The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-02
Personal AND POLITICAL.

E6nDQGAA AMI LO6l 44OAAs
Mrs. Langtry says she likes America
ever SO much
Commonwealth: St. Johns railroad
record is infinitely batter than that of
Click.
Tennessee Republicans are hopeful of
electipg Hawkins governor and gaining
two or three congressman.
Champion: Mr.. Click is seeking Re
publican votes. But what part of the
Republican ticket does Mr.. Click OK
pect 10 vote.
Capital: Only a week more of Click
as candidate for governor. Then he
can lay of his mask and go to canvass
ing again for railroad bonds.
The bronze statute OF the late Senator
Hill, to be erected in Atlanto, Georgia,
will cost abou; $4,000, of which one
half has already been subscribed.
The headquarters" of the @Greenback
Labor Party" in Kansas. are officially
announced to be at Lyndon, Usage coun-
ty, little town as forlorn and useless as
the party itself.
Capt. ]. V. Admire, of the Usage City
Free Press, responding to a claim that
Mr.. Click will carry the county, offers
to wager $500 against $500 that Mr..
Click does not carry that county.
Capital: The Republicans are prose
cutting the campaign this week with
vigor. Speakers are everywhere; party
leaders are thoroughly aroused, and
be large, which is always favorable to
Republicans.
o. s. MunseIl, of the Council Grove
Republican, who served in the last legis-
latuTe with the Democratic candidate for
governor says: sc. w. Click is now pos.
ing as friend of the dear people against
monopolies. When in the Legislature
he did his best to set down upon every
effort to obtain practical railroad legis.
lation."
Miss Burr, OF North Carolina, to
whom Senator David DAVIS is to be mar
ried soon, was young friend of his late
wife aud used to visit her at the Ma.
tional hotel at Washington. She il
about thirty years younger than Mr.
Davis, and he has been paying hel
marked attention for at least q year.
Charley Price, the late afable city
editor of the Topeka Capital has retired
from that newspaper tOengage in othel
business. He is succeeded by Mr.
ABBOTT Blunt, lately of the Kansas City
Journal, and one of the rising journalist
of the west, and also one of the bes
fellows that sharpens pencil.
Joseph Woodwork, who died in Sar
Francisco few days ago, was the frs
man in California to become a million
aire. He was known on the Pacific
slope as "Ophir" Woodwork, because
he made his money out of the Ophil
mines. In 1868 Mr.. Woodwork wal
fabulously wealthy; the next year there
was collapse in Ophir, and he died al
most penniless.
The rumor. is again abroad that Gov.
ernor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, will short
ly declare for Stewart. One of his
most intimate friends is said to have
asserted that the governor would an,
nounce publicly next week that he sym.
pathized with the independents
Whether this is true or not, Hoyt's luke.
warmness in the campaign has been a
source of weakness to the regulars and
of encouragement to the independents
MIR. William H. English has found II
necessary to define his sentiments on
the revenue question. He does it by
saying in that calch phrase of the
Democrats that he favors, not free trade
but "a tariff for revenue with incidental
protection MIR. English hopes in this
way TO conciliate the protectiOnist Of
Democrats who have shown some cool.
ness toward his sons candidacy for con-
gress on account of his free trade prin-
ciples.
Ex-senator Oglesby has been travelling
about Illinois making stump speeches,
and he tells the Chicago Tribune that
''the Republicans will get $4,000 more
votes this year than if Ohio had not
gone Democratic. The state will go Re.
publican again beyond doubt We will
get our share of the congressman, and l
believe we will carry the legislature
People will be astonished when they see
the Republican vote this fall. The Re
pnblicans will come out and vote In q
way that will surprise everybody who is
thinking its only an of year and there
won't be much of a turnout"