The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-27
OUR WELSH REPUBLICANS

EDITORS NEWS: In your daily issue
of the 18th, person under the name OF
sHomo," volunteers instructions to the
Welsh of Lyon county as TO how they
should act in the coming election. The
article is entirely uncalled for and out
Of place, as the answer Of ''Republican"
to the editorial of THE News merely
corrected some statements made in the
editorial, and made no assertions calling
for an answer from Homo"
He thinks that the Republican con-
vention was as free from rings, etc, as
any similar body ever convened in this
county. This is not saying much forthe
convention, but he insists that Mr.Jones
was beaten because he did not have
friends enough to nominate him. If
this is the case, why was THE NEWS,
and, in fact, everybody so surprised at
his defeats Mr. Jones went into the
convention with more positive strength
than any other man. Even the delegate
who nominated Mr.. Chalfant was elected
as such by persons who desired him to
vote for Mr.. Jones aud with the under
standing that be should do SO. His ex-
cuse when asked to nominate Mr.. Jones
in the convention was that he had not
been here long enough.
The Welsh did not ask that SIR. Jones
be nominated as matter of nationally,
but purely as a matter of business. They
did not ask it because his ancestors came
from Wales, but because il was desirable
and highly important that they should
have person conyersant with the Welsh
language at the court house. Some urge
as a reason for the defeat of Mr.. Jones
that he was candidate for a third term.
as matter of fact, this is not true, as
Mr.. Jones oaly served a vacancy and one
term. But this can only be an ereHse, as
the same convention, by almost pn9ni,
nous vote, nominated VIM. F. Ewing
for county clerk, who is candidate for
a third and consecutive term.
Homo" insinuates that, if the WEIGH
don't vote as he dictates, and give Mr..
Chalfant their hearty support" they are
Republicans for The spells of office and
not from principle. Have the claims of
the Welsh been so unreasonable as TO
warrant this assertion !? But, in spite OF
the lucid article of "a Homo we failto see
that there are any Republican principles
at stake in this election, and some of the
Republicans advertised to speak during
the campaign are of the same opinion
as ourselves and have determined TO stay
ut home We undertake 10 say that the
majority of those who will make Re
publican speeches during this campaign
are Republicans for the spoils of office,
and we are willing TO let the future tell
the story. What power has "HomO" 10
determine our political inclinaiions,
from vote for county officers, when
not even state representative is to be
chosen? 1t is such persons rs "Homo"
that make distinction between Il native
and foreign-bOrn citizen. This is the
animus of his article and it is this and
kindred statements that lend to antagn- |
nize the foreign element in our country.
The Welsh did not agitate this question
and would have been silent to this day
had it not been for the errors made in
the editorial of The NEWS and the insin-
uations contained in the article of "IIO-
mo-" ANOTHER REPUBLICAN.