The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-05
OUR .soURoR oFWEAKNEss. ,

II
The action of the republican clubs of /
Kansas, which met at Topeka yester-
day, indicates that the spirit of blind
partisanship which has so long pre-
vailed in that state is by no means dy- |
ing out, The addresses were all char
acteriZed by unstinted abuse of the /
democratic party and an arraignment l
of the Cleveland administration. The
old issues were revived and the flaunt- |
ing of the bloody shirt excited the
warmest enthusiasm. The recent at !
tack in the senate by Mr.. ingalls, upon
the fair fame of men who served their
country with unselfish patriotism, and
his course insult to the chief executive
of the nation were endorsed, and his
aspersion of the memory or General
Hancock was cOlIdoned upon the pre-
text that his refer ence to the dead hero
was to his political and not his military
record. 1t is to be sincerely re-
GREETED that the proceedings OF
such large and influential body OF re-
publicans as met at Topeka yesterday
should have been confined to such
contracted scope. The narrow ana Dill
| ter spirit manifested is in every way
Unworthy of a great state like Kansas,
and it discredits the reputation which
she enjoys for progress and inteln-
Qence. The numerical strength OF the
| republican party in Kansas has proved
a source of moral weakness, and has
led that organization into excesses
which have proved prejudicial to the
state in many ways. The long lease OF
engendered a fierce thirst for spoils,
and with the secure Endorsement Of
large majorities, politicians have be-
come wholly INSCRIPTIONS as TO the
means employed for the accomplish
ment OF ends.-K. G. Star.
The above, from paper published in
a city located in a state where the
rebel-democratic vote is in as heavy a
preponderence as is the republican vote
in Kansas, answers itself when it is re-
! membered that Missouri was a state
years before Kansas was known Other
than the American Desert and thought
to be unfit for man to exist in.
If Kansas has grown to what she If
in such a short space Of time under "a
source of moral weakness" which hai
even built up all that is best and mos
enterpTising in Missouri, then WI
would advise slow-poky old Missouri Il
{ come over and obtain "a source o
3 moral weakness, and take it as ;
Z tonic for some portions of her territor!
9 not in close contact with Kansas.
While Kansas is advancing with
Z gigantic strides under republican rule
z Missouri is hardly holding her own un
i der old Bourbon democratic rule
These are facts which speak louder
7 than mere words.
/ AS to Gen. Hancock: Had he Aeve
turned traitor to the cause he formerl!
] shed his blood in, ingalls, would neve
. have spoken of him as he did. Neithe
would every ex-rebel in the countr!
Z have been SO jealous of and ex-uniol
: generals military record made whil
I in conflict against themselves.
q The men who met in Topeka ant
passed the resolution endorsing In
10 CALLS action were, many of them, jus
t, as good and gallent soldiers for tn
u union as was Gen. Hancock. But the
a are men who never could or can con
re done the massacre and kukluxing o
o. a, colored people in the south, as did Gen
10 Hancock while military commander il
Re Louisiana after the war. They az
d men who still think that the rebels wei
wrong and the union men were right
and who do not believe that the govern
ne ment they sought to destroy should a
Ul yet be turned over to the tender me-
q, cies of those who sought to destroy il
It, even if led by man who once tough
81 for the union. Why, jeff Davis hin
be self once was equally as good soldie
he of the union as was Gen. Hancock, an
IN even to-day suffers from a'wound II
le- ceived in battle for his country.