The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11
POL1TECAI. NOTES.

L NSA3AA4 W. a GAsSs -
A liquor dealers convention hs
been summoned to meet at Syrs
, cuse on the same day the Democrat
lie State Convention assemblies.
From Senator Frelinghuysen'
speech before the New Jersey Re
publican State Convection: 9Th
n people of this country are quiet:
hope there will not be any coca
sion for their being, roased bnt
4 the rights of these men Che freed
II men, who are true to Ius, are no
respected, the present quite is tn
4 lnll that precedes the storm PRO
ionged cheers.l - Hasgct tl!liee
The Hon. George A Halsey, nom
mated by the Republican State Con.
ventiOn as its candidate for Cover
nor, was born Dec. z, 1897, il
| Springfield, Union county, N. j
Early in life he removed to Newark
and engaged in the manufacturing
business, representing the city in
the Assembly of 1860. In 1866 he
was elected to Congress in district
previously Democratic, and in 1870
was again nominated and elected.
In 1872 he declined a denomination
for Congress, but his feilow.citizens
have sheWn their unwillingness to
leave him in private life, by making
him the Republican candidate for
Governor under circumstancest that
do him high honor. .t.,.as .-
The last Republican administra-
lion of the State of Tennessee, In
addition to the payment of the cur
rent expenses of the State govern
ment, and the interest on the State
debt. expended the large sum of
$685., 1854 for the benefit of the pub
lie schools of the State. All this, it
will be remembered, was done i'm
mediately after the war. Compare
this record with that of the present
Democratic administration. The
latter have paid but a trifie for
school purposes, and no interest for
five years.. yet the State is much
nearer bankruptcy now than it was
then, taxes are high, and, if the
facts were known, the probability
Is that Tennessee is financially
worse off than any State In the Un-
ion.-Nashville Bulletin.
The main cause of trouble in the
South may be traced to the want of
a vigorous Furnishing power. State
governments, when they do not
wink enconragingly at ofienses, al
low them to pass without any real
ly earnest attempt to bring the per-
petra:ors TO trial. Even if to-mor-
row the proclamation offering q re-
ward for the arrest of the Tennessee
butchers resulted in their capture,
it is safe to say that every one of
them would escape tine legal penal
ty. An occasional corpse left dang
ling as q memento at crossroads
and other frequented places will go
further to cure Kukluxism than any
other prescription. Work of this
kind is dfsagreeable, but better by
far to do, and have done with it,
than take merely halfway meas
ures and thereby court recurrence
of the MISUNDERSTANDING Dis
patch.
Referring to the massacre of six
teen negroes at Trenton, Tenn, by
members of the White League, the
SenatObia (Miss.) Signet says: The
shooting of the prisoners was wan
ton and unnecessary, and will be
followed by untold evils we have
hoped to avert. We can say no
more about reconciliation sectional
ly and amity and good feeling
among the races, If such masscres
are to be repeated. These terrible
and distressing scenes give the lie
to our professions, and what hope
can we have in further non-interfer-
ence on the part of Federal authori-
typ We can only deplore such acts
of Wanton saVagery as the Veriest
insanity, and if persisted in will, as
sure as the sun shines, bring upon
the whole people of the South
measurless calamity. May q kind
and overrnling Providence save us
from our friends.
When the news came to Nash
Vile of the murder of sixeeen
blacks ia Tennessee, leading citi-
zen of that place addressed COM
munication to Governor Brown, in
which he said that if such outrages
continue "We are ruined financially,
commercially, and politically, and
a long JGresceH may 6etEoOked for By
the Democratic party to ats hope OIL
securing the control Of the General
Government" We do not observe
in the letter referred to any appeal
to Governor Brown and to the pub
lie upon the high grounds of justice,
humanity, and morality. The Wri-
ter talks from the low plane of f.
nance, commerce, and the welfare of
q particular political party. If out
RACES are prevented only to the end
that the Democratic party may
achieve success, they will break out
with increased violence whenever
the result is attained. It is a sad
reflection that the treatment of the
blacks in the South is net to be reg
ulaied by humanity and the law,
but by the interests of q political
party.-Louisville Commercial.
The Republican party in New
York is said to be in excellent spir-
its and working order. The Dem
ocrats are hunting around for a
man who will beat Gov. Dix, while
the Liberals are 90 few ana far be-
tween as to be scarcely worth con-
sidering.