The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-23
POLITICAL POINTS

POLITICAL POINTS.
Tilden has declined again-to with
draw.
Mr.. Tilden is not contradiction the
coffin
In the bright lexicon of Mr.. Tilden
there's no such word AS die.
The Republican party, being of age,
is likely to have its own way at Chicago.
What proportion of the men who are
bowling for third term would have
supported Grant in 1876?
There will be more politics to the
square inch in Illinois during the next
few weeks than that state ever saw be-
fore.
Secret resolve of the Democratic ma
jority in congress: Lets make fools of
ourselves just once more, but not brag
OF it this time"
Mr.. Tilden is confessedly a very quiet
person, but he has never, by the exercise
of the widest credulity, been denomi-
mated Il retiring man.
The editors of the Kansas City Times
are warned not to doff their linen before
the rumOr of Tilden's withdrawal re-
ceives further confirmation.
Illinois has Il representation of seven
hundred delegates in her state con-
vention. twill take mighty dexterous
angler to scoop in that many Suckers.
The Republicans of Massachusetts, in
state convention at Worcester, on the
14th inst, declared for senator Edmonds
as the first choice of the state for presi-
Dental candidate
The widow Butler is enlivening her
! sombre weeds with ravishing little
touches of lavender, preparatory to her
annual onslaught upon the common
wealth of Massachusetts.
1t seems to be conceded that almost
any candi date of ordinary physical Wig
or and whose vest pocket is up to the
regulation standard in size, will be able
to carry Rhode Island in $780,
Mr.. Gladstone is the only man who
can direct the political revolution he has
created and led, into practical reforma
ton. His assumption of the government
seems to be clear political necessity.
Hendricks complains that Tilden
never said word to him after the cleo
ton in '7G. And if he had, Hendricks
could never have understood him with
out a key. Mr.. Tilden talked in ciphers
then.
1t is reported that several prominent
Democratic candidates for the presidency
have been hanging around Gramercy
Park in the hope that the disease with
which MIR. Tilden is dying may be con-
tagious.
1t strikes us that John Sherman's
boom should manifest more decided
symptoms of health and vigor. 1t is
said that his Ohio fences are literally
covered with patent medicine advertise
ments
Albany Mirror: "Our ticket is God,
Grant and victory" A strong and aus
picious combination. But has it oc-
CURED to you that the General has posi-
lively declined to accept second place
on the battle legend of 1880.
The Manhattan Nationalist hoists
what it calls ''the strongest possible tick
Ct" to-wit: For president, E. b. Wash
burne, of Illinois; vice, Stawert L. Wood
ford, of New York" That's Il ticket we
would thrOkv ,Hp nt,r hot e..
Private kilograms received at Wash
ingtOn contain information of the defeat
for Congressional denomination of the
amourous Acklen, of Louisiana. Fee
male suffrage we apprehend, is the only
thing that will save that gay Lothario.
Seymour retires permanently from the
field, and the mysterious starter of the
periodic Seymour boom clasps his hands
and murmurs, with the Italian toy bal
loon vender whose bunch of balloons
slipped from his grasp and fioated into
space: "Py tam. dere goes my piznessr"
Kansas City Times THE question is
now not who will be Tilden's successor"
You're mighty right. The old man has
no more idea of throwing up the sponge
than the Widow Butler has of abandon
ing politics and devoting her life to the
church in the capacity of sister of
mercy.
The friends of Mr.. Hendricks charge
Mr.. English with entering into a con-
spiracy with Tilden fo- the ruin of Hen
bricks. Tilden is not wasting fire in
that way. Hendricks consp,red ably for
his own ruin when he swung himself
out against Tilden, and succeeded COM
pletely.
David Davis is said to have concluded
to vote against giving senator Kellogg's
seat to Spofford. 1t must be confessed
that when the Illinois senator succeeds
in overcoming the inertia of his ponder
Gus body to the extent of getting off his
well worn fence, he generally crawls
down on the right side
Mr.. Groesbeck would adorn a ticket,
physically speaking, far more than Mr..
Tilden. He is tall, finely-shaped gen.
tleman, with nose fashioned after an
eagles beak, and bears about with him
a courtly air in great contrast to Mr.. TIL
den's sly, cautious, secretIve manner.
But Mr.. Groesbeck is weak where Mr..
Tilden is strong, and, as in Democratic
conventions heretofore, beauty will have |
to stand aside for the barrel