The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30
POLITICAL POINTS,

The Grant Republicans are Sulking-
in the minds of Democratic editors and
stump orators.
The Hancock movement still con-
tinues TO boom--in the mind of the Kan
sas City Times
The impressive lull in the hurrah cam
paign can be very audibly heard at dis
lance often miles.
The Globc-Democrat says the Republi-
cans in Missouri can elect five members
of congress this year.
The Widow Butler is sprucing up pre-
paratory to her annual seduction of the
Democratic party of Massachusetts.
New York Tribune: The Republicans
seem to have wonderful faculty of
bearing up under the Democratic GER
tainty of victory.
The Democrats who have any intelli-
gent reason for demanding n Change"
seem to he conspicuous for fighting shy
of the editorial tripod and the political
stump in this canvass.
The Democrats were too brash on the
start. If they had saved little of their
breath, they might at least have COM
pleted their first quarter without show
ing themselves so badly wind-blown.
There are symptoms of revival of
Molly MaguireIsm in Pennsylvania.
This will probably account for the con-
iidence which the Democrats profess to
feel in their ability to carry the Key.
stone state in November
The Democratic convention of 1868
pronounced the reconstruction acts "un.
constitutional, revolutionary and void"
Hancock was a candidate before that
convention. The last convention which
nominated him pledged itself anew" to
the doctrines and traditions of the party.
Verify, comment is unnecessary.
1t has been discovered that New York
is the mother of vice presidents, having
already furnished six successful candi.
dates for the second place on the nation
al ticket This fact, coupled with Ohio's
splendid record as a producer of presi-
dents, renders the Republican outlook
this year emInently suspicious.
The second wind of the Democratic
party is probably. holding off for General
HancOck's letter of acceptance. Mean
while the sober second thought of the
people is promptly un deck, and the Re
publicans are just becoming fairly warm
ed up to the work of laying out the Brig
adiers in November
ST. Louis Globe-DemocraI: Mr.. Will
liam III. English, the Democratic candi- |
date for vice president, was one of the |
twelve northern Democrats who, in 1856, |
voted against the expulsion of Mr.. |
Brooks, of South Carolina, from the |
house of representatives for his murder |
Gus attack upon Charles Sumner The |
general knowledge of this fact will help
the Democratic ticket among the Brig
adiers.
Senator Ben Hill writes to the Atlanta |
(Ga) Constitution:
THE Democratic situation in Georgia |
is bad, very bad, and the tendency is |
worse. Serious discussions exist. are
daily increasing, and if not arrested will |
disrupt the party. He is not |
an intelligent Democrat who does not
see the course of these evils, and he is /
not true Democrat who is unwilling
to apply the remedy. The cause may be /
expressed In one word, and it is person
alism in the party"
General Arthur is pronounced by the
New York Sun, the rcd-hottest Demo
cratic sheet in the country, "a candidate
with a clear personal record, q gen.
tleman without humbug." If the ad-
miratIon of leading Democrats for the
nominees continues to in
grease in the proportion that has already
markell It's growth, the Garfield and Ar
thur boom will safely assume the pro
portions Of spontaneous uprising"
by November.
1t has been known for twenty years
that the Democratic party was seriously
afflicted with kleptomania, but the pub
lie were scarcely prepared for their opon
steal, at Cincinnati, of the bloody shirt
There is no disposition, however, to wor.
v over such a high-handed appropria-
ion of Republican property, and the
great unterriied will discover the worth.
essness OF their fancied acquisition
when they come to pawn the pilEered gar
nent for the soldier vote.
Representative Butterworth, of Gin
.innati, is in Washington. He says the
prospects in Ohio were never more bril-.