The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-22

Wanted, statesman" exclaimed the
New Orleans Times, but it has not been
able to find one in the Democratic party
for some years.
Local selfgovernment" is the cur
rent southern euphemism for state rights
The new rhetorical sheepskin doesn't
hide the teeth Of the wolf.
Taken altogeter, we have done moth
ing to be proud Of" is the final COM
ment of the Louisville Courier-J ournal
on the Kentucky election. That's ex-
actly the way it appears to outsiders.
Here Is straw for Greenbackers to
chew upon. In Portsmouth, N. H., with
in sight of Maine, the Greenback city
ticket got 165 votes last year. AT the 10
cal election last Tuesday it got only So.
IfMr. Evarts should conclude to take
the English mission himself, the coun-
try would expect TO see that perennial
annoyance, the fishery question, settled
speedily and finally, and in the right
way.
Mr.. Ewing is a good deal of a blower,
but in trying to blow hot and cold with
the same breath, to please both the
Greenbackers and the hard money Demo
Gratis, he has taken pretty heavy con-
tract.
Mr.. Thurman is the little boy blue"
of politics. He is "under a haycock
fast asleep" somewhere up in the noun
tains of Virginia, while out in Ohio the
Ewing sheep arc in his meadow and the
Tilden COWS in mis- corn. If he doesn't
wake up before long he will never harv-
est his crop Of presidential expectations.
"The white people of Yazoo are the
friends of the cOlOred man-but he must
not conduct himself in such a manner as
to destroy the peace and prosperity of
the country" says The YazoO Herald.
This is gentle hint that if the negro
votes for anybody but the Democratic
candidates hewill get dose of shotgun
argument.
One by one the roses wither, and one
by one the democratic candidates for the
presidency disappear. David Davis has
collapsed. Thurman is well down on
the political horizon. Hendricks troub-
les nobody but WattersOn. Bayard is a
vanishing sentiment. No one rises to
second Joel Parker's nomination. Han
cock is hardly mentioned. Meanwhile
Uncle Sammy tightens his twist on the
party and serenely surveys the prospect.
The latest feature of the Maine can
vass is the lively bargaining at county
conventions between the Democrats and
Greenbackers over coalition tickets.
Sometimes trade isspOiled by the greed
mess of one party or the other, or by the
stubbOrness of a few old fashioned Dem
ocrats, who are so behind the times as
TO imagine that their party has some
principles remaining which must not be
compromised. AS rule, however, the
negotiations are concluded without
much difficulty.
Mr.. Ewing publishes an old letter,
written in his Kansas days, to show that
he left the Republican party because it
prescribed the southern whites and
made the blacks rulers. If that was the
reason, he ought to come back to be con-
sistent. The white man is on top now,
and he has shotgun in his hand and
revolver in his hip-pocket. The blacks
are so thoroughly prescribed that they
scarcely dare vote for an independent
forjustice of the peace.
Joseph L. Smith candidate for COVER
nor of Maine, denies that he offered to
renounce his fiat-money notions last
year if the Republicans in the legisla-
ture would make him governor. The
evidence is against him, however. On
one side is only his unsupported asser-
ton, and on the other is a memorandum
in his own handwriting, signed with his
initials, of what he was willing to put in
his message in relation to the financial
question. The Republicans did not &C
cept his offer because they knew that if
they elected him their action would be !
in other states as friendly |
to the Greenback party. Mr.. Smith will
have to bring more testimony if he ex-
poets to escape the imputatlOn of being
willing to betray his party for the sake