The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-24
THE LOCALITY lsSUE.

We are sorry to see that one or
two papers in the southern part of
the State are making themselves
disagreeable in the discussion of
this question. One says that North
ern Kansas has always held the
best offices in the gift of the peo-
pie, and that 1t is time for a change,
at the same time intimating that if
n certain section of the State does
not be favored more than other
parts, In the convention, that the
voters will retaliate. These threats
are not made from principle, but in
the interest of prospective candi-
dates. For our part we believe in
nominating the best and truest men,
whether they come from Atchison,
Leavenworth, and Lawrence, or
fort Scott, Parsons and Emporia.
1t is not locality, but fitness, that
should govern all nominations
iLeavenworth Times.
We presume the discussion of the
matter Is no doubt disagreeable to
you. But you mistake when you
charge US with an attempt to make
the issue in the coming campaign
one of locality. 1t is you who have
made Il for the past fifteen years,
and we are compelled to take it up
in self defense. five presented a
candidate for an important posi-
ton, you never stopped to ask as
regards his qualifications. You
simply asked, GLOW many votes
can he control for us ?" You have
taken everything for the past fifteen
years and no wonder that you feel
unhappy when you see our people
determined to demand their rights.
If the editor of the Times will re-
, member, on the 25th day of June,
1872, the editor of this paper was
q member of the Republican State
Central Committee which met in
Leavenworth to call State Con-
Vention. The editor of the Leav-
enworthth Times was chairman of
that committee. We offered q reso-
luton at that meeting that the call
for the convention should be based
upon Republican c0teS. The editor
of the Leavenworth Times was the
first man on the Committee to OPP
lpose the proposition. If he was
then, as he is now, in favor of the
best and truest men for Office, re-
gardles of locality, why was he
afraid to trust the nomination of
the ticket to the Republican voters
of the entire State?
The people of the northeastern
portion of Kansas have abused the
power given to them by the people.
They have made q mistake, and they
begin to see il. Now that the pow
er to control our State politics is
passing away from them, they be-
gin to whine. Seeing that they are
about to be beaten at their own
game, they try to accuse us of max
ing the Locality ISSUE" when in
truth they have not only made it
but have adopted it as a plank in
their platform ever since the State
was organized.
These demands arc not made in
the interest of prospective candi-I
dates. AS q rule, southern Kansas
men have something else to do be-
sides running for Office. The edi-
tor of this paper was never a candi-
date for any Office in his life, and
never expects to be. He thanks
God that he has no faVors to ask of
politicians, high or low, and that he
IL in position whore he can whack
these demagogues and plotters
against the rights aud privileges of
the people. And he Is further hap
Ply to say that the people of his por-
ton of the State have oVerwhelm-
inly endorsed him in nearly every
position he has taken on matters
pertaining to the interests of the
whole people.
a new era is dawning upon our
State. The people are coming to
the front, while the old politicians
and political hacks are going to the
wal. The battle this winter will be
sharp and decisive, with victory on
our side.
We ask nothing but what is fair,
honorable and just betwixt man
and man in apportionment, in the
distribution of the offices and poll
teal patronage of the State. We
propose to have our just rights, and
nothing more. And the only way
10 stop this discussion Is for north
eastern Kansas Office holders aud
politicians to accept the situation.
A just recognition of our rights is
all we ask. We will be bullied no
longer.-Eldorado Times.