The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-12
THE TWO CONVENTIONS.

lncluentAl 10 any anu HI SOfCiH-
ments is the feature of corruption
and abuses. Probably in the hlsto-
~ of no party or faction OF any
other country-at any rate no point
| ical party in our own country-has
corruption been exposed and pun
| ished, or abuses ferreted out and
rectified more persistently than has
been the case in the great RepubiI-
can party of the United States. In
| proportion to the number OF men
in Office. less number arc guilty
of corruption, of speculation, OF
embezzelment, than has been inc
case in anv party that preceded the
Republican party in the control of
public affairs in the United States.
In proportion to the amount of
monies entrusted to officials, a less
amount has been stolen from the
people than under any previous adj
ministration. That there have been
repeated instances of corruption, of
speculation, of embezzelment, since
the Republican party has come into
power, is not to be denied. But no
sooner has any such action on the
part of any official became appar-
cnt, than investigation and removal
has been the immediate result.
Even the attaching of suspicion to
the character of any public officer
as an official has been deemed suf-
ficient cause for the speedy appoint
ment of his successor. This course
has had the result of increasing the
incentives to honesty and fidelity
on the part of the officials, and has
produced an honest administration,
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ton of the national debt in the face
of sudden and sweeping reductions
of the revenue.
But not alone does the party pay
attention to those of its members
who hold public positions under the
Government. Abuses OF whatever
nature in its own ranks, in the con-
duct OF party machinery, in its
conventions, district, county, State,
and national,) in its periodical CAM
paigns, in all that pertains to the
movements of this great party,
wherever an abuse or state of af-
fairs that might tend to abuse, has
been discovered to exist, the atten-
ton of its leaders, as well as its
rank and file, is turned toward dis
covering and effecting remedy for
that abuse.
A prominent instance of this has
recently occurred in this State.
Too often in the history of Kansas
have candidates for the Congress
sional nomination sought in the
State Republican conventions, to
"swap off" with candidates for nom
ination to State offices. This might,
too frequently, lead to the nomina-
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offices without due attention to
their fitness, morally or mentally,
their standing at homo, or their
merit in precedence of other candi-
dates. While this trading of NOM
nations was attempted in the State
Republican conventions of 1868 and
1870, yet each time good, honest
and competent men were nominal
ed on the general State ticket. In
1872, with three Congressman to be
nominated, the prospect of the
| "sRapping" evil became a source of
anxiety to the entire party. To dis
cover an effectual remedy was an
object of earnest thought to the
members of the State Central Com
mittee, who happily hat upon a plan
which will obviate the evil antici-
pated. On the 4th day of next Sep
TENDER at the same hour (twelve
o'clock m.) two Republican State
Conventions will each meet, the
one at Lawrence, the other at Tope-
| ka. On the Thursday preceding,
the Republican voters of each Rep
resentative district in the State will
meet in convention and elect four
delegates, two of whom are to at
tend the convention at Lawrence,
which is to nominate three Con-
gressmen and three Presidential
| electors, and the other two are to
attend the convention at Topeka,
| which is to nominate candidates for
Governor and other State Offices.
There can be no trading of nominal
tons by this arrangement, and TO
the State Central Committee the
thanks of all Kansas Republicans
are due for the effectual remedy
they have prescribed for this great
evil.
Can a political party whose effort
it is to frowl down and correct
evils and abuses, to discover and
punish dishonest officials, fail to
carry for its ticket the masses of the
people? We think not.-lH1m-
boldt Union.