The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-04-11
Tne First Regular Republican Victory
Gn Kansas

From the Lawrence Tribure
We rejoice to be able 10 announce the cleo
ton OF Col. ID. K. Anthony as mayor OF
Leavenwor;b, the metropolitan CITY Of Kan
sas. We rejoice for the sake OF a true Re
publican-but not ~ much for his sake as for
the sake OF the cause he represents Col.
Anthony is Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee. and was one of the
most active members of the recent Repubii-
can State Convention, which unanimously
| endorsed the administration of Presidenr
Grant. He had made himself obnoxious to
| all the enemies Of the Republican party, by
| whatever name they might chose TO be
known. His paper had raised the name of
| Grant for the Presidency among the first, il
| not the very first, before he was nominated
the first time. He had stood up for the Re-
| publican party through good and through
evil report. His public record was that Of a
consistent straightforward unyielding Repub-
lican, who detied his opponents, and yielded
TO no ideas of expediency, and Throughout,
the whole State man could not have been
selected whose principles were better known
or who was more emphatically representa-
tive man OF the Republican party than Col
Anthony. To have defeated him would
have been heraided abroad as victory of the
anti-Grant Liberal Republicans.
The coalition in Leavenworth, or tie ''peo-
pies party" or any other name by which
the Discontinued "Liberals' and Demo
Gratis see fit TO call it, started out with grea.
FLOURISH of trumpe,s'' in regard to the re-
form of all Leavenwor,h, which was to be
extended TO the remotos. parts of the State.
The great reformer of the age Marcus j
PARROT, mounted the rostrum, and announ.
ced 4 = commercial politics. was to have
an e. nd virtue and morality we're to tri
umPi The campaign of PARROT and Sherry
was OF -red. Being no politicians themselves
they we're going to tolerate none. They vert
goine t" arouse the people, and politicians
who couldn't change once year. were to bt
ignored and Kissed out Of all official places
Their Organization was to be "big thing
and il started on, with Committee o
Seventy which was to purge the Kansal
metropolis Of all uncleanness. Such beini
a. regular Republican was to be unknown
after they had spoken. They had raised tn,
first shout for reform, which was to reach
the ends Of the State, and make all the Re
publicans in Kansas wish they had died il
their y, nth. The voice of this reform va
to go TO Cincinnati and rejoice that Conven
| uoh In the INST frults oil 'lliDeraI kepubil
canism" in Kansas.
| Notwithstanding all this Flourish of trum
pets" and this grand array of COMMITTEES
Of Seventy, the regular Republican com
ulittees of Leavenworth called regular con
vention, and elected a Republican withou
any handle 10 his name-one too well know
to require him to announce his position ever,
ten days-and elected him By good rount
majority, and that too, in city where Re
pub!icans and Democrats were nesrly equal,
divided. We rejoice, then, that the stand
ard bearer of Republicanism is honored il
Leavenworth, but We rejoise more that il
this election demagcsueism il put down, ant
the Democratic party is taught a useful les
son that it exhausts their strength to have
few dead political carcasses attached TO thei
organization.