The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-08
WHAT rs TO BE EXPECTED.

IOpeko capital: Is Is not entlroly
surprise 70 those who have closely
watched the course of political matters
for the past month to find the real intent
Of the temperance convention OF yester-
day to be the advancement Of Judge
TEACHERS gubernatorial canvass. Il IL
plainly evident that Mr.. Campbell, Mr..
Bennett. Mr.. Jetmore, Mr.. Troutman and
others having the management of the
campaign for nomination will use pro-
hibitIOn and the organizations. which
have been built up for non-partisan tenn
perance work as the main hope and re-
lance to secure strength Tor Thacher
and build q prejudice sgainst John A.
Martin. A blatant demegogue like Van
Bennett is used to manufacture epithess
and denounce all as disloyal 10 prohlbi-
ton who fail to throw their hats for
Thacher. The tact that man was q con-
sistent prohibitionist while fellows
ike Van Bennett were roliicking drunk
ards, the fact that men are ss strong and
a. consistent temperance men as either
Judge Thacher or auy of his managers,
cuts no figure with them at this time.
The one test, the only test, IL: "Are you
for ThacherG' Fsiling 10 answer In the
affirmative. denunciation as disloyaI TO
prohibition commences. IL is en- IBpsr-
tincnt assumption OF posssssIng in su-
perlative degrIe The OllY genuine and
honest principles upon this issue. The
real fact Is that the people have as much
reason 10 place confidence in Col. John
A. Martin as q temperance man as they
have in Judge Thacher, and among the
prohibitionists OF Kansas there will be
found as many, aud we believe q large
majority, supporting Martin 10 prefer
ence to Thacher
Daring the contest in the legislature
for 6 law to enforce the prohibition
amendment, Judge Thacher weakened
and introduced a bill 40 exclude wine
and beer" and two years ago, when an
over Whelming majority of the party
| nominated st. John for the third term,
no one OF the professor was as bitter
and hostile to the wish of the prohibit
tionis's Of the state as Scion o. Irhscher.
These are facts which over Jealous
speakers for Mr.. Thacher forgot tc men
tion in the convention yesterday.
The Republican party is largely made
up of people Who believe in temper
ance, who believe in the destruction of
the saloon, of pIohibitionists and every
grade and shade of opinion favorable to
sobriety and law and order. and they
will trust a man for chief executive who
is in harmony with them on all the
great issues OF the Republican party
including prohibition. Such a man is
Col. JnO. A. Martin whose public and
private character is without a blot or
stain.
Over zeslOus speakers ID the conVen-
ton of yesterday demanded that only
original, simon-pure. dyed-in-the-wool
prohibluonists be placed on guard and
there were many unnecessary slurs
about recent converts. The political
prohibltionists managing Mr.. TEACHERS
canvass at this time who imagine that
jaw-bone zeal is al indication of honest
principle that others do not possess,
should stop their windy TRADES long
enough to permit the Capital to say,
that there are thousands of Republicans
In Kansas to-day who believe the defeat
of Judge Thacher in the convention
Will be used as a pretext to join an In
| dependent movement. There is not q
possibility of nominating Judge Tbach-
er as every candid man familiar with
the state we'll knows. There are design
ing demagogues like Van Bennett who
are riding prohibition for the money they
can make out of it; re4dy to advocate
any measure that will give them notori-
ETY. and denounce men for disloyalty TO
prohibition who were hard earnest
| workers in the cause while he was
floundering in the ditch a common
drunkard. This fellow, a Democrat, can
afford to advise Republicans to bolt their
party and yesterday his inflammatOry
and abusive nonsense was spplanded by
men who would fellow his lead into the
PIttsburg convention and kill prohibi-
ton In Kansas by defeating the Republi-
can party.
1t is time Republican ProhilionIsis
aWoke and did some thinking tor them
selves.
A careful examination OF the set
speeches delivered at the convention YES
day. the Capital is constrained to say,
furnished the foundation for a delegs-
ton TO the Pittsburg convention. There
WIS very little Republicanism ia it,