The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-01
PERSONAL AND Political

Frank James Is now being held Tor
acquittal at BoonYilie, Cooper county.
Missouri.
The PaoIa Republican thinks the
nominee will be Edmunds, General
Sherman or Robert T. Lincoln.
II will be observed that it is the very
raw converts prohibition who are
opposing Col Martin for governor.
Perry has organized society of the
VIC. T. U. But the reader is not to
understand that this is lies" Perry, of
the Miami Republican.
Ex-CongressnHn- ai-large Wood is ex-
pected at Topeka within the next week
or two, barring the possible contingency
of corns on the bottoms Of his feet.
1t seems fitting that Ohio should, So
far as the situation admitted, do for
Keifer what New jersey did for Robe
son. namely, ssnt 8 colered delegate in
his place.
Senator Ingalls, Is expected in Alchi-
son this week. We presume his err4nd
home at this time is to superIutend the
planting of the truck patch in the rear
of his residence.
A mind reader of phenomenal attTib-
utes has landed in this country from En-
gland. 1t is understood that he has de-
clined the test OF defining the POSITION
of Mr.. Tilden in relation to his own can
didacy.
The delegation from New York TO
the Chicago convention is divided, as to
presidential preferences, as follows:
Blaine, %; Arthur, 25; Edmunds, IA;
without avowed preferences, but against
Arthur, IA
Two Reading. Pa, women arc en-
ployed on the streets doing tine ordinary
work of men, but they enjoy the proud
satisfaction of knowing that their hus-
bands can beat anything on wheels at
the roller-skatlDg rink in that city.
Coles circus opened the season at To.
peka 10 day. 1t must have been highly
picturesque to see the web-footed nymphs
OF the Kaw bottoms surgIng through
Kansas avenue In white dresses and with
strips of red flannel around their throat.
Mr.. Louis Cooke, general manager oil
the Cole show, contributes a very inter
esting article on Running 3 Circus" tC
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. The
politicians who expect to manipulate
the Democratic convention IT Chicago
should read it for pointers.
The Kansas City Evening Star thinks
that if Mr.. Carlisle didn't live on The
wrong side of the Ohio river he would
make an admirable Presidential candi
Gate for the Bourbons. We don't SCI
why this should make SO much differ
euce as long as he is on the right side o
the whisky question.
The Commonwealth, in speaking G
the state convention which assembled q
Topeka to day, notes the presence o
nearly all the faces which have bCcom,
familiar in connection with such gather
ings during the past twenty five years
II there is u class of men in the worl,
toward whom death seems to cxercis
peculiar clemency it is the politicians e
Kansas.
We have bad some differences q
opinion In the past with Major JOSEPH
K. Hudson Of the Topeka Capital, bu
we slwsys thought well OF him and O
his paper until the appearance of tina
atrocious paragraph in his issue Of las
| Saturday. We desire to serve notice o.
Mr.. Hudson that we draw the line d
puns, and want 70 truck" with an
man who uses them.
A timely suggestion by Sol. Miller
"Mr. Martin Is being generally endor'
ed for governor by the county conVen
tions now being held throughout ID
State. We would suggest, howeYe
; that these cow, ntions have no conneC
ton with the state ticket; and that whit
3 he wants to keep an eye peeled for
| the endorsement OF conventions thl
select delegates to the cony ention TO non
mate a governor. What profiteih ma
! If he is endorsed by eli the PRESIDENT
t primaries, aud allows his opponents
f g0bble up the governor delegates ="
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