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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-23

KELLY L Icons MINSTRELs,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-23

THEATRE COMIQUE.
VARIETY, at 8 p N. Matinee at L. W..
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

WALLACK'S THEATRE.
THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at L. 81.
TIvOLI THEATRE
VARIETY at p NJ
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22

THE AGE OF PURITY.-The Topeka Blade
proves that the Republican party of Kansas is
corrupt, by abusing certain members of the
party, who have been identified with it for years
1t certainly is time to purify the party, by turn
ing the old wheel-borses out to grass, and giving
the leadership into the hands of the fresh and
undefled virgins, so to speak. We have one in
our minds eye, who deserves to be conceded the
position Of oracle and law-giver of the party.
He is a true type of the genuine Georgia SCALA
wag, ohruAio Ishmaelite and black mailer, who
was rejected by the ruling rebel element, and
failed to gain the confidence of the Union sle-
menti who shook the dirt from his feet left his
debts behind, and wended his way to Kansas;
where, what time he has not been in Court on
the charge of whipping his wife, he has devoted
his time to abusing the rebels for running him
out of Georgia, bemeaning the Republicans for
not taking any stock in him, and reyiling the
Administration for not sending few regiments
down to Georgia, to protect him with their bayo-
nets and feed him with their rations. The Re-
publican party of Kansas needs a goodly man
like this to run it.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
Defeudinr Rlafue.

Those over-righteous purifiers, who start SIAN
ders against public men, and then protest that
they must not he nominated because they are
not free from suspicion, shuddered at the thought
of nominating Blaine, because, they said, we
cannot afford to nominate a candidate whom we
should be forced TO defend throughout the cam
paigu.
Defend Blaine. When unrepentant rebels
strobe rampant in the halls of Congress, with
not one to reply to their insolenee, and when the
yirtuous Hawley and the patriotic Camerons
were cringing and offering to sell amnesty to
the arbitrator and murderer, JEFF. Davis, in re-
turn for paltry appropriation in aid of the big
show at Philadelphia, where they might glorify
themselves, it was Blaine who defended the great
principles upon which the war was fought and
the Government saved, and who prevented the
pardon of the murderer of hundreds of thousands
of our cOuntrymen.
When these foiled rebels in their hyena-like
rage, tnrned their impotent malice and hate
against the memory of the poor boys in blue who
sleep in the slaughter-pen at Andersonville, at
Libby prison, at Salisbury, in long trenches on
many battlefield, or in many lonely grave
or dark morass, where they will continue to
sleep through the long centuries to come, when
perhaps the Hawleys and Camerons of the fu-
ture will sell their bones for dollars and cents,
it was Blaine who defended the memory of those
poor fellOws-a defence more grand and disinter-
ested, because the objects of his defence were all
unconscious of it, and could not give him even
applause in return.
When the rebel Congress set out to investi-
gate charges against Blaine, and brought per-
jured witnesses with hearsay evidence from the
slums and dark corners, he asked no one TO de-
fend him, but defended himself.
When vile creature, in the employ of mali
ciOus Republicans, purloined Blai ne's private
letters, and brought them to Washington, to
garble and misconstrue to his disadvantage,
Blaine asked no one to defend him, but proved
himself equal to the occasion.
When testimony in Blaine's favor, in posses
sion of the Committee, was suppressed with a
view to injure him, and he knew it, he asked for
no defence, but alone he charged the truth home
upon them, and in the face of the whole howl
ing Congress, he routed his enemies, and forced
them to produce the hidden testimony.
When a rebel Congress demanded his private
correspondence, in order to publish it to the
world, he showed himself fully able to defend
his rights as a citizen, and after defying their
authority, read the letters to Congress himself.
Talk about defending Blaine! He has defend
ed not only himself, but his party, and the MEM
ory of the dead heroes who preserved the nation.
And before the campaign is over, they will be
thankful that they have Blaine to defend the
ticket that was nominated in order to beat
Blaine.
Defend Blaine indeed! He has been success
fully defending himself against the very men
who were SO fearful lest they might be called
upon to defend him.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
CORRECTION.
NORWAY.

ATcHIsoS, KANSAS, June IL 1876
EDTrsR CHIEF Believing myshh 10 be Of your in
formants upon whose information your paragraph
titled, NO Shystering Gentlemen, You Please" is
based, permit me to say that satisfied W. W. Guth-
rie had nothing to do with the subject matter Of
plaint unless we Justly condemn him for declining
to act upon the Committee all The charge however
that the Committee had call drafted by p. L. Hubbard
In their possession for three weeks before shown
to others that the time and place discussed fniy
three weeks ago. in Hiawahs that Couwe said he had
received from Judge Hubbard Whist he supposed was
call but had never read but which he signed and for
warded TO Major Morrill,; that Morrill, signed 1t and for
warded it elsewhere and that p L. Hubbard asked Mr.
D. Martin to agree to his call and said he would not con-
suit either Perry Price the undersigned mnst re-
main facts upon which information should always be
thankfully received.
Your charge then, Of shyserinz should stand but w.
W. Guthrie should be fully exonerated from all blame In
the matter feel certain that he long since refused to
be drawn and quartered in this Judicial ght and has
done nothing Of hieh either side may complain.
Yours respectfully,
C. W. JOHNSON.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22


n The Atchison Champion has prolonged
howl about the Congressional Convention being
put off till the last of August, and charges that
It is done in order to give Col. Phillips time, af
ter the adjournment of Congress, to go over the
District and canvass for q re- nomination. We
cannot say why it was done; but if it was done
for the purpose charged, we can see no particu.
lar harm in it. While Phillips has been absent
attending to his official dnties, Mr.. Guthrie has
been all over the District, worEing up Hts chanc.
es; and there is no rule of fairness by which
Phillips should be debarred from the same privi.
lege. Besides, if the delegates are elected after
all the other conventions are over, they will be
chosen solely upon the merits of the several can.
didates, and not combined and swapped with
reference to candidates for nomination before the
State Convention.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
FROM JOPLIN.

JoPLIS Mo-. June II, 1876.
DEAR CHIEF II will attempt to give you description
Of this place it; but when am done, you may
rest assured that the half has not been told you.
The population of East and West Joplin Lone Elm
Tarr HILL Swindls HILL and other suburbs cannot be
less than l2 The business streets the finest
The paving is done with fine flint gravel, OBJ
tanned from the wash places around the mines and
hard and smooth could be desired The sidewalks
good being made of plank which is rough and
broken in places The houses, general thing. are
poOr-mosty story Frame ohsaply built Business Of
every kind is well represented There are dry goods
groceries, liquors tobacconsts bakeries icecream hard
wars, clothing furniture harness. watchmakers, shoe
makers tailors beer houses, whisksy shops, gambling
houses real estate, law and doctors ofces drug and
confectioners book and fruit stores several hotss and
boarding houses, too numerous to mention.
am roomng with W. H. Love, formerly Of the Euro
pean Hotel Joseph. He has gone mining. and says
he will stay with ii until fortune pays him for the blis-
tiers his hands.
The people of Joplin the orderly Of any Of
miners With all the saloons. gambling and
bawdy houses here, have not or heard as much
rOwdyism you may in Troy any Saturday in the
year. Th language Of the people here is all Greek
to You will hardly hear anything said unless there
something about shafts driings blast shoot mineral
ay-dirt smelter, big money, water pump, company
lead black jack, flint tiff sinner scrap float mundick
and-I had better stop have just al.
phabet of mining terms There Is Fire and Police De-
partmsn here The police force consists of the Marshal
and two men so that you may know this il quiet
There are churches and schools two newspaper and
theatre.
Love, Joe Peel Of St. Joseph and myself went to see
the great Shoal Creek Falls about four miles south of
this place. and found it to be big thing for Com
pany to get hold Of There is the finest waterpow In
the West lying idle for the one to prove
it-superor to the celebrated Blue Rapids power This
is the poorest farming country struck though
probably there others that just poor This 10
strictly mining country, and nothing else.
There are many very valuable mineral and pstriAezi
curiostes In this country Ths largest and com.
psts collection Of this kind Is owned by Col Bullock Of
the Board Of Trade who takes particular pains show
and explain to strangers the and history the d
ferent minerals and pstrifactions. Among them il
complete opossum turnip that has had slice of Of
side, walnut ste but tho greatest Of all IL the
magic stone, by the aid Of which person has only to
shut his eyes and make wish, and the first thing he
sees when he opens his eyes the thing wished for
yet the Colonel is not happy He Is anxously look
ing for the boy and jack knife that cut the turnp.
All visitors to Joplin should fail call on Colonel
Bullock, and see the magic stone.
Adieu, till see more NORWAY
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
The Ticket.

The national Republican Convention at Gin
cinnati, on last Friday afternoon, on the 18th bal
lot, nominated Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes, Of
Ohio for President; and on the first ballot, nom
mated Congressman William A. Wheeler, of New
York, for Vice-President.
On the first ballot, Blaine was far ahead Of all
others, Morton next, Bristow third, ConkliDg
fourth, with Hartranft and Hayes receiving but
little more than their State delegations. On
subsequent ballots, Blaine and Bristow gained,
Morton and Conkling lost, and Hartrsnft and
Hayes gained slightly. 1t was apparent that
Conklng did his best on the first ballot.
Morton exhibited no prospect of increase,
and Bristow, after several ballots, exhausted
his strength, while Blaine run up to 306. 1t was
evident that the delegations would make a
break for Blaine on the next ballot, and there
upon the friends of all the other candidates con-
centrated upon Hayes. Had Pennsylvania alone
gone solidly for Blaine, he would have then re-
ceived Just the number of votes necessary to
nominate; but the Administration influence, rep
resented by Don. Cameron, was too strong, and
almost half the delegation went for Hayes. The
last ballot Stood for Hayes 354, Blaine 351, Bris-
tow 81. The vote was then made unanimous.
Gov. Hayes is one of the best men in the ma
tion and was the second choice of most of Blaines
friends-in fact, they desired the ticket to be
Blaine and Hayes. He has not the ability of
Blaine but is still an able man, q staunch Re-
publican, and will honor the position. What
was better, in the eyes of many, he is a success
ful man, never having been defeated, but having
beaten, successfully, the great leaders of the
Ohio Democracy Thurman, Pendelton and Allen.
1t may prove that Hayes was the best nomina-
tion for the party for it will be united upon him,
while the jealousies and bitterness against Blaine
by some of the candidates, may have resulted in
his defeat However, his friends do not concede
or believe this.
Mr.. Whsslsr hos had muCh Congregational ex-
perience, and by many is held to be the ablest
man in Congress. He steadily received two or
three votes for President. His nomination was
hailed more gratefully by the Blaine men, from
the fact that they feared Hawley, of Connecticut,
might be chosen. This, in view of the unwar-
rantably mean opposition of Hawley to Blaine,
would have made the ticket bitter pill The
election of Wheeler as Vice-President will obvi-
ate all fears of sudden and mysterious death of
President Hayes.
The Platform is q most excellent one. 1t is
even milder on hard money than was antici-
pated.
There is but little doubt that this ticket will
be triumphantly elected. None will give it
heartier support than the friends of Blaine.
Though keen their disappointment, they are the
sort of Republicans that gain the victories-en-
thusiastic, energetic, and firm. They know that
Gov. Hayes took no part in the mean warfare
upon their leader, and they viii give him such a
support as they woald have expected from
Hayes, had Blaine been chosen.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
supporting" a Candidate.

The last issue of the Wathena Reporter affords
fair example of what the Support" of that
concern is worth to any candidate for Office
| Several weeks since, the Reporter announced its
support of Albert Perry for District Judge. In
doing this, it but reflected the sentiment of the
people of this County, and no one impugned its
motives. We also, some weeks previously, had
declared our support of Mr.. Perry for the Office
We have, in several issues, given our reasons
why the present incumbent, who is a candidate
for reelection, should not be re-elected-giving
facts and figures which no one has yet contro-
verted, and which stand unanswered. In its
last weeks issue, the Reporter says: Hubbard
started out in this campaign very weak man.
Few dreamed he would be reelected,
but the Chief commenced one of its slime-sling-
ing TRADES against him. Perry started
with good prospects of success but it looks at
pr esent that, with such load to carry as the
Chief, all that his Doniphan County friends can
do for him will be of no avail"
The upshot of the Reporters article is this, and
nothing more The Chief supports man for of
fee, therefore nobody else will. The Reporter
does not com plain that our charges are not true;
that the people ought not to be informed of the
facts we have published; but the Chief is the
medium through which the facts have been COM
municated to the public; and because of this,
the Reporter willing to sacrifice its candi-
date. The Reporter asserts that Hubbard is unfit
for Judge, and should be beaten; but when the
Chief presents the facts to prove the same thing,
the Reporter flies back, and says that will re-eect
Hubbard
We made charges against the present Judge
which, if true, should drive from him the sup
port of right minded people. We have publish
ed them thus early, that an answer might be
made before nominating Convention was held,
that it might not be said they were concocted
too late for reply. The squirming, prevarica-
tion, and raising of false issues to draw atten-
tiOn from the true merits of the case, which this
discussion has caused, show that Hubbard and
his hackers do not rely for success wholly upon
the opposition of the Chief.
The concern at Wathena does not merit one
tenth part of the space which we have given it
but it is well enough occasionally to show the
principle by which it is governed, that the pub
lie may know how much weight its frothmgs are
entitled to.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
Volume XA.

This ia the first number of the Goth volume of
the Chief. We do not propose to give an annual
review of the past, or to make many promises for
the future. The Chief is known to the Oldest in
bsbitants, to whom it has been weekly visitor
for the past nineteen years. 1t has better pros
meets ahead than at any other time in the past,
and with year of good harvests, will enjoy full
prosperity. Itis firmly established, and proposes
to 90 right along as heretofore. The old citi-
zens have read it, their children have read it,
and their grandchildren have read it. We
recall one couple, whose marriage was announced
in the Chief the first year of its publication, and
now they have grandchildren. This is an ell
couragement to marry young, and take the Chief
Thanking our old patrons of the past years
and the new ones who are constantly coming in
to swell our list, we wade right into our twenti
eth year.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22
That CalI, Again.

We publish, in this issue, a communication
from c. w. johnson, intended to exonerate w.
w. Guthrie from all blame in the matter of the
call for Judicial District Convention. 1t was
entirely unnecessary, and leaves the question
precisely where We left it. We said that Guth-
rie had race of his own on hand, and did not
wish to be mixed up in this Judicial fight; we
said that he was in favor of calling the Conven-
tion at place which would be compromise
between the two principal candidates; we said
that he resigned before the call was made, and
that the remainder of the Committee were issu.
ing call that Judge Hubbard ad got up. Mr..
johnson says nothing to the contrary. We sta
ted the case precisely as we understood it, and
have been borne out by subsequent events.
Nobody in this County harbors any i'll will
against Mr.. Guthrie, on account of that call. We
know that We have a friendly feeling for him.
If he receives any opposition in this County, il
will have to 60 the credit of his ardent friends
in Brown and Nemaha. vast deal is being
said against running locality into politics. As a
general thing, it should not be controlling is
sue; but it cannot be entirely suppressed. When
one locality has a monopoly of the best offices
other localities have a right to demand some OF
the lesser ones, especially if they present candi
dates better qualified to fill them. Atchison has
United States Senator, United States District
Judge, and three or four other good Offices. Mr.
Guthrie is now candidate for Congress, with a
friendly feeling in his behalf in this County, and
a strong desire to assist him. Then comes an
Atchison man for the District Judgeship, who is
not the choice of our people, but is obnoxious to
them. Doniphan County has a candidate supe-
rior to him in every respect. But in Brown and
Nemaha, where the people appear to be unani-
nous for Guthrie, his leading friends are the
ones who have promised Judge Hubbard to see
him safely through the contest. There are men
in Brown and Nemaha who are tired of this hud-
ding of officers in one town, and are beginning
to chafe under it. They are friendly to Guthrie,
but have had enough of Hubbard. If Mr.. Guth-
ries friends think more of him than they do OF
Hubbard, they havei in their power to strength
en- him but they cannot do it by imposing Hub
bard upon the Republican ticket.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22

COULDN'T STAND II ANY LoNGER.-Mr, w. r.
Smith, who edits the Champion in Col Martins
absence, has concluded to swing the weight of
his intellect in the Champion for the reelection
of his brother-in-law, P. L. Hubbard. Consider
ing that Billy and the whole Smith family are
out of meat, and need that woodchuck for din
ner, it is not surprising they all very anxious
on this point Billy is a great lawyer, in his
brother-in-law's Court, and it would be too bad
to blight the fortunes of this young man by
causing him the loss of his whole practice when
clients and lawyers need no longer tip Billy a
retainer for his influence with the Court. Is not
the Champion strongly in favor of W. r. Smith
for County Attorney, this Fallf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22

~ The local of the Champion says it is very
clever of the local of a cotemporary to help a
fellow, when he is engaged in politics. 1t is, in,
deed, very clever of Vandergrift, a Democrat to
write up the account of Republican ratification
meeting, for the 'leading Republican paper of
Northern Kansas" filling it with laudations Of
tho editor" while that editor and the local were
on drunk. If Col. Martin doesn't get home
pretty soon, he will find there is little left of his
paper but the interests of the Smith family, and
the Champion their organ.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22

EUREKA!-We recently expressed the hope
that, when specie resumption was accomplished,
the price of murder in Judge Hubbard's District
would decline to so cents that we might all
be enabled to indulge in the luxury. 1t has
come sooner and better than we dared to antici-
pate. 1t is now free, like the wine and oysters
that jurymen eat before getting up testimonials,
to Hubbartl's ability and worth. One Harvey
Brown, in 1875, committed a murder in Atehison
County, of which he was convicted, and spent 15
months in the penitcntiary. BY some hook or
crook, he given trial, don't know
how much he paid for it, and last week the trial
came off before Judge Hubbard, at Atchison.
Brown was acquitted, and set free, on tho ground
of emotional insanity But he had a remarkably
lucid spell, in selecting lawyers for his defense.
He employed b. p. Waggener, the Democratic law
yer who has been getting mp testimonials for ju
rymen to sign in favor of Hubbard's reelection,
aud F. d. Mills, relation of Hubbard's by mar
riage while, by some mysterious fate, c. w.
johnson, thorn in Hubbard's flesh, was employ
ed to prosecute. Under such circumstances, the
murderer escaped even the tradtionary one dol
lar fine. The Atchison Champion, edited by
Hubbard's brotler-in-law, gives cheerful ac-
count of the murderer's good conduct while in
prison, by which he won the confidence aud SYM
pathy of the whole community; and how, after
he was free, he went and enjoyed nigger show,
or something of the kind, without the slightest
exhibition of emotional insanity. The man
whom he murdered, we believe, is still dead.
Now that blood is down to panic prices, there
is no excuse for any one not indulging in taste.
Remember, Hubbard may not always be Judge.
Fe. fl. TO- fun
Let Ms all have some.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-22

rS In the Chicago Tribune of the lst inst find the
following written from Washington by the special CORES
pOndent of that paper: ,,,,
John James Hgals, the young and somewhat Driilanl
Senator from Kansas also aspirations to fill the second
place the Blaine ticket He is man OF culture ex
haustless imagination and Opuent to sometimes in
the resources language when passion and eaity
appropriate Although the successor Of Subsidy Pom
he regarded of the most upright Senator'S and
scandal has sullied his He will have many
warm friends at Cincinnati.
And in the editorial correspondence of the
Lawrence Journal, from Cincinnati, We find how
warm the friends were, and how near the Topeka
reporter for the Associated Press came to the
truth, when it said all the Kansas delegation
would vote for ingalls,:
The Kansas delegation informally agreed to day, with.
out dissenting voice not to propose
candidate from State.