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

l EkASohAI AID fuLL11CAL.
Sol Miller GeAEs that FiiE John Porter
win bolt the nomination Of General Lo-
gsa.
The ciamcr fog HoadIeY for president
seems 10 be mainly conHned to the gov
ernOE Of Ohio.
A good deal Of fear iE'SIIll felt that
Chas. A. Dana may break into the Re
publican party.
A = presidenti1 possibility Bs.
Payne. Of Ohio, has gone TO meet Mr.
Flower, Of New York.
Putting up Cleveland sgainst Blaine
would be like holding. up acandie BY
the side Of an electric light.
Shake an "Tndependent Republics"
tree, and . lot Of soured, wormy, free
trade apples viii fall TO the ground.
George William Curtis lubEicates his
hands at night with gIycerine and
SLEEPS in kid gloves. No wonder he
can't support Blaine.
The Democracy is again falling back
on TIlden. What q mockery is life
when men turn from its activities toseek
hope in the grave!
The DemOcTstic perplexity about .
presidential candidate is on the Increase.
Just now the tendency IL toyeI fer
TildeA. which is one wsy OF evading the
whole question.
A dry cyclone visited Atchison on
Monday night. The elements ale ap-
parently quite familiar with the re-
sources Of that town.
1.-THE old ticket should be nominated
at Chicago, there will be nothing left
for Geo. William Curtis TO do but to be-
come a candidate fer president on the
mugwump ticket.
Topeka Capital: ProhIbitionIsts that
abandon the Republican party in Kan
sas now are foolish beyond their knowl
edge. Happily there are very few set
that way.
The Topeka Critic is to be revived as
soon as It can catch its second wind /.
This would indicate that A. JetmOre
still cherishes the harmless halluclna
ton that he is political possibility.
There have been Of late many natural
gas wells discovered IN this country
The one in the Eagle office at Wichits
'slops oyer" occasionally but btdy
has been reported killed IS yet.
Topeka has developed delicious
humorist IN the person of D. T. Haines
who, IN . communication to the Com
mORwealth, sets forth the claimts of big
A, little IRON" Jetmore as candidate
for associate justice.
MIR. Emory StOTrs, OF Chicago, says Il
young men that they will find nothing
in the Democratic party Of which TO b.
proud" Neither do old men find much
to admire, except q decayed tombstone
here and there over buried issue.
The desire of the Democratic party to
nominate Tilden after his positive letteI
declining, Is an acknowledgment Of theil
weakness, which II must be very huDIil
iating for them TO make. Even Sammy
cannot come near saying them now.
1t CliRton B. Fiske, of New Jersey
gets the nomination for president al
Pittsburg. on the prohibition ticket, n
] now seems probable, John Peter st
John will go around imploring people
to kick him for saving off that limb.
The Irish-WOrId says the next presl
dent will be either Blaine or Butler
The World is right, though ButleI
stands no more show of being president
than Dennis Kearny docs Of becoming
state superintendent OF public Instruc'
tion In Kansas.
There is one foreign country where
the nomination of Blaine aud Logan is
not received with alarm. 1t is Hawaii
The Saturday Press, of Honolulu, upon
receipt of the news, "hGstens to send con
CALCULATIONS to Its contemporaries across
the water, and unItes with them IN the
hope of victory at the coming election"
Galveston News: Ingalls, seems to be
enjoying . boom in Georgia since he sal
down on old Joe Brown. Somehow OF
other the Georgians cannot see the bean.
ty, ability and sterling characteristics Of
Brown with the same breadth Of vision
that he does himself.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher wrote to
the meeting of New York Independents
"Put me down one hundred times
against Blaine In letters two feet long
every time" IL Is quite unnecessary fol
Mr.. Beecher TO reiterate his we'll known
free trade principles in such emphatic
terms.
Ex-Governor Harvey has purchased q
400 acre farm near Norfolk, Virginia
and will move there. The object is to
obtain better health, the Governor hay.
ing been long severely afflicted with
rheumatism. We are sure the Govern,
or's thousands Of Kansas friends will
wish him well.
/ Troy Chief: Henry Ward Beechel
rolls up his eyes a5d refuses 70 support
Blaine because he Is corrupt. Perhaps
BlaIne's private life does not suit Beech
er. Blaine has never been accused Of
llcentiousness or fOrnicaslon, and hal
never had to stand = public trial for &c
duction. -ar.f D.. -r
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A Mis-
souri, Democratic Congressman declares
in Washington interview, that If th,
Democrats want to give entire satisfac
ton on the tariff question they shoulC
nominate Randall and Morrison. And
We suppose. il the Democrats want 4
give entire satisfaction on the religious
question they should nomiaaas La
LXlII. and Bob IngersOiI.