The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-10-24
Injustice to a worthy Young Man.

Injustice 70 n Worthy Young Man.
The friends of unsuccessful candidates in the
Republican Convention naturally feel disap-
pointed. Some let their disappointment go 90 far,
that they rail against tho ticket. Every man
who sets out tn oppose an individual candidate
| on the ticket, gives excuse to others for doing
likewise, and thus Injuries candidates whom he
is friendly to. The result is, general demor.l-
ization, and weakening Of the whole ticket, and
general bad feeling that will injure the party
| for years.
| Amid This dissatisfaction, there seems to be
| concentrated effort against but one candidate,
and that the most deserving man on the ticket.
We mean T. W. Heatley. There appears to be
movement among some of the young men call
ing themselves Republicans, encouraged by old
| er ones, to keep up outcry against Mr.. Heat
| ley, for the purpose of manufacturing opposi-
tion, and turn the wxverng and undecided
| against him. We dare say that not one of them
can give q solid reason for this course. He is
the peer of his Dem ocratic opponent in every
particular-mentally and moraly-while poiit-
ically be is right, aud his opponent wrong. The
Democrats push their promising young men for
ward and help them along. Mr.. Armstrong
came to Troy inexperienced in law. He has
conducted himself properly, and attended to his
business. His party at once boosted him for
| ward, the old men standing ont of his way, and
assisting him on. But Republican practice
seems to have been to pull their young mon
down, besmear them, and trample them in the
dust.
We presume Mr. Heatley's chief offence has
been, that he has not run around with the
"boys," tried to be a roaring good fellow, and
spent money that he did not have to spend. He
has devoted his time to study, and to useful Ia
Dor. No man can say he has ever wronged him,
or failed to treat him 'courteously. He CAM
here poor, and has had his hands full in earn
ing living. He could not afford to be "good
fellow" in the popular acceptation of the term,
had he SO desired; for he has tried to pay rs he
went, without "beating" his way off of any body.
He has been the same man, all the way through.
He has been a sober, temperate man from prn-
ciple, but has not undertaken to regulate the
habits Of other people. He has never donned q
badge, and gone of on a crusade against whis-
key drinking, when that was the furore, and
then gone into saloons and treated men to gain
their votes, as election drew near.
Whatever Mr.. Heatley is, and whatever he has,
he owes to his own hard efforts. From boyhood,
he worked at the trade of furnace-building, in
the iron districts of Pennsylvania. All who
know anything of the business, know that it is
not only the very hardest kind of work, but is
attended with danger to health and life. In
this way, he obtained the means to acquire o
college education; aud his time in college was
not wasted. With money earned by himself, he
came to Kansas-aud We venture to say, that
from the time lie was large enough to work un-
til the present dry, he has never possessed
dollar that he did not earn by his own labor.
Is this just canse TO pull him downi
Mr.. Heatley's father is Democrat of the most
ultra sect. His associations and the teachings
he received were all in that direction. Yet, long
before he reached the age Of manhood, he was o
Republican, and has been one ever since. He
became one by reading, observing and thinking
for himself. He did not blindly stagger on in
the path in which his feet chanced to be placed,
and prate of having imbibed Democracy with
his mothers milk, nor attempt to have or give
no other for it, than that "his father was
a Democrat" He is, at least, Republican from
principle. Can any of the Republicans who are
SO bitterly opposing him, give as good reason
for their action'
Mr.. Heatley has had ambition. 1t is not an
objectionable crime to aspire to honorable po-
sition. If anybody has cause to feel sore, he is
the man, not those who are relentlessly op- |
posing him. He was a candidate for the nomi- |
nation for Representative, in the Republican |
Convention of 1875. His friends believe and in |
sist that he received clear majority, but that |
the vote was manipulated, and he was counted |
out, and another declared the nominee. He did |
not relish this treatment, but he did not whine |
he gave the nominee hearty support. Again, |
in 1876, he was a candidate. This time, he re- /
ceived a clear majority, and was declared the |
nominee. At once movement was started |
against him, and acquired such proportions that /
he was reduced to the alternative of withdraw
ing seeing Democrat elected. No earthly |
reason was assigned for this opposition, but |
rather than defeat his party, he withdrew from |
q position to which he had been fairly and
squarely nominated. This would make any man
feel sore; but he did not sulk, seek revenge.
He quietly bided his time, when justice should
be done him. This act should have entitled him
to the respect of all honest Republicans. Yet
We hear few declare that they will not sup
port him now, because he withdrew then. On
TIC manu-, nau uc uot WNuuTbNu, OtucIS |
would now be opposing him because he caused
the defeat of Republican. But We are glad to
say that most of the leading men in that move
ment acknowledge the unjust treatment he re-
ceived, and are earnestly striving to right the
wrong. They pledged him, ut the time, that
they would remember him in the future, and
they are keeping their pledge. He has again
fairly and squarely received a nomination, by
almost a three -fourths vote of the Convention,
and Republican workers arc determined that
petty jealousy and groundless spite shall not ac-
complish his defeat, if work can prevent it.
The enemies of Heatley are fatteriEg them
selves with the hope that Mr.. Hoversons friends
will oppose him. We do not believe it. If any
do, they will be very few. They know that Mr..
Heatley had the same right to be candidate
that Mr.. Hoverson had, and they certainly can
not feel hard toward him because be succeeded.
Had Hoverson been noninated, his friends would
have had right to complain if Heatley's friends
had tried to defeat the nominee, and We think
they will do unto Others as they would have had
others do unto them.
We make these remarks upGn the rumors and