The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-28
Personal AND POLITICAL

64AOO1A1 AAO EO1A4AOhA
Will they force Click 10 withdraw,
and if so. with whom will they fill the
void. as-it werep
II may interest Mr.. Tildeu to learn
that the English government is ''long''
on American mules.
The report that Blaine is supporting
Secretary Folger as a presidential can
didate is an amusing invention.
Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, has
been released. Dave generally contin-
ues to keep several laps ahead OF the
government.
Poor Filley; he has turned his politi-
cal toes up TO the daisies, and no one
was so poor as To do him homage in his
last death struggle.
1t is said that the patients of Dr. Bliss
at Washington, always turn over their
property to their relatives before placing
themselves under his treatment.
Kansas City proposes fat stock show
next year. II has not yet been deter.
mined wheiher Sam Wood will be en-
tered from Chase county or Topeka
The Junction City Union will doubt
less take keen delight in contradicting
the story that Gov. st. John was shot by
crank at the Windsor hotel at Topeka.
The most ardent advocate of female
suffrage in Kansas is Brother Milling
ton. of the Winfield Courier. One
wouldn't think it, either, Ia look at him.
Mr.. Barnes, the mountain cvaugel-
ISL" has been instrumental in the con
version of six hundred people at Indian
apolis. Indiana seems bound to go RI
publican again this year.
The Name Republican victory means
the success of Frye for the United States
senate, the nomination of Blaine for
President by Maine, Republican con-
gress and Keller for speaker.
1t may have tendency to amcliorate
the twenty years dependency of
George Washington Click TO know that
the Usage Mission Journal refuses TO
support st. John for governor.
81 see that Folger 'collared The bag
gage in the New York convention yes
terday. My old friend Conkling, though
somewhat disfgured, apparently is still
in the Bg."-Jss G. Blaine
Old man ChIistiancy has finally pro-
cured divorce aud there is chance
now for the Indiana woman who de-
clares 1t to be her ambition to marry
the meanest man in America.
There is pretty strong sentiment in
this country against mob law, but we
take notice that neither Brady nor Dor
sey have made any engagement is with
any of the leading lecture bureaus
Some one who has a spite against
Arab Pasha, has circulated the invidi-
Gus rumor that he is related to Gen. Geo
B. Mcclellan. About the meanest thing
in thus world il to strike man when lie
is down,
The Republican paFiy is on the march.
If any of its leaders or followers choose
to linger IN the old camp it will gather
recruits, and continue its glorious career
on the high plane of social reformation
and morality.
In Wilson county the opposing polit-
zeal factions are known as fanatics" and
"red noses" We will leave the dis
eliminating reader to identify the Re-
publicans and Democrats under these
picturesque titles.
Swinburne, the poet, thinks of COM
ing TO this country and giving series
of readings. We wish the Warner OBJ
seIvatOry would let up ON the reprchen-
sible practice of offering reward for
the discovery of comets.
There is trouble amQng the survivors
of the Jeanstte crew. Melville and
Danenhower have dropped enough hints
in their conversations to indicate that
something exciting will occur when the
court of inquiry gets To work.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, who keeps
an intelligent eye upon political move
ments, thinks that Arthur or Blaine will
| be the next Republican nominee for
President, and that either of them will
make il warm for The Democrats"
Atchison Champion: We understand
that Mr.. Click estimates that he will
have 10000 plurality over St. John. We
doubt very much. however. whether any
Democrats can be found who are willing
to risk dollar and n half as a wager on
that declaration.
Prohibition will be an issue in the
Tennessee political canvass. The tenn
perance question, which was playfully
alluded to several years ago by the
liquor interest as a little shower"
seems to be assuming lhe proportions of
u rain in the wet season ~ the Pacific
coast.
1t may seem superliuOus to state that
the nomination of MI. Folger fur gov
ernor by the New York Republicans
gives very general satisfaction through
out Ohio. Any Ofthe mutations of pol.
ilics which creates vacancy at Wash
ington is always warmly endorsed in the
old Buckeye state.
President Arthur will be the guest
of the city of Boston during the frs
four days of October, and it is intimated
that, in pursuance OF his commanding
tact in rendering himself all things tC
all men, he is "wading up" on bean cul
ture and coaching" On the subject q
the correlation OF forces.
If Mayor Wilson really means bust
ness and If there is rs much blood il
his eye as there is in his recent pTocla
nation against the gin-jerkefs at tn
stale capital, ii Is quite rational to pre-
dict that special trains will be run at re
duced raies from Topeka TO Kansa
J City and Aichison during ihs session q
the Kansas legislature.
1t is said that Ben Butler has a con
Stunning ambition TO become president q
the United States. and is forming plan
To that end. 1t might not be wholly il
relevant 10 observe in this connectiol
that Guitean fully expected to go L
: heaven when he babe adieu to this IN
charitable and friendless world.
Friends of the Garfield family ez
press the opinion that Mrs. Garfield
who nov Tanks among the wealthies
, women of the country, intends to branc
out extensively The handsome estal
lishment in Cleveland which she ha
lately purchased cannot, they say, b
maintained at less expenditure tina
$4,000 per annum.
, The Greenbackers are taking very In
tie interest in the Ohio canvass, and it
predicted that they will poll less tina
, 1000 votes. Sam Cary has been STUMP
ing in Maine and the other leaders seeI
to have concluded that the party is deat
3 No campaign headquarters have bee
+ opened by the party this year.