The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-15
PERSONAL avn POLITICAL.
It begins 10 look as if Lueien Baker
might "gct there"

| It begins TO look as if Lueien Baker
might "ge, there"
a sweeping "Mahone" movement IS
threatened in Texas in favor of Jones,
candidate for governor.
The SO called king of pickpockets''
has just died in Sing Sing. There are
plenty of heirs apparent.
The Down Times yoncilsafes the spec
ulation that a dark horse viii get away
with gubernatorial baggage.
Frank James seems 10 be Inexcusably
tArdy in issuing proclamation for the
capture of Governor CrIttenden-
Atlanta papers have already been call
ed upon to return thanks for water
melons laid upon the editorial table.
Bishop Gllmour's threats toward the
ladies of the land league are met with
a defiance that ought To make his ears
tinglc
The Indiana Republicans are rapidly
making their nominations for the com
ing campaign, which promises TO be un
usually interesting there for an "of "
year.
1t is supposed now that Governor
Crittenden viii not be formally pardon
ed by Frank James until after the
Democratic state eonyenti0n in Missouri,
which takes place in a few weeks.
a Massachusetts man has named his
first daughter Susan b. Anthony. II
seems a terrible thing 10 blight the mat
| rimonial prospects of a helpless infant
in that manner.
One very essential point of difference
between Governor ST. John and Colonel
John A. Martin Is that the latter wants
constitutional amendment in Kansas
TO prohibit third gubernatorial term.
Guiteau is said by tie Washington
dispatches TO be very much depressed.
What the people would like To see is
MIR. Guiteau very much elevated.
II see by the papers that Mr.. Arthur
went fishing the other Sunday. l have
always had the utmost confidence in the
present administration, "-Ex-Vice Pres
ident Wheeler.
Dennis Kearney has just drawn $1,000
in lottery. The balefui effects
of that species Of gambling, and the
necessity of providing for Its extinction
by appropriate legislation becomes more
and more apparent every day.
Representative Horr says nc never
misses an opportunity TO hit Green
hackers head whenever Il is raised. 1t
will be intensely rcassuring TO call this
fact TO MUD If sam Wood happens to
go TO congress from Kansas.
u is pleasant to note that Ohio is re
presented on the tariff commission re
Gently appointed by the president.
There is frost in the ground when the
old Bucl;cye state doesn't keep within
hearing distance of the band wagon.
IL see there is considerable talk OF
running General Hancock for governor
of Pennsylvania, to solid.fy him, SO to
| speak, as presidential candidate in
1884. 1t grieves me TO observe that the
Democratic party can always be depend
cd upon for doing the wrong thing at
the right tinic samuel Jones Tiden
Chicago Tribune Congressman KEEL
ley, of Pennsylvania, called congress
man White, of Kentucky, a liar in the
course of Mondays proceedings in the
house Our congressman are evidently
T., -
Mr.. Bennett, proprietor of the New
York Herald, is the richest bachelor IN
America. 1t seems that man may
reach comparative affluence, even in the
newspaper business, if he has no millin-
cry bills TO settle.
We trust, for the sake of Kansas lit
erature and the families of two promi-
ncid Topeka editors, that the sanguinary
example Of those two New Orleans jour
nalists who resorted to the code for
settlement of their differences, may not
become contagious.
They now say that the Princess Bea-
trice refused the Landgrave of Hessc be-
cause he had no intellect. The rejected
sutton can console himself with the re-
Election that it is better to be born with
| luck than brains.
Our national affairs seem to be NOV
ing very smoothly indeed. Congress
man Kelley called Congressman White
liar last Tuesday, and on the same day
Mr. Sparks alluded to Sunset Cox as "a
little scamp" When congressman as
sumo an appearance OF belligerency, the
country is invariably safe.
New York Tribune; As was predict
ed sometime ago, all the members of
congress from Kansas in the present
house of representatives, have been hon
ored with denominations. There has
been practically no opposition to them.
New Candidates have turned their atten-
ton to securing the nominations for con
gress-at-large of which there will be
four.
The Democrats have very little to say
about the "first gun" of the campaign
fred in Oregon. The Republican vote
is heavier than it was in 1880, and state
officers and congressman are elected. In
the last Legislature the Republicans had
majority of twenty on joint ballot,
The heavier vote this year ought to Sc
cure the legislature to Republicans by
as large majority as they had last year
Miss Kellogg's mother is said to be
the cause of the estrangement between
the songstress and Whitney Her
friends say that she Investigated Whit
ney's private history and found that he
was not 10 be trusted with the heart and
hand Of an innocent and inexperienced
young thing like her daughter. His
friends say that when he found the old
lady to be in good health and of q TO
bust constitution, and that she was de-
tcrmined 90 live with them, he declared
the engagement Off for reasons satisfac-
tory to himself, Whitney should have
consulted the young man out west who
relieved himself OF an obnoxious moth
er-in.law by greasing the cellar stairs.
The Charleston, South Carolina, News
lDem.l is led by some comments of a
northern journal on the election meth
DDS in that state TO say: "The southern