with him that mistakes
have been made in our revenue and tax
systems, but one of the noticeable things
about his speech was that he suggested
nothing, in Our opinion, that would re-
lieve the burdens of the people, or in any
way make matters better. 1t comes
with a very bad grace for Democratic
orators to rant about high taxes. Every
one knows the reason that almost every
article of consumption is taxed. The
money goes to pay the debt of a war
brought upon the country by members
of the Democratic party. No Republic
can is responsible for that. No Repub-
lican State seeded from the Union. No
Republican community took up arms
against the Government, and while
Democratic orators, including friend
Foster, are lampooning the Republican
party because they are in favor of rails
ing taxes to pay off the national debt
saddled upon the country by the Demo
Gratis, they ought at least to say that the
I Republican party is not responsible fol
the high taxes. 1t was all well enough
for Mr.. Foster, also, to tell that there
were over three hundred defaulting tax
} gatherers, but he ought to inform the
J public how many of them were the ap-
politics of that pink of Democratic per.
fiction, Andrew johnson. Mr.. Foster
ought, also, to tell the people in his
speeches, that during the administration
of General Grant, the Democratic ma
tional debt ha sheen reduced one hun
dred and seventy millions Of dollars, and
that the Republican Congress is reduc
ing taxes at every session as rapidly al
circumstances will admit. Mr.. Foster.
jokes were creditable enough, although
some of them were far-fetched, an6
were received with rather faint grins.
After Foster retired from the stanC
Hon. P. p. Elder entertained the audi
ence with a forcible speech of fifteen o.
twenty minutes, in which he knocked
the bottom out of many of the Demo
l cratic aspirants trumped-up arguments
Both the Republican speakers were wei
received, and the meeting did good il
the way of calling attention to the is
sues of the campaign, and remindin:
Republicans to be on hand and do thei
duties.
Col. VIM. A. Phillips came into tn
!. meeting at late hour. The audienc
being tired and the hour being late, tn
!. meeting adjourned until Friday evening
to listen to this old friend of Republi
canism and Freedom. A considerable
Y audience greeted him the next evening
= and he made = most mastery defeAs