The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-16
THE GREAT ssREFORSA''
NIENAGERIE.
Two Gar Loads Of EEure AMI.
MALI,
The AnsI-RePubIIcan Cam
Pnign OPened In Green
wood County.

Last Tuesday evening the Reform
ers OF Topeka and EmpOria, consisting
OF J. X. Hudson and Col. Richie, of til,
former, and the old "wheelhorse" o
opposition to all political consistency
and the ''laboringmen's" candidate fol
senatorial honors, of the latter place,
augustly assembled at the court house
In Eureka To instruct the people OF
Gre nwoo county how to vote. The
lessons OF instruction were opened by
the reading of 4 tamely written essay,
bearing the ear-marks of Prouty by
the first-named gentleman, in which
an attempt was made to prove that the
Reform candidate for congress in the
Sd district was as good Republican
as w. r Brown; in connection with
discussion of the principals OF com
munism md Reputation, leaying the
conviction upon the minds of the few
present that If there was any meaniag
whatever TO be attached to the twaddle,
1t was that the Reform party adopted
them AS planks In Its platform.
Then followed harangue from the
very enthusiastic senatorial aspirant,
which was composed from beginning
To end of Inconsistencies and misstate-
ments, with deductions as illogical as
the man himself is impractical. AS an
instance OF misstatement lac denounced
Judge Brown for having declared in
his speech lately at Emporia that the
Republican party was capable and
willing to redI ess the wrongs that had
been committed by its members, as
evinced by the repeal of the notorious
"salary grab bill," &C., when the truth
of the matter was that a Republican
Congress at one stroke had raised the
salary of the members from $4,000 per
annum to $4,000 per annum, and then
with the pretension to reform had
changed it to 5000 per annum, and
then with a swell of enthusiastic tri-
umph declared that he was "unaJle TO
see any reform in that.'
This speaker was Immediately fol-
lowed by their ''phHnny Phelier," Col.
Richie, who, on this occasion, played
"a Ward Tor the troupe, to the entire
satisfaction of the manager of the
farce, as was manifested by the side
splitting commissions OF the venerable
Judge.
But the leading feature was the clos
ing, which was commenced by a gen
tleman telling Mr.. Fiery that his state
ment as to the salary of congressman |
was utterly false; that the congress |
previous TO the present one had rails
ed the salery of its members from co.
900 to $500 per annum, aud that the |
present congress had reduced it to 3d.
600 per annum with an adjustment OF |
mileage, 80 that the present salary was
lower than 1t was before the "grab |
bill' was passed, and that his deduc-
tons from the premises were conse-
quently false, but wer0 In harmony
with the balance of his speech which,
after some consultation between frey
and Hudson, was closed by frey de-
nouncing the gentleman as ungener-
Gus and ungentlemlnly for not pro-
ducing the printed documents by
which to establish his position. But
the most laughable scene was enacted
on the following day when frey was
compelled to "fess," rs "Topsy" would |
have 1t, but contended that Cobb and |
Phillips voted for the ''salary grab |
bill" REDWOOD.