The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-28
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same Office. AS we see the matter
there are serious objections to biz
nomination. We believe his name
at the head of the Republican State
ticket, and a sensible course by thu
opposition to our party, would cos
the Republicans of Kansas thirty
thousand votes. or course agains
Bourbon Democrat the loss would
not be so heavy. We are willing Il
admit we may be mistaken, but thu
above statement of the case is oul
firm conviction. He ran l7,0Ot
votes behind Hayes two years ago
1t would have been double that ha(
1t not been presidential year. Now
under these considerations, a grea
many honest Republicans believe j
would be best to run some othel
citizen equally as virtuous, equally
as great and equally as good Al
George for the office of Governor
We suppose, this being a free cOuu
try, they are entitled to their opin
ion and that opinion is entitled Il
respect. They are weary of the IN
profitable and unnecessary work o
spending the force of the campaign
in defending some nominee on the
ticket from serious charges o
wrong doing. They do not be!icv
that the campaign should again
be made the occasion for washing
"dirty linen" Vide the fight on Os
borne and Lappin four years ago
aud that on Anthony two years
ago. We are aware that George
L. has made a creditable Governor
but that gives him no pre-emp;ion
right on the office. 1t was his duty
to be a respectable Governor. In
being such he was but fulfilling his
promises to the people. But he and
his friends must not come forward
and claim the Office another term on
that alone. He has held a good
Office from the Republican party for
ten years, and we are not aware
that the party owes him anything.
Tom Carney was a good Governor,
yet he held only one term. There
are some considerations due the
party of the State, and we are one
of those who believe no man should
stand in the way of the good of the
party or hinder its progress or hsr-
mOny. There are q thousand men
in the party in Kansas who would
make as good a Governor as An
thony has made. We are not SC
sure but that the administrations OF
Crawford and Harvey will COM
pare favorably with that of tho
present Incumbent. Crawford pub
lished succinct history of White
hair, Harvey wrote Plutocracy, and
Anthony has "suppressed"-a min
lister. The Office is not SO important
that there is a call for turning the
State upside down, or for brainY
editors TO tear their hair on any can
didate's account, especially so early
in the season.
But what we started out TO do
more particularly in this article was
to notice the character of the work
Mr.. Anthony's organs are engaging
in at this juncture of the fight and
to predict that the course q few
papers are pursuing will not pay
either George or the papers
"Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad" applies espe-
cially In political contests, and from
the manner in which these fellows
have commenced rending their lin.
en-, we fear they are desperate al
ready.
First we clip from the Ottawt
Journal, which, it is said, was furi
ously opposed to Anthony few
months ago:
II our friends will take the pains to not
the source from which the opposition I,
George T. Anthony comes, they will flint
that 1t emanates solely from the rln-ran Q
disappointed politicians who were loni
since laid on the shelf. The men Of tn
hour are with HIM as unit.
That not being sufficient, he re
peats it in this shape,
Those dwelling individuals who hav
passed the turn of political life, and hav
4. feN I'd
Imbecility OF second childhood, are tn
ones who are making these feeble howl
against Governor Anthony.
The Parsons Sun opens the baI
by declaring all those spoken of a
candidates against Anthony "chro
mo candidates" and says of tn
opposition to Anthony, "the com
bined cowardice and rascality of III
State cannot defeat his nomiuaiio
and triumphant reelection" MOI
we know that the editor of the Su
is largely composed of wind, bu
we submit that such talk is simpl
absurd. 1t says the Martin move
ment sis set on foot and run entirel
by selfish, sour, and disappolnte
men, who have just brains enong
to BIO jealous of Anthony's con
handing taleats." We suppose tn
Sun refers to the Governors mil
tary talents, as they have been III
most prominent "talents" he h.
shown during his brilliant career i
the State House. To conclude OF
notice of the Suns exhibition O
the Governor question, we quote
sentence:
The howl Of radical Missouri busl
whackers hurting stink pots OF calumI
and lies from paw paw groves OF the Mi
souri, bottoms, doesn't fri ghten the o
guard Of Kansas, any more than did Il
invasion Of border rOfiians In early day
Then we conclude from the abo'
that all who oppose George T. al
sradical Missouri bushwhackers
We would like to ask, If we mig
not be considered too meddlesom
, where this fierce Anthony warri,
was when @the old guard of Kansas