The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-18
po1Ir1cAL PoTNrs.

Photographs of Mr.. Seymour as 10y
al war-Democrat, would sell like peanuts
at circus.
The boss "T'' party will come off
when Tilden and Tammany lock horns
at Cincinnati.
Mr.. Thurman thinks Ohio should fur
nish the corpse for the Democratic fu-
neral in November.
The irrepressible conflict between
Tammany and Tilden has assumed a
very malignant form of scissors"
David Davis doesn't pan out SO i'm
mensely as presidential candidate, but
AS an auiobiographer, he challenges
competition.
The government mule doesn't live
which would harbor the monstrous sug-
gestion of giving Mr.. Tilden the second
place on the ticket
If roosters proclaim the joyful we'll
ings-forth OF the journalistic soul, Sol.
Miller, of the Troy Chief. is the happiest
man in Kansas over the nomination of
Garfield.
Mr.. Thurman confesses with infinite
regret that his early education was so
far neglected that he never served an
apprenticeship as a mule-driver on the
Ohio canal.
Senator Hoar has a very rabicumd
face. and if he belonged to the right pO-
litical party might be suspected of enter.
tanning liberal views on the subject OF
temperance.
The Democratic press is just now pre-.
| serving u bOisterous silence in relation
to the back pay record of Hon. Lyman
Trumbull. the Democratic candidate for
governor of Illinois
To attempt to construct Democratic
platform without fraud plank would
be almost as much of a futile dalliance'
as to endeavOr to engineer Democratic
canvass without bar'l.
The possibility that the Democrats
will nominate General Mcclellan at Gin
cinnati, is just peeping above ground
The Republicans had better cover con
tingencies by getting their wooden guns
in range.
The serene confidence of the Democra
cy in the weakness" of the Republican
nominee for president is only rivalled by
the indefatigable zeal with which they
are casting about to find one strong
enough TO beat him.
The thrilling rumOr is afiOat that Mr.
Seymour has written Il letter which putt
him out of the list of possible candi
dates at Cincinnati. But we believe
that not even Mr.. Tilden OF Senate
Thurman have seen the communication
Mr.. Tilden is said to have but 90
delegates elected to Cincinnati for him
while the whole number is 73S, two
thirds of which are requisite to nominate
II looks very much as if the bar'l 'wer
reserving its pent-up forces fol the HON
stretch.
The rumor that Mr.. Tilden has sui
sidiZed the women Suffragists by engas
ing himself to Susan b. Anthony liza
been confirmed by the significant faG
that the latter party has just invested i
two bolts of muslin and three doze
pairs of fancy hose.
James A. Garfield's material forum
consists of residence in Washingto
/ and his farm at Mentor, the aggregat
!. value of which, it is estimated, is aboI
$4,000. 1t is not strange that Mr.. Ii
= den considers the Republican nomin
ton for president a weak one.
: Just now there is a tender receprocIl
l of interest between Mr. Tilden and e
j governor Seymour in regard to eaC
others state of health that is real
touching and beautiful to behold wht
y We consider that they are rival cand
i dates for the presidential nomination.
There are at least a bakers dozen
distinct Democratic tickets in the feel
whose chances for success are claimiI
the attention Of the politicians who a
fixing up the states for the national CO
vention. The grand entree at the CT
y cinnati circus promises TO be very il
posing.
Some idea of the force of the Gree
! back cyclone which ragged in Chicas
: from the 9th to the nth, may be la
when it is known that Sam Wood, wi
: endeavored to get the ear of the conve
ton, had no more show than a cat wit
. out claws in certain fervid lOcalit
the name of which we omit out of CO
= sideration TO polite ears.
The Chicago Inter Ocean believes tn
in certain contingencies Lyman TruT
bull, of Illinois, will be brought out as
c compromise candidate At Cincinna
s Mr.. Trumbull probably never achieve
e much of a record as a railroad wrecke
e but he is sound on the salary-gra
c which fact points to his conspicuo1
s availability as dark horse.
y Mr.. SeymOur's most recent declinatic
/ is cOuched in the following coy, b
> hopeful language: "If were nominate
e at Cincinnati, l should carry New Yor
e am still not candidate, however, h
r cause do not think the nomination b
longs to New York" The later pa
c of the ex-governOr's opinion will strike
responsive chord in the breast of NJ
= Thurman.
+ 1t seems almost surperfluous
! state that General James B. Weaver, IL
+ Greenback candidate for president, Is a
f % an Ohio man, having been born
e Dayton, in the year 1888. The nomin
: ton of Thurman, Payne OF Jewett,
) Cincinnati is the only .hing now wan
S ing to insure beyond all peradventu
C the presidential maternity of the Bucl
! eye state in November.
| The nomination by the Indiana Den
: ocrats of franklin Landers for GOvernC
is cheap bid for the Greenback vo
which will be resented by hundreds
1 voters who still hold to the hard-mont
. traditions of the old party. Landers
, an initiation shouter of the most ste
Z tOrian type, and the miserable heres
{ which was showed under in Ohio Ia
fall will be buried beneath a rousin
: Garfield majority in the HOOsier sta
, in November.
, TIE Seymour boomers found the
belief in the eligibility of the ex-go
r ernOr on the fact that lie carried Ne
3 York in 1868. They seem to forge
, however, that an election law has bee
: passed since that time, which is still
| force, the extra session and the effor
eI of the rebel brigadiers to inaugurate Il
Andersonville policy in congress, to Il
= contrary Notwithstanding. The Ne
Z York repeaters will not, at least, repeI
e the effete programme of 1868 n 1880.
As it takes two-thirds of the who