The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-22
ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

ing it very largely in commenting upon
the election returns from Ohio and In
diana.
The Bounding Banning got gloriously
bounced in the race for congress in the
first Ohio district. The majority of his
constituency this year were laboring un,
der political disabilities which Cover.
nor Foster refused to remove by pardon
ing them out of the penitcntiary.
The Democrats Of Indiana are striving
to rally from their decentralization, and
express the greatest confidence in their
ability to carry the state for Hancock
and English in November 1t is pop
ular superstition that snake whose
| head is crushed in the morning will wig
gle its tail Till shutdown.
Washington is agitated on the ques-
ton of a geological garden. The inten-
sity of this demand will be largely aug
mented by the present gloomy outlook
for a Democratic majority in the next
congress, and the consequent suspension
of the national circus which has enliven-
ed the capital for the past two winters.
From long and somewhat varied
experience, l should imagine that my
friends who were Boosting so loudly
about what they would do in Ohio and
Indiana, now feel as the old gentleman
did who remarked that he was glad he
had his fun with the bull before he was
~. rrF.r
den.
Il regard the results in Ohio and Indi-
ana of Do-1ensequence, whatever. Like
the tariffquestion, they are merely local
in their effect, and can have no bearing
on the general result l am still hold
ing my party by the tail, and have no
doubt of my ability TO pull it through
in ember."-Gcneral ToOts Han
cock.
The Democratic party wants to wait
until all the histories of the war are out
of print before 1t again ventures upon
the scheme of hiding lis butternut rags
under blue uniform, and when it stakes
lis chances ON another superb states
man" it should be careful to select one
who doesn't all run to fat instead of
brains.
The glorious character of the Repub-
lican victory in Indiana and Ohio is
largely emphasized by the significant
fact that the men whose chins are sweep
ing the ground over the result, are the
selfsame butternuts who, during the
war. used to steal out of their hiding
places and crow over the reverses of the
union army.
The Democrats are finding a mOrsel of
frigid consolation in the fact that the
Bourbon reverscs in Ohio and Indiana
will only tend To stimulate them to greater
effort for the final contest in November.
The Republicans are perfectly willing
that they should utilize all the zeal
which the news from the October states
will inevitably inspire.
The northern doughfaces, who are
hankering so fiercely for rebel domina-
ton, can only be accommodated, we
fear, by pulling up stakes and moving
south, where the opportunities for social
ostracism abound, and common white
trash" can fully glut their boundless ad-
miration for the aristocracy of Dixie, in
its most imposing phases.
Globe Democrat: A Democratic CO.
temporary informs us through the me-
dunn of its attenuated headlines that
"The Democratic Leaders are Buckling
On. Their Armor for the Final Fight"
and that "a Stern Contest is to be inau-
gurated." From this we infer that Bar
mum and English are plnning on their
breast-plates under their coat-tails"
The country awaits, with breathless in
terest, General Hancoct's congratula.
tory letter to Bill English, compliment
ing him on the glorious manner in
which he has held the Hoosier state for
the Democracy, and assuring him of the
tendency of the result TO "inspire our
friends with confidence and strengthen
them for the battles which remain to
be fought elsewhere"
The Indiana Democrats have fallen
into the pit which they digged for their
enemies. The amendment changing the
time of election in that state from Dc
tobcr to November was not reversed by
the Bourbon Judiciary for the purpose
which it has so gloriousIy accomplished
The majesty of the ermine proved pow
erless to break the force of the boom
erang, which has carried dismay into the
butternut ranks
Bourbon Amenities:-General Han
cock to Wade Hampton: "Why in the
name of all the gods at once did you
| ever make that Staunton speech p"
Hampton to Hancock 1T wasn't that,
you blubbering idiot. Why the thunder
didn't you have more sense than to slop
over and send that haItcock dispatch
to PlaisIed, and show your ears by turn
ing your treacherous mouth loose on the
tariff question? Honors are easy, Gen
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