The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-10
4 sENsELEss FIGHT.

A SENSELESS FTGHT.
There seems to be something wrong
with the editor Of the EldOrado Repub-
licau, and what It - We are unable 70
judge. The editor has always been q
Republican. but from reading his last
issue one would judge he bad suddenly
been seized with ft OF virtue, and had
turned Democrat, or what IL worse, sore
head. His maIady has lately taken the
shape Of . dislike TO Senator Plumb.
The Immediate cause Of this sudden
Aversion Is the fact that Senator
Plumb voted against Blaine 10 the Chi
cago convention. Now. many Republi-
cans did not endorse the Senator's action
in this respect, and have plainly said 80,
and among the rest was The NEWS. We
think, however, the Republican is
going entirely too far 10
It's denuDciation OF the
aenstOE. We said, and maintained, that
II any OF the delegation had good ex-
cuse for voting for Arthur. it was the
senator. He was surrounded by pOliti-
cal atmosphere altogether different from
thatof the other delegates fresh from
+ Kansas, and looked as the MISTER from
= condition Of circumstances entirely
dInerent from those Of Us who were in
the midst OF an almost universal Blaine
sentiment Arthur had done much for
KAnsIs. For insisnce. In . heated con.
test with several other states, he had
Eivln Us United States circuit Judge.
There was, TO say the least, an obliga-
ton on the part Of one occupying the
position in the delegation which
senator Plumb occupied. The
obligation was not Of al
personal nature, but he was the repre-
sentative of The whole state. After the
statement of the condition of things at
Chicago. by the Hon. Sol. Miller. who
was there, and the Hon. F. p. Ba-
ker, that the vote Of the Kansas men
who supported Arthur was according to
an understanding with the Blaine man
ayers, we felt different about it, We
have held Hon. Geo. r. Peck to q more
strict accountability for his vote because
he was the direct representative of thi,
district, and because there was no obi
CATION on his part TO Mr.. Arthur. We
have never for = moment doubted Mr..
Plumb's Sincerity In supporting Plesi-
dent Arthur. He believed It best for the
party.
The editor of ths Republican has been
,fE
friends AS a member of the state senate
he voted for the senator 1t his first cleo
tion and worked TO bring about that re.
suit ~ his second election, q year ago
last winter. The editor was
editing the Commonwealth, and as such
nsed his utmost influence to re-elect the
seaAtor. Has Mr.. Plumb changed his
mature and political methods since
thenI We think not The editor Of the
Republican knew the senator and endors-
ed him heartily year and q half ago.
Who has changed, aud what is the
cause OF the change? Mr.. Plumb Is
pursuing the same course he did when
the editor OF the Republican was one of
his lieutenants. He Is the same faithful
Republican; he Is the same hard work
ing Senator, devoting, with the same de-
gree OF zeal and enthusiasm, all his eff
forts In the senate for the benefit of his
CO. stituents. He has the same degree
OF interest in the SUCCESS of the Republi-
can party he had when the Republican
was his friend.
One Of the indictments against the
senator by the Republican is that he has
not followed up his resolution in favor of
temperance. If" says the Republican,
-'Mr. Plumb is sincere why does he not
make speeches in and out of congress
in support Of his billy" DID not the SEN
ator occupy the same position on this
subject and was not his amendment 10
regard TO temperance in exactly the
Bame position when the editor of the
Republican supported him for q
second term that they are now
We believe they are. If SO the editors
sudden Interest in the amendment is
bosh. and the editor is playing the small
deInagogue.
Another item in the Republican indIct
ment Is that he has not passed what the
editor terms "Plumb's Oklahoma bill
The editor OF the Republican, If dis.
posed 10 be fair with the senator, would
say that 1t was matter of impossibility
70 get such a measure thTSngh congress
within the brief time which
has elapsed since its Introduction ar
utter impossibilIty. The editor is more
ignorant than We had given him credit
for If he does not know this. On thil
head the editor Of the Republican goes OF
thus; Nov our esteemed junior seDa
tor ought TO know that all Kansas Is
well aware of the fact that he and his as
SOCRATES have for years been holding
leases on large bodies OF lands In the In
dirn Territory, and that they, of all 9th
ers, are not DESTROYS of having the status
OF that region disturbed" Only recent
ly Senator Plumb wrote over his OWE
signature that he was no
interested to the amour
OF enc cent IN any lease, or any cattle o.
any other thing In the Indian Territory
This statement we think Was publishe 81
"a tue Republican. Are we To believe thu
senator's positive statement, or the edI
tors unsupported charger
We have neither time nor disposition
TO follow the Republicans column o
vltupeIatiYe. ungcnerous and un
fair, not to say false, attack on
Senator Plumb From the edi
tors we'll known friendship for Senator
Plumb Only few months agu, we con
clude his sudden summersault mus
come from some personal reason IN
known To- us, because thu
cditr would hardly slande
his own political action without reason
The result of the splenish work of tn,
Il publican will be to help the opponent
of Republicanism. There Is no reason il
the fight the Republican is making. II 4
attacking 4 man who Is industriously a
work Tor his constituents at Washington
The general verdict Is, so far as We hav
heard, that the Republican is making
fool of itself. We remember a few week
ago il had burst Of wisdom about tn
expressed difference among the Republi
can papers on the gubernatorial question
The editor had better look up that 81
ticle and take little of his own advice
II may do him good. He Is now buttinj
his head against q stone wall.
A lady IN AshtabulA. Ohio, who had
mania for shopping, but who seldoU
bought anything, recently bought
spool OF thread after spending two hour
l. A. q