The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-14
'EIEE u~DErENDHvT TICK.

the strife aud jeai1usy la this con-
vcniion, for office, that none of the
strong msp in the movement could
De nominated Tor Governor. a ma
jority of the "Gxcrs" in The party
are ambitions for high honors and
it was not their intention 10 give
any one of their number start by
q nomination in this convention.
They consequently took men who
cannot possibly be in anybody's
way if success attained. They go
on the old Jim Lane plan.
Mr.. Lusey, the nominee for Gov
ernor, resident of Miami county, is
q new man, having only been in the
State some three years. lie was a
member of the legislature last wia-
ter, and as such attract d no atten-
ton. But he made speech at the
convention. This speech will show
his calibre, and comment is unneces-
sary.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION !:
In the first place am not an office
seeker; l have not sought the Office
of governor. l am not seeking il
now, nor any other Office.
My friends have seen fit to present
my name TO this convention, unso-
liciteted by me and without my
knowledge or consent. l did not
know until last night that L was
even thought of in connection with
this Office. l am not a politician,
gentlemen. l am farmer; think
know how to raise corn; 1 also
know something about stock breed
ing, and know good horse when
l see it. / also profess to have some
knowledge of political economy,
and l assure you gentlemen, that l
am opposed to the present policy of
this government. AS said before.
/ am not politician, but am deep
~ interested in the cause of reform /;
l believe in it have believed in it
1 talKed of it four years before l
moved from Lyon county, Iowa.
| want to see this movement sue
| coed; but / am not seeking a nom-
ination at your hands. My friends
are responsible for placing my name
| before you, and / must confess that
when l first learned their contem-
plated action, felt as did Abraham
Lincoln, when the news of his first
nomination at Chicago first reached
him: THAT my brooches were q
little too short" AS to my antece-
dents, have always been a republi-
can, but believe the time has come
for new party, and if this conyen-
ton gives us q good platform and q
good ticket, | believe we can elect
it. AS to the governorship, if there
is man who can make more prom
ises TO the reform party than can,
that is the man whom l will sup.
port.
For Lieutenant Governor L. Har-
rington of Brown county was nom.
mated. Who is Harrington? Will
somebody rise aud explain?
Nelson Abbott, editor of the Dem
ocratic AtchisOn Patriot, is the
nominee for Secretary of State
We should think Republicans would
make wry faces in swallowing him,
as he has abused them for years with
all manner Of slang and misrepre-
sentalion.
AT last Gewhillikens p. Smith
has reached the goal. lie was sol.
EMMY nominated for State Auditor
Gewhillikens left the Republican
party and Joined the Liberal process.
sion because he could not get office
He edits q patent out side paper al
some point on the lower Neosho
we believe in Wilson county. He
is most intensly TOMBSTONE 81
those sort of honest men that his &C.
quaintances would not trust with
their pocket books as far as yoH
could throw two-year old bull by
the horns. His forte is speech ma.
king. He can get up and speak on
till he talks you to death. The poor
Independents who have any work
to do want to provide themselves
with those cards representing man
that was talked to death. Gewhil.
likens will be arou.d, aud there is
no time to lose.
Charles Rooster, OF Marshall
county, was nominated for State
treasurer. He is said TO be q good
and competent man. We under.
stand he docs not want the office
aud will not accept it.
J. II. Hallowell, of Cherokee. wal
nominated for Attorney General.
The nomination for the office OF
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction was conferred on one OF
the nOblest and best men in Kansas,
Prof. II. b. Norton. He was prob
ably not consulted about it at all.
He is understood 10 be candidate
before the Republican convention
for this position. We presume he
will not accept the nomination.
His qualifications and his honesty
are not doubted by those who know
him.
w. =. Douthitt was nominated
for Associate Justice. lie IS
only conspicuous for his well known
unfitness for the position. He is
4 "briefless baristev" of Topeka.
CoNGREssMAN-IsT DISTRICT.
The Delegates separated into con-
gressional district conventions af-
ter finishing the State ticket. The
conventions for the second and
third districts adjourned, the second
to Ottawa and the third to Emporia,
to meet at some future day. The
most surprising thing in the whole
proceedings was the resurrection of
the old played out politician, NJ. j.
Parrot, as a Reform candidate for
congress in the first district. This
was the soap shesf" to the program.
He was twice elected as g delegate
TO Congress when we were q terri
tory, and never did anything while
in Congress. Politics has been his
only profession since. lie has no
regular business. At the time of
our admission into the Union he
was quite popular. at a State con.
vention in Topeka, in 1861, after the
rebels had fired on Eft. Sumter,