The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-14
PLUMB'S RE.ELECTIOg.

PLUMB'S REELECTION.
Wilder's Hiawatha SWorld, Sept. 7th :
Each state has 1ne governor and two
SENATOR'S they fret their lives out TO Sc
cure these places and neither is remem-
bered long. Let US pity while We ele.
vate them. Ia fact the modern and very
iron shovel is making sad work with ali
kinds of the most immortal of mortal
immortals. POmpeii, Herculaneum, His
sarllk, Ninevah dug up, Agamemnon,
dnar GHdrOR, king of men, dug up by
Schiiemann, or said TO be, or his mask,
or his gold, or his wife-all The asser-
Mons OF the shovel are disputed-but he
ana they, In their ashes, might have
been dug up, and SO the fact in regard
10 The vanity OF earthly immortality re-
mains the same. An emptiness, a void
and chaos. Hence it becomes US all
70 go to meeting with great regularity
and 10 make sure thing of the next
world, since this is nothing; no more to
the Alexanders and Caesars than to You
and me, There's nothing so became
their life as the leaving of il.
Meanwhile Plumb is 10 be elected SEN
stor next HInter-a worthy and an able
man, tit for the place, in life, character,
and mental force
Plumb the printer came here early
and OF course FROM ObiD. There he had
been partner of our Hiawatha Rev. j.
ID. Liggeit, nOw of Detroit, in the news
paper business. Two bright and nervy
men were these. Both have sat at our
desk, on chance calls. and written arti-
Giles for us that brisiled with points and
were full OF sinewy strength. Once we
remember Plumb wrote at our request
on the loyal or Pin Indians. He had
been down into the nation had seen In.
dians joining union regiments, as hun
dIeas Of them did, and he was enthusi-
asIic over the fact that the rebels had
an ens my IN their flank and Kansas a
friend below our southern border. They
were called Pin from the simple badge
adopted hy he lnyulisis when they
banded thsmselVrs Together and vOlun-
tariiy sW"Te aiiegianee 10 the union.
In those days, when Plumb was ma
jor, he was tie very picture of mental
and physical health good height, with
no supcrhuOus flesh, straight, alert,
vigorous, u thousand miles of march in
him without thought of tent, sleep or
food, Not The beety prize fighter pic
tured in the Autographs, but the Wiry
Greek athlete, the marching American |
Indian. When the American sculptor
first saw the Apollo, that type of all
grace that Gomeg TO US from Greece, |
and in which AthenIan art still |
lives, he exclaimed: "He is Mo, |
hawk" Plumb was never a beauty, |
but the swinging at hand print ]
ing press had given strength to the |
arm and leg, and when the war came |
this was the Kind OF volunteers IL found in |
the shops and on the farms all over the |
north. The verdict of the European
commanders who saw our armies was
that the race WAS not deterlorating.
These raw leVies," with their swing
ing gait, their alert eyes, warm hearts
and thrilling nerves were such soldiers
as the world had never seen before.
And II was right there that the repub-
lie had proved itself the bcst govern.
ment, ii had made the best men.
Aansas sent ont many Thousand of
them, each republican government in
tie constitution, the union, and
the enforcement of the laws; tOtus, torres,
GtQue TOt4Rdus. Plumb was only one |
Of many who did his whole duty in a
quiet and modest way, who did not
seek notoriety and who arrogated TO
himself no hOpors that did not belong
10 hle mes,
AS a civilian, his career has been
marked, unique; probably ii has no par
lllel in Kansas. And il Is as a Civilian
hat we need him AS Il servant
IL can be so briefly stated that il will
De read. Plumb came here poor twenty
Xix years ago; worked as a printer in
Lawrence: was foreman of the Herald
If FreedOm otIicei went 70 Emporia,
started the News, and with q few others
tarted the town ON raw quarter. EN-
Deria now has six thousand people and
Is Plumb's monument in every brick
md EN- quad. Ii is three years ahead of
I1au h q
Town there, and there don't mo river'
-un up here. EmpOria, like HiaYttha,
lGs always been an anti saloon town,
Emporia wRS the frat of Kansas towns
20 make Hour an Industry, to export it in
wagons TO Colorado; more than twenty
years ago, when every pound of -four
used In LeavenwOrth came from Min5ou-
i, the igea still prevailed that corn was
our only crop. Emporia' has also been
II the head in schools and churches.
old papar, the News, now SLOT,
sr's, leading in every gAad WORK.
Our Major found time-the busiest
man is the man who finds the most time;
tho loafhr is the Only man who says, II
laint no time" to study the law, to study
The supreme court, 10 edit book, to 20
The legislature and to be speaker. TIME
also to tiud that Kansas could not only
raise wheat but cattle; in fact that cattle
would be the main reliance of the Kan
sas farmer for ready money and for hand
some returns. Plumb went into" cattle
and made money, as he deserved 10 do,
reaping the fruit Of his brains, economy
and Industry He was also the means
or cause OF many uther men 'g0ing into
cattle" and making snug fortunes Just |
row Major Plumb, as it seems the most
natural for US to call him, is developing !
an Industry IN the Arkansas valley. Irrf /
Cation. that will do Kansas ihors good /
than any other G,oEarnetfi that has ever
been stfrled within nuP limits. Plumb /
has put tn6rc money into the enterprise /
than any other man, and his example, IN h
an industry that Is hOoted at and sreer /
ed at, is more valuable than mis- dollars, |
Every gardener in Kansas, must, Of ne |
ceSSiiy, he au irrigator, ana every farmer |
who liyes by the Side of IA STREAM will be |
an irriEatnr. Thousands of farmers who |
live ON hills will compel tho wind 10 |
waller their fields.
II is said that RlUmb has become rich !
it was Inevitable. His silent motto is;
Through economy, industry ana good |
habits through thc stars- Those are |
really the words OF our state seal. From |
Ben Franklin's day To- ours they have
meant nothing hut supeess 20 the p1oi
American COY.
Politically We frst heard of Plumb
when he made vigorous and courage
GUS speech against Lane In tA---:;,
conyen!ion-beardi::g the lion in his
uen, and Plumb has continued Ia he
heard of Now IN the senate, he IL now
one OF the mOsl able men in that body,
handling the deepest subjects with etfec.
tive skill, and speaking, as ever. with
the rapidity of lightning Plumb is not
an orator; not a magnetic speaker; but
he can think on his legs and carry his
points, and that is what we want in Il
senator. He has power without pretti-
ness. grace, rhetoric or very mgoh hu.
NOR, rhey listen to him and hard sense
controls.
But enough to-day. We hear of no
candidate for the legislature in northern
Kansas who Is not in favor of the re.
election of Preston B. Plumb.
The New York Times follows up its
series of articles on church life in NeU