The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-02
POLITICAL POINTS.

POLITICAL POINTS.
Tie full ticket j. Hancock, English
and his bari.
The reform" issue. it seems. has gone
to the ''demniiion bow-wows."
The Democracy shoaid test the power
of printers ink by advertising for live
issue.
The Democrats should not forget that
it is Ohio and not Pennsylvania. that is
the mother of presidents
The Hancock boom is like a young
pigeon. Ii was bigger when it WAS first
ha,ched than it will he three months
from now.
The Bourbon Democracy tumble TO
the Hancock racket about as kindly as
a tcn-year old cluck would 10 "a mcdi
Gated nest-cgg.
The friends OF ex-governor Hendricks
are reported as being little backward
To come forward with their assessments
for campaign purposes this year.
Allen G. Thurman is fully convinced
that his colossal siraddle would have
spanned, without an effort, Ohio, Indi>
ana New York and Connecticut.
1t may be right enough froma Demo
cratic standpoint, Ia run II union soldier
and red-moaihed, ranting coppcrhead
on the same ticket, but how does il look :?
New York Tribune Can the good
war record of Hancock lead the Ameri-
can people TO condone the bad war
record Of his supporters This is the
question.
Voorhees,, of Indiana, wanted Ia have
every Union soldier wear n collar marked
"My Dog-A Lincoln, Now Danny
supports one of the same fellows he called
Il dog, for president.
The Bourbon egg-pelItrs of the soath
send greeting to the Democratic mud
singers of the north. The campaign of
the great unteTritied has opened up IN
der very savory auspices.
One very essential difference bet wecn
Gen Garfield and Winfield Scott Han
cock is, that the former has never been
accused of wearing a corset Ia heighten
the effect of his personal attractions.
The very moderate tone of the Indi
ana Democratic press in connection with
the action of the Cincinnati convention
affords conclusive evidence that Mr.
English has not yet tapped his bari,
The Democrats are disposed Ia make
a point of the alleged fact that General
Hancock is the handsome5t man in tho
army. If our memory serves us Genera
Mcclellan also ran ON his face, in 1865
The country is awaiting with breath
less interest the views of General Han
cock on the financial, tariff and oIhe
leading civil questions which are liabl,
to come up for discussion in the presen
canvass
Probably Mr. Hendricks, Justic
Field or some other statesman that wa
slaughtered at Cincinnati would conscn
To act as an amanucnsis To General Han
g cock when he comes TO tackle a letter O
acceptance.
: The X. c. Times, which keeps track q
all the Hancock hoodoOs, has not VI
. contained any account of the ratification
, of the ticket by the "best citizens q
Kemper county" Hasn't i'm Bark,
q dale put on :he war harness yet?
e The Democracy may endure HANCOCK
+ but they will never embrace him. Til
a union soldier dodge has been tried b'
r fore by the party whose platforms du
f ing the rebellion pronounced the war
: failure, with plentiful lack of success
1t is rumored that there is hereditar
insanity in the Seymour family. TIL
Il is accepted by the Democracy as IL
n only satisfactory explanation of HOratio
unaccountable action in declining Il non
/ ination that he might have had withol
q asking for.
/ The orators who are 10 stump Pennsy
4" vania for Hancock will he selected vii
Il view TO their facility for forgettiI
- To say anything about the tariff plan
n in the Democratic platform. III
# smOke-staclss of the Key stone state a
.e solid against free trade.
5, The Washington National Rcpub
= can says in dropping Tilden the Dem
NJ cratic party lost its best organizer and
r heaviest load, its worst record and
n only issue, its strongest manager and
3 weakest man, its most INSCRIPTIONS bf
rel and its least inspiring candidate.
H. In 1878 the Democrats of Indiana,
=, state convention, announced themselv
Is in favor of retiring the national ban
ne notes. In 1880 they are asked TO shO
Ii. themselves hOarse in propelling 4
nt boom of II national banker. But &C
,g sIstency always was shining jewel
nj the Democratic crown.
g, The following timely suggestion fro
80 Ue the AtchisOn Champion should be f
tilted by the western Democracy:
of "'Confusion of intellect, and gcnel
Ia incOherence,' was what was the matt
nj with Curric, of Texas. He ought
lac speak ut Democratic ratification me
in ings."
- The union soldier who has been no
Is, mated for the presidency ON the Den
lc- cratic ticket with an Indiana copp
M head, was born on st. Valentines d;
sc February l4th. This is certainly in
an cordancc with the eternal fitness
ny things, and quite completes the effect
vn the grand caricaturc outlined ON the Z
S. ciunati slate.
Mr.. John insolvency, the eifulg,
Buckeye orator who nominated Sem
Thurman at The Cincinnati convent,
nd vouchsafes the assuring intelligence u
the gates of hell cannot prevail aSai
the party in the coming campaign. ~
he is certainly the first intimation that
Democracy expects any opposition FRI
that quarter.
of 1t Is ihtihai'" mat an eA'eiie"t ie'
of acceptance can be purchased a
large reduction on the first cost by
IN plying to Samuel Jones Tildcn, No
To Cipher alley. By the elimination of
fraud paragraphs it can be made, Il
the marriage license of a certain you
iii couple, to cover all contingencies, Il
act the conviction is becoming gene
that here is Hancock's opportunity.
he General Hancock was not a W
on drawer in battle than General Garlic
lie. and has no purchase over him ON
military record. The difference betw6
nc the two men is that Garfield i"finit
ICE suTpasses Hancock in his knowledge
ms. civil affairs and all those qualificatiC
which go to make up the eminent stat
man, besides having the bulge on h
Ird by virtue of his Ohio birthright
ice HERE AND THERE.
ate The Kansas City Times servile lau
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