The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-04
The POIitfcaIPOt.

Citation must come on the basis of |
q victorious Union, and not on the |
basis of martyred South.
The more Governor Hayes is re-
fected upon and investigated the |
stronger he will appear for Presi-
Dental nomination, and he will be |
ten times stronger as a candidate |
for election than as candidate for
nomination.-Ohio State Journal.
The Boston Globe sums up Pres
idential candidates thus far as fol-
lows: On one side may be mention
ed Morton, Blaine, Bristow, WASH
burne, Conkling, and Hayes; on
the other, Tilden, Thurman, Hend-
ricks, and Bayard, and on neither
side, perhaps, Charles Francis
Adams.
A New York correspondent says
every one there is discussing the
question of Presidential candidates.
At the Uuion League Club, it is
but little unanimity of opinion as
to who ought to be the Republican
standard bearer. Let us all wait
patiently for the Union League
Club to make up it's mind.
The Philadelphia Bulletin surmis-
es that General Banks has Presi-
Dental aspirations. Perhaps it
would be as we'll to credit them all
alike on that score, in order to have
no invidious distinctions. and then
the various individuals can be
checked off the list as fast as they
prove that there is no case of Presi-
dency on the brain.
It is said that the chances are that
the vote on the new constitution in
Texas will be very close, if the pro-
posed instrument is not defeated.
There are many Democrats who
opposed it; the Democratic State
| Convention refused to indorse it,
and the Republican State Conven-
ton repudiated and condemned it.
Representative Phelps, of Con-
necticut, the only representative
from New England who voted for
the repeal of the resumption act, in
a letter to "Greenback" Club al
New Haven defends his course on
the plea that be sees "no propriety
in having fixed an arbitrary and
impossible time, which operates as
q standing menace to many mer
who are struggling under the EN-,
barrassments arising from the par
allied condition of the individual
interests of the country"
There is an intimation that tht
Hon. Roscoe Conklin will nov
openly take the field as a candidat,
for the Presidency. 1t is eminent
, ly right and proper that he shoulC
do so. Both his talents and hi
services to the Republican party
warrant him in aspiring to tn
highest Offices in the gift of the PEG
pie. He is q man of commanding
eloquence and resolute will, and tn
{ Republican cause had no more able
q skillful, or incorporating champ
: ion than he, on the floor of Con
gress. Ifelected, he would signal
Iy honor the position for which b
lis proposed. He would both ador
E and dignity the executive Office
No man has q more devoted follow
= ing than he; and if he consents {
become a candidate his claims wi
be earnestly pressed by those VIII
: are no novices in that art of polite
: l-Rochester Democrat and Chror
. lcle.
Il The coming summer will be a
: eventful one, in many respects, pr
e liticallY, but especially so to Kal
sas. State, congressional, senator
n ap judicial, county and primsI
" conventions will follow fast an
: faster until the candidates of ii
= two partly tickets, from PresideI
&c down, are all massed upon the gel
1T eral election day. There will
p two State conventions of each pa
T. ty, one set to nominate delegates
in the National convention, the 9th
!, to nominate Presidential electo
and State officers. Following the
'e will be at least six compression
ne conventions, eighty senatorial co
ventions, thirty judicial cOnve
a. lions, two hundred aad forty o,
- representative conventions and o
y hundred and forty county conve
tons. This list does not inclu'
at the primary district and coun
at conventions for the election of d
he egates to attend some of these lar
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