The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-16
POLITICAL POINTS.


General Hancock should call on Badly
Smith
The record of the Democratic party is
what needs explanation.
In Kansas, the newspaper men
Count that day lost, whose low, descending
Sees no new candidate for governor start to
run.
Hartford Courant: The Democratic
party Is exactly what it would have been
if it had nominated Hendricks, the soft
money favoritc, or Wade Hampton, the
"solidifier.""
The Democrats stump speakers
should not fail To make point of the
fact that the financial policy of John
Sherman is increasing the debt of Brazil
at the rate of $lO,OOO,OOO year
To whatever extent the Greenback
vote may effect the Democratic party, it
is confidently asserted that Its maiorities
will not be in the least depleted by the
fact that the prohibitionists have ticket
in the field
1t is true that Texas hangs her horse
thieves, but, ON the other hand, she
promptly acquits her murderers. And
that is how the Lone Star state manages
to maintain her handsome Democratic
majority.
General Hancock feels that he stands
solid ut least upon the fraud plank of
the Democratic platform. His willing
ness TO seat Tilden at the point OF
the bayoRet in 1870 gives him, he
thinks, pretty secure footing on that
part of the structure.
8 The most recent military acquisition
to the Hancock forces Is General Pear,
son, of Pennsylvania, whose chief claim
to notoriety is that he made mastery
retreat before the Pittsburgh rioters IN
1877. Ii has been observed that a
large proportion of the adherents to the
confederate cause are gentlemen who
have developed distinguished facility
for showing their heels.
| Tho New York Tribune says that the
movement toward "A union of the Demo
1
slow progress, The irrepressible con
flIct between Irving and Tammany Hal
is developing symptoms of reslHitation
and. willie the Democratic party q
Gotham is bad enough for all practica
purposes, it must be said that il is no
likely, To pass under the Kelly yok,
without at least IA very decided show o
reluctance,
Tom Hendricks. is still sulking in tn,
tent Of Achilles, so to speak. Genera
Hancock, in calling upon Mr.. Tilden
has made an invidIous distinction in ia
vOr ct the front end OF thu
efIcte "reform" ticket, and W,
are not surprised that the Indiana states
man, who was also laid on the shelf a
Cincinnati, should feel trifie disgrunl
led. The Democratic nominee Shout,
lose no time in betaking himself to tn
hoop pole districts, and conciliate MI
Hendricks with his fat and seductiv
smile
General James b. Weaver, the sar
guine Greenback candidate for pres
dent, is in Washington collecting mate
rial and making arrangements for n
, electioneering tour through the south i
, his own behalf. He expresses himse
as quite confident that the Greenbacke
, will carry. Maine. Mississippi and two c
three other states, and thus throw III
, election of president into the house {
representatives, where he thinks III
party whose standard he bears will stan
4 as good a chance as any of the polite;
4 organizations. The Generals hop,
[ seem to be constructed on the san
1 generous and ample plan which chara
Q terize his financial schemes.
c The most careful research has o
i stinately refused to reveal what Gener
l. Hancock has done since the days of Il
5 rebellion to entitle him to the votes
n the men of the south who endeavored
c shoot him full of holes, and the doug
/ faces of the north who pelted his bac
l. with mud during the sanguinary days
e 1868, and it is equally perplexing
s determine what works meet for I
c pentance have been shown by rebels al
y cOpperheads that Union soldier shou
r, so stultify himself as to represent, in 4
h capacity of its standard bearer, the ps
o, ty which has persistently sought to pl
n down the structure that he imperil
Ii his life to sustain less than score
ID years ago.