The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-28
PeIers FOR 1,ongrese.


ing there are at present only two
persons whom it is announced will
be presented to the coming Repub-
lican congressional convention of
this district, by their friends, as can
dfdaies for the honor of it's nomi-
nation, to wit: Hon. Thomas Ryan
and Judge Samuel r. Peters, Judge
of the 9Ih Judicial district; and I'M
derstanding further that Judge Pc
tiers is not very we'll known TO the
citizens of this county ou'side of
the members of the bar, l take the
liberty, as a warm personal friend
of Judge Peters, to ask a little space
in your columns for the purpose of
stating some of tbs claims that his
friends think they are entitled to
urge in favor of the right to the sup
port of the Lyon county delegation
in favor of him as against Mr.. Ry
an. In the first place it seems to us
that, conceding that the two men
are equal in point of ability and
character, (Which even the friends
of Mr.. Ryan will fully concede) that
then the question OF locality, la this
particul T. case. should control the
choice of the Lyon county delega-
ton and give it to Judge Peters.
These two men will respectively
represent in that convention, the ex-
treme eastern and western portions
of this congressional district. Mr.
Ryan will undoubtedly receive, in
that convention, the enthusiastic
support of Topeka and its friends,
while Judge Peters will receive the
equally enthusiastic support OF the
entire delegation from his judicial
district, comprising, as it does, ali Of
those counties west of us along the
A. T. 81 s. f. railroad except Bntler
aud Sedgwick. In other words,
Judge Peters will be supported in
that convention, without doubt, by
the delegations from the following
counties: Barton, Chase, Harvey,
Marion, Reno, Rice, Pawnee, Bar
bour, Ford, Edwards, Rush, Ness,
Hodgeman. Cemanche, Stafford,
Kingman, Pratt, Kiowa and Clark,
counties which have 80 rapidly fill
ed with population in the last two
or three years, that it is sufficient to
convince any disinterested person
that the tide of empire, so far as this
State is concerned, is rapidly drift
ing to the western half of it.
In the coming political contest of
the near future, between the west
ern and eastern portions of our
State, for supremacy in the matter
of political power, the west with its
ever increasing population, will I'M
doubleday be victorious, and there
fore we, as citizens of this county,
with our natural sympethies for the
west as against the east; With the
belief strong within us that all the
brains and ability of the State are
not confined within :hose few east
ern counties which have for so long
time kindly furnished the State
with all of its Ulcers. should lose
no opportunity OF showing our de-
sire TO link our political fortunes
with the west. In this coming con-
test it will be readily seen that IIv-
on county has everything to gain
and nothing to lose by joining its
political forces with those of the
west. If we are correct thus far, it
will be seen that, other things being
tqusl, we should support, in the
coming congressional Campaign.
the candidate of the west rather
than the one presented bv the east.
1t will not do in reply TO this argu-
ment to say that Mr.. Ryan should
be re-nominate ed for a second term
as a matter of established right, or
because it would be bad policy to
turn him out just at the time when
his experience, gained by his pre- g.
ent term, will be of some use to hi "a
and his constituents, because Mr.
Ryan and his friends have effectual-
lily closed his and their mouths SO
far az that argument is concerned.
Ii will be remembered that Judge
, Brown, man of good ability and
) unexceptional character, was elect
ed from this district four years ago.
Judge Brown made q good, hard
working member, and became at
the end of his term, as influential a
: member of the lower house as 8
; new member ever gets TO be; yet,
when his friends two years ago urg-
ed these facts as reasons emitting
him to a second term, Mr.. Ryan and
his fr;ntsls denied that these facts
gave {. Indge Brown any right or
claiR Ia 10 q nomination, and as Mr..
! Ryan a d his friends were success
full upon the issue thus Joined, they
7 established, as against themselves, q
> precedent which it will hardly do
? for them to deny.
I Again, we know that the one aud
. sole object Of Topeka's advocacy oil
Mr.. Ryan's re-nominatioR, is, and
will be, the f.ct that Mr.. Ryan will
e if elected, in the future as in the
past, devote his energy and time
| while in Congress to the obtaining
of further appropriations for the
building of the u. 8. custom house
q at Topeka. AS the building of an
r u. S. custom house at Topeka viii
only tend to permanently establish
the State capital at that point, il
does not strike rs that this one rec.
ommendation for MIR. RYAN should
: entiIle him to our votes as aid in
y getting the nomination. 1t would
J, also seem that 1t would be better
= for rs to have q member of con
!. gress who would devote himself t.
the good of the whole district, rath
9 er than to the exclusive good of one
e place. If any one doubts that Mr.
. Ryan will, If elected, have to devott
= himself to this one object, he neeC
only read Mr.. Ryan's record snG
. the accounts in the Topeka papers
r of the late ratification meeting hell
y there over the present appropriation
= of $4,000 for custom house at tina
point.
In closing this already too Ions
II article, 1 wish to say that kuowins
l. both of these gentlemen eQuallS
n vel, can say that so far as ID.