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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
"HARD TIMES"

Some of the peregrinating political
hacks who never want any office, but
who are around merely to see that 1.-The
Office seeks the man." are having uphill
work of it this year. The burden of
their lamentations is that the people are
oppressed by "hard times" and that
Greenbackism is the only cure-all. The
Troy Chief has some sensible remarks on
this subject:
Everybody is too busy to be seriously
troubled about hard times. With every
body employed, at fair wages, and all
kinds of goods and provisions cheap, the
doctrine of Greenbackism languishes,
and its apostles cannot raise the wind.
Every man who is willing to work can
now find employment. The only loaf
ers are the tramps who will not work,
and the political tramps who are going
around croaking about hard times and
ruin. Crops are excellent, and the pros
poets are cheering for good prices. Re
sumption, that so many of us-we con-
fess it, us-beheld afar off as a terrible
bugaboO, is liked fact, and instead of
Withdrawing greenbaoks from circula-
ton, it has kept them afloat, and made
them worth as much as gold, so that
gold and silver are as easy to get as pa.
perm fact, most people prefer the pa
per. The tramp has practically disap
peared from the highways and by-ways
except those who are determined not to
work. There is not one tramp seen to
day, where there were ten year or even
SIX months ago. The farmers who have
withdrawn from the business of bewaIl
ing the impending ruin, are the ones who
are smiling on big crops, with prospect
i've good prices.
This fall promises to be sickly season
for those politicians whose stock in trade
is hard times and ruin. That man Ew
ing, in Ohio, who is the apostle of ole
ruin itself, is very evidently doomed II
dire disaster. Even while he is preach
ing financial distress, the iron furnace
throughout the state are firing up, anC
manufacturers employing as many as
thousand hands, have notified theil
workmen that from and after the LIST o
September, their wages are increased
10 per cent. Those factories are resum
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
VOL. %.

THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
The New York Democratic state con-
vention which re-nominated Governor
Robinson showed how strong control
Tilden exercises III that party and is
significant of his control Of It's next con
vention The 'rammany delegation with
drew amid great confusion, rather than
acquiesce in Robiuson's re-nomInation,
but Tilden held the balance of the CON
vention with firm and steady hand, and
carried out his plans despite all opposi-
ton. lie has now the task of uniting
the party vote upon Robinson. II he
can By any possibility do this and thus
carry the state, his own denomination
for President may be regarded as beyond
further question. We think our Dem
ocratic friends may just as well make up
their minds to swallow Tilden again,
and count him in" next time, if there is
any way they can manage to carry out
that programme.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
GRANT AND THE SOUTH.

The Louisville Oourier-Journal, the
leading Democratic paper of the south,
boldly proclalms that lit must be either
Tilden or Grant!'' 1t says the solid
south prefers Tilden, but that Grants
reelection would mean "a grand central
lied government, war with Mexico and
Canada, great railroad enterprises, the
leveeing of the Mississippi, and an era
of progress and development III which
everybody would wipe out and begin
anew, and the southern boys would be
placed on an equality with the northern
laddies," and if 1t can't get Tilden the
south will rush pell-mell to Grant. Ii
declares:
"He stands vastly ahead OF his party
in moral fibre. The spontaneous out
burst of sympathy and feeling which re
sponded TO the happily false report OF
the death of his daughter, was largely
tributary to the kindly respect in which
he is held by the American people. II
he were thief or the conscious hacker
of thieves, this would not be so. He is
as man, at this moment, the most at
tractiVe figure presented to the common
eye, having the largest individual follow.
ing of any citizen of the Republic; and
it is perfectly true TO say that if a Re
publican is to be our next president, he
is the choice of the whole south.'
Forney's Progress adds:
"Henry Watterson, of Louisville Cour
ierJ ournal, may be the Christopher
Columbus of 1880, in discovering that
the acceptance of Grant by all parties
north and south, will lead to the politi
cal millennium. / have more than ono,
limited this thought, but am willing
the patent should go to my old friend
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
KANSAS CROPS OF 1879.

In 1873 the corn crop Of Kansas was
S0,324,975 bushels. On August 1st the
state board of agriculture estimated the
crop of 1879 TO be 100000 bushels,
but the dry weather which then set in
and prevailed for nearly six weeks in
many parts of the state, has no doubt
naturally lessened the late corn crop, but
it will be considerably over 1O0,O00OOO
bushels beyond question. The dry
weather of the early part of the season
also decreased the winter wheat crop of
1879 and the spring wheat ) per cent, 81
per cent below that of 1873. Live
stock of all kinds shows large increase,
and every kind has been and is free from
disease, and farmers generally are now
buying young hogs and cattle so that
they can convert their corn into pork
and beef. The fall rains have begun and
are rapidly preparing the ground so that
farmers can pillow and plant fall wheat,
and the outlook for immense crops of
all kinds for 1880 IS unprecedentedly
| good.
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THE LIBERAL CAMP MEETING.

The Leavenworth Daily Times says of
the Liberal camp meeting at Bismarck
grove, near Lawrence:
Our reports from Bismarck Grove this
morning are quite voluminous, but the
Liberal camp meeting now in progress
there is a matter of interest TO great
many of our readers-nOt only to the
Liberals and Spiritualists who are di-
rectiy concerned in the meeting, but TO
christian people also, who want to know
what is being said and done by the In
fidels."
The Liberals are quite encouraged by
the success of their meeting, and find the
attendance larger than they expected
During Sunday there We're nearly as
many persons on the grounds as attend
ed the first Sunday of the Temperance
camp meeting, when the audience was
estimated at twelve thousand.
The meeting continues till Friday Of
this week. The failure of Col. Ingersoll
TO come was a serious disappointment
and kept a great many away. lift could
have been positively known that he
would have been there last Sunday, the
audience would undoubtedly have beer
the largest ever gathered in the grove.
Everything was orderly and decorous
There were no drinking stands nor shop:
of any other kind within the enclosure
The rain of few days brfore had pu
the grounds IN fine condition, the wealth
er was perfect and the conditions wer'
all favorable for pleasant time.
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5. We congratulate the people of the
state of New York on the results of. the
Democratic administration in the pay
ment of the state debt, reduction of ex
| penses and diminished burden of taxa
| ton. We condemn the efforts of dema
gogues to create jealousy and antagon
ism between the city of New York and
the rest of the state when their interests
are identical. The growth of the one is
the prosperity of the other. The people
of New York-farmers, manufacturers
and merchants, alike-demand that they
shall have all the advantages which &C.
crue to them from their favorable posi-
ton, and that the railroads they have
| chartered and endowed with vast and
| profitable privileges shall be operated
for their benefit and not for their ruin
The Democratic officers of the state OF
| New York by the ability and fidelity in
| which they have discharged their duty
during the past three years, by their con-
scientious application of the constitu-
tional test of the acts of every depart
ment of the state government, by their
| successful resistance to private and party
legislation, and by their economic con-
duct of finances and reduction of the
entitled them to the gratitude of their
fellow-citizens of all parties, by law from
unjust discrimination and from favoring
localities or individuals.
6. The tolls upon the canals are to be
kept at the lowest rates possible consis-
tent with economical and efficient man.
agement.
Z. The maintenance of the public
shoots, the pride and hope of free state.
3. Prisons for the punishment and re-
formation of criminal and not for the in
jury of honest labor, which should be
protected as far as possible from such
competition.
8. Municipal selfgovorment In local
affairs.
10. That the successful efforts of our
democratic representatives in congress
restoring the fair and intelligent jury
system, and in protecting the freedom of
the ballot, and preventing unconstitu-
tiOnal interference of federal admins
tratIon with state elections, is approved
and the action of the executive in veto
ing the legislation designed to prevent
the presence of armed soldiers, and the
employment of paid federal supervisors
and marshals, at the polls, and the use
of public funds for the purpose, is de
nOunced by the democracy of the state
of New York.
II. And as a foundation of of all lib
erty and prosperity, privileges and rights
under our government, we shall contin-
ue to uphold the system of untrammelled
suffrage absolutely free from FEEDER
al force supervision. 1t is the duty of
the states alike, in the interest of taxa
ton, temperance, and equal and exact
justice to the community, to make such
lewiston of the excise laws as will better
secure the rights of citizens to life, lib
erty, property and public order.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

We have published the New York
Greenback and Republican platforms,
and now finish the list with the Demo
cratic platform adopted at Syracuse on
the 18th:
The Democratic party of the state of
New York in convention assembled:
l. Profoundly sensible OF the import
ant consequences depending upon the
immediate results of their deliberations,
do declare and reasSert the principles of
popular liberty and rights laid down by
Washington, Jefferson, and other found
ers of the republic.
2. We hold to the constitution, with
all its amendments sacredly maintained
and enforced, and to the rights of states
under the constitution; the tendencies of
the Republican party to Capitalization
and consolidation are contrary to the
principles of our institutions the United
States form a nation in the sense, to the
extent and for the purpose declared in
the Federal constitution, and we will
resist every attempt to transform it into
an empire.
B. We insist on unity, fraternity and
concord, and that the issues settled by
the war shall not be revived. We de-
preciate the efforts of the Republican
managers to revive sectional feuds and
to rekindle the passions of the past.
We demand honest elections and honest
counting. Never again by fraud or
force shall the popular will be set aside
to crafty INSCRIPTIONS politicians.
The Democracy oppose all favOritism ;
not a single interest or class of persons
should be projected at the expense OF
others. The Democracy means the
government of the whole people for a
whole people and by the whole people,
but If any class is to receive special con-
sideration it should be the working peO-
pie, whom all other governments op-
pose and crush.
| 4. The rights of the people should be
scrupulously guarded from the encroach-
ments OF capital and the despotic greed
of corporations. The Democracy be-
lieve now, as they have always believed,
In gold and silver as the constitutional
money OF the country. We condemn the
speculative methods of the present secre-
tary of the treasury, and the questionable
favoritlSm he has shown to particular
monetary institutions and so-caIled syn.
dictates, and the extrayagances he has
| permitted in his department In connec.
ton with his refunding schemes. We
look with shame and sorrow on the dis
graceful Republication of their professions
OF civil service reform by the executive
and his supporters. Federal offices have
been freely given for despicable partisan
services, while many leading officers OF
the government are making partisan
speeches, managing political Campaigns
and requiring their subordinates to con.
tribute to the campaign funds, in dero
CATION of every principle and promise oil
an honest and civil revise of the 1O4, O0O
federal officers who constitute the army
moving under single direction to keep
the Republican party in power, and this
vast patronage is now used as a corrup
Ition fund against the people.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
ORR CONGRESSMAN.

Hon. Thomas Ryan, our congressman
was in the city Saturday lie is looking
in better health than we ever saw him be-
fore, and is buoyant with the hope Of the
triumph of the old-fashioned Republi-
can principles again throughout the
country. Mr. r. has spent several weeks
in his district for the purpose of more
thoroughly posting himself as to the
needs of his constituents in different
portions of the district Mr.. Ryan has
made faithful and able representative,
and is deservedIy popular with his con
stltuents. lie goes to Washington ON
business in few days
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
MISSOURI TREASURY.

The Democrats have had control OF
Missouri ever since the magnanimity OF
the Republicans restored the rebels Ia
the rights of citizenship, and of course
there is big deficiency in the states
treasury. 1t now amounts to $350,000.
Last year an attempt was made to invcs-
tigate and bring the thieves who had
been robbing the state TO justice. 1t was
found there was Il corrupt bank ring
which had control of the peoples money,
and that it had been used for the benefit
of this ring, of which the state treasurer
was member An attempt was made
to impeach that officer but the Democrats
who had shared in the robbery were too
strong. He was acquitted. In Republi-
can Kansas the whole crowd would have
gone to the penitentiary. In Democratic
Missouri they went free, and the state
treasurer is still in Office. The governor
says he can't do anything, and the PEG
pie have to stand it. And yet they are
trying to induce immigration to Mis-
.o,,r;
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

BLIGnTING observation-disclosures
blights all that comes under its power.
The first of last month, Kentucky elected
for governor DR.. Blackburn, who at
tempted TO introduce yellow fever in the
north, during the rebellion. A few days
later, the state authorities announced
that the state was unable longer to meet
the claims against her for public debt
and interest. Several months ago, it
was announced that reports from the
school districts of Virginia showed that
more than 0ne-half the districts were
without school. Further south, the
laboring population, that could not be
driven out by pestilence, is fleeing by
thousands from the barbarism of the
whites, which is worse than pestilence
So it goes, all over the south. 1t is re
lapsing into barbarism and darkness
and in a few years, the adventurous PEG
pie of the north will have TO conquer and
reclaim il, as from the savages. But one
state, Missouri, is endeavoring to attract
emigration; but the only emigration
that will touch her will be of the samt
class as that now there. from further
south, which will be worse for her thar
if she remained wilderness. Not I'm
til the blight of Democracy is removed
will there be any hope for the SOUTH
| Troy Chief
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
LIFE,s SWEETNESS.

Sweet is the sunlight on receling ships.
sweet are the flowers that blossom in the
morn:
Sweet are the kisses on the dear young Inns
That meet our yvn when love is newly born
sweet are tie be is that memory rings IN vain
To call the past with all its vanished hours
sweet, with etDess closely allied to pain,
The perfume OF the slowly-fading flowers.
And o my heart sweet were the girlish ewes
That in the past looked love into my own.
The moments vanish, and the shadow lies:
The chorus may Vibrate when the strains
have flown.
And yet the music fingers in the life
Though much of its first melody depart
Sweet is the love of sweetheart or of wife
Sweet With Il .weetness known but to the
heart.
But down the horizon dim the ships recede;
The sunset gili> no more their fading track
White sails, rtturn!'' our heart ma vainIy
plead
From their long voyagtng they turn not
Sweet are TIE fading flowers. with perfume
rife;
Sweet is the sonnet OF dear familiar feet,
sweet are the glamors of this fading life
In sweetness born, but they are bitter
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

The Daily Beacon at Wichita died af-
ter an existence of one week. We never
saw copy and don't know what the
Beacon attempted. We suspect 1t under
took more thanit could stand up to. The
fact is that the Wichita kite generally
sails too high, and nothing less than a
second New York Herald would be ap-
prcciated there. When it comes to
dailies you can no more run nOnpareil
paper in ii small plea town than you can
make a whistle out ofapig's tail. WITCH
ita would undoubtedly support live lit
tie local daily such rs the business de
mands oi the town need, and the man
who would undertake such an enter
prise would grow into good business
The facilities for getting it circulated in
adjoining counties are first class.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

There is shrewd suspicion extant
that Brother Kailocn was not injured so
badly as was reported by De Young's
bullet, but that the seriousness of the
matter was deliberately aggravated for
political effect. Some color is given to
this suspicion by the circumstances that
the character of the reverned gentleman's
wounds has never been very explicitly
described, as by the further fact that the
moment his election was assured, he
evinced an extreme anxiety TO go ont on
the streets without furIherdelay. Brother
igencies of political canvass with as
much versatility as any man we ever knew.
commonwealth
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

That it is possible to grow good tea in
this country is beyond doubt. That by
the cultivation of few bushels in garden
piats great many American families
may he able TO secure small quantity OF
finer tea than can be had in the market,
without calling in outside help, and with
out seriously increasing domestic care
and labor, Is quite probable. That ii
will ever pay for Americans to under
take tea growing as Il business is alto
gcther another matter
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

Mr. Thomas Wilson. n wealthy Balti
MORGAN. who recently died, left $5OO,OOC
10 found sanitarium for children OF
the poor. He also left 100000. to be
used In buying coal while cheap and
laying it by 10 be sold TO the poor at cost
when prices should advance. Such
charities speak volumes for the giver
and the man in his grave goes on dis
pensing blessings to the world.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

In n letter to a gentleman in Iowa,
published in the Cedar Rapids Qowa)
Times, Mrs. Chisholm says:
Yes! "Our flag waves triumphantly
over every foot of southern soil" oar
fGg! whose flag? the American flag :
Has any country ever existed before
which tolerated the constant fiaunt in in
tended defiance of Gay flag, constantly,
not merely in words but actual fact, by
avowed enemies OF thai country? Dear
sir; no heart ever ached like mine; no
woe was ever as comfortless as mine; no
loneliness was ever so cherries as mine
no insult hcaped on murdered victims
ever equaled in base, malignant falsehood
that heaped on my darlings. Yet, think
you have not my moments of triumph
ant joy? Yes: l am has toite-their
mother. His name is mine; to no other
ever fell the lot to be loved by that great
heart. Then, only think of the rest be-
yOnd!
The grand farce of the trial and tri-
umphant acquittal'' comes off the 1st of
September. l am to be there. My son
is to be there. The insulted murderers
make many threats against our personal
safety, and / know what their threats
mean. ! have reason.
Individually, the heart of the Repub-
lican is right, everywhere; but l fear
they have collectively gone to sleep on
the glories of the past.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

During July and August our exports
of wheat exceeded those of the same
period last year by $lO,OOO,OOO bushels
Last week we shipped from three prin
cipal ports 100000 bushels of wheat
The business will steadily increase
Not only wheat, but the surplus of every
industry is in demand, and the steady
flow of gold in this direction Is one o.
the good times that have dawncd upon
the country. 1t is what we need after
the prolonged struggle, and men shou.t
put their shoulders TO the wheel with ;
,,.;n
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

In Forney's Progress" No. AZ, dated
September 9th. Justin McCarthy's novel
Donna Quixote will be finished. In
progress" No. Al, dated September
18th, will commence American Money
and Foreign Titles, novel by John W.
Forney, editor and proprietor of PRO
gress," Room No. ?. 2d floor, press
building, Seventy and Chestnut streets,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

A special from San Francisco an
nounces that Mr.. Dennis Kearney pro.
poses to burn General Grant in efllgy
ON the day he arrives, and has given due
notice of the fact. Very naturally this
threat has excited much feeling, and il
such an indignity shall be attempted the
great orator of the sand lots may gel
roughly handled.
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State Historical Society

ing work, and increasing the wages of
laborers, because business is getting
good, and there is demand for their
manufactures, at remunerative prices.
The worst cor gregation in the world to
preach distress and ruin to, is a crowd
of workmen who are kept busy, and who
have just had their wages raised. This
is why such peddlers of blue ruin as
Tom Ewing and Sam Wood will find
that all their roads lead up hill.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

The result in Maine wipes out the
Greenback party from national politics.
The fight next year will be unembarrass-
cd by third party. 1t will be a strug-
gle between giants, and will settle the
policy of the nation for quarter of a
century.-St. Louis Times Qndepen-
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The Cincinnati Times remarks: Now
is the time for Conkling to cultivate
some of jim Blaine's handshaking pow
ers. If in his awful presence men could
only speak of him Us Kos. it would be
worth ten thousand votes to Cornell.
1t would be worth twenty thousand to
him if he would allow himself to be
addressed rs Conk"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

Representatives of nearly all the Bes-
semer steel works met in Philadelphia
on Thursday for tie purpose, 81 agreeing
upon regulations for the government "i
the trade. 1t was stated at the confer
ence that every establishment is crowded
with orders and that the general condi-
ton of the steel interest is bs tier than il
has been tor manY years
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19

A few days before the California cleo
ton the San Francisco Chronicle advised
the Hon. Bilks and Democrats TO unite
on Flint, the Republican cadidate for
mayor. This, after it had spent weeks
in villiging Flint. Many of its own
party, it is stated, voted for Kalloch.