The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

ichSiSS th1t SSNNA pAihtSo Stii4pt nv
the popular heart like one little five
minute speech from Gen. Garfield.
The shotgun states are solid for Han
cock The states that clicked the stuff
fin " out of them when they kicked over
the traces in 81 are holding the tor for
Garfield That's the exact size of the
situation.
1t is asserted that Nell Dow is the
only presidential candidate whose hopes
have not crystalized into a cab
met, and who has not already begun 10
give the subject of his inaugural adj
dress serious reflection.
BY reference to Mr.. Hendricks obser-
vations in another column, it Will be
seen that the tail of the fraud issue"
still continues to wiggle. 1t seems that
by throwing MFR. Tilden over at Cincin-
natl, the Democrats only skolched the
snake.
The Democrats who have read Gar
fields pithy little speeches are beginning
to realize the wonderful advantage pos
sessed by the Republicans IN having a
candidate who can step unattended out
side of his own door-yard, and open his
mouth without putting his foot in it or
compromising his party.
A leyel-headed Republican cotempo-
rary says: "When the situation is
thoughtfully reviewed, it must be evil
dent that the Democratic idea of free
elections and the Democratic practice
are altogether one-sided. 1t consists of
the Mississippi plan for the south and
the Tammany plan for the north"
The Democratic journals are unac-
countably slow in running up their
ROSTERS over the result of the election
in Alabama. The conviction seems TO
prevail that no pictorial display in this
direction should be attempted by news
papers who have no cuts of white eIe
plants about their establishments.
The most notable evidence of the pa
triotism of Bill English is the sincere af
fiction which he is said TO entertain for
the American eagle, the proud bird Of
our national confederation. 1t is au-
thentically avowed that he has been fire.
quently known to squeeze ITS image on
a silver coin until it emitted screams of
distress
The question regarding the identity
of Hancock's grandfather, which seems
to be troubling the heraldry editors of
his party, is certainly a matter of little
consequence, in view of the fact that the
Confederate Democratic party has as
sumed his paternity The people will
regard this knowledge of his pedigree
sufficient for all practical purposes.
This seems to bic an of.year for Demo
cratic statesmen. The Cincinnati pro
gram was substantially repeated at
Wichita, where DIR. Springfield, who, it
is declared upon good Democratic au-
thOriiy, would rather lie on sIx months
time than tell the truth for cash, was
laid upon the shelf for a man who parts
his name in the middle Truly, the
times are out Of joint.
The woman who taught the first school
for negro children, iiltY-five years ago,
and Tor which act she was sent to the
penitentiary, is now living in Elk coun-
ty. The history of this excellent lady
furnishes some very pleasant reminders
of the doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party" to which the Bour-
bon patriots of today pledged them
selves anew" at the late Cincinnati CON
vention.
A Democratic exchange says that there
were no more intimate friends of Abra-
ham Lincoln than David Davis, John
Nj. Palmer and Lyman Trumbull. Just
so. There was also q time when none of
the disciples was more sincerely devoted
TO the cause of the Master than Judas
Iscariot. The question, in the language
of celebrated colored divine is:
(Which way is your musket pintin'
to-day?"
Hancock was the only Union general
who absolutely refused to pay any atten-
ton TO the orders and mandates of the
civil courts, though the war was over,
and had been over four months, and
peace had returned to our country. In
time of peace, he, II Union general,
held the army above the courts of law,
and gave rs much heed to their foolish
writs as he would have given to the or
ders of an eighth corporal. He is the
man that the Democrats say held the
military subordinate to the civil power
The result of the Alabama election,
and, in fact all the indications south of
Mason and Dixon's line, proclaim that
any effort on the part of the Republicans
to carry single southern state, would
be worse than "futile dalliancc." The
Republicans have the voters, but the
Democrats have the count, and that set
ties the question, so far as a far election
is concerned The Republican party
mag rs well accept the fact that it will
have TO contend with solid south, and
proceed at once to concentrate all of its
forces on the doubtful states of the free
north, which is the only hope of saving
the government from the hands of its
dircst foes. The sectional issue" is Just
as distinct to-day as it was in '61, and
as the Democrats, now as then, have
thrown down that gauge, the Republi-
cans can do nothing less than take
it up.