The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-16
WHAT Is THE MAFTER2

Space forbids more extended
synopsis this week.
WHAT Is The NATTER?
Kansas is to be saved ct last. III
any are disposed to doubt . speedy |
they have only to turn
their eye on the Capitol, and see the
hosts of sAviors gathered there.
Some of them, in their zeal, went up
to Topeka more than . week before
the assembling of the Legislature.
They have had their names record
ed on the books of the leading hotels
90 that they could be published in
the papers, and the truth might be
over the State, that Hon.
Dick, Tom and JACK, were at their
posts of duty. No one
can question for . moment the ear
nestness of our SolonS this winter.
And we notice, also, that many of
the most eminent men of the State,
men of unquestienable purifying
procliViteS, have been just as anx-
ious IS the legislators themselves, If
not . little more 30, to reach the
Capitol in good time to help on the
good work of reformation. Some
of them have been going up and
down the streets of Topeka for
weeks seeking to save the ''rotten
commonwealth" How they do
mourn over the past is . sight to all
pure minded men and women.
They mourn and groAn, pray and
swear over the corrupt rings who
have we'll nigh blasted the hopes
of all good mem. They gather in
squads on the streets and talk and
lament over the unfaithfulness Of
our public men. They gather into
the saloons and smoke and drink,
and devise ways and means TO pu-
rify the political life OF Kansas.
They buttonhole the early legiSla-
tors and make secret profession of
their love for tho blessed work OF
reform. They go into the caucusSeS
and freely give advice as to what
must be done to save the state from
immediate ruin. They know just
how to lay the wires to beat the cor
ruptioniSts, and IL the Legislature
will only hear them, Kansas is safe.
They know who the corrupt men
are, and are well prepared to defeat
all their projects if the reform ma
jority will only give heed to their
wise councils. o, how anxious
they are to defeat the corrupt
wire pulling, Shystering men
who have so we'll nigh ruined the
whole State.
And then there are great many
men there just to watch the legislA-
ture. They have but little to say,
but they are going to see how things
are managed. They don't like lob
byisIs, but then, "you know" it is
we'll enough to watch men Q little.
These men are watchers. They will
take care of their own Representa-
tive, and see that he votes right on
the Senator. They believe their
man is good and honest; he is q re-
former; but it is well to keep an
eye on him. It won't hurt to watch
men these days. These watchers
arc all good men and will see to it
that Kansas is saved this winter.
And the reTormers did actually
organize, = week before the assemb-
ling of the legislators, They arc
ready for any emergency. Armed
and equipped for war, they defiant
ly look old Corruption and Mon
Opoly in the face and challenge them
to do their worst. They are organ
lied without respect to party.
There is but one plank in the plat
form, that is publication. Every
refOrmer no matter, what his past
record may have been, can stand
upon that. The watchword IL death
to monopoliSs and corruptionists.
This new organization, the joy Of
the Lawrence Standard and the
Kansas City Times, is sure to save
Kansas. There 10 not . dishonest
man among them. There is not
one of them but who is fully able to
resist to the last, any kind of cor.
rupt influence. These are the
men who will save our glorious
State from everlasting destruction.
Kansas is safe ct last.
We wish to add one word. We
believe in reform. eneed Q new
deal in politics. And we believe that
many Of thepreSent members Of the
legislature are honest. We believe
. majority Of them want to do right.
We believe they will de- their best
to serve the, State, and II they are let
alone we believe the thing win pan
out well. But We are opposed to
the zeal manifested by sons OF the
would be reformers. II the legisla-
tors had staid at home until it had
been necessary for them to 20 to
Topeka and thea gone quietly
showing they felt . sense Of duty,
we would have had much more faith
in them And we are sure the
whole country would feel
easier IL they were sure that The ap-
pointed watchers were all good
men, who have no notion Of lobby.
ing for set OF old broken down
hacks wlf6 have no hope for them.
selves unless they can rise on what
they believe to be new wave on
the political sea. Aud we also fear
that some men, we could name, men
who are largely responsible for the
corruptiops Of the past, are manipu.
lating the new organization With
the hope that they may be sayed
from the oblivion into which they
have been cast by the votes Of the
people. IfKanoAs 10 lost we vast
10 see her redeemed; bnt We have