The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-15

that final goal of all human hopes ana
earthly endeavor. and as our superb"
pressed onward to the glitter
ing prize OF the mark of his fancied high
calling, he abruptly collided, in
his eager haste, with n very
accumulation in the
way of rebel claims. which Mr..
Tilden had made vain attempt to roll |
from the avenue leading TO the presiden-
tial mansion, but which his successor |
still found barring the approach. There
was a magnitude and substantially in |
vesting this disagreeable reality that
would possibly have tried the courage of
q less intrepid soul than that of living,
breathings pulsating Podsnap; but,
waving his majestic hand, the superb"
candidate sweeps aside the tangible
evidence of the spirit of the south, re-
corded in a solid vote against an amend
ment forbidding the payment of rebel
claims, which, to the amount Of $780,
OOO, 900 are filed ut the national capital,
and declares with true Podsnappian
L a.
poets or wants such unnatural action to
propose it would be an insult to the IN
telligence of our people" And SO, the
very issue which is the central motive
actuating the sol id south in its hercu-
lean effort to gal n, through the Demo
cratic party, control of the government,
is swept behind the peerless Podsnap,
who serves as figure-head for the or
ganization which will, in turn, make a
similar disposition of him, should his
position ever invest him with the power
to oppose the wishes of his party.
Meanwhile it is certainly gratifying to
note that, in obedience to an inexora-
BILE law of development, this rare facility
manifested by the illustrious Democratic
Podsnap for putting away from him all
disturbing influences, is increasing with
its frequent exercise, fact which is am
ply attested by the very neat manner in
which he quite recently disposed of the
tariff question, an issue sprung upon
him by very silly and captious manu-.
facturer of Patterson, New Jersey. 1.-THE
tarlffr' qouth Podsnap. ''Oh, yes!
Well, that question cannot effect the
manufacturing interests of the country
IN the least The tariff is a mere local
question; why, il is so entirely insignia
cant that il was once actually brought
up in my native town in Pennsylvania
Oh, this tariff excitement is the merest
claptrap. 1t is quite true that so astutt
Democrat as Fernando Wood so faI
forgot its merely local significance as tC
make It leading issue in the Forty
fifth congress, and the New York Her
aid is SO utterly oblivious to its purely
local nature as to venture the prophecy
that it will be the prominent and alb
sorbing question in the coming natiOna
Legislature; am not SO sure that it ha!
not been conclusively proven that thu
present protective system is what stands
between the American artisan and III,
pauper labor of Europe, and am in
formed by competent authority that Eng
land has been led into the fatal error o
squandering several hundreds of thous
ands ofdollars to effect a revolution in thi'
local question through the agency o
Democratic supremacy; bit, really, al
this is stupendous nonsense, and ouI
friends should know that the free tradt
plank in the Democratic platform meant
no more than the declaration that thu
right of suffrage is right preservativ'
of all rights OF any other of its catch
phrases. There is no difference what
ever between protection and "A tariff TO
revenue only and any reasonable MAJ
can see that this is a local issue, ant
one which the general government sci
T dom cares to interfere with" And
/ presto, change, the tariff question dis
, appears behind POdsnap's back
1t can scarcely be regarded in the ma
4 ture OF marvel that such a conspIcu
r Gus facility for coping with and dispOs
: ing Of difficulties should inspire il
!, pOssessor with a degree of conf denc
h adequate to the subjugaiion of any en-
d Urgency. and the public were therefor
!. somewhat surprised, one sweet autumn
D day last week, to see the valorous PoC
= snap of Governors Island come To
$ dead hat, after several Intellectual passe
!, of his hitherto omnific arm, and stand i
o rueful contemplation of an object whic
he has given his word he will use n
"undue haste" in attempting to remov,
Even so sanguine an individual as NJ
Hancock evidently realizes the fact thi
history has an unpleasant peRehdnt Il
standing its ground, and when il is 70
titled by as stubborn an individual q
General Grant the situation is confesse'
ly one which must give even the com
dence of the superb candidate paus
? And so, after all of its superb gesticuI
ton, We behold his commanding All
hanging inertlY at the side Of the ma
p who, of all others too well knows tn
when 1t comes to an encounter betwet
General Grant and Mr.. Podsnap, Il
sweeping aside is going to be done ver
largely by the party of the first part, ar
who feels, that whatever else may ha
pen, order No. 40 will not exchange p
= sitions with the august gentleman who
it now faces.