The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09
rxULrANr EMPORIA.
she 4 rises In Her Might and Puts Her
self on Record on the WHISKY
Question.

She a rises In Her NAAsnl s-AA0 = - I
self ON Record on the Whisky
Question
De6.a. OF the License Candidates for
CouneiImen and a Clean Sweep
for the Temperance
Ticket.
The official count of the votes cast at
the municipal election Tuesday, Will
not be made until Friday, but the gener-
al returns will furnish glory enough for
three days, revealing, as they do, com
plete victory for the temperance ticket,
and the wholesale slaughter ofthe license
candidates for members of the city coun-
ell.
The result, while it affords grounds
for sincere congratulation on the part OF
the victorious party, is not devoid oil
food for reflection to those whose plans |
and purposes have been thwarted by the |
expression of the people at the polls yes |
terday. 1t is just what they had every |
reason TO expect it would be, and the
history of their venture in the direction
of imposing upon the city the class OF
candidates they put forth, should in
spire them with the utter futility Of all
like attempts in the future.
1t is very possible for the moral sense
of an intelligent community like that oil
Emporia, to become apathetic, but 1t
never Iapses into that supreme stage OF
Indifference which renders it insensible
TO the imminent dangers which the ALSO
lutte triumph and sovereignty of the worst
agencies at work in the social economy
inevitably entail.
That enterprising class of men who
leave the comforts and Injuries OF east
ern homes, and, sever with resolute
stroke, the strong ties which bind them
to every object which has been hallowed
by the associations OF early life, go to
make up in large measure, the popula-
ton of our thriving western towns.
They are persons who prefer to risk the
chances of fortune in q new country
rather than rest content with the easy &c
ouisition of a comfortable livelihood In
the dull routine of subordinate posi-
tions. They surrender comparative ease
and voluntarily assume those de-
privations which so often
fall TO the lot OF the west
ern emigrant, in the hope of better
achievements. In short, the average
Kansan is a man of pluck, intelligence
and enterprise, and is wide-awake to all
, those influences which go to make up
, his success or initiate against his pros
perity. Emporis is full of just such cit
liens. The very town itself is a monu
!, ment of the enterprise of its people and
their progressive views are reflected in
her handsome buildings, her thriV
ing business interests, her churches
/ schools and we'll ordered homes. Al
l. these having been established at SO grea
If an expenditure of labor, time and means
it was scarcely to be expected that thei
founders would so far forget their sacre'
D obligations to their own and humanity
'e interests, as TO cast their votes for the pei
4, petuation of a system whose damagin
il influences they have felt, and who's
deadly antagonism to the moral an
ly material welfare of the cit
ic has been fully revealed. The sublim
y impertinence of the ward politician
IL who thought to fo;st upon the enlightei
ed citizens of Emporia set of men
d. councilmen whose mediocre attainment
Id and avowed whisky tendencies were
to insult to every intelligent man and WI
no man in the town, has been fittingly r
buked and summarily reprimande
The result, it is true, leaves Il
n council evenly divided on. IL
,f whisky question, with the syr
os pathies of the mayor in favor of saloon
but public sentiment has made itself fe
to the degree, we feel warranted in sa
es ing, of keeping the advocates OF licen
Of under wholesome restraint, and FORTH
D. the city against any defiant demonstr
tons at their hands.
The following is an approximate sho'
M ing of the vote in the different wards
rts we have been able to gather it from Il
lie different candidates:
III In the first ward, 1. d. Fox, receive
81 votes and r. NJ. Mills "a, as cane
mt dates for councilman, and DIR. J.
Try Trueworthy received the entire vote
bio the ward for school director.
ter In the second the vote for councilm
asst ran as follows. Van Mccullough, {
J. II. Davis, 80; A. NJ. Henderson,
itv For member of the school board Mr.
the +. Chalfant received about 175 and
the IL. Lewis % votes.
an. The vote for councilman in the TIL
are ward was rs follows: n. Whites
112; ]. NJ. Butler, 90. Mr.. VIM. j
was elected member of the school boz
without opposition.
jug In the fourth ward John Watson
ceived 70 votes for councilman, and L.
arr n is Herman. Al. Judge L. B. KellC
was elected member of the school boa
"'' having large majority over DIR. MOI
In the outlying district the vote
like as follows: For the bonds, "a; agai
Oh the bonds, 10. For members of
as board of education: Jas. Barnett,
'Ver' A. S. Tandy ito fill Vacancy, 80; B.
con- Lockard, 4; r. r. McCandliss, 1; '
sion II. Holmes, /,
The proposition to issue bonds f
l. ]. new school house carried in the city
mas about seventy-five majority.
Free With good school houses and EN-
Incl saloons, Emporia will start out on
NJ; boom that will prove the greatest
gton fort" in her history.