The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-03
PERscNAI AnD POLIrICAL.
The Troy chief Is out Tor Col. John
A. Martin for governor.

PERSONAL AND POLITIcAL.
The Troy Chief Is out Cor Col. John
A. Martin for governor.
Mr.. TIlden weighs ls5 pounds-that
is, with bis wlnter underclothes.
The Empress OF Austria Is a typo.
She Is probably the wealthIest female
compositor in the world.
1t Is stated that Carl Schurz Is about
to enter upon the work OF writing po-
litical history of this country.
Mrs. Langtry is said to be a great
walker. While at Dayton this week
she is said to have walked thirty-six
miles one day about the city and into the
country.
Col. John A. Martin declared to Chi
csgo interviewer on Monday last that
'all the opposition 70 the reelection of
Senator Ingalls, would be of a personal
and factional character"
Hon. Amos Perkins, who was "a
years of age last January, was reelected
town treasurer Of Unity. N. Y, last
week. He read his report at the recent
annual meeting without glasses.
Both Morrison, Carlisle s. Co. and
Randall, claim victory from the tariff
caucus. If both sides of the Democrat
ic party are satisfied with the result the
Republicans certainly ought to be.
Carl Schrz has refused to accept &
testimonial of $1OO, 600 from his friends.
The moral heroism Of this act cannot
be appreciated until we pause to reflect
that Carl is at present in the newspaper
business.
MI Murdoch, of the Wichita Eagle,
nomInates II. G. Sluss as the successor
OF Judge Brewer on the supreme bench
of Kansas. The firm of me and Henry
still seems to be doing business at the
old stand.
1t may be that Blame and CoukliHg
have buried the hGtchei, as has been re-
ported by some of the papers, but it is
moderately safe to assume that the place
of interment has been very carefully
marked by both of the grave-diggers.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Tits
tolerably apparent that there is no occa.
sion for any of Blsine's book age nts &c
canvass the Western Reserve for him.
It is nearly as unanimous for the
"plumed knight" as Pennsylvania itself
A. ]. Utley, chairman OF the Gle n.
back party of Kansas, hes issued CT u
lar, as follows:
The State Central Committee of the
National Observation-Disclosures party, of tas
stste of Kansas, will meet at the Cope
land House, Topeka, Kansas, on Wednes
day, April 10, 1884, at 3 o clock D. m
for the purpose of making the necessar,
arrangements for the election of dele
gates to the national convention, to b
held at indianapolis, May %, 1894, ant
also for the purpose of calling a state
| convention to place in nomination q
state ticket for the ensuing campaign
and to attend to such other business a
may come before the committee.
ST. Louis Post Dispatch (Dem): Tn
Democratic party has followed the Re
publican party to Chicago It has ut
terlY failed to agree upon any schem
of tax reduction. If it cannot agre
upon any legislative reform in congres
it cannot in convention. 1t has fun
aside one Ohio senator who made an eff
fort to collect the millions which tn
Pacific railroads owe. It has crushe
another Ohio senator who dared to az
vocate civil service reform. Now il !
proposed that its nominations shall b
tossed about from one millionaire to al
other till Une is found willing to lead
in a mere Office seeking raid, with notI
ing inscribed on It's banner except "Tur
the rascals out" AS party it has su
vived some terrible tests OF its vitalit,
and it may not die of the doses wit
which its nurses are now examining il
nauseated stomach.
The Boston Post on the 25th prInte
several columns of letters from Dem
cratic members of the legislatures
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachuset
, and Connecticut, in which the write
give their preferences for presidents
candidates. TIlden leads in each stat
save Massachusetts, where he and Butl'
are about even. The Greenback men
bers of the Maine legislature fave
: Tilden as first choice. On the tart
question majority are for tariff f,
revenue only and an overwhelming m
jority in favor of the Morrison bill an
) q gradual reduction of the tariff taxatio
: OF the members who declare unequiv'
cally for the continuance OF the presel
, tariff two are New Hampshire me
, three Connecticut and one Massachuset
man. Two New Hampshire manufa
turers favor immediate reduction an
one fayors the tariff as at present.