The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-04

even an approximate estimate OF the in 4
tense opposition To the constitutional
amendment concentered at the capital
last week.
The Mississippi delegates to Cincin-
natl are not instructed. but an old gen
tleman who resides at Gramercy Park Is
said 10 be in possession of accurate in
formation rs to the nature of their
preferences.
Most of the Democratic state oonven-
tions thus far have marked their delega-
lions 10 Cincinnati &C. o. d" system
which reflects with great clearness the
prudent financial methods of Samuel
Jones Tilden
Apartments for the Kansas delegates
ID the Cincinnati convention have al
ready been secured and their creature
comforts arranged for. Those five hun
dred rooms engaged by Tilden will be
equal 10 all emergencies.
If Messrs. Conkling, Cameron and
Logan wall take the timely precaution
10 slip their hands down the back bone
of the Republican party, they will find
evidences of healthy vertebra that should
prove conducive TO reflection.
David Davis believes il is heaven be-
slowed right for every man 10 blow his
own horn and TO propcl his own boom
particularly when there seems To be such
notable lisinclination ON the part of
every one else to do it for him.
What is sauce for the goose should be
sauce for the gander According to Lo-
gan's precedent the Illinois Grant dele
CATION shonld not be admitted to the
Chicago convention till after that con-
'vention has voted on IFS eligibility.
Amid the wreck of delegations and the
crash of presidential booms, it is i'm
measurably consoling to reflect that,
whichever way the cat may jump at
Chicago, Carl Schurz will be out of a
job after the 4th day of next March.
Those anxious politicians who have
been casting about for a national stand
ard bearer who can fire the Greenback
heart in the approaching presidential
canvass, will he delighted To learn that
the political disabilities" of Kearney
have been removed
The Democracy of Kansas refuse to
he handicapped by instructions, and
elect to go before the Cincinnati conven
tiOn free of all entangling alliances
lsi'hiS int.lliUaDca will Ia cnnIuoiyo A.
great hilarity of soul in the gentle
breast of Samuel Jones TIlden.
Delaware's boom for Bayard is not Il
be sneczed at. While it may be urgeI
that the little state lacks the ample pro
portions of Pennsylvania, New Yorl
or Illinois, the action of its delegate
has an earnestness that quite realizes gu
idea of spontaneous uprising"
The Kansas City Times in speaking
of the Missouri convention, says that tn
Tildenites shook the bush and the Scy
INQUIRIES caught the bird. Very true
but we fail to see the reason for any in
tensely hilarious demonstrations owe
the acquisition, so long as the bird wa
n crow.
The man who declared that nothing
, save a Spontaneous uprising" of til
people could avail in bringing him I
the front is the only candidate who's
, friends insist upon the enforcement c
the unit rule at Chicago. This seems I
! | be somewhat in the nature of a poliIics
I paradox.
D New York Tribune; In 1868 Do
I Cameron defied the unit rule at Chicago
= and refused to be bound by the Pennsy
!, vania instructions to vote for Curtin
! The young senator must not wonder
once III 4 while, somebody finds an a
ton of his To initiate. That was goo
:. record he made in 1868.
The charming widow Butler has a
l. rived in Chicago, and, in u mOdifiC
I form of weeds, is captivating the hear
{ of susceptible politicians. 1t is iutim
ted that the lease of her hOspitable al
y luxurious apartments extends beyor
3 the time fixed for holding the Nation
&c Greenback labor convention.