The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-30
PERsonAL ANp PoLIT1cAL.

Ii is said Thuriow Weed left over
81 100000.
Twelve dollars per head is the south
ern Texas contract prie. of delivery
on yearliDg steers
1t is said Robson spent a fortune in
his attempt to get back TO congress.
Money seems TO be losing its place in
politics.
Votes must be pretty eheapin Phiia-
delphia- Il is stated that $1,000 voters
in Philadelphia, IA order 10 escape a
poll tax of fifty cents apiece. neglected
TO vote
An Ohio man has written letter TO
the treasury department offering 10 pay
off the national debt if the government
viii ia return give him 100000 acres
of land.
Governor Cleveland is 46 years old
and bachelor. He is said 10 be reg
ular woman hater. That fixes him as
a presidential candidate. The Demo
Gratis may as well irot cut somebody
else.
at noon Thursday large number of
citizens gathered at the corner OF Third
and Walnut street in Harrisburg. Pa,
TO witness the venerable Simon Came
ron plant poplar-tree al the new post
office building.
The Indianapolis Journal says that
81 religious paper, the Gospel Banner,
gives the Rev. Joseph Cook the hardest
rap in referring to him as the Boston
gentleman who gave the plan upon
which the universe was created his un-
qualified personal Endorsement
Russia has concluded new loan for
e2s, O0O,O 900, which brings up the total of
her outstanding debt to $500, 100000,
taking her internal Obligations at the
reduced rate of twenty-four pence per
rouble. What is most noteworthy is
the fact that her debt has almost doub-
led since 1872 Poor old Russia.
When Hester Clymer was defeated
for governor of Pennsylvania in 1866,
d. T. II. Scheeiz, OF Pottsiown, regis
tered vow to use no more tobacco I'M
til a Democrat was elected for governor
ofihat state For sixteen years he and the
weed were strangers, hut last Wednes-
day morning he resumed using it, and
made large presents of it to his friends.
Gath" in discussing General Sher-
mans eligibility as Republican candi-
date for the presidency, has this to
say of his religion: THE loss of his son,
who went into the Catholic church
through the excessive devotion of his
mother to that faith, was one of those
hard, inexpressible blows at Sherman's
worldly hopes that has always seemed
touching. Mrs. Sherman, the daughter
of Thomas Ewing, is one of the most
thorough going Catholics in the coun-
try; while General Sherman, coming
out of the Puritan mould, has kept the
faith of his ancestors -
A little analysis of the recent vote in
Indiana may be encouraging To Repub-
licans The vote of the stateof Indiana
cast for secretary of state was as fol-
lows: Total vote cast for Hawn, Repub-
liean. 210, 100; for Myers, Democrat, $780,
97S; Democratic plurality, 1O,S00- The
vote cast for Leonard, National candi-
date, was 13. 100. The total vote of the
state was AZ, e76; total vote in 1880 was
470.672, falling-ofF of 26,396, The Re-
publican vote has decreased 81 ,995 and
the Democratic 4,544, while the Nation
al vote isincreased 143. This shows the
Democracy to be in minority in the state
Of 1920.
Globe Democrat: Thurlow Weed wrote
a letter the other day in which he said:
MANY governors and several presidents
have voluntarily assigned 20 me the Sc
lection of large mum bers of public Off
GERS of every degree. have chosen men
always for their fitness for the place"
For any other man 20 speak thus of
himself would DC disgusting egotism.
For!Thurlow Weed, it is literal truth.
No other man in our history has been
so thoroughly the power behind the
throne as he. Through period of TWEEN
ty or thirty years he was the great po-
litical bosssof America. But the second
sentence quoted from him suggests the
difference between him and modern
bosses, and shows how he retained his
power.