The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
POLITICAL. POINTS

What's the country coming to? Mr..
Hendricks has not declined" for two
whole days.
What shall it profit presidential can
didate if he gain the whole south and
lose his own state:
1t begins to look little as if it might
be TIlden against the Field at the Gin
cinnati convention.
Senator Bruce seems TO be looming up
cOnspiciOusly rs possible dark horse in
the vice presidential contest at Chicago.
The only thoroughly encouraging fea-
ture OF the Grant movement is the ViO-
lent opposition Oi Carl Schurz to third
term.
When Joe Medill meets Jack Logan,
then comes the tug of war The latest
pOstoffice address of the "tug" is Spring
field, Illinois.
Mr.. Tilden's grip Is tightening upon
Democratic Missouri, prize in his dis
eliminating eye worth vastly more than
stalwart Kansas.
Nothing but his extreme mOdesty has
deferred Mr.. Tilden from naming his
second choice for the Democratic candi-
date for president
The rank and file of the Republican
party always Outstrip the bosses on the
home stretch, fact which Cameron,
Conkling & Co. should not forget.
What we especially like about Joe
Medill's system of photographic reform
is that he earnestly believes, in the pro-
priety of spelling Illinois with two
story a."
The Kansas City Times utterly wrecks
the prospects of Horatio Seymour, Its
favorite presidential candidate, by rash
ly characterizing him the candidate
without bar'l."
The Atchison county Democrats elect
ed twelve delegates TO the state conven-
tion Saturday. No presidential prefer
ence was expressed, and the delegates are
said to have none.
The world will not come to an end till
Tilden withdraws, so the second ad.
ventists may as well cheese their mil
lennial racket and go to working their
corn and potato patches.
The decadence of third term move
ment and the cheering prospect of Til
den's nomination at Cincinnati opens
up vista of roseate possibilities to the
view of the Republican party
Has Mr.. Washburne, in his excessive
zeal for the promotion Of the Grant
movement, any respect to the recon-
pense of reward, in case the third-term
boom comes to grief at the Chicago con-
ventiOn?
The fact that Mr.. Tilden's health en-
Abled him to grace the New York dog
show with his assuring presence, has in
spired the hope that he may be spared to
put in an appearance at the Cincinnati
cat-fight.
A call has been issued for SeymoQr
and Davis mass meeting at Chicago.
This is an imposing slate, but isn't there
some danger of the tail flying the kite in
case it should survive the chaos of the
Cincinnati circus?
\ good deal has been said about the
disabled condition of Mr.. Tilden's LEFT
arm, but 1t might be just as well for
politicians who have state delega-
tions slowed away in their pockets to
fight little shy of Sammy's paralytic
side.
The Kansas City Times says il is keep
ing track of all the noted laiFs within
its journalistic range. If this is true, it
wants to keep its weather eye peeled on
the Topeka editor who says there are
only three Blaine men in the Kansas
delegation.
Mr.. Tilden has never been afflicted
with a mOther-in-law, but his anti has
proved a very troublesome relative, and
has occasioned the good old man a great
deal of mental disQuietude. There is no
escaping the law of compensation in
this world
That red-hOt Seymour boomer, the X.
C. Times, while Iayishing ten columns
of taffy upon Judge Stephen ]. Field, of
California, utterly demolishes his presi-
dental prospects, by publishing, with
diabolical craft, woodcnt picture of
the eminent jurist-
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports a
rising democratic boom in that city Tor
Seymour. But the Inter Ocean also
represents Cook county as solid for