The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17

New entries for the congressional race
in the Second district are reported every
day, but up to this writing Eugene Ware
seems to have the pole.
T. B. Murdock says that President
Arthur resembles Senator Ingalls, in
physical proportions Which lies
Bent or the fashion platess
Unless the Democratic party has two
gals it will sing mighty low on monop-
Olies and civil service reform while Hen
~ b. Payne is in the L. 5 Senate.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: 1t is
possible to purchase seat in the United
States senate, but it is not possible to
make a purchased seat honorable.
All that Mr.. Pendieton has to do now
is 10 stand still and see the saliva
tiOn of Israel. The Republicans of Ohio
will attend to the Standard Oil gang.
The gamblers must g. The Indiana
agricultural board have decided 10 ex-
clude IN the future all side shows and
gambling conirivances from the state
fair grounds.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat thinks
that the senatorial canvass in Ohio has
put the ground in excellent order for the
production of Republican vegetables
next summer.
The Chicago News says that the DEM
ocrAts are still so suspicious of Benjamin
F. Butler, that they put HIM out of
doors every night before going 10 bed,
Just as If he were a cat.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Died, at
Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 1884, of
acute civil service reform, George IL.
Pendleton, Democratic STANDARD bearer
Funeral private. No flowers.
Jay Gould's losses from shrinkage in
railway stocks during the year a-e esti-
mated at 100000. The next ''aId
movement set on foot should be in be-
half ID that distressed gent eman.
The last census of Alabama shows an
aggregate gain of 6,O21 white and 1921
colored voters in the last. decade that
cannot read or write Alabama is one
OF the states which is reliably Demo-
cratic.
1t is stated that Henry b. Payne will
be over so years old when his term as
senator expires. There's chance for
the old fellows yet if they are only aided
and sustained by the elixir OF Standard
OIL.
The Cincinnati Commerce al g aZetie
speaking of the proposed plan 10 defeat
the election of H. B. Payne to the l. s.
senate by q coalition of the dlsaffected
Democrats and the Republicans in the
Ohio legislature. wonders whether any
of them have coal oil susceptibilities.
That wouldn't lie much of conundrum
in Kansas.
The Fl Dorado Republican copies our
item about the wealth of Senator
Plumb and says:
"You are slightly on. Mr.. Plumb Is
worth over half a million dollars, and it
IL hardly Necessary for anybody Who
knows anything about It to suggest that
he is not"
We cave; of course, you know.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
thinks Governor elect Hosdly should
say few words in his inaugural in
support of the Democratic doctrine of
civil service reform. This because the
author of the civil service law received
Is votes out of upwards OF so for re-
election to the senate in a Democratic
caucus.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette ::
There Is very serious movement on
foot TO defeat Mr.. Payne's senatorial
ambition. Eleven of the members of
the legislature who voted for Ward, and
Eve who voted for Pendleton, propose to
bolt the caucus nomination. The prop
OsItion seems to be to elect Gen. Ward
If the Republicans will join them. The
experiment would be worth trying.
One could tell then whether any of the
Republicans have coal OIL susceptible
tiles.
1t is the belief in New York that the
Carlisle Waiterson policy of pushing the
Democratic party into an advanced free
trade position will result in party de
feat If the matter gets before the people.
Mr.. Tilden Is being relied upon to re-
strain the impetuous Watterson from
pushing his program beyond the danger
line. MIR. Randall will resist the free
trade tendency, and, It is reported, will
oppose all tariff legislation unless it be
the Converse bill restoring the duty on
wool
Globe Democrat: The resignation of
United States Judge McCrsry has devel-
oped q number OF persons who would be
willing 10 accept the place-about half
q dozen in each of the states composing
the circuit, we should say. Among
others, Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, is
mentioned, but it is not likely that he
would surrender his place in the senate
when the result would be the appoint
ment of q Democrat as his successor by
the present governor of his state, even
if he were inclined to go upon the bench,
which Is doubtful.
The Democratic party has q happy
faculty Of turning tail on its alleged
anti-monopoly principles 1t is some
thing Of question whether the STANDARD
Oil Company runs the Democracy OF
the Democracy the Standard Oh
Company. That pirancal concern
has one agent in the United
States senate already-Camden, o.
West Virginia. Henry B. Payne viii
make another. What the Democratic
party does is 20 elect such men TO higI
once; what it processes to believe wal
thus set forth in the convention held il
1882 by the same Ohio Democrat,
which now prefers Payne 10 Psndleton
The growth Of mOnopolies is such a
20 seriously threaten the rights of indi
viduSls and the public welfare"
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