The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-25
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Our esteemed morning contemporary,
which Is in q position TO know,
intimases that the mayor Of Empo-
ria has reformed since be was elected to
the executive office he now holds,
which agreeable information is to be
greatly cherished. When it comes right
down 70 bed rock We think the mayor is
q pretty nice man and really wants to
see the city prosperous and On the
"push." As . private citizensiE Is well
known that his honor's position was
'lfoEninst'' letting railroads come TO En-
por1a unless they came on line. that
possibly they would utterly refuse to.
take. He talked this position openly
and often and went before the council
and spoke at length on his views. 1t Is.
not a question what influence he
may or may not haye ex-
erted. 1t is nevertheless true
that he represented the element which
was throwing obstacles in the way OF a
read seeking entrance to our city. Now.
as far as the st. Louis s. Emporia road
is concerned. it looks es though this
matter of entering the city is one Of the
bygones. We hope 1t is not, but then
the facts point that way. This is mat.
ter of the past, and TO discuss it may be
productive OF no good. 1t is the future
and the near future. too-that has
bearing right here. What is to be the
attitude of Emporia toward railroads In
general that may think of coming heref
Are we gong to fence them outi EN-
poria may have five or six new roads
during the next ten years. Can they all
get in on Third avenue? What
about this Union Pacific branch in which
We have hopes and which would give us
competition from the east! The direc-
tors OF this road meet in week or so.
as will be noticed by an item published
On our second page, and the matter of
the extension nfthe road from Carbon
dale is one of the subjects To come up
Does Emporia want II SAID ia those
meetings that she will not let railroad
enter the town unless it goes over lIne
occupied by II rival road, and IS as lnde-
pendent as "hog on ice" generally ?
Perhaps the Union Pacific, in the event
of extension 10 EmpOria, may think
there is room for it on Third avenue and
that lheg can get out west through that
street. We do not know; perhaps they
might not listen to coming into En-
poria over that route. II is we'll enough
to talk these matters over a little. II
the mayor has different views about
these as mayer from the ones entertained
by him while private citizen, we are
glad to know it,and think on some points
change Of opinion would Inure to
the benefit of all concerned. We do not
question that the mayor has influence.
We know that ID some way he got enough
influence to be elected. THE NEWS has
no animUs, our esteemed contemporary
finds it necessary at any ii. e TO call a
posse to go out to the edge of town and
head off an army Of railroad engineers
trying to over-run our streets in order to
SSt several now IollAOouS iutO lAO SAtys ~
the deLriment of Emporia, We hope IN
the event of such contingent he will
call upon THE News Office. When it
comes to protecting the town, THE News
boys will be found right there. If duty
calls upon Us to march under Capt. Mayor
Whittlesey, with Lieutenants Marshal
Tom White and Policeman Birdsall,
with flank brigade under General Gill
man, we are going to be there, and we
will take our pay for all such services in
in greenback city scrip and ask no
questions.