The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-17
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
The "GlIck's Bad Boy" vein has been
worked for about all that Is in il
Dayid Davis was "stuck" on Santa Fe
because nobody tried to interview him
there.
Senator Plumb is booked tor an ad-
dress on decoration day at Baxter
Springs.
Speculation Is rife as to how much
Martin Van Buren, Bennett pays Sam
Wood per week for abusing him.
A voice from the grave: 1.-The Demo.
Gratis have an even chance for electine
the next president Sidney Clarke.
Salmi Morse is loaded. The public
will find it dangerous to fool with a
man who has thirty eight original plays
and a mission. D..
John Coulter says thatihe Democracy
knows well enough that the Republican
majority in Kansas in 1884 will be 50.-
600 "aIl round"
Ben Butler seems TO be laboring IN
der the conviction that his route to the
white house leads through the Tcwks.
bury almshouse.
Joe Cook is 20 lecture shortly at Ateh-
ison. We have felt all along that some
awful calamity would eventually over
take that wicked town.
Mr.. Sergeant Ballantine, who visited
Utah, Is credited with the opinion that
polygamy is an institution eminently
suited 20 new country.
Congressman Page, Of California,
is in favor of harmony, protection and
General Logan. II seems that he and
Mrs. Logan are standing on the same
platform.
Mr.. Winters, the dramatic critic of
the New York Tribune, describes the
dramatic festival at Cincinnati AS ian
effort to apply the barbecue method to a
delicate art"
The Kentucky newspapers describe
Congressman Phi, Thompson of that
state, who killed Davis last week, as be.
ing "as mild hammered man as ever
cut n throat"
VIM. Howell5, American consul az
Toronto, Canada, has decided to resign
and retire to private lite at the risk of
being clsssed as u crank by Lis Kansas
and Ohio friends.
The public will not be surprised to
learn that Chief Justice Morey, who de-
clded the Scott liquor law of Ohio as
unconstitutional, is looming up as avery
popular Democratic candidate for gov.
ernnr OF that state.
While there ia much censorious criti
cism on the appointment of Keim to be
civil service examiner, there are no tang
ible specifications excepting that he is
a friend of the Camerons. This indict
ment Is scarcely sufficient to justify
hanging
The National Republican, which has
been reading the critical illusions Of
Mr.. Willie Winter about the Cincinnati
dramatic festival, reaches the conclu-
sion that "evidently Mr.. Winter did not
kn' W that the beer in Cincinnati was
loaded"
The fellow who can teach the Demo.
cratic party new dodge" that will
serve 1t through the campaigns of 1888.
81, may expect liberal reward and pos
siblY saintship in the political beyond
A Moses of some kind is imperatiVely
demanded.
The Saline County Journal has read
Congressman Anderson out of the Re
publican party. Fortunately for Mr.,
Anderson, the mercury is looking up
and heavy undertaking can now be
purchased upon very advantageous
terms to the consumer.
The enemies OF Hendricks have got
him sick and intend to keep him sick
Notwithstanding his violent protesta
lions that he Is sound. If any of them
should see him balance himself on hi:
alleged sore toe and then turn double
ilip-llops, they'd swear 1t was fraud
Hendricks must remain an invalid.
When we call to mind the dangerou!
charms and proverbial guile OF the
dark eyed senoritas of the
land of the Montczumas, it
Is intensely reassuring to reflect thai
the Kansas editorial excursion to Chi
huahua is chapeToacd by such thor
oughly conservative gentleman as
Father Baker, of the Topeka Common
wealth.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Kansas roliti
clans are very knowing fraction of thu
nationaliinteger, and are about as safe Il
consult as a sigu.board blown down at I
country cross-road. They have an
nounced that the Republicans will nom
mate James q. Blaine for president, ant
that the Democrats will put up Benja
min f. Butler, and that settles all ap
prehensions for other candidates.
A Georgia Democratic paper make
the frank statement that ait is wors
than useless to deny the charge tina
the PRINCIPLES of thousands of southern
men who claim to be Democrats ar
fully embraced In the phrase, the oil
flag and appropriations That is pro
grcssive Democracy IN the South
This, considering the source, is aston
lshing. As matter of fact the countr.
has been in possession of the informa
tion for long time.