The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-17
PERsoNAL AND PoL1rIcAL.

Viii Geo. William Curtis hold onto
the party that sticks to the unit rule?
The Republicans can join very heart
lily IN the Cleveland and Hendricks raii-
fication meetings.
Another slap at Cleveland: John KEEL
ly has been nominated as representative
from the Thirty-third Kansas district.
We have got the man who can "beat
Blaine. kansas City Times.
Tell Us who 1t is. We will not give
you away.
The Democratic ticket this year is
constructed on the peacock plan. It's
chief glory is in its tail.
The Republicans got all four of their
men at Chicago this Year-Blaine aud
Logan and Cleveland and Hendricks.
By the wsY-has any one seen the
dude movement against Blaine wander.
ing about anywhere during the past
week?
Cleveland is moderately certain of the
electoral vote of Kentucky, but there
are still doubts whether he will be able
TO carry John Kelly.
Ben Butler didn't get the nomination
at Chicago but he expects TO have ''dead
coolies" of fun this summer finding out
the reason why.
We believe il is pretty well establish
ed that the name of Judge s. o. Thach-
er will not be presented at the state con-
Vcntion IS candidate for governor.
A Democratic exchange announces
that Grover Cleveland is the father of
ten children. That is pretty fair fam
lily for 9 man who was never married.
The Globe Democrat says of the Dem
ocrstic platform that the resolutions are
IN numbers like the stars IN the heaven,
and in scope as broad as the plan OF sal
walton.
Not few of the dissatisfied Republi-
cans. after reading the proceedings of
the Democratic convention, have dis
covered the alleged crow they are eating
to be q very fair article of spring
chicken.
John Kelly says he will not lift a
hand for Cleveland. Will he agree not
to lift foot for him? That's the great
and absorbing question which gnaws at
the party's heartstrings.
Arkansas Traveller: 1t is said that
Blaine's bOyhOod was awkward. This
proves that he was q natural boy. The
boy who at seventeen years old is not
awkward, has not the promise of an
eventful life. The "gawky" age is the
seed-sOwiug time of future harvest.
Before the convention the Democratic
organs demanded a candidate who
should be platform in himself. The
convention, however, carefully avoided
all such candidates, and proceeded to
nominate man who needs interprela-
tiOn as much as the platform.
There was not a member Of the Dem
OCratic committee on resolutions who
could not, if plain, honest exposition
of doctrine on the tariff issue was want
GU Ho'C lawn UP 6uSh q lSoOAuLlOh IL
thiTty-sIx minutes. The Thirty six hours
were consumed in constructing double
faced declaration, framing a plank, as
WattersOn said, on which all could
stand.
This is the case against Governor
Cleveland, according to a dispatch from
Mr.. Watterson. from Chicago, to thu
Courier-J OurDal: First, the country
knows nothing of his opinions upor
national questions; second, he is a new
man, without experience in national
affairs or a personal knowledge of thu
public men of the time; third, he Is an
tagonized, not only by Tammany, bu
by the trade.unions. and by the Catholi,
| hierarchy.