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his head. He did not have any
hair on his head, like you and I,
SO he made his head very sore,
and people used to call him the
! Great Sore Head, and then hIr.
Greeley would say: "You lie, you
lie" There was a great many
men besides Mr.. Greeley who itch
ed all over in spots to be Presi-
dent, or Governor, or Constable,
or something else beside what
God intended them to be.
These men were all very sorry
when they saw mr.. Greeley's
head, and they said, let US make
him President, and maybe his
poor head will get well. So they
all got together without regard
to country, creed, or color, poll
tics or religion" and they called
themselves "Democratic-R epubli-
cans" which is a Greek word, and
means "anything to get at the
Treasury" The Treasury is a
large building in Washington,
where all the gold belonging to
the United States is kept until
there Is a corner in Wall street.
You don't know what a corner is,
my children, and I will not make
you unhappy by telling you.
Well, as was Saying, all the
people got together in a place
called Cincinnati, where they pack
a great deal of pork, and they all
agreed that Mr.. Greeley was a
good man because he did not have
any religion, and that he was a
great man because he did not have
any politics, and would make a
good President as he would not
have any of those things to bother
him. So they told him to dress
himself up nice, and to black his
boots, and ''swilg around the cir
cle." You love to swing, do you
not, children? Mr.. Greeley was
like a child in a great many things.
He loved to play about the garden
amongst the rhubarb, and cabbage,
and guano, etc, and catch Demo
Gratis in his large White Hat. A
Democrat is fowl that eats crow
until it is gorged, and is then east
~ caught by Mr.. Greeley. But,
alas, it made Mr.. Greeley very sick
to swing, and it made all of those
wicked men sick that told him to
go and swing, and they all wept
and said, "Don't you remember
how sick it made old Mr.. johnson
to swing around the circle?" But
MIR. Greeley said, "you are always
saddest when 1 swing" and went
on swinging, and his head got sor-
er all the time, and he got raving
crazy, and his friends did not know
whether he was Horace Greeley or
Daniel Pratt or George Francis
Train. My children, the moral of
this sad story is, if any coed little
boy wants to be President of these
United States he must never
''swing around the circle. From
the Seneca Falls Courier.
A "STRAYED Orr"
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/ President Grant has never favor
ed land subsidies Mr.. Greeley hal
uniformly and Internationally ad
vocated and endorsed them. Pres.
Iident Grants whole public record
is opposed to- the squanderfng o.
the public domain Mr.. Greeley
record is persistent and unwaver.
ing series of pleas for the whole
sale giving away of our lands to
corporations and SPECTATORS. Pres.
ident Grant has never uttered q
word of encouragement for any
iand-subsidy scheme; Mr.. Greeley
has uniformly used his pen and his
voice in behalf of such schemes,
| going even to the extent of insult
ing and abusing the settlers of Kan
sas for trying to preserve their
homes from the grasp of the land
grabbers.
The nominees for Governor in
our State occupy positions similar
to those of the Presidential candi-
dates. Mr.. Osborn is an uneom-
promising opponent of the land
grant system, and the outspoken
friend and advocate of the settlers
and their interests. He Las had no
hand In any of the numerous land
Hjobs" in Kansas, and has invaria-
bly, sided and sympathized with,
and frequently rendered unsought
and unpaid assistance to, the labor
ing men who have come here from
other States to make homes for
themselves and families. Mr..
Walker was and is q Immigrant
advocate. He has favored all of the
grants that have been made, and be-
lieves with Mr.. Greeley, that the
only mistake in the policy was in
not giving away hundred times as
much of the State for railway pur-
poses as was given away. He was
the friend and advocate of the Usage
treaty, which proposed to sell the
larger portion of five of our best
counties to railroad corporations at
nineteen cents per acre, and thus
shut out emigration from one of
the richest and most desirable sec
tons of our State. And he is to-
day the owner of fifty thousand
acres of Kansas lands-unoccupied
and unimproved, held at high
prices, and yielding not even so
much 10 the state as the poor pit
lance of an annual tax.
LOOK AT THE FACTS.
Let the people of Kansas, and
particularly the settlers in the south
ern part of the State, take the
points we have presented and care
fully study them. We are willing
to risk the whole case on the fore
going exhibit. The record of the
Republican party on the land ques-
ton alone is sufficient to entitle it
to the unanimous and hearty sup
port of the pioneer farmers and its
candidates are in perfect accord
with that record. The Democratic
party, on the contrary, has never
done anything for the settlers and
it presents candidates for their sup
port whose records and sympathies
are entirely antagonistic to the ne
cessities and desires of the settler
element of our State. We have
the facts. Let the intelli-
gent and candid people of Kansas
give them attention.
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People who are trying to get on
in this world in 9 decent, honest
sort Of way, but who have been
led to wonder during this campaign
whether, after ali, honesty was real
lY the best policy, should take cour-
age. There are quite good many
abroad in the land who are not ras-
Gals. This campaign, humiliating
as il Is to all good citizens. will re-
suit in much good. Besides defeat
ing the Democratic party, it will
show that q man cannot be dishon.
est and retain the confidence or
even the respect of the people.
There is something in the advocacy
of q principle besides personal ag-
gTandizement. It will show thai
the American people read-some-
Thing the managers of the Democ.
racy and scalawags from the Re
publican party never have known
or seem to have forgotten It will.
| teach our statesmen not to over
| estimate their influence. It viii
| teach them they cannot say . thins
one day and the next say they didna
| esy &, and If they did take il al
hack. and still retain the confidence
OF their fellow citfzens
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The Two SIDEs.-Greeley's in
suits to the loyal sentiments of the
nation have aroused the indigpa5,
ton of loyal men everywhere.
The Bridgeport (Conn. Standard
well expresses the general feeling,
when it says: ds - .sse3zss.s,
"To hear Mr.. Greeley talk aohco
would think that there had been
but one side to the late war, and4
that the Confederate side; tlIats
there was nothing to forget and
forgive save the fact that We had :,
conquered the rebellion and drawn
the teeth from the viper that would
have stung US to death. Because
the ex-leaders of the rebellion pro
fess to be willing to forgive us and
will accept at our hands again the
places and hoHors which they have
betrayed and disgraced, he wonitl5
clasp hands with them and give
them all they ask. Seeming mott
to see the foolishness of such. q
course, he would allow the burg.
lar detected in an attempt to rob.
and kill him, to depart in pchce,
and give him in addition the goods
he would have stolen. This is
Mr.. Greeley's idea of amnesty.
1t is drivel, and weakness, and
imbecility instead. Are there no8s
Northern soldiers as we'll as SouttsT
ern, and is it justice to surrender
that for which Northern soldiers,
fought, and suffered and died ont. ,
of maudlin sympathy for those
whom they conquered? rho.
American people cherish no a4lf11
mostly against the late. rebelIious
States; they have no feelings Or
hate or revenge for the soldiers ,
whom they overcamc: but tfiey
have not forgotten the ereat.DsFIfssg
clples which triumphed tt1roa OH
the blood, and toll and loss of that
terrible war, nor wiz they isn rraa :,
der them. or forget them. or iax;.,
them aside for time even To
crafty the ambition of 4 y.afnssss1
man, whose weakness has .raaels
him the tool Of designing. .politi-'
eians.n ssI.as .tsNe-a'
=
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TWO PICTURES.

Senator Conkling, of New York,
thus forcibly and truthfully draws
couple of pictures in one of his
able speeches in New York:
Who lured the South into seces-
sion and bloodshed? 1t was not
the quiet soldier who made war ter
rible while it lasted, and who has
since, throughout all our borders
and with all the world, said effect
ually, Let us have peace 1t was
the New York Tribune and its ed
itor, whose mad preachings for Sc
cession and disunion bore down
the Union men and the Union sem
~timent of the South and cut the
Gulf States loose from their moor
ings. 1t was the words of Horace
Greeley which Robert Toombs read
in the Georgia Convention to ST.
lence Union arguments. Georgia
was the Empire State of the South,
and without her secession would
have failed, and the ordinance of
secession was carried by the assur-
ance of Horace Greeley that the
rights on which our fathers stood
in separating from Great Britain
were the rights of Southern dis
unionists, and that coercion should
never be used to maintain the
Union.
Grant, when the war had been fought
out, held back an army, flushed with
victory and maddened by barbara
ties to comrades, and refused the
men he had led through unexampled
battles the privilege of seeing their
captive laydown their arms !?
Who refused to accept the sword of
Lee, the idol of the South, and dis
missed the rebel troops on parole,
every officer retaining his arms and
his horse? Who made recommen-
dations so liberal and gave advice so
lenient to the South that Charles
Sumner denounced him in the Sem
ate for making a embarrassing re-
port? Who confronted Andrew
johnson and demanded that the
plighted faith of the nation should
be kept with Lee and his officers
when johnson would have tried
them as traitors? Who, as Presi-
dent, gave orders to our naval CON-
manders in every sea to bring home
without price every destitute fugi-
tive rebel tired of traitorous and
starving exile in foreign land
Who placed in high position Aker-
man, LoHgstreet and other leaders
in the lost cause because in manly
sincerity they accepted the results
of the war? All these are the acts
of man of deeds, who for three
years has been, and for five years
will be, the President of the United
States. Think you that security
peace and concord in the Soutf
would be fostered by galvanizln(
that skeleton of rebellion and tina
half-strangled body of the Ku Klu1
which are to-day the hopes and re
lance of the Greeley movement?
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Some of the leading Chicaso

Some of the leading ChicaSC
packers are confident that the
coming winter packing season vii
be an unusually active one, and
opinions are expressed that that
city alone will pack ], 800, 600 hogs
during the month of November
December and January, or an
average of nearly 100000 pei
week. One firm calculates to
pack $4,000 hogs during the sea-
son.
The new iron bridge of the
Maine Central railroad over the
Androscoggin, at Brunswick, was
shipped in forty days from the
time the order was given, and
erected in eighteen days. It will
aid in understanding the magni-
tude of the work to know that it
consists of four half-deck spans,
of 1S5 feet each. The bridge was
bvilt by the Phoenixville Bridge
Works, and the contract price was
$50, $50.
A meeting or the manufacturers
Of ground sumac, in Virginia,
comprising the representatives of
twelve firms, was held at Freder-
icksburg, Va, last week. This
convention was called for the pur-
pose of devising measures to pro-
tect and develop the business of
grinding sumac. 1t was stated
that the present crop of sumae
would be a short one, and an adj
vance in the price of the ground
article within the next thirty days
was anticipated. The meeting
adjourned to reassemble at RicAs
mond, Va, on October 3Oth.
The population of Kansas is
over 400, 000-of this, 100000 came
in since 1855. This population Is
scattered over sixty-five counties,
containing 1000 square miles, or
3S,224,O00 acres. This is only
about half the territory of the
state. Sixty thousand people
have come into the state each year
during the past few years.
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TO THE FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.

The editor of THE News has
stated in another column, the OBJ
ject intended in setting aside this
column for the use of those inter
ested in the subjects which may
properly be discussed in its space.
In assuming the responsibility
of seeing that this column is fill
ed each week, we have done so
believing that there will be no lack
of suitable material, since there
are so many earnest thinkers and
workers in our own immediate
vicinity, some of whom have al
ready manifested their willingness
TO aid in the work, and others
would have done the same, we
have no doubt, had we had leisure
to consult them. Because we have
not had such leisure, we now say
to all who may have any matter of
interest to present, we shall be
glad of their help. OF course 1t
is desirable that nothing shall ap-
pear in this column that does not
have direct reference to matters
pertaining to the subject of edu-
cation, and it is our intention to
exclude any article which does not
meet this requirement; if then, we
shall see fit to reject any article,
we, by so doing, shall not pro-
nounce upon its merits or demer-
its, only so far as regards fitness
for our purpose.
County Superintendent, teach
ers, school officers, and others hav-
ing anything of interest to com
municate to the public, that will
tend to advance the cause of cdu-
cation, will always have room al
lowed them for such purposes.
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Why HAVE AN EDUCATIONAL
COLUMN IN A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
In order that the calture Of the
schools may influence the mass OF
the people, and help them into a
higher life. Why is it that there
is SO little sympathy between the
schools and the masses? Beca use
the schools persist in holding
themselves above the masses.
How often does the farmer or me
chanic ask, what good does your
knowledge of languages and
mathematics do me? and he asks
with reason, too; for the good ii
should do him is often held above
him as too high for his apprecia-
ton. Our object, then, is to lead
all to enjoy the good which flows
from that culture which, while it
may not add dollars to our for.
tunes, does increase the enjoy
ments of our lives many fold
The world of the scholar must be
made real to the world in which
he lives, SO that the men and wo-
men with whom he moves, and
ameng whom he labors, shall feel
that he does not work in vain.
The culture which he enjoys SO
keenly must be made to exert its
elevating influences upon others,
then will they no longer laugh his
theories and his labors to scorn.
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a COMPARISON.

1t will be seen, therefore, that
in the last ten years of it's ascend
ancy the democratic party gave
away more of the public domain
to states for railway purposes than
the Republican party has thus dis
posed of in the twelve years of its
supremacy.
This is not generally known, we
think, to voters of either party /;
and yet it is one of the most i'm
portant points in the whole con-
troversy. 1t shows that if blame
attaches to anybody for the Civ
ing away of public lands, it is
much more justly chargeable to
the democrats than to the Repub-
licans. 1t shows that the land
grant policy was in full blast
when the Republican party as
sumed control of the government,
ana that it has been considerably
less prodigal in the matter than
its predecessor was.
But there is really no blame to
be laid at the door of either party
The policy was approved by the
people of all political beliefs; and
that it has been of the greatest
value in promoting the settlement
and development of the states thu.
assisted, no one pretends to dis
pute.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD GRANTS.
In 1860, when the Republican
party first obtained control of tn,
government, the railroad land
grant policy was universally con
ceded to be judieious, and nobod,
objected to its continuance. Th
vast benefits which it had confer
red were apparent, and there wa
a general feeling in favor Of hav
ing it more extensively applied
The national political convention
of that year ali united in demand
, ing the construction of q raiiwa
to the Pacific, under the auspice
ana at the expense ofthe nations
; government. This is anothe
/ thing which, if generally known
is not generally remembered
The fourth resolution ofthe Doug
las platform declared in favor {
governmental aid to such 3 ROAD
: saying it was some of the necess
ities of the age" The seysnt
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EMPORIA NEW S.
tFrom the Topeka Daily COmnonw eaitt. ]
THE LAND ISSUE.
FACTS FOR KANSAS VOTER.
.ha1
The Records of the Two Parties Com
pared.

The land issue is one of especial
Importance in Kansas, and occu-
pies larger share in our home
campaign than any other question.
Both parties stand upon substan-
TALLY the same ground concern
ing the future disposition of the
public domain, and the voter can
decide between them only by de-
teImining from the past which can
be the more safely trusted in the
future. It will be well, therefore,
to look into the history of this
land matter, and get at the facts
necessary to the forming of just
and true verdict.
iy THE FIRST IMMIGRANTS.
Contrary to the popular under
standing, the land-grant policy
was not originated by the Repub-
lican party, nor was it adopted
specially to facilitate the construc-
ton of railroads. The giving
away of lands to 'tmonopolies"
began before the republican parry
was born or dreamed Of and be-
fore single mile of railroad had
been built in this country. The
first land grant was made forty
five years ago, to the state of In
diana, for the benefit of the Wa
bash and Erie canal. Similar
land grants were also made in sub
sequent years to Ohio and other
states. The following table ex-
hibits the total umount of
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j. IL. DAVIS

= IvHRY, FEED AND SALE STABLE, ON
Il Youth avenue between Commercial and
Mechanics street, is now prepared to let
livery teams, carriages, sleighs and saddle
horses, at living prices. Good care taken in
boarding transient stock. Also good wagon
yard. Jan1u
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EDUCATIONAL.

This column will be under the i'm
mediate control of PROF. S. S. BABcoCK,
to whom all articles for publication per
be addressed.
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REPUBLICAN RAILROAD GRANTS.

REPUBLICAN RAILROAD GRANTS.
When the Republican party
came into power, twelve years ago,
it continued the policy inaugural
ed by Mr.. Douglas, in response to
the public Judgment, and has al
lowed grants for similar purposes
to be made as follows:
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GRANTs ZOE CANALs
made prior to the beginning OF
4 L.. l..

Here were nearly four million
acres of public land ''squandered''
on canals quarter of a century
before the Republican party came
into being, and while tLe stage
coach and the oX-cart were still
numbered among public blessings.
THE ORIGINAL RAILROAD GRANT.
The policy of granting lands to
railroads had its origin in the
Democratic party, and its author
was Stephen A. Douglas. The
FIRST grant for that purpose was
made to the state of Illinois in
1850, to aid in the construction of
the Central railroad in that state,
and it was the most valuable
grant, in proportion to the ex-
penditure required of the grantee,
that has ever been made by our
government for any purpose. This
grant was supported in the senate
by Is Democrats and s wings, Z
Democrats and 7 wings voting
against it; while in the house it
was supported by 60 Wings and Al
Democrats, and opposed by 43
Democrats and 80 Wings. Among
the Democrats voting for it were
Thomas H. Benton, Jefferson
Davis, Jessie d. Bright and Steph-
en- A. Douglas.
DEMOCRATIC RAILROAD GRANTS.
The Central grant had such a
beneficial effect upon Illinois, that
a great impulse was given to pop
ular feeling in favor of the policy;
and the Democratic party, having
control of congress, extended it
to other states DESTROYS of reaping
similar advantages. Thus during
the ten years preceding the cleo
ton of Lincoln-a period of con-
tinuous neutrality-suspicious. were
granted to states, il trust for rail
ways, as follows:
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HOTELS.
MADISON HOUSE,

MADISON HOUSE,
TMP0RIA, KANSAS, 9th avenue
u near Commercial street. This favor
lie hotel has been thoroughly refitted and
furnished. The most careful attention
paid to the comfort OF guests.
30tf . NJ. L. FUNKHOUSKR.
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LIVERY STABLES.

z livery, FEED AND SALE STABLE
IL It'll avenue, corner Mechanics street.
Ample room for stock. Facilities good,
and prices reasonable. An excellent line
OF horses and carriages for hire. Call and
see nae. 10y1
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sAR BIER SHOP
wM. HUESTTs.

"Ms AOEoA10g
TNIRST-CLAS3 SHAVING, HAIR CUT
TING, etc, in Williams building, cor
ner Commercial street and Sixth averue. En-
trance on both streets. jan1g72-1y
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IL. A. LHAMrLIH. D.F. HUuHK
CHAMPLIN q HUGHES,

CTONE CUTTERS AND CONTRACTORS.
- We are prepared to do all kinds of stone
cutting, such as window stills, circular caps
OF any design. door siils, columns, mouldings,
and all work in theItone cutting limo that
builders may desire. They also furnish bases
and sockets for tombStones. Orders promptly
nlled. Shop on the corner OF Fourth Avenue
and Constitution street. Emporia, Kans=s.
JanlT2ti
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MASONIC.
ODD FEIIows
Patronize Home Industry.

TmPOrIa Wholesale Furni.
n tare Factory, just fitted up new,
with complete steam-power, now in op-
paid to job work, as scroll and straight
saving, turning, moulding, mortising,
etc., st 75c. per hour. Table legs kept on
hand. Stair balusters, railing and newell
posts made to order. Factory on I'd ave-
St., Emporia, Kan. 81. KNORR.
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BUILDERS. ARCHITECTS. &C.
JAMES MEANS,
CHARLES WHEELOCK,

A RCHITECT and BUILDER, Is prepared
IA 70 furnish plans and specifications for all
kinds Of mechanical structures. Is prepared
20 do carpenter and joiner work, either by
Sixth avenue and Constitution street.
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