The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-21
BOUND TO GET WELL.
The Improvement in the Presidents Con-
dition More Marked
Than at Any Time Since His Attempted
Assassination.
A United States Deputy Collector of In.
ternaI Revenue Murdered by Illicit
Distifiers in Pickens County.
South Carolina.
Two More Intellectual Ballots Taken on
the COnkling Vacancy by the New
York Legislature.
TuthIlI,s Trade.


ference of Stalwarts held today Senator
Mills introduced the following bill:
SECTION 1. Whenever any vacancy
exists in the office Of representative in
congress from this state, occurring on
or after the first day of March in any
year, and more than sixty days before
general election, u special election 10
fill such vacancy shall be ordered and
held, Pr0Uided, That a petition therefore,
in writing, signed by at least two hun
dred electors of the Congressional dis
trict in which the vacancy exists, and
who are entitled TO vote in said district
for such representative in Congress,
shall be presented TO the governor at
least hfty days before the time for hold
ing a general election.
SEC. 2. Upon the presentation of
such petition to the governor, a special
election to fill such vacancy shall be or
| dered by the governor. who shall, with
in five days after presentation of such
petition, issue call for such an election,
| but no special election shall be held I'M
der this act within twenty days before a
general election.
SEC. 3.The provisions of this act shall
| apply TO any vacancy now existing in
the office of any representative in con-
gress.
SEC L. This act shall take effect im-
mediately.
The bill was made the special order
| for tomorrow morning.
The convention proceeded to vote TO
| fill the vacancy caused by the reslgna-
ton of Conkling. When Tuthill's
name was called he proceeded
to defend the stalwarts for de-
also spoke of the effect of ties in the
United States Senate in the past. He
said it was stupid blunder to elect
Miller and Lapham and thus give the
| House of Representatives to the Demo-
Gratis. He insisted the time had arrived
| for adjournment.
In the course of his speech he referred
to COnkling's letter of resignation, and
said that il would be read when the vile
traducers of the illustrious senator were
dead and forgotten, and continued as
| follows: If the United States Senate
were today called together, it would be
Democratic. So it would have been on
the day that Senator Blaine resigned.
| So it would have been when Window
resigned. So it would have been when
Senator Kirkwood resigned, and so it
would have been when Senator Gar
| field resigned; but no faction of the
| Republican legislature of Maine, Mimi
esota, Iowa or Ohio, undertook to over
| throw the time-honored usage of all
parties. In the usual decent and orderly
way Individual preferences were sub
united to the action of the caucus and
harmony of choice promptly ensued.
So it would have been here. One hour
of common fairness and honest methods
| would have saved US these weeks OF
contention and state disgrace; of painful
and damning disclosures. When a vigi-
liant and unprinciplcd lot, by the black
art of bribery, had taken the field, and
thousands of dollars were traced from
the banks to the pockets of their CO.
laborers, with all the attendant suspic-
iOus circumstances. it was time to ad-
journ. When the grand jury on ample
testimony had relieved an Investigating
committee of all painful duty by indict-
ing half dozen of the ringleaders in
this unholy crusade for Office, punishable
by Imprisonment in the state prison, it
was time to call halt. 1t was time to
| adjourn when certain candidate, while
yet holding majority vote of the Re-
publicans, was so smirched with bribery
as to render his support impossible, aud
the trick of an irregular caucus with the
| secret purpose of his withdrawal was
played. 1t was time 10 adjourn when
this contest has so completely debauched
certain participants, and they had be-
So lOW anu Us W DC Will
| ing to allow themselves to be advertised
as step-ladder sneaks and transom-peep-
ing pimps, in order to give a color of
truth and currency to a weak invention
and base SANDER against an honest citi-
zen. 1t was time to adjourn. This in
| fanny was never surpassed except, per
haps, by those who pledged their word
at Utica and bartercd it at Chicago, on
! ly that they might wreak their spite
upon the most lllustrious soldier of the
century, whose only fault was and is
that he possessed that intense common
| sense and intrepid valor which enabled
him in the dark days OF supreme trial to
| be the Savior OF his country. Why not
adjourn? Can you not trust your Gov
ernor to call you together, if need be,
after reason shall have resumed its sway ?
If not, cannot you trust the people
When did you learn that you could not
trust Roscoe Conkling to go to the peo-
| pie? Were you afraid to trust him to
go to the people last Autumn? Were
| you afraid to trust him before the peo-
| pie of Ohio and Indiana in that critical
October election when every Republi-
can heart yearned for the much needed
victory when it was everywhere con-
| fessed that the electoral vote of New
York was absolutely essential for the
election of Garfield? Were you
afraid to give the flag into his
keeping? Did he not bear it to victory,
and return it to you unsoiled and re-
| splendent? l insist that the response
bility of this long continued affair shall
be placed where it belongs. While so
| insisting, let it be confessed that results
| of priceless value to the commonwealth
have been achieved. The notorious
headquarters and den of corruptionists,
| gamblers and lobbyists, where legisla-
ton has so long been bought and sold,
has been invaded by the strong arm of
the law, and several of that corrupt gang
have been indicted for their crimes by a
| jury of their countrymen. This alone
will go far towards securing to the peo-
| pies representatives freedom from mo-
| lestation by the tools and agents of bri-
| berry, and thus, by their conviction and
| Incarceration, will disappear the shame
/ and disgrace of an organized band of
criminals openly plying their most in
| famous trade in the shadow of the cap
| itol. The betrayal of trust by the eau
| Gus committee is the one cause of all our
| woes, and to it is directly chargeable
this long and tedious contest. While
taking my stand upon this impregnable
position in accord with party honor and
/ party usage, / have found myself sup
| ported and confirmed by the Jeffersonian
standard of fitness in my candidate-"Is
| he honest? is he capable?' Let every
man answer to his own conscience. /
| answer to mine. Out of all this sea of
detraction; out of the surging and seeth-
/ ing pool of unjust criticism, there rises
no break to cloud the honor or integrity
of Roscoe Conkling; and the world con-
fesses his matchless ability. Influenced
by these convictions, every sentiment of
honor and every manly impulse, prompts
me, while unbound by the caucus decree,
to maintain the position deliberately as
sumed at the beginning against insatiate
L clamor, loose expectorance of speech,
and whoever falters and whoever faints,
having seen my duty clearer from day to
day. If every tongue but mine were
| palsied, I should raise my voice alone in
| the faithful performance of that duty,
| and affirm the greatness of the stainless
| citizen, the illustrious statesman and
| matchless orator, under whose wise and
skillful leadership the Republicans OF
/ this state have won so many and such
| signal victories. vote for Roscoe Conk-
ling.
Weary of the White House.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-A Washington
special says that the intense weariness of
| the President with his confinement,
which finds expression in almost every
conversation with his friends and at
| PENDANTS, and the advice of DIR. Boynton
TO secure for Mrs Garfield 4 change of
i ~ he Led n r.