The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-31

LuC blbFC POWSA HCNCE uECdhlcQ y
the blood and treasure il wonlG
cost their sons. That terrible curs,
might have been nipped in the bud
The prevailing "third term" ex
citement has caused us to think O.
one dangerous element in our gov
ernment. We refer to the eighty
thousand offices which the Presi.
dent holds in his hands. We take
occasion TO say here that we have
no sympathy with the present
scare. We DO not believe Grant
desires a third term. We do not
believe the people would elect him
for a third term. There is no par
ticular danger now of President
seeking such thing; and it be
should the "powers that be"
would administer n terrible rebuke.
We think the country is all alive to
the danger now. The trouble is
ahead. We may grow careless AZ
ter awhile. The danger which
some sec now may come upon us
unawares.
Eighty thousand offlces-votes-
tn the hands of one man is danger
Gus power in a free country like
this. Eighty thousand Office hold
ers and their influence, not to say
money, is II fearful thing for one
man To control. Eighty thousand
votes might be made a balance of
power in these United States.
Think at one man casting that
many votes for himself or his par
ucular friend. Think of the influ-
ence which so many men in office
can WELD. Think of the money
they could command if necessary.
Think OF the thousands of voters in
all of our large cities who can be
bought for very small sums of
money. Think OF this patronage
increasing from year to year until
the President may be able 10 con-
troll hundreds of thousands Of
votes. Think OF an ambitions as
pirant reaching the Presidential
chair and using all this influence
aud means for his own emolument.
There is danger ahead. Now Is the
time to sound the alarm. Now is
the time to strike. We can save
ourselves now. IL may be too late
after TIE yoke is fastened on our
necks. Better throw it Off before
the bows are adjusted and made
fast.
But how shall we avert the dan
ger? Let the people from all parts
of the country petition the con-
9ress to so amend the constitution
that all salaried offices shall be fill
Ell by an election of the people.
Why not the people elect the Pres
ident's cabinet as well as himself?
They are capable of selecting q
Chief Justice and his Associates
They could elect their post masters
too. Would it not be best for the
people to select all their public Of
ficers? If all the public offices
were filled by the popular vote, it
would save us from one man pow
er, which is to be dreaded more
than anything else. The people
may be entrusted with our liber-
ties, but one man and his picked
friends, never. Would it not be
well to move in this matter now ?
We are able to-day to master
this threatening power. To-mor-
row il may crush us. 1t behooves
us TO strike before we are bound
hand and foot.
The Hiawatha Dispatch says
1--WE are called upon to chronicle
another family in Hiawatha ruined
and wrecked. We would fam re-
main mum, but we cannot make
the matter much more public than
it is. VIM. Sawdy, who has been
following butchering here for
several years, and leading life of
shameful dissipation, has reached
the point that such course OF
conduct drives any man to. We
understa nd he has Aed the country
leaving behind an unrepairably
wronged, abused and insulted
family of his own, and the peace
ofanother forever destroyed. The
head of this family (for his sake
we will not mention names
brought a suit for divorce = few
days ago, but for some reasons I'M
known has withdrawn the same
Sawdy leaves his friends TO foot
some two ar three thousand dollar:
for him, and has gone somewhere
else, where he may again fool his
friends, bringing trouble To othel
homes, and insult with high hanC
the morals OF the community I,
which he may attach himself"
ANOTHER SAM PArcu LEAP
About 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon boy named John LeasseI
eighteen or nineteen years old,
worker in n machine shop on Yves
Fourteenth street, jumped from tn
Cincinnati and Covington suspen
sion bridge, and escaped other in
jury than a sprained arm. TIL
wager was made on Friday las
with some companions, and tn
performance was carefully pre-
pared for, skifis having been pro
YIded and manned TO save the fool
ish youth from drowning. Their
was only a few spectators, as tn
performance was private, bu
Leassarlclimbed on one of the rail-
six feet above the floor of tn
bridge, buttoned his coat an
jumped. He struck the water wit
his feet, disappeared for few sec
onds and came to the surface a
right. He was picked up by on
of the skiffs and conveyed to I'll
steamer Pat. Rogers. The distanC
from the rail 10 the surface of ii
water, perpendicuiarly, is one hun
dred and three feet. The wondS
Is that death did not ensue from Il
conclusion or shock to the systel
produced by the sudden conta
with the water from sue
= vast height.-Cincinnati Con
mercial, 7th.
The Modocs x1ho live naa, Raw