The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
POLITICAL POINTS.

1t is said in Washington that each OF
the parties will put million dollars
into The Indiana campaign.
Sam Randall is said to have beauti-
full black eye. His party will be able TO
boast of like feature after the Novem-
Der election.
Governor DAVIS telegraphs that he
will be reelected by from 800 to 400
majority. A letter of coincidence from
Gen. Hancock TO Mr.. PlaIsled is now in
order.
Hancock thinks that an initiation vic
tory is not only glorious" but would
'Iead toa pure and efficient administra-
ton of public affairs" How does that
strike the business men?
The breach still yawns between the
Readjusters and regular Bourbons of
Virginia. The climatic conditions in the
Old Dominion do not seem to be con-
spicuOusly favorable to fusion.
The extremely low standard of pOpu-
lar education in Mississippi seems to
confirm the report that school teachers
in that state are Obliged to give written
pledge to vote the Democratic ticket or
be dismissed.
New York Tribune: As two Green
back congressman are the sole result of
the Maine Fusion victory, their election
is the only fact to hitch HancOck's title
of glorious" to. That gives him finan-
cial record enough to defeat him.
Ben Butler says that it is to the DEM
ocratic party that the cOlored man must
look for protection. This new political
revelation furnishes the only really sat.
isfactory solution of the negro exodus
from the southern states to the solid
Bourbon commonwealth of Kansas.
The conviction is deepening among the
readers of Senator Conkling's speech
that if the New York statesman is doing
any kicking, the Democratic party is in
possession of very accurate information
regarding the size and peculiar style o.
his boots.
o. E. Jones, of jamestown, N. Y, of
fers To bet $500 that Garfield will carry
New York; $500 that he will carry
Pennsylvania; $500 that lie will carry
Indiana; $500 that he will carry Ohio
$500 that he will carry Illinois; $1,OO'
that he will be elected.
Efforts TO exhume Democratic poll
tician buried several years ago brough
to light nothing but bottle of whisky
but there is nothing remarkable in til
case, for whisky has filled millions O
graves under like conditions, and prom
ises to continue its work with grea
success.
New York Herald: The natural effeC
OF the narrow escape in Maine will be t
make the Republicans more vigorou
and alert, and their watchfulnefs an
alarm may be of greater service to ther
in the end than the confidence whic
would have resulted from their expecte
victory in the Pine Tree state.
jeff Davis is an enthusiastic admire
} of General Hancock and is labOrIn
zealously for his election. There al
some passages in the history of this di
tinguished sOutherner that do not refleC
the luster of FURNISHED patriotism, br
it must be claimed for him that 9Ifd nha
always been thoroughly consistent in hi
, political career and has never weakene
on his party affiliations.
The Kansas City Times is still worl
, ing zealously in behalf of fusion {
the Democrats and GreenbGckers {
Kansas on the state tickle
and thinks that such pr
= gram might be followed with all til
generous measure of success that attent
,, ed the Fusion fiasco in Maine. The higl
ly satisfactory efforts of the Times I
, harmonic the Democratic squabble
the 9Th Missouri district has NATURAL
rendered it ambitious to tackle wide
and more difficult fields of cndeavOr.