The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GaTfeld's majority in Massachusetts
was 1880, 30 that few dudes can be !
spared as well rs not.
The Cleveland boom wears q large
green patch over It's eye. Kelley and
Dana did it with their little newspapers.
Whoever may be nominated at Chi.
cago, the Democrats expect to secure the
electoral votes OF Texas and Kentucky.
Commercial Gazette: Ohio will send
full blown Reform delegation to Chi
cago, with an odor Of coal oil that will
not be mistaken.
The New York Sun isn't much Of q
newspaper after all, according to Demo
cratic testimony. It is making Mr..
Cleveland sick, though
Detroit Journal: "An is harmony"
telegraphs John Kelly to Sunset Cox,
and then he goes out behind the barn
and sharpens his tOmahAwk.
It is thought that "John Kelley and
reform" will be too much for the pencil
of Mast. and that he viii probably
take it easy during the campaign.
The Buffalo Express and New York
Commercial Advertiser that kicked
against the nomination of Blame, have
changed front and are now marching
with the boys. Next!
Prof. Silliman, of Yale. says he would
rather have James G.. Blaine for pres
ident with the Republican party behind
him, than George Washington with the
Democratic patty behind him.
Col. John A! Martin says he doesn't
want the Leavenworth county dele
gates if they stand on a re-submission
platform. That's the kind of man THE
NEWS is supporting for governor.
Col. John A. Martin has gone on q
visit with his family to Boston. He
feels no concern for the condition of his
fences as long az the EmpOrIa Repub-
lican continues to boom Scion D.
Thacher.
Indiana is waking up IN good style for
Blaine and Logan and the Republican
state ticket. Old campaigners say the
Republican party was never so well Or
gained in all the counties IS now, and
the enthusiasm is unbOunded.
An Emporia man named II. Z. Nor
ton advertises lot of property for sale,
"to raise money TO pay his expenses at
the Chicago convention" -AtchisOn
Globe.
Red paint comes high, but Harry says
they must have it at Chicago.
Hon. G. K. Holiday. or Col. Geo. w.
Veale, can beat sleepy Congressman
Ryan by one thousand majority this
fall IN Shawnee county.-TOpcka Jour
nal.
We will wager you a new plug ha;
that neither of them care to try It.
Major Mckinley, whom the Demo
Gratis recently voted out of the house OF
representatives, simply because he was
Republican. has been re-nomInated by
his old constituents of the Canton dis
trict and will be sent back to congress
by large majority.
The New York Sun threatens to sup
port Blame if Cleveland is nominated
This paper now is for BaYard, HOadleY
TIlden, Thurman. Randall, Mcdonald
Flower, or any one but the governor Of
New York. Blaine and Logan can car.
~ the country, but they draw the line at
Dana.
Through all the utterances of the In
dependents there runs vein of melan-
cholY. They despair of the Republi
cans, and are not hopeful of the Demo
Gratis. But they take pious consolation
that they are not as other men are. The
ought to be able to pitch their tunes Il
some other than the minor key.
Elk Governor Bullock, of Georgia
says: There is more than a fighting
chance for the Republicans in NortI
Carolina. At the last election the Dem
ocTatic candidate was elected by only
500 majority. The head Of their stat
ticket this year, the candidate for gov
ernOr, is an able, strong, Independen
man. Blaine's nomination is strong
one all through the SOUTH"
Commercial Gazette: II the Demo
cracy had been as true friends of thu
soldiers who fought the battles of th
Union in 1864 as they are, or profess T.
be, In 1884, the war would have been al
breviated full year. 1t was their re
solutions adopted by the national conven
ton in Chicago twenty years ago, declar
ing the war q failure and demandin
peace at any price, that encouraged tn
rebels to continue resistance long ate
the prospect OF success for their caus
had passed away.
Ex-Governor Van Zandt, who, as chair
man OF the Rhode Island delegation il
1876, opposed Mr.. Blaine's nomination
says that he would have voted tor Nj
Arthur had he been a delegate to th
convention of this year. But as tn
choice of the convention and the people
Mr.. Blaine will now receive his cordia
support, and will, in his opinion, b
elected. ~ think" says the govern
or, "that most of those VIII
| "CLC uISShllSueG WIN Nj
Blaine's nomination will come to hi
support before the election. l do nc
believe that q dissatisfied minorit
ought to or can control a satisfied mi
GRITTY"
The Wilmington News remarks thG
while Senator Bayard is running lik
wild-fire for president in distant par
of the country on the ground that he
an original, fixed and immovable SUI
porter of civil service reform, the gent
inc, old-fashioned, Jacksonian Dem,
cratic brand Of civil service reform
raging in the municipal service of Wi
mington concurrently with the h
weather. "Our Delaware Democrats
says the News, "wink very hard whe
they hear that Mr.. Bsyard is running
: a civil service reformer, but the re
3 civil service reformcrs will have to 4
the winking if Mr.. Bayard should
= nominated on this ground"
a
g Major Yost, the editor of the StautC
= (Va.) Valley Virginian and q memb
i of the national Republican commit
a from Virginia, believes that with prop
v effort the twelve electoral votes of VI