The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-12
LOCAL pOLTTTNS

There has been some discussion among
Republicans as to whether il is advisa
BILE to hold Republican convention for
the nomination of county officers. The
majority seem TO be in favor of con-
vention. This is undoubtedly the wisest
course if the Republicans in each town.
ship will enter into the work and see
that the best interests of the party are
subserved. There is to elect treasur-
er, for short and regular terms, county
clerk, sheriff, register of deeds, commits
sioner for the east district, surveyor and
coroner. These are important offices,
and the contest as to who shall fill
them tor the next two years will be one
which will excite good deal of inter-
est. 1t will be easy enough for the Re-
publicans of the county TO fill all these
offices if wise course IS pursued. The
mistakes of the past ought to be remem-
bered and not repeated. We believe
the party in this county is now in good
shape. Let it be kept so.
The party in this county has been run
too much to subserve individual inter-
ests. The elections have been a person
al scrabble for the benefit of factions.
In the primary elections tickets for del
egates haYe been selected with a view of
subscribing the interests of some
candidate while the good OF
the party was entirely lost sight OF.
Our best Republicans have permitted
themselves to be used by candidates
who cared little what became of the
ticket provided their names were put
upon 1t. This course has brought dis
satisfaction, dIssensiOn and attempts TO
defeat the Republican nominees by the
Republican voters, while it has dis
guested hundreds of others who refused
To vote on this account. The tickets for
delegates to the county convention have
too often ben selected in Emporia by
those who have had ''axes to grind"
The Republicans of the townships ought
tn select their own delegates without in
reference, These delegates ought TO
be sent to the convention not because
they were for this or that candidate,
but because they were Republicans de-
termined To do the best thing for
the party. They ought to be men of.in-
teligence who could not be wheedled
into the support OF schemes for personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, The delegates ought
to be Republicans-nct like the ami
NAL which hesitatsd as to which stack
he should go, but gentlemen that know
which party they belong to, and why
they belong to It. Too often heretofore
candidates who selected the delegates
from the townships have picked up any.
body that was for them first, last
and all the time. That's
all they cared for, and the result
has been that We haye had men acting
- delegates who we're secretly aiming to
make the work OF the convention rs OBJ
noxious as possible in order 70 deieal
the ticket. This will be good year "a
put q quietus on such gentlemen a,
these and select men who are in full
sympathy with the party. The time and
place To do this is at the primary cleo
tions. In the last Republican cennty
convention there were, we think, twenty
delegates who at once repudIated the &C
ton OF the convention anG
went u work to defeat the
ticket part of them because they
were not Republicans. and part because
they had not succeeded in getting then
man through"
In the first place the convention
ought "a be composed of good Republic
cans. They ought to sec tina; everything
is honestly and fairly done. and that nc
charges of corruption or unfairness shall
attach to tire work Of the convention af
ter 1t is over. In the second place, ne
candidate ought e. receive single vote
in the convention who will not first
pledge himself To vote and work for the
success of the ticket, provided lis nom.
nations are made fairly. II We intend
TO have a convention let US ;haYe
one. and not a farce. Let there be no
sore heads. no skulking, no favoriteism,
no ring influences. but u squSfe, stand up
and knock down old fashioned Repuhli'
can Eight. Let Us put the party in first
class shape for next years struggle. To
do this We don't want Rny d. mocra's.
no matter how good they arg rs men,
holding important Office in Lyon corr
". Democrats are oflen good men, but
Republicans are Just as good.