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

Our little article Of Oct. 10 headed
"Our Welsh Republicans has widened
into q very considerable discussion. It
was written in . spirit of friendliness for
the Welsh and with the hope that its
ADVICE, though not very agreeable, per
hRps, might be taken In the way it was
meant, and the result might be favor
able to Republicanism. We cared not
SO much to please persons as we did to
advance the interests of the party, for
next to country We recognize party in
importance. We are one who has al
ways believed that party action should
subserve the common good of the party,
and hence have maintained that our
large and worthy Welsh Republican ell
ement ought TO receive due recognition
in the distribution of favOrs.
1t seems the article both in language
understood, because In our issue of Octo-
Der IA It was criticised by prominent
gentleman Of that nationality, who made
various nice points, and accused us OF
liability to create wrong i'm
preston in the minds of our readers,
and by the article we published Satur-
day, from the pen of the same gentlemen,
we are led to believe "the errors made
in the editorial of THE NEWS" has led to
the whole trouble. What was the mis-
take of THE News? Wequote the SEN
tence from our article of Oct. 18th which
seems to have caused the trouble. at
has been the rule for years to give them
(Welsh) representation upon the ticket"
This was taken up by our critic and
made TO read that it had been the rule
of the Republican party TO give them a
place on the ticket, from which premises
our critic proceeded to pummel the Re-
publican party. II will be seen that
we did not give the Republican party
the credit for their having held the Of
&C of register of deeds for nine years.
Perhaps we would have bcen a little
more explicit had we said it had been
the rule for years to keep Welshman
in the court house. Then we
suppose there would have been
no mistakes made by THE NEWS"
Mr.. Peter Ii. Hughes was elected reg
lister of deeds IN 1860. and reelected in
1871. In neither of those years was
there any distinctive Republican ticket
in the field, the Republicans having
held no conventions, but in both in
stances Mr.. Hughes was elected by the
votes of Republicans. In 1873 John E.
Evans, Welshman, was nominated by
what was called the Farmers conven-
ton. The Republicans had no ticket in
the field. Now, the reason we did not
say that for years it had been the rule of
the Republican party to give them rep.
resentation on its ticket was because we
knew that for the three terms above
designated, the Republican party did
not deserve the credit. What we did
say was no mistake at all. We knew
this when our critic made so much "fuss |
and feathers about creating q wrong
impression. and about the surprise that |
such statement should be made by one |
familiar with the history of the |
party, but we concluded "the |
least said the soonest mended,"
and let II go until its repetition in Sat |
urday's issue.
AS we said before we think it would |
have been better to have given them the |
place on the ticket which they asked for |
this year. We believe 10 equal and ex-
act justice to all interests IN the party. |
We have no personal considerations |
at stake in the matter at all. Har- |
mony ought to prevail in the party |
Welsh Republicans have as much at stake |
in preserving the unity Of the party, as
any others, and we believe it will be TO |
their interests as well as those of all |
other Republicans to lay aside all per
sonal feeling and support the action of !
the party. There would be no |
party il all who are disappointed |
should turn upon il and fight |
it. Personal disappointment should |
give way to higher and wiser consider
atoms. While we were strongly In ia |
vOr of the nomination of Mr.. Jones, and |
regret he was not successful, yet we be
lieve candidly that the Welsh Repub.i-
cans have been tolerably we'll treated by
the people Of Lyon county. They have
two important offices now, and have
filed the registers office for nine years.
Il will be better for them to keep their
tsmpers and try it again.