The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-23
coNCERNING ENTRIcHT

The very latest production Of the fl !
ellie Democratic journalist is party re-
ioicins in the romantic name of Emit
right. Al eastern paper, published at
a safely remote distance from Emporia,
in the interests OF the hurrah campaign,
siar;Ies the world with the novel intelii-
gencc that during General Grants visit
TO our city, he met an old and valued
friend, the same being the aforesaid Emit
right, TO whom he showed his heart.
and, yielding 10 that fatal impulse TO be
communicative and confidential, which
is one Of the strong mans" notable
characteristics, reposed in his
old friend the burden which
had been weighing him down,
and made TO him the revelation
that he, Grant, had been mislct regard
ing his strength before the Chicago con-
ven;ion; that lac didn't know whether or
not GarfiIld could be elected; that the
latter had too many volumes Of con
gressional reports behind him to run
well, and much other gratuitous intelli-
gence of the same nature.
OF course il is needless to say that the
alleged friend and confidante of General
Grant has neither local habitation nor
a name in Emporia; that Gen. Grant held
no conversation with any one during his
visit to our city save with such of our
own townsmen as composed the commit
tee of reception and that this NJ. Ent
right has blossomed forth by the same
mysterious process ofevolution by which
Jack Falsiaff's mine in buckram" leap
ed into the world, and Mrs. Harris
sprang fullfledged from the fertile braiI
of Sairey Camp. In short, 10 employ
, the expressive language of Betsey Prig
there amt no sech person. as Emf
right, and the story concerning his inter
, view with General Grant ut Emporia i
:, of piece with thousands of the same tiC
titous description that have embellshe,
the pages of the average Democrat
E newspaper since the Chicago CONVEX
U ton.
n As is the case with all those nnhapp
v persons who practice to deceive, the II
ventor of the alleged episode wove
l
r tangled web about him by persumin
. upon the remoteness and obscurity {
Emporia 10 give unquestioned currenc
q to his tale, and has thereby bee
q. promptly hoist by his own petard. HI
" benighted intellect evidently conceive
a of this flourishing and prominent trad
a center as vague village located on Il
- windy sweeps of the remote west,
least several hundred miles from ever
n place, with the possible exception of Il
y setting sun, and upon this fallacio'
n hypothesis he constructed his speciol
-, fabric of lies, in the dclusive hoI
m that the keen, bright sunlight of pu
nj licity would never penetrate the sequ'
al tered wilds of what he fancied TO be
- mere western hamlet. But had lac la
,e the scene of his mendacious tale
oci Chicago itself whose scandals have {
vcrtised it far and wide, he could II
have been surer of detection than he h
IF shown himself to DC by selecting Emu
ria. 1t is true that the Times of Il
IN, city grows irresistibly funny over
an Entright matter, and in that connect
ler says "EmpOria, as the name impoI
ch is n mighty city, the situation of whi'
Fly like that of Timbuctoo, is a little
ZEN scure,' but it is at least well cnou
at known to have been complimcntcd by
Ter visit from General Grant, to have civ
vas birth to the mythical Entright, a
of though sadly in arrears of Chicago
vas the matter OF divorce suits and other
ced worry scandals, can, by the importat
ich of couple of census takers from
on city of the lakes, increase her populat
her tenfold in 1890, and take rank as
Sut, leading city of the Missouri valley.