The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19
The KfCkEks.
The 'sPhrIficatibnIsts'' as viewed by 4
Kansas Editor.

The ''PhrIficatibnIsts'' as Viewed by 4
Kansas Editor.
Atchison Champion: Mr.. Carl SchuIS.
since the day he first arrived in this
country, and four-ffths of the time an
office-holder. says Blaine is the "Office-
holders candidate"
Mr.. George William Curtis has been
railing against the machine" for years
the "machine'' being a small body of
politicians who thwaIted tue will and
preference of the masses of the party.
He is now growing and kicking because
a man who has been, for nine years past,
the undoubted choice OF large major
ity of Republican voters, and who was
twice cheated out of the domination by
the machine" was selected at Chicago
as the party's candidate.
The New York Times and the Spring
field Republican acknowledge that
Blaine was the choice of large major
itY of the Republican party, but oppose
his election. These papers assume that
AAO AON bAO ShOuAN
be permitted to make nominations.
They assume that they are wiser, purer,
better than the great majority Of the Re.
publican voters of the county.
The. Republican voters have defeated
the machine" and the loudest hoWlsrs
against the machine" now denounce
the people. The masses of the people
have secured the choice, and the loudest
howlers against the machine" are now
denOuncing the people.
There has been no event in politics for
the past fifty years, SO dishonorably, SO
unspeakably infamous, as the conduct
of Curtis, Schurz, Higginson, and that
gang OF dyspeptic GROWERS. For shame
less Inconsistency, for an abandoned dis
regard OF the ideas that they have previ
OuslY maintained, their course has no
parallel IN the previous history Of the
country. Their conduct can neither be
excused or palliated It justIfes
the assertion that when they pre-
tended to be opposed to the ma
chine" they lied; that when
they maintained that the majority of the
party should rule, they lied; that when
they asserted that they favored
reform in the civil service they lied;
and that in all they have said or done,
during the past dozen years, they we're
lot of hypOcrites and liars.
This may be strong language. but 1t
i Oh n fxyf he
full, dishonorable, hYpocrisical action OF
these selEstyled "refOrmers,t whose
ideas of reform, it Is now plainly sppar-
ent, might be summed up in the famous
old resolutions:
RESOLVED, That the earth belongs to
the Saints. rs
Resolved, That We are the Saints.
When two or three hundred men de-
lude themselves with the offensive be-
lief that all the virtue, Intelligence and
integrity of the country is embodied in
their persons, and that the great mass
of the American people are corrupt ig-
nOrant and depraved, 1t is about time
that the people give them lesson they
will not forget. That the people OF the
United States viii attend to This neces-
sary work, in due time, is beginning to
be plainly evident. Boss rule Is bad,
the rule of the machine Is 10 be de-
plored. and there are many other abuses
in our political system; but nothing that
ever has been or can be said of it is quite
so bad, or se obnoxious, IS the spectacle
Of few hundred political Pecksniffs as
suming that they embody all the decency
and intelligence of the country, and
threatening that If they are not permit
ted to rule. they will ruin.