The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-22
POLITICAL POINTS.
Thank God for a solid north.
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This "solid' business is game tina
two can play at.
Ohio as the mother of presidents, an,
don't you forget it.
Chicago Times: The Boys in Blue
The HoOsier BonrbOns.
Hancock may get 20 be presideht-o
q fat mans convention.
In the midst of life we are in DEATH
Winfield Scott Hancock.
The Democrats are getting shaky Oh
Missouri and Kentucky.
How do the Brigadiers like the IA
diant prospect of solid north?
The returns from Ohio and Indian,
are superb in all that the term implies
"All of my propositions to bet on Han
cock are hereby declared off."-JohI
Kelly.
We shall not he likely to hear of any
more rebel rags in Democratic pro
ccssions.
1t might not be out of place to observe
right here that the Garfield movement i.
booming.
The stars in all their courses will fight
for the Republican party.-James A
Garfield.
There is nothing in Bill English's pic
ture which jars with his popularity IN
Indiana.
The Widow Butler has ordered fresh
bombazine and new veil that will reach
TO the ground.
There are charges that the Democratic
supreme court of Indiana was subsidized
by the Republicans.
The country is not ready for d
change and is not hankcring for cop
pcrhead domination.
The solid north accepts the gauntlet
thrown down by the solid south. Ohio
and Indiana have spoken.
The butternut party is hearing from
the people whose intelligence it insultcd
by parading in loyal uniform.
Chicago Evening News: 1t is safe to
say, in the light Of advices from Ohio and
Indiana that Garfield will not be with,
drawn.
81 entertain wcll-grounded apprehcn
sions that General Hancock's family
azure abdomen will not save us."-Bot
ToOmbs.
1t is Il trifie late, we fear, to talk Of re
moving English from the ticket The
time 10 do that was before he was ever
put on it.
When last seen BarnunI was wander
ing about in bewildered manner, look
ing for the detection IN the German
vote in Ohio.
1t strikes the public that Hancock and
English are just tribe tardy in ex.
changing letters over the result in In
diana and Ohio.
1t turns out that VIM. II. English was
extremely felicitous in his choice of a
metaphor when he called Indiana a
post of danger"
Tammany and Irving Halls are still
substantially half square apart and
politically as near together as the earth
and the planet Neptune.
Solution of the 500 puzzle: Three
years in the war; twice elected to the
Ohio state senate; nine times elected
TO congress.-New York Graphic.
am at IA loss to know what it was that
struck me, but the force of the blow
seemed to fall directly between ny eyes
Winfield Scott Hancock.
~ think the trouble can be very plain.
ly traced to the persistent refusal of the
Democracy to nominate u statesman al
Cincinnati. "-Thos. w. Hendricks.
1t will hardly answer the purpose to
remove English from the ticket. The
difficulty can only be comprised, We
fear, by Withdrawing the Democratic
party.
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, will
probably take a trip abroad for the bel,e
fit of his health. Ben Harrison will re
lieve him Of his official duties at Wash
ington.
The evidences of General Hancock:
business sagacity are daily multiplying
The wisdom he displayed in holding OIL
to that commission cannot be too highly
commended
Il am now impelled to concedc, in the
etlulgent light of very recent and con
vincing developments that two minutes
of stalwart hind-sight are worth an entir,
year of forc-sight"-John w Forney,
Any Democrat who will now rise il
public and swear that he will take gen
uine pleasure in voting for VIM, II. Eng
lish, will be regarded as the most inter
esting curiosity outside of tent in thi
country.
The Democrats say it was the unpop
ularity of Landers, and that Indiana will
fall into line at the presidential fight
This prediction is probably based upoI
the insane idolatry of the HOLSTERS fo
Bill English.
Mr.. Thurman says that Hancock il
stronger than his party. This is prob
ably the size of it, but wouldn't II b.
more in keeping with the prophecies o
the occasion to say that the Democrat,
party is weaker than Hancockg
In the light of the recent returns from
Ohio and Indiana, Bob. Toombs begs u
amend his former observation regardin,
the political situation, as follows: 81
any man says that the north is not soil,
for Garfield, he is a Id fool"
There is only one thing that can pos
sibly beat the Republican party in Nc
vember, and that condition will
averted by holding Ben Butler and job
w. Forney TO their Democratic vomi
until after the presidential election.
The result of the elections in OH
and Indiana practically relieves Geners
Hancock from any further responsible
ty as to the future policy of his party
His straw bail for the good conduct G
that organization can be regarded as car
celled.
Now that there is no further occasio
for the Democratic party's maintainin
its embargo upon General Hancock
mouth, the General might venture I
knock that little chip off Grants SHOULD
er, and give has version of the order NJ
40 matter.
New York Tribune: Every riot,
who held high carnival in the streets {
New York during that terrible week
1868, hanging colored men to the lam
posts and burning colored orphan as.
lums, was opposed to niger domin
toni too.
VIM. II. English, indulging in vel