The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-08
POLITICAL GRIEVANCES.


On Saturday, at the hours named by
be central committee, the Republicans
{ the various voting precincts OF Lyon
ounty will be called apoa 10 elect dele
,atGs 10 q county convention, which is
o meet on the 18th for the purpose Of
.lecting seven delegates TO the state con
iention on the 2sth, to nominate four
,ongressinen-atiarge.
These primary meetings and the coun-
~ convention 10 follow are Important
and good. fair-niinded men ought to be
selected 10 attend the latter
There is likely TO be brought into this
fight the usual batch Of personal politi-
cal grievances. a good deal Of patriotic
shoe leather is now being used up 20 get
things "azed"-in other words. 70 make
the people understand what they want"
Every Republican must by this time be
heartily tired of these personal fights
and their disorsanizing effect. We have
had them for years now as steady
diet. They have been thrust into almost
every convention, and have disturbed
every campaign. II is time they were
kicked out of the Republican party OF
the county, unceremoniously, and we
hope TO see set of men elected as dele
gates TO the county convention next Sat
urday who will take the matter in hand
and give them just that sort of recep-
ton. The convention will be held 10
act for the party, not TO settle the imag-
mary grievances oil any of its members.
There are gentlemen who get little ideas
in their heads who make up their
minds that if those little ideas are not
endorsed, and they are not allowed 20
dictate TO aud run the party, they
will make trouble. Such men con.
clude, when they cannot carry
their personal points, that they will then
split the party. We have been told thai
some of these gentlemen have already
made threats rs 10 their intentions n
the convention of the nth does not dc
their bidding. Two years ago the party
was disturbed by personal contest
among politicians of which everybody got
sick and tired This ought not TO be re
peated, and will not be If the eigbty-fivC
delegates which will compose the con
veution shall decide that il shall not be
These personal. difficulties are every
where creeping into the party, and rend
ing il with their violence. OF course
differences of opinion az 10 men and
measures will exist. That is all right
but when the party has once taken au
thoritatiye action, and taken it properly
then these differences ought to be sunk
10 the will Of the majority. Inn Other
way can we have party. When the
party gets to the condition that it is q
mere personal struggle for control
when il degenerates to the basis Of
"rule or ruin" among ITS members
then its usefulness is gone. The point
we make is that the personal differences
and difficulties ought not TO be brought
into the primaries and delegate conven-
tons. There is place for them TO stop
and If they do not stop, the Republicans
ought TO stop them. 1t is simply dis.
gushing and dIscouraging to see the
whole party aIrayed rs Tor somebody OF
against somebody,in place of all beng
united for the good and harmony of the
party. Kick out the disorganizcrs n flew
times uncerenOniously, and this sort OF
thing viii stop. No one man or clique
of men are superior to the people.
Now, in saying all this it must not be
understood we are in favor of endorsing
party action, right or wrong. Parties
sometimes err, aud the right to bolt
party action for good and sufficient
reasons is one we have always maintain
ed. For instance, the action of the Re
publican central committee of this
county in appointing delegates to the
state convention at Topeka on the 2sth,
was usurpation which no party ought
to stand for a moment. They performed
a duty which was not delegated to them,
and had they not recalled their action
and issued call for the election of the
delegates by the people than we should
have been in favor Of any reason
able course 20 the fullest eX-
tent which would have undone
the wrong they did. An example ought
to be made in this case, at the proper
time and in the proper way, by the con-
vention which shall be called to nom-
mate county ticket and to transact the
political business of the county in be-
half of the Republican party, which
will IN unmistakable terms teach future
committees that they must not usurp the
duties of the voters-that they are mere
" the agents and not the masters of the
people. There is q proper way and a
proper time TO do this, and we are in
favor Of that way Of settling this case
by the whole party. We are not in
favor of making political buncombe out
of the trouble. We may be charged
by interested parties with an at
tempt to apologize for the committee,
but such charge will amount to nothing
with fair minded men. The committee
did what the people wanted them TO,
called county convention, and this was
better than an attempt TO get the whole
county into broil, out of which little
political capital might have been manu-.
featured As we are asking no favors
Of the party, further than
those due from one man 10
another, and as our Republicanism is
probably undoubted, we can afford to
take the course we deem wisest and
best for all concerned, in the end. We
have no personal grievances to take be
fore the party for settlement and shall
always be satisfied, when the right pre-
wallis, 10 march under the old Rcpubli,
can iiag,whelher we.are.personaily suited
with its action or not