The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-21
ANOTHER NEW Party.

On Saturday last seven down
trOdden cleaners in life's troubled |
pathways - seven "serfs" - seven
Slaves" on whose necks is the gall
ing yoke of the bondage inflicted by
the "tax-grabbers, "devil fishes" and
sich like vermin, met in the court
house in this city, pursuant to call,
to relieve their burdened souls, and
shake off the yokes of their masters.
A witness of the sad scenes tells us
there were seven of them. They
met under the call for the meeting
of the Farmers Cooperative Asso-
citation. 1t is true one of them had
narrowed up mis- soul" in THE
News of last week in q solemn pro-
test against making the Co-opera-
tive Association q political ma
chine. Then he turned around and |
went in with Six other solemn indi- |
viduals in an attempt to make it |
political machine. ItmAkes q great |
difference with him whose animal |
is gored. While it was q crime in |
his eyes for the Republican secreta-
ry to even suggest that delegates to
the meeting of the Association be
elected on the same day as the Re-
publican primary meetings, for the
SAKE of convenience, 1t was all right
for him to attempt to turn it into a
nolgffcaf v,,aohSna m fha aawa dau
of the meeting OF the Republican
county convention. Republicans
have no rights which this sweating
son of toll must respect. They
must stand back for a few frothy
Reformers. We understand the Rev.
Milton j. frey was there and in
dulged again in TRADE Of abuse
toward the Republicans for daring
to hold q meeting here on the first
of August. The reverend gentle
man evidently cannot get over the
bad blood raised in his veins by the
demonstration the Republicans
made that day, and the complete
failing his "big Injun" from juno
ton City re ceived. It is q great
pity the people do not submit to let
this young gentleman run them. 1t
Is great pity they differ with him.
They ought not to he so downright
naughty as to get up q meeting
contrary to his views. 1t makes
him mad. Onr people have had a
good degree of respect for Mr..
frey, and we trust he will not
make an ass of himself about this
matter, which has been satisfactorily
explained to all reasonable men.
Well, as we said, the seven down
trodden shriekers met. And what
did they do-the immortal seven ?
Organized another new party to be
called '"The Double Distilled, High
Pressure, Farmers, Mechanics and
Laboring WOrkingmen's Fretting
Politicians Association" 1t was
afterwards concluded to call it "The
Farmers, Mechanics and W orking-
mems Association" If it would
not be out of order we should like
to know what difference there is be-
tween a working man and a me-
chanic-or whether there is q dis
tinction between the work perform
ed by one man, and that performed
by another. Are there to be de-
grees in this new party? Or does
this new-fangled party merely at
tempt to cover 80 much ground for
the sake of catching votes.
But the thing that surprises
US most is that the parties-the sew
en- patriot-slaves-to-wit: 10. Ran.
dolph, who everybody knows don't
want any Office, the Rev. Milton
frey, who is constantly lodging
around among the Neosho hills to
keep an Office from hitting him, and
who could not possibly be induced
to run for congress or state senator,
and our good humored friend Felix
q. Hunt, who has meyer held Office
but eleven years, and who would
not run again-have deliberately
gone back on the Independent party
so soon. We had expected some of
them would do so just before or
soon after the November election,
but why they do SO now, when the
young party has just been organized
and after they had been its accouch-
ers here, and its trusted leaders-one
of them even being a member of
the state committee-is q sumner.
Where is Davis aud Merlius? Do
they permit their tender goslings to
show the "white feather" thus early
in the fight? Does not this sudden
"twist" show more of a desire to
get possession of the Offices than to
work for principle? Are they not
trucking to what they suppose to
be popularity. If these uneasy fell
lows are ashamed of the Independ-
ent movement why did they 60 in
to it? The Independent movement
is now a state organization, and
they should fight under their true
colors. They cannot copy last
falls work in this county by this
"do0ge." After voting to take the
Farmers into the Topeka convention
at the meeting here on the 1lth of
July, they cannot go back on their
own action so soon. Let them stick
to their own work or they will be
denounced as mere tricksters. Let
those who believe in the Reform
movement in earnest, and we are
satisfied many good men can be
numbered with that party, see that
these seven do not trick them out of
the legitimate fruits of their labor
so far.
We publish the proceedings of the
seven gentlemen who are trying to
dodge Office, in to-day's paper. It
will be seen that they have called
conventions for county, representa-
tive and senatorial nominations, and
it remains to be seen whether these
few politicians run the Reform peo-
pie and twist them about at will, or
whether they act for themselves.
| The 7 n,,icu;Ila Cor.so. W.