The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-26
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Uncle Peter.
Uncle Peter Elder has at last got
it-a nomination for congress. He
was nominated by the Green
hackers at Fort Scott a few days
ago. Uncle Peter has been "flound-
ering" around for fame for some
time. We rather think he has got
it into his noggin that he has not
been appreciated by the Republican
party. We have for some time
been expecting that uncle Peter
would flop out of the party the first
opportunity he got, because he did
not seem to rise above the position
of gong to tthe "legislatur'' just
often enough to keep him alive.
Now, uncle Peter is of the opinion
that if merit had been properly ap-
preciated he would long ago haYe
been Governor or Senator, or had a
fat 'Injun" agency or something
commensurate with the estimate he
placed upon his talents. Of course
uncle Peter is burdened with the
idea that there is not much left of
the party now-that it is corrupt
and of no account. Poor Republi-
can partyI We do not see how IN
Gle Peters virtuous soul has stood it
so long. ReQWiescot IN pace, uncle.
Thar's Latin, uncle Pete
Uncle Peter has been always OPP
posed to the newspapers, one of his
hobbies In the "legislatur" being
the introduction of bills to cut down
printers wages to almost nothing.
He seems to have had a particular
spite against this class of people,
and we think now they've got a
chance at the old man they will
warm him up. One of uncle Peters
fraiIties seems to be a short memo
ry, and consequently a rather incon-
sistent political record. In the first
place our uncle held an "Injun"
agency under Jim Lane, in which
he is said to have "dOne WELL" He
is just the man to post the public
about the corruption of the Repub-
lican party, and it is due the people
that he shall make some startling
developments. A week or SO ago
there appeared in the Topeka Com
mOnwealth an article from uncle
Pete, lauding to the skies Geo. An
thony, q "gOld bug" for Gov. Then
on top of this he was nominated as a
greenback candidate for the import
ant Office of congressman. Now I'M
Gle Peter is busily engaged in an en-
deavOr to "squirm out" of this in
consistent predicament. Uncle Pc
ter took occasion TO give the nuze-
papers particular fits because they
have the impotence to say that Mr..
Anthony is not the best man for the
Republicans to nominate for Coy
ernOr. In doing SO he declares that
said newspapers beat Sidney Clarke
for congress in 1870, and that they
were paid money for doing so.
Now we do not know whether any
paper ever got 3 cent for opposing
Clarke In that campaign or not.
We do know that many of the lead
ing papers supported Mr.. Clarke ar
IDENTIFY in that campaign. But uncle
1 Peter seems to have forgotten his
agency in defeating Clarke at that
time. The first move that the anti.
Clarke party made was to get the
convention enlarged to double the
number of delegates in the State
; convention. This had to be done
by the Republican State central
committee. Uncle Peter was {
member of that committee. It wal
: by his casting vote that the anti
Clarke measure was adopted by the
, committee. The anti-Clarke party
claimed that the enlargement of tn.
convention to double its former
: sizs would prevent Clarke from sue
cessfully manipulating the cOnven
) ton, and It was of the very ut
: most importance that the commit
> tee should SO shape the call. Thii
= did more to beat Clarke than all tn,
! talk of all the newspapers, and TO
: its adoption the anti-Clark part,
! were under obligations to uncle Pc
3 ter. and il was owing to this actor
! in the central committee that uncle
Peter was nominated for Lieutenan
: Governor by the same convention
which beat Clarke. Now, we dom
care q copper what uncle Pete
thinks Of the newspapers or says o
them, but we just like to remind !;
igreat reformer, when he gets {,
Topping around, that he had bette
s look to his own record before b
: talks too much about other folks
Uncle Peter is regarded ali aroun.
as rather . light sailing craft, and i
will be az well for him to keep clos,
|. to shore. Too much newspape
! may sink him. Sc defeadenao
lThem's also Latin, uncle Peter.