The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-27
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Strictly confidential: james A. Gar
field is still President of the United
States.
The relative size of President Gar
field and Mr.. COnkling has ceased to be
a question for popular debate.
friedrich Douglass has been over
whelmingly confirmed as recorder-Of
deeds for the District of Columbia.
Dorsey will have to go out in the
hedges and highways and compel the
guests to come in to his next banquet.
1t is intimaied that the late husband
of Mrs. KATE Chase Sprague is with the
President in the Garfield-Conkling fight
1t looks little as if Conkling and
Plat might need their winter listers be-
fore they get back into the United States
senate.
VIM. E. Chandler will not be Solicitor
General, but he has earned a dcathless
reputation as being a smaller man than
Stanley Matthews.
The anti COnklingites in the New
York legislature claim 100 majority
on joint ballot. This is enough to cook
ROscoe's goose, with some fuel to spare.
The tail of the third term movement
still continues to manifest occasional
signs of life. 1t is said that Conkling
desires General Grant to succeed him.
We hear comparatively little OF Ma
hone these days, but it is not likely that
his name will perish from the earth.
His wife has twice been the mother of
triplets.
President Garfield's face retains its
fine contour, despite the fact that Roscoe
Conkling has been so rash as to bite off
his own nose to spite it.
The Republican general committee of
New York has endorsed the action of
Messrs. Conkling and Plat, but that
body forms but very small fraction of
the great American people.
1t looks as if the New York legisla-
ture were about to commit the rash act
of precipitating upon the country the
experiment of running the United States
government without the aid of Roscoe
Conkling.
Blaine is said to be satisfied with u
situation of Conkling's making, and we
don't see why those hitherto implacable
foes should not promptly proceed to in
ter the hatchet and clasp hands over the
CORY chasm.
The Quincy Modern Argo tells us that
a Californian saved the life of a woman
who had fallen into a river, and was Civ
en- nickle for his bravery. He wears it
as a scarf pin and refers to il as the pin
nickle OF fame.
If the logic of events forms reliable
basis of speculation for the future, it is
perfectly reasonable to predict that the
st. Louis Globe Democrat will maintain
its stalwart reputation for consistency
by blooming forth as a bowling Blaine
organ in 1884. n ~
Don Plat has revived the sensational
story that it was Conkling's purpose to
count in Tilden in 1876. This IS crowd
ing the mourners, so to speak. Roscoe
may have his inflrmities but lack of
fidelity to the Republican party is not
one of them.
A sensational story comes from De-
troit, Michigan, of the formation of a
Brewers and Saloon-keepers' Nihilist
Confederation" in that state to oppose
the temperance people who control the
legislature and arc waging a relentless
and successful war against the liquor
interest. Even the distiller's worm viii
turn if trOd upon, and hence the "Nihil-
lists" The proceedings of the cOnfeder-
alton will be secret, and members will
be bound by q solemn oath 10 annihilate
any brother who will break his oath and
divulgeanY of the secrets of the order.
Stubborn legislature "temperanziers"
will be summarily dealt with. They
will be warned, and, if the warning is
not needed, the Nihilists will act.