The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-24
GOV. ESKRIDGE'S s.BRIEF REVIEW
OF THE NORMAL CONTROVERSIES -
A Strange Medley-The Mountain Labor
and Mouse Is Brought Forth.

and q Mouse Is Brought Forth.
After months mature deliberation
and counsel, c. v. Eskridge has at last
espoused the cause of L. B. Kellogg,
and resumed ''the small controversy"
about the Normal School, where the
article, spoke in the language of a brave
General of "fighting it out on this line,"
if it took all summer, but withdrew in
the thickest of the fight. He appears
again, however, on the spectrum-in
real pictorial splendor-and Eskridge is
his benefactor, factotum, the Roman
knight who leaps into the chasm that
destruction may cease. The plague is
stayed-but the knight perishes. So
the legend has it.
The Governor takes quite a wide
range in his long article, in the Emporia
Tribune of this week, doubtless for the
purpose of making little political CAPT.
tai for himself, as he goes along. For,
however devoted TO the public interest,
it is thought by some, that it is not ex-
clusively for the public good he tolls,
sweats and groans beneath his burdens.
He labors hard to show, though in an
indirect way, how much Emporia and
the Southwest has lost by his not being
in the Legislature this winter. 1t is a
continuation of the same line of argu-
ment he pursued last fall. And the bile
which he now throws up, shows how
terribly his constitution bias been de-
ranged ever Since that defeat. GA blad-
der of putty" in the stomach, could not
have caused worse disorder of the
spleen. 1t is wonder that nature has
not sunk under the load. We defy any
medical faculty, with all the late i'm
proved apparatus, to analyze what he has
spread upon paper. Every philan-
thropist must feel sense of gratitude
that the man has disgorged, when they
see what he has been carrying for four
months. The modification of defeat
and the disorder of mind and body con-
sequent upon it, very naturally, too, &C
counts for the failures of our Represen-
tatives, which he parades so artfully by
exclamation points. Ofcourse, he would
see failures in the man who beat him
before the people, as well as in every
one who contributed to that defeat.
His filings, also, at temperance men, and
the temperance question, have a prac-
teal bearing, doubtless, in his projectile
mind they are designed to have an eff.
feet upon our approaching election, and
should he perchance get upon the Ii.
cense ticket, for mayor or councilman
the capital he now makes would help
him to be elected.
Now as to the question of the teach.
ers' salaries in the Normal School
Every reading person in the community
knows that the subject has been ex
hausted. Why did MI. Eskridge mo-
say his piece on that subject when il
was before the public. Has he any new
light. Doubtless none,-only he has {
way of presenting subject which hC
must think is very forcible and witty
|, Well, he is welcome to all the literar!
reputation his article carries with it
His long, tedious and shallow witticism
about Overstreet's and Stotler's conduc
with the Board of Directors, acre the!
true, furnish no argument. No mat
; ter what the Board agreed upon, ant
| sent in to the Legislature, as its est
: mate of expenses the coming year
! no matter what meeting of the BoarC
we lakeland no matter what Over
; street or Stotler did at those meetings
r which lead or which followed--the Gov
, ernor can rest assured that we have n
5 controversy on this subject. No mat
e ter, we say, about all this twaddle, up
E on which Mr.. Eskridge and kellogg
e place so much stress in playing thei
3 part of the controversy. 1t seems tina
D the Legislature knew but little and car
E ed less about these things. What the
a did for one institution they did for al
{ According to Mr.. Eskrigde's own show
t ing our Representatives, to say the ieas
e were nearer the actual mind of tn
!, Legislature than some of the member
$ of the Board. Governor Harvey, how
= ever, who is the Oldest, best posted, an
e most active member of the Board ou
e side of Emporia, acted all the time wit
d that minority, which is SO smartly rid
i culed by Mr.. E. The Legislature d.
l. cided not to increase salaries this yez
IS in any of the State institutions. This
# in keeping with the reduction of a
Is labor, the depletion of business in ever
e department., the fall in rents and e,