The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-10
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the better man. We should do so again
If the election were 10 be taken over.
The decision cannot be taken a. any
expression of the esteem In which the
two men are held by the people Of this
district. There seemed to be a wide
spread impression that Mr.. Eskridge
could do moro in the Legislature for
our interests than Mr.. Heritage. This,
We think, was an error, but the major
ity differed with ms. All the mateal
interests we have are here, and we say,
with what little experience and obser-
walton we have had in Legislative mat
ters, we had just as soon trust Mr.. Her
itage 10 look after them as Mr. Eskridge.
The principle reason for the defeat
of Mr.. H. may be found In the fact that
no flghtw made by him and his friends
and little work was done for him. We
should not be far from the truth were
we to say that so far as Heritage's side
of the fight was concerned, there was
almost default. There was too much
confidence in Heritage's strength and
Eskridge's unpopularity. Every body
concluded, at once, when the two names
were announced, that Heritage would
be elected by q largo majority. This
would have been the result had the cleo
ton taken place then. All Eskridge
wanted was time. Another fact is,
that electioneering is not to Mr.. Herr
tage's taste. He would not stoop to
make promise that was not sincere, or
that he did not expect to fulfill. When
foolish and false reports were circulated
about him he would not take the troub-
lie to counterbalance them. He is pure
and upright In his life, and he took for
granted that the people of the district
ought t. know this. We believe he did
not go out of town once to electioneer,
while Mr. Eskridge worked night and
day. We believe this district is natu-
rally against Eskridge, because he has
always been beaten when an organized
fight has been made upon him. But
It has to be fight. Politics is his forte.
and like Josh RiIling's pills, he "attends
strictly to business" Had Heritage's
friends made the kind of fight they
ought to have made, the result of Tues
day would have been entirely different.
On the night Of the election last year,
as soon as Mr.. Eskridge found he was
defeated for Representative, he became
a candidate for the same position this
year. To this end he worked the whole
year most assiduously. That defeat
was sore one to him, and this election
was sought to heal it up. In every
sense of the word, Mr.. Eskridge is an
Office seeker and politician. To say he
is not smart in placing a proper value
upon every circumstance calculated to
benefit him, and in turning them to his
own advantage, is to underestimate
him. The circumstance of the failure
of the Normal School appropriation
for q new building, last winter, in the
House, was q most fortunate one for
him, and was used as the foundation
of his political capital, and as his CHIEF
stock-in-trade. It would not have been
otherwise had he been there, but he
succeeded In turning it to his advan'
tags, aud that Is as much as he expected
or wanted of II.
Mr.. Eskridge is the best electioneereI
we ever saw. He is also au fat on hum
bugs and expedients. If he cannot gel
up an argument to suit every voter
there is no man within the circle of oul
acquaintance who can. He looked al
the matter in this way "If am de.
feated again, my bacon is cooked.
cannot run the risk either of being
shelved by going over another year pl
series of years, under last years sting.
ing rebuke." That's the way the matter
presented itself to his mind, and &C
this fight was question of life or death
BE figured, schemed, plead, begged
pulled, hauled, threatened and coaxed
Last year he cried. We do not know
whether he shed any fbrine" this time
or not. He never worked so hard II
J any campaign before. If we are TO be
lieve what we have heard, there will b
wonderful results following his cleo
ton. We mention q few items: Tit
Welsh bottom is to be macadmised thu
railroads ara to be fenced; no NOR
Notwithstanding sparks are to b.
emitted by the locomotives f; restitution
in cash is to be made for damage done
by prairie fires; fabulous sun o
money are to be distributed to the PEG
pie of this district; new churches ar
to spring up; farm produce is to ad
. vance and in fact, we do not know
what is not to be done. 1t will b.
strange indeed If We do not have th
millennium before the ides of March
aad EskIidge standing on the stree
, corners weeping like Alexander becaust
there are f'no moro worlds to conquer.
The worst feature of the case is, as WI
view Il, that he has left nothing fol
next falls canvass.
Eskridge has, to him, one very valua
BILE faculty. He makes people believe
that he is abont the only man that eve
has or ever will accomplish anything
for their local interests. We heard OF
election day that we should have beef
in a very sad fix indeed had not Prov
, idence dropped that gentleman dow
here about the year Of our Lord 1851
We would have had no town, county
seat, no schols, and Last, and more thar
all, we should have resting on our faI6es
cutcheons, as an eye-sore and blotcl
: upon our fair fame-Washington Park
The truth is, Eskridge has done no NOR,
in the legislature for our local INTEREST,"
: thar. others, but he has told the story o
his wonderful achievements so ofteI
that people begin to believe them. HI
: never really had but one fight on bill
intended to benefit the town, and II
: that he was defeated. We have heard hin
crate eloquently over having secured
the passage OF some little local bill tina
no one ever thought of opposing q
: Topeka. Any one else could have Sc
cured its passage as well. The loca
ton of the Normal School here va
really due as much to others rs to him
and its maintenance by the State sine
the location, is as much the work o
others as his. But the point with Es
kridge has been to make the people be
. lieve he was the only man that dis
these things. In this he has succeeded
very well. We do not blame him. /
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