The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
GENERAL NEWS
SOUND ON THE TEMPERANCE AND
RAILROAD QUESTIONS.

SOUND ON THE TEMPERANCE AND
RAILROAD QUESTIONS.
Judge sOIon o. Thatcher interviewed by =
Representative of the Kansas
City journal.
KANSAS CRY, July 25.-.That man
ought TO be the next governor of Kan
sas," said prominent Kansan as he
stood conyersing with little coterie of
ing. HE is one of the brainiest and
one CT the best men IN the state.''
Who Is it2" questioned one of the
party.
You are a newcomer in the state, or
you wouldn't ask" was the reply.
'sThat man has lived in Kansas twenty
years, and he has done more TO make
her what she is, morally, educationally
and financially, than and other ona man
you can mention. That is my candid
opinion, and 1 am not politician eth
err"
"Well, who is hep
JUDGE S. o. TEACHER;
and from the latest dispatches believe
he is going TO get there, too. He deserves
| it."
"WelE, don't know much about him.
remarked Kansas City barrister, tex
cept that there isn't a better lawyer in
the west than he is. / have met him,
| and lost; and l ought to know"
81 see that the ST. John men are at
lacking his temperance record" said
| another.
THAT makes me SMILE" came in an
old citizen of Lawrence Fifteen years
ago, when Temperance was almost re-
| proach 10 a man here in the west, used
10 hear the judge make temperance
speeches. He was quite active then in
| politics, but has since been out of it
\ most of the time He is gentleman,
and he political methods of Kansas
havn't always been to his liking. Wire
pulling, personal solicitation and all
that are not to his taste, but he is max
ing an energetic canvass this time"
"He is nothing if not energetic" said
the first speaker. Judge Thacher
| didn't come to Kansas for his health"
The gentleman above referred to stood
a little distance away, conversing with
| District Attorney Hallowell, and it oc-
| CURED TO the reporter that the Kansas
readers of the Journal, especially that
/ great body of new comers who are not
yet thoroughly acquainted with men
and things, might like to know some
thing about Mr.. Thacher, and what his
position is on the questions involved
in the present canvass.
| JuuS0 udCucF Is ulbu dOOuI OU years
of age; little above the average in height;
| frame well knit and heavy; head large,
well poised and finely formed; face
kind, thoughtful and expressive of all
| the best qualities of character.
Being solicited for an interview, the
| Judge consented, with the remark that
he was very busy and must go west on
the next train. The questions, there
fore, began at once.
From what direction do you come
to-day, judge"
81 spent last week in the north and
northwest"
"What is the outlook there, in the CUB
| ernatorial canvass ?''
my friends there are quite confident.
Captain johnson is strong there, too
Taking the north and west, We have
Atchison already; Brown is certain;
Doniphan is certain; Dickinson, my
friends think, will be mine; Douglas and
Ellis we have already; Leavenworth is
partly ours; Jefferson is for johnson.
| Then let us see. Jackson county will not
| instruct, l am told; Pawnee and Pota-
watomie will, think, be ours. or at least
against the present governor; Russell
will be the same; Wabaunsee will be on
our side, and Washington, Ford and
Trego seem safe; Nemaha has instructed
| in my favor. These counties, most of
them, have visited. OF the rest can
| not speak"
"In Nemaha 1 see you made speech
or two, and somebody in the Topeka
| Capital criticiZes the temperance part
of it. Have you any objections to give
| the Journal the substance of what you
said? 90
Certainly not. l have made few
speeches during the canvass. It does
1 n mn m Unnd
rushing here and there, making speeches
to suit the circumstances, just before
meeting of conventions. 1t is easy to
say just what you think your audience
will like. 1t seems to me that a mans
record should be the criterion for choice.
l arrived in Seneca, not knowing when
| the convention was to be held, after the
| primaries had been chosen. After the
work of the convention had been done
l consented to speak, and indeed it was
no task to address such an audience. 1t
was made up of old men largely, the
most substantial farmers and business
men of the county.
| "On the temperance question l re-
affirmed what has always been my posi-
ton. Intemperance is the giant evll of
the age. The grog-shop is the worst
enemy of good government. Here in
Kansas we have stringent laws. |
helped to make them. They may not
be the best in the world, but We can
make them better as experience gives US
light.
THESE LAWS MUST BE ENDORSED.
1--WE must work with law in one hand
and education in the other. You can't
| do it ali at once. The people must be
brought to see the benefits of the law.
Education in the end always means tenn
| peTance. Our constitution, the work
of the Republican party, is a fixture.
Should / become the governor of this
state / pledge you my whole strength
for the enforcement of law: and in mat
| tiers of lazy and its working I may say
without Boosting l have had some ex-
| perience.
CORPORATIONS.
II touched upon the question of cor
porate power and its control by law.
Corporations are creatures of the state.
As such they have rights and they have
duties. II is natural for men to remem.
Der their rights and forget their duties.
The corporations of this county are do
ing just this. When three men can sit
| down in New York, and by raising rail
road rates tax the producer five cents a
bushel on every car load Of wheat that
comes out of the west-when three men
can do this, it is time for legislation. OF
COURSE the question Is COtnpIICdtcu
one. It effects interstate commerce.
and so congress has a right to legislate.
1t effects individual states and they have
a right to legislate. The matter must be
intrusted to wise and honest hands
and heads; and we must not forget that
up to certain point the interests of
railroads and people are one.
These matters believed it was for
the Republican party to deal with. We
don't want an anti-monoply party, nor
temperance party, nor a wOman's rights |
party, but We want the Republican par |
ty to repeat in these reforms, her actions |
in the slave reforms. The Republican par |
ty is grand enough and great enough to
do it. Cruel, it seems to me. is the idea |
of laying the Republican party, with all |
Its grand triVmphs, with all is glorious |
history, away forever in the grave. We
will not do it. We need not do it''
OTHER QUESTIONS
MIR. Thacher's face grew very earnest /
as he said these words and 1t was not /
hard TO see that they came from the /
heart. He touched further on questions
of state economy, education, etc. 'And
now" he said, you will kindly excuse
me, as l am pressed for time"
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