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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
VOL. 23.
TILE PoLITICAL OuTLooK.


The Republican national committee
has gotten down 10 business, and mat
tiers have been put into the best possible
order for thorough and effective cam
paign. a large number of prominent
Republicans from different states have
called at the headquarters, No. 241 Fifth
avenue, New York, and comparison of
notes by the wheelhorses of the party
shows a fixed belief in the successful
termination of the campaign in Novem-
Der. Reports from Vermont,- Pennsyl-
vania and New York are full of cheer
for the Republicans. MIR. ii. BortZ re-
ports that the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania were never more active, earnest,
thoroughly harmonious and sure of vic
tory than they now are under the banner
of Garfield and Arthur Every man in
the party seems TO be alive to the i'm
portance of the coming election, and To
have appointed himself Il special COM
mittee Of one to see that the work is
well done in the state. Reports from
Jefferson, OnOndaga and Niagara
counties in New York are to the
effect that the party has been
thoroughly organized and ready to
poll every vote for the national ticket.
Vermont is, of course, a certain state, but
the Republicans there are organizing as
never before, and say they will increase
their majority by thousands. 1t will
hold an election ON September 7th, and
will be followed, six days later, by
Maine. 1t is the purpose of the Repub.
licans Of Vermont to set their Maine
brethren II good example by increasing
their majority at least 5000 votes. To
help in this good work, Stewart L.
Woodford has consented TO make seven
speeches in August ut big mass meet
ings to be held in the seven largest
towns in the state. The members of the
national committee are enthusiastic in
their predictions of success. Indiana is
set down as certain to go Republican
and one member remarked last evening
that a careful consideration of the re
ports thus far received had convinced
him that the only doubtful state in tho
north is New Jersey
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
HERE AND THERE

After all, Currie, the Texas assassin, is
not so black-hearted as the press has
painted him. He has developed into u
philanthropist by refusing to lecture.
One explanation of DIR. Tanners won
derfnl powers of endurance in abstaining
from food is found in the rumor that his
late landlady had a red-headed cook.
The very refinement of cruelty has
been attained by the monster who dis
coursed ofspring chicken ON toast in the
presence of DIR. Tanner the other day.
The rumor that David David cOntem-
plates fast of forty-One days, in emula-
ton of Dr. Tanner, has caused very
sensible decline in the wheat and pork
markets of Chicago.
The Democratic press has claimed ev-
erything in the country for Hancock,
with the unimpOrtant exception of Alas
ka, but it was reserved for Bill English
to set forth 'thc favor of God" as fac
tor In the Bourbon canvass.
The hurrah campaign of the Demo
Gratis is already showing symptoms of
petering out 1t takes something more
than fat man and the record of revo-
lutionary party to influence the senti-
ment of an intelligent people.
Texas is said to be the only southern
state that has made gain since the last
census, II result which is doubtless large
ly due to the precautiOn exercised by its
judiciary against depletion of its popu-
lation through the agency of the gallows.
Senator Ingalls, is said to have been
dangerously addicted to writing poetry
when he was college student But,
happily, he relinquished the vice before
it had gained sufficient hold upon him to
initiate against the splendid successes
of his after life.
1t has been estimated by competent
students of the laws OF cause and effect
that the success of DR. Tanner, in the
accomplishment of his proposed fast of
forty days, would precipitate upon the
country ten thousand additional daily
newspapers, and ten times that number
of young preachers of different denomi-
nations. The capacity to subsist with
out food Is the only feasible solution of
the journalistic and clerical professions.
Captain Payne, the Oklahoma lunatic,
who invaded the Indian Territory for
the second time, in violation of law and
treaty, has been suddenly brought to a
stand, having been arrested on the 14th
| by Donald ana his scouts. This adven.
tur0us individual is apparently trifle
obtuse in grasping the point, but it is
Surmised that he will eventually arrive al
the conclusion that President Hayes is
at least as big man as Doc. Mumford
of the Kansas City Times, who is the
main propeller of the Oklahoma boom
Poor Dr. Tanner! 1t may be truly
said Of him that lone woe doth tread
upon anOther's heels, so fast they fol
low" AS if the fearful pangs of hun.
ger; the agOniZing pain which has
followed in the wake of his terrible bat.
tie with the laws of nature the skeptIcal
suspicious and unjust aspersions OF
doubling ThOmases were not sufficient Ia
complete the sum of his dreadful suffer
ings. the press of the country have laid
the last straw upon the back of this
selfconstituted martyr, and are publish
ing wOOd-cut pictures of the venerable
and harmless lunatic.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
FORNEY'S CONSISTENCY.

Col. ]. w. Forney, the blatant apostate,
who has swung round the circle in the
vain hope that Hancock will be elected
in November, is the selfsame jewel of
consistency who said in 1857 that Han
cocks Louisiana administration was
worse than the epidemic of the
yellow fever; that "he was
better soldier than law
YER" that "he lowered the colors of the
nation" that his rule made dark days
in Texas and Louisiana :" that "the Irish
Democracy repudiated the man who
executed the sainted Mrs. Surratt," and
that Hancock should drop the blue and
don the gray" But this fact will only
At him the more eminently for ahili.
alton with the great bulk of the support
ers of the Democratic nominee, Whose
present southern adherents would have
shot him full of holes at any time dur
ing the rebellion, while their northern
allies were pelting him with such endear
ing epithets as military satrap," Lin
coin dog" etc.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENT.
ALTON
Ohio State Journal

Sufficient returns of the census have
been made to show that the population
of Ohio is between 100000 and $780,
600. The growth of the state has kept
pace with the growth of the Union. Ohio
will neither gain or lose in congressional
representation. The states of Maine,
Vermont Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey. Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Loui-
siana, Mississippi. Arkansas and Ken
lucky will each lose one representative
in congress; New York, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and Virginia viii lose two
each. All other states east of the Mis-
sissiPpi Will be represented as at present
The southern states will lose thirteen
members, and may possibly gain three
two In Texas and one In Missouri. The
northern states will lose eight members
and gain eighteen-the gains going to
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado and California. Eleven
Democratic states lose thirteen men,
bers, and two Democratic states gain
three; four Republican states lose five
members, and seven Republican states
gain eighteen, while three doubtful
states lose four members and gain moth
ing. Thus the 'stars in their courses
fight for equality of lights and for the
Republican party.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

The Democrats who are blowing so
Justify about carrying Pennsylvania this
fall, have carried that state--on paper -
at every presidential contest for the past
twenty years by the following Waterloo
majorities: In 1860 Lincoln carried the
Keystone by n majority of 50.GlS; Gen
eneral Mcclellan, the military candidate
of the Democracy in 1864, was showed
under by Republican majority of 20
O75; in 1868 the triumph of HoratiO SeY-
mour was regarded as settled matter,
and yet he lacked the trifling requisite
of 2S,S98 votes of carrying the state; the
venerable Horace Greeley was victimiz'
ed TO even n greater extent in 1872, and
was beaten by Grant by the overwhel
ming majority of 1896; Mr.. Hayes
carried the state in 1876 by majority o
9,375, while his plurality over TildeT
was $4,000. In the language of Mr.
Silas Wegg, "there Amt nothin' ia this
showing TO be low about" and the Re
publicans can safely count on majority
of 10000 for Garfield in the Keystone
state.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
POLITICAL POINTS.


The Hancock boom Is daily growing
in resemblance To the Greeley fiasco of
1872
The Democratic party is striving to
get away from its record and is making
the present canvass ON its check. 1t
would puzzle Philadelphia lawyer to
determine which is the harder of the
two.
The Democratic national committee
have plastered Hancock with taffy, soap
ed Bill English in the most approved
style, slavcrcd Mr.. Tilden with sweet
ened slime and are now stimulating
their astronomical powers preparatory
10 swallowing John Kelly.
The form, the face, the manners and
the mustache of General Hancock, are
the stock in trade with which the Dem
erably attenuated rs those arguments
are, they are infinitely safer and more
available than the record of the party
which employs them.
The bloody chasm still continues TO
yawn between the regular Democrats
and the Readjusters of Virginia, and un-
less it can be brldged by the ingenuity
of the party leaders, the Old Dominion
will give Garfield and Arthur her cleo
toral vote. The Democratic SQUAD is
gradually assuming its normal proper
tons.
The blue uniforms donned by rebel
soldiers upon different occasions during
the war, for the purpose of deceiving the
enemy. did not save the traitors so dis
guised from being shot full of holes.
The Democratic party, which is just
now strutting before the country in mill
tary trappings, should make note of
this fact.
The Standardization of the military TO
the civil power" which the Democratic
party has so ardently endorsed by nom-
mating a soldier for their national stand
ard bearer, is supposed to refer TO sub
stitution of the tissue ballot for the shot
gun, as the appointed agency for
maintaining the political integrity of
the solid south.
1t will be at least two weeks, SO the
| dispatches say, before General Hancock
will be ready with his letter of accept
ance. Great bodies move slowly, and
the party whose candidate was selected
with view to the magnitude and impos-
ing splendOr of his attractive physique,
should not be captious in regard to the
notable inertia of his mental processes.
The Democratic journals are showing
their extreme stupidity by publishing
the roorback that Garfield burned lot
of Bibles and hymn-books in a southern
Methodist church, captured by his regi.
ment in 1862. Any intelligent man
ought to know that such an act, could it
be fully authenticated, would win more
Democratic votes for the Republican
candidate than anything he could be ac.
cused of, unless it might be the slaughter
of respectable number of radical mig,
| gers.
twill doubtless prove very depress
ing to the Democracy to learn that Mr..
English, their candidate for vice presi
dent, is relying very largely upon the
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
MANUFACTURES OF COTTON AT THE
SOUTH.
Tinoas

Everyone knows that facture of cotton
in the south, where cotton grows, and
where it can be handled with far less ex-
pense than in the remote north, might be
made extremely profitable. 1t will
probably be made so eventually, though
up to the present the mass of southerners
have greatly neglected this important
branch of industry. There are now 1S9
cotton mills in that section, with CTS, 223
spindles-abOut Z per cent. of all the
spindles in the Republic. The
mills are generally small, only a
few at Augusta and Columbia,
Georgia, having more than $4,000
spindles each. The machinery is said
to be SO inferior in the main as to be
hardly worth transportation. Much of
it is secondhand, having been discarded
by northern establishments The most
successful mills there would not, in con.
sequence of their manifest disadvantages
have made anything had they been stu.
ated in this section. One mill in Geor.
gia declared in 10 years-four of them
war years-$1 ,250, 600 dividends. This
proves the great benefit in position
of the mills, which can not only buy
the raw material cheaper, and spare
freight, but they can hire labor at low.
er rates They save the buyers com.
mission, delivery from warehouse, and
carriage, sampiing, chasing, pressing,
shipping, discount on bills, loss OF
weight in sampIing for mixed packages,
fire insurance before shipping, marine
risks, and freight and carriage to int
rior towns, which amounts in all to
some 81 q bale. The northern mills
also lose from receiving cotton poorly
ginned, containing q good deal of leaf
and sand, which is computed at 6 pei
cent. of the entire cotton crop. The diff
ference between the cost of "a bale sent 10
Fall River, Massachusetts, and bale
sent to Columbus, Georgia, IS $500,
the former costing $51.71, and
the latter $43.T5. Many of the
Georgia mills have made profits
of 10, 12, and even Is per cent. under all
their disadvantages. the profit coming
almost wholly from coarse goods, which
experts think to be their best employ.
ment. 1t is doubtful whether they will
be able, at least for many years, 10 com.
pare with the north in fine cloth, and If
they should be able it would be less re
muneratiYe to them than coarse cloth
and yarn. The entire spirit and tenden
cy of the south is opposed to the bettei
and finer kinds of facture, and it seems
next to impossible to have It other
wise
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
LOSING HER LAURELs

The demand upon the columns of
those eastern journals which have, in
times past, devoted so much of their val
liable space to an elaboration of the
woes which afiiict 'droughty Kansas"
has been so entirely local this season,
that our state has failed to receive its &C
customed amount of free advertising,
though it is consoling to reflect that i'm
migration has not been materially effect
ever, been without serious misgivings
that the public-spirited citizen of Kansas
has seen the places of our native chinch.
bugs and indigenous grass-hoppers foul.
] ly usurped by an all-conquering legion OF
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

The grief-stricken widow of Dixon,
the man who was shot by Jim Barksdale
at Yazoo. Mississippi, because lie dared
to run rs AN independent candidate for
sheriff, has died of broken heart, ii
victim Ia the vaunicd chivalry of the
solid south. The assassin of her hus,
band, and virtually her own murderer
was delegate to the Cincinnati conven
tion, and was one of the Industrious
patriots who well-nigh split his throat
yelling for the superb" candidate
There are ample grounds for believing
that this mOurnful bit of history will
not be recounted by the campaign docu
menis of the Democratic party in the
present canvass.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

Advices from Washington give AN in
teresting statement Of the sum that has
been saved tn the country by the refund.
ing process. The total amount of bonds
refunded is 1895, 100000, and the
amount that has been saved is $55, $50 :
1873. The Republican party has by care
full managem1 in one item for nine
years succeeded in putting by this hand
some sum To the nations credit, and the
Democratic party could he relied upon
TO waste AN equal amount in one item in
ono Nnnr
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

Senator Logan has nailed one of the
stereotyped lies Of the Democratic press
by the delivery on Tuesday last, at
Murphysboro, Illinois, of one of the most
convincing appeals in favor of the per
petuity of Republican ascendancy that
he has ever made. We shall probably
be treated TO n respite now of the wretch
ed clap.trap concerning the disaifectiOn
in the Republican ranks, which has fur
nished one of the sure grounds of hope
in the success of General Hancock among
Democratic Journals
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

The Nutmeg state never went Demo-
cratic in national contest until 1876,
when Tilden carried it by 1900 majority.
This year the Republicans have control
of the Legislature, and the safeguards
against the corruption of the ballot box,
which the Democrats had wiped out
during their ascendancy in the state,
have been restored, and with the party
thoroughly united and well organized,
the Republicans will carry Connecticut
by n handsome majority in November
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

A letter received at the Republican
headquarters ut New York, from lndi-
ana, says: "Our organization through
out the state is far better than it has ever
been ut this stage of the presidential
canvass, and we are perfecting it every
hour. There is n feeling of confidence
that is highly encouraging-no disscn-
sions ON account of our national OF
state nomnecs-and there is also an
energetic disposition in our ranks Ia
push things to successful conclusion,
far exceeding that manifested IN the
campaign of 1876"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, July 10.

A14DOQOhIStUf1, ~ 4u vi
EDTToRs NEWS: My last hastily writ
ten letter from Santa Fee, hardly intro
duced you to the place. made pleas
ant call at the leading law Office in that
town, Breeder s. Waldo; the former
delegate to the national Republican
convention at Chicago, and the latter to
the national Democratic convention at
Cincinnati. Mr.. BreeddOn is a member
of the territorial legislature and chair
man of the committee on revision of
laws. Their practice here is common
law, as distinguished from 'cOde."
This Legislative body consists of 10
members of the council and % repre-
sentatives, all but of whom are native
Mexicans. 1t is but very recently that
they began taxing real estate, and in
old Mexico such taxation is unknown !;
hence you understand how they afford
to hold these large grants. Santa Fe,
like all the other towns, "a description of
one in this particular, is a description
of alb is built of sun dried bricks, made
of the ground on the spot, with a little
straw in them. Just as the Israelites
made them for boss Pharaoh, and those
1 ACEC OAAOAO eQlAAEaI-
liant to about 6 of our bricks and laid
in the wall with mortar, at $14 per
thousand. In the center of the plaza at
Santa Fe, Is a fine monument, no dis
| criptiOn of which have | ever SEEN
There are inscriptions on all four sides
viz On the north: ITO the heroes who
have fallen in the various battles with
| the Saroge Indians in the territory of
New Mexico" On the east: Erected
by the people of New Mexico through
their legislatures of 1S66-7-S May
the Union be perpetual" On the south
ITO the heroes of the federal army who
| fell at the battle of Valverde, fought
with the rebels, February 21st, 1862 ~
| federal army, who fell at the battles of
Canon Del Apache and Pigeon Rancho
| Ga Glorieta), fought with the rebels,
March 18th, 1862, and to those who fell
| at the battle fought with the rebels at
Peralta, April 18th, 1852" 1t will be
remembered that the confederate general
| III. II. Sibley, captured this place in
1862. and held it for almost a month.
In company with DIR. C. s. Nellis
Geo. w. Miner, formerly ofLynden and
lately of Kinsley, Mr.. Mulvane, of To
peka, and E. L Perrin of Mt Pleasant
| Iowa, took in q Mexican FandangO
better described in conversation, than in
correspondence.
mentioned in my last having met
Gov. Anthony He is the livelist rail
road genius hereabouts, having in charge
the political and material interests of the
great A, T. s. s. F., the giant corpora
| ton of the future. We took the same
train with Gov. Anthony and Judge
| Waldo for this place and then through
the agreeable courtesy of Gov. Anthony
we took a car attached to the engine
"Geo. T. Anthony" and left this place
yesterday at 5 p. IN. for the end of the
track 65 miles south Of The track was
1aid within few rods Of the second
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

1t is significant fact that the record
of the Democratic party in Maine is 81
infamous that it has found il unwhole-
some TO make the fight in that state on
its own merits, and has submitted 10 the
humiliating necessity of being swallow
cd up by the Greenbackers, whose cause
it is bound to support These are
truly suspicious conditions under which
to make the real initial fight of the
presidential canvass, and should inspire
the main guys of the hurrlh campaign
with the most radiant hopes rs so the
general result
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

Ii WAS only last May that Henry Waiter
son, of the Louisville Courier-Journal
said that Hancock was "a fool ia shoul
der straps" Now the question is has
the Generals acceptance Of the Demo
cratic candidacy strengthened or impair.
ed his claim TO that distinguished
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

Major Henry Inman has retired from
the Larned Chronoscope, and goes 10
New Mexico and Arizona in the inter
ests of the Santa Fe road. Ii is said thai
lac will also represen: the Topeka Com
monwealth and a couple of eastern dai
lies. He will be succeeded on the
Chronoscope by Mr.. r. II. Ballinger
who has our best wishes for success
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

New York Tribune: Here are two
facts which anybody who thinks the
country would be bettered by change
of parties would do well to consider: In
1860, after twenty years of Democratic
rule, the government found it hard work
20 realize 80 cents on the dollar for its
per cent bonds. In 1880. after twenty
years of Republican rule, the govern
nIent 4 per cent bonds sell readily at
$IOS Comment is unnecessary.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

Judge Jere Black writes from Paris
under date of June 2Sth: al have been
General Garfield's devoted friend for
many years, and l am resolved that l
never will believe that he does not de
serve the affection have bestowed upon
him. If he would carry the principles
which regulate his private life into his
public conduct lac would make the best
chief magistrate we have ever had"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

There will be no disposition ON the
part of the Republican party to rekindle
the passions of the late war, If the
Democrats of the solid south will but
furnish evidence of their willingness to
accept its results in the true spirit of
patriotism, and obliterate sectional is
sues by obedience TO the constitution
and laws of the general government
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23

The country is not sufficiently glutted
with prosperity TO give the government
into the hands of the party which op-
posed resumption, and denounced the
financial systems which has placed its
business on "A flOurishing basis
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
The Democratic party is painting for
its second wind.

John A. Anderson, member of con
gress from the first Kansas district, was
re-nominated by reclamation by the con
vention held at Beloit the 18th This
seems TO be a good year for "spontane-
Gus blooms" in Kansas.