The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-02
VIII the Republicans Let
Them?

can votes for Capt. North. They fig
ure that because of there being five re-
publican candidates, If trey can man
age to poll 600 or $50 votes for North,
he will be elected, and the prospect OF
being able TO boast of a democratic
victory in Lyon county," has stimula-
ted the rankest member of that party
to the most unprecedented exertious in
behalf of their one candidate. There
were a number of the democrats at the
convention who wanted to organize
their party in Lyon county on an open
and honorable basis, nominate a full
county ticket, and go to work for their
political principles. But the majority,
it seems, were not actuated by any
such legitimate motives. They
thought they saw a weak spot in the
Republican line, in the fact that no re-
publican nominations had been made.
and that there were five republican
candidates for treasurer, and they con-
cluded it would be an awful smart
trick for the democrats to put up and
run a man for Just that one office, and
by all the democratic voters in the
county sticking to their partizaD ship,
it was calculated that democrat could
be foisted into the best Office in the
county, and "great democratic victo-
~" be duly celebrated. This demo-
cratic move makes the duty of the
republican voters of Lyon county so
plain that we think they will have lit
tie difficulty in seeing their obligations
to the.-ee'ves and party are, and of
performing them. There is no reason
why any democrat should be elected
treasurer of Lyon county in preference
to republican. There are plenty of
republicans competent to discharge the
duties of that or any other county Of
flee, and any one of the present repub-
lican candidates in the field is more
entitled to the Office than the demo-
cratic nominee, and all that the repub-
licans have to do is to now drop mere
ly personal preferences and ascertain
by inquiry and comparison who their
strongest candidate is, and unite in
supporting him at the polls. 1t is no
time now for throwing away votes to
any one. The duty of sus-
tanning the republican supremacy in
Lyon county is now paramount to any
mans individual interests. To let the
best office in the gift of our party here
be "gobbled" by q democrat, would be
an injustice to any republican who
may ever desile to hold county office.
1t would be an injustice to our record
as staunch and reliable republican
county, when a partizan issue is forced
upon us. Against the democratic can
didate personally, we ,haYe no desire
to say word. We have no objection
to conceding that he is as good a man
for county treasurer as any democrat
in the county. We do not consider it
necessary to point out any personal
objections to him. 1t is enough, and
more than enough, TO warrant us and
every republican voter In opposing
Captain North, to remember that he is
not running for Office on any personal
claims to the confidence or good will
of the people OF this county, but that
he is put up as the figure head of a
democratic trick to capture the best Of
flee that the republican party of Ly-
on county has to bestow upon any one.
This is enough to settle his case in the
mind of any republican vntOF who DO
lieves that the offices of Lyon county
should go to republicans in preference
to democrats. 1t would be weakness,
and folly, and Injustice to the party
and its own members, to allow the
democratic minority in this county TO
trick good and worthy republicans out
oftheir chance for the treasurership this
year or any other year. The figures
are easily given. The democratic vote
for Martin In 1876, was 400. The dem
OcraLs propose to sell their whole par
ty vote for North, and secure 100 to
100 republican votes by swapping their
votes on all other officers, by "bulldo-
zing" to whatever extent it can be
practiced in this latitude, by the I'M
scrupulous use of all means that can
prejudice newcomers, by tlIe potent
Influence of Stree drinks" on the float
ing vote, and most of all by the obsti-
nate adherence of republicans to the
respective candidates for whom they
might have concluded 70 vote for be-
fore the '"mocrats placed a candidate
in the field. The latter is, after all,
their best chance, but their game is al
ready so apparent, and their swagger-
ing boasts of a democratic victory are
already so loud, that we believe the re-
publican majority will not be divided
into useless fragments when election
day comes.
All pledges and preferences lose
their force under this new and unex-
pected state of affairs. A common du-
ty now rests on all republicans TO COM
bine their votes on the strongest repub-
AlCdn anu ClCCb anu
complimentary votes are now worse
than useless and should be dropped
They will do the parties who may re-
ceive them no good, and only help the
democrats to triumph. We do not
wish, even in this emergency, to use
the opportunity of doing any republi-
can candidate what he might consider
an injustice, and therefore we refrain
from naming the one who seems to us
to be the safest to concentrate the vote
upon. We are satisfied that IL will
not be really necessary to do so. because
the weaker candidates are already be-
ing dropped, and the public sentiment
on the question is already assuming
definite shape which promises to work
out its own object. By inquiry and
comparison of views now in each vot-
ing precinct the republicans will not
have much difficulty In agreeing which