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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
DELEGATR CONVENTION.

at 10 O'Clock q. m, on July 18th, 1888, there
will be held in the city of Emporia, Lyon
county, Kansas, q delegate convention of the
Republican party, at which will be selected:
Nine delegates to the Judicial convention of
the Fifth judicial district, comprising the
counties OF C0ffey and Lyon, TO nominate a
candidate for District Judge: said convention
to be held in Burlington. Cofey county, Kan
sas, on Monday July 30, at p. m
Twelve delegates 70 the Senatorial conven-
ton of the Twentieth district, to be held in
EmpOria, August 10, at 10 a. m. To nominate
q candidate for State Senator; to appoint q
County Central COMMITTEES; to nominate q
candidate for Probate Judge: 70 nominate q
candidate for County Attorney; to nominate
to nominate candidate for County Superfn-
tsndent of Public Instruction.
The delegates from the Fiftysfourth and
Fnty-ffth Representative districts of the
state of Kansas will also hold conventions up
on the adjournment of the County convention
and nominate candidates for one member of
the legislature from each of these districts.
The delegates from the Second and Third
commissioner districts of Lyon county will,
the Representative districts, hold conventions
to nominate candidates for the Office of Com
missioner, as follows:
From the Second district, for the term CON-
mencing the second Monday IN January, 1889.
From the Third district. for the unexpired
term commencing the second Monday in jan
uary, 1881.
The basis of spportionment OF delegates to
said County convention VIII be one delegate
and one alternate for each twelve votes and
fraction of six or over, cast for q. ". Frost
for coroner in Lyon county in November, 1881.
DELEGATES from the various precincts are
appoFttoned as folloEss
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
"DLaLoYAL,, rRMPLARs-

D..
The article which Appeared in the
Des Moines Register q few days ego
concerning the order Of the grand COM
mander knights Templar, declaring |
Iowa knights to be rebels, was some
thing of as surprise to many Of the
Knights. The Register says that the
matter is provoking good deal of feel
ing among the members and in the or |
der it promises to become the prevail
ing topic for discussion. The new rit-
ual has caused all the trouble. The ag-
itation over the new ritual commenced
in 1871, and was renewed at the great
conclave in Chicago in 1880, but on
both occasions it was declared inexpe-
dent. In 1888, however, q Committee
on ritual of the order of the Temple
and the Red Cross" was appointed and
''authorized and instructed to revise
and arrange said rituals in dra-
matte form, with proper rubies,
adopting them for practical use in con-
ferring the degrees. The question of
adopting the new ritual was postponed
to the triennial conclave OF 1885. In
's6 the new ritual was adopted. In
April, 's7, the quota due Iowa was re-
ceived by the Grand Secretary of ths
) Grand Commandery. Grand Com
mander Dewey announced his belize
THAT the action of the national con
clave was fragrant assumption" OF
1 its part, for in its adoption the metho(
: prescribed by the constitution had no
GoI No oil Ia hnl1 hot
I entire action pertaining to the new nit
: ual was null and void, and ordered tn
+ recorder of each subordinate command
: cry of the jurisdiction Of Iowa VIII
had received the ritual to return
at once to the Grand Recorder. TIL
o order was promptly Obeyed. Gram
8 Commander Dewey held that 18th
q ritual in use in the Iowa jurisdiction
n since the year 1851 is too beautiful t
be abandoned without just and reason
able cause therefor; and the substitute
offered in this new ritual is too object
!, ionable to be received unless impose
- by an authority, and in q manner tina
will compel US to accept" He ais
held that the constitution of the gran
is encampment provides that lat ever
l. cOnclave all questions shall be detern
ne ined by majority of votes. On til
4. day the adoption Of the ritual was sui
mitted to the conclave less than on
third of the representatives entitled
o. vote for it were on the floor-and IL
TX vote was 46 for and % against. Lei
:, than One-sixth of the members of Il
conclave voted for it."-DubuqT
Telegraph.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THE Kansas City News in referring
to the republican nominees says: eff
there had been second Blaine in the
ranks of the republican party he should
have been made the nominee. But as
there was but one Blaine, that one,
despite his protests and unwillingness,
should have been begged by the unanl-
nous voice of the convention to lead
the party against the common enemy. y
1t is just such spirit of todyism as
the above. and willingness 20 bow the
knee, as displayed by democrats and
mugwumps, in worship of the British
aristocratic doctrine of free trade, that
Blaine himself denounces most. BAIL
The idea OF the republican party
begging" 1t is one of the things it
has yet to learn. Out on such una
merican ideas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
0OTN0TDENOES.

History repeats itself, they say.
FOrty-eight years ago, under similar
circumstances to the present, the
grandfather of Ben Harrison defeated
Van Buren, for the presidency. Van
Buren,, like Cleveland was the presi-
dent, and like Cleveland he was unanl-
mOusly nominated by the democrats to
succeed himself. Another coincidence
is the fact that, as in the present
case, the great issue was the tariff,
and then as now the Harrison family
were for American wages for Ameri-
can workmen, and the. democracy
were, as now, for foreign wages fol-
American workmen.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THE fact that the Democrat was out
half an hour earlier than THE NEWS
on the 18th knocks the last peg out
from under it, and fully establishes the
falsity of the charge, that we made up
our special from its report. 1t is not
our business to furnish proof, but that
of the man who makes the charge,
hence we await his proof.-Democrat.
The Democrat on the 18th was not
out for over half an hour after THE
NEWS. This can be proven. No one
but the sender or receiver of tele-
gram by the w. U. T. company can
obtain copy of such telegram. If
McCown will give the editor of THE
NEWS an order on the manager permit
ting him to make affidavit as to whether
he did or did not receive a special on
the day mentioned in reference to the
death of the German Emperor. for the
Democrat, he can obtain 500 to be do
mated to the poor, if his (McCown'sl
assertions are not false. Mr.. Howard
Dunlap has our money. Put up, OF
shut ND.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
Paid Up.

Madden Bros, of Cottonwood Falls,
have paid that little claim we had
against them, amounting to s23.75.
They paid it, however, at the end of
the law, when it was impossible to
avoid it. As they resorted to every
means in their power to beat us out of
it they deserve no credit for its settle
ment. The statement made by them
and their friends that our opposition to
John was personal matter growing
out of a disputed bill, was absolutely
false. The bill was never disputed. It
was clear case of dead beatism" on
their part. And it is such practice
towards many with whom they have
had dealings that has caused them
to be set down in the CONNER
ciaI reports as dead BEATS Now if
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
JUST THIRTY YEARS AGO.

The following items are reprinted
from a copy of THE News printed June
Soth. 1853. At that time Kansas was
spelled KanZas:
"The bridge has been completed
across 142 creek"
1.-The new bridge across Onion creek
makes the distance to Lawrence five
miles shorter"
Election proclamation for an election
August 2, 1858, to vote for or against
the acceptance of the Lecompton or
dinance:" Judges of election of EN-
poria precinet-C. V. Eskridge. J. A.
Fuller and G. w. Walker.''
Two yoke of good work cattle for
sale Apply 20 +. =. Plumb
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

The suburban towns surrounding it
are very popuious and have the adj
vantage in point of numbers and /
contain large republican majority. |
During antibellum days Boston was /
the dwelling place and the principal
theatre Of action for the greater part
of the abolition forces who were en-
gagged in bringing about the then inn
pending crisis for the destruction of
| slavery. The teachings of those lib
/ erty shreking revivalistS of this COM
| mOnwealth have scarcely been borne
out by the practical results that have
followed the success of their under
taking. The higher law arguments
brought to bear, furnish the precepts
but not the practices. For nowhere Is
the social inequality of the white and
colored races better illustrated than in
. the city of Boston. The coIOred citizen
finds no congenial companionship
among the white race here u Is
forced to take back seat upon III 0c-
casionS except at times at which he
J | can be useful and a source of strength
for political purposes. The community
of associations for the white and black
races, the fellowship between the
: youthful and equality among the aged
? is still subjected to the prejudices OF
, color, as personal likes and dislikes can
be controlled by no amount of religious
d fervor or American citizenship, like
t wise establishing the fact that
d the primal success of patriotism is moi
q declining virtue with the Anglo
Saxon race. An attempt to effectively
control the liquor traffic has long been
, disturbing element in the state Of
q Massachusetts. The enactment OF pro
hibitory laws and their application anc
enforcement in the small towns ant
villages of other States have Furnished
no parallel for their successful enforce
ment in a city like Boston, where thu
lg liberal masses predominant and wher'
rum and iniquity seem to be an lnsep
Is arabic part of the organization OF civil
ID liZed communities. Certain cOndl
IS lions of life seem to remain the same Il
= all countries. The reforms and sham
~ of ages have been stranded upon tn
d shoals and rocks of time. Hlstor
d. illustrates this fact. Rome, Whlc
It once stretched her dominions to tn
ss four corners of the earth, could not b
the sternest laws control the vices O
&c her people. She has been swept out 9
IN existence and there is nothing left
ge mark her greatness but few men
= Orials. It may be this great, unlqu
American Nation will produce som'
lCS thing grander and purer than thos
% that have preceded it, and the app
Is. tites of men may yield to prohibltol
-, legislation and manhood reach STAG
'm of perfection. Then the fOllies an
as miseries of life no longer existing ma
ID becomes equal to his master, and
Lat ambition is at an end.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

s'Never ask the editor the news. He
win give it TO you In due time i
Never ask the editor what he thinks
Of an article You have written. His
opinion might offend you"
Five hundred election tickets win
be printed for uso in this county.
Judges of election Will call and get
what they require"
"BOrton win repair your old tinware
and make it as good as new"
"There are 149 voters in this county. y
lone hundred and sixty acres Of land
adjoining Emporia. Three dollars pei
acre. Apply to p. b. Plumb"
"a section OF land three miles from
| Emporia will be sold for 81. goo. Apply
/ to the editor of THE NEWS.
"a sidewalk is to be put down OF
Commercial street,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
THOSE STOLEN SPECIALS

The buster on the part of THE NEWS
over the 800 deposited in the Savings
Bank is but an illustration Of what an
arrogant fool a little money will make
of some people. We have no 800 to
put UP but we do stand squarely by the
assertion that not single line or word
of any special that has ever appeared
in the Democrat has been taken from
The NEWS, Our specials during both
conventions were sent to us by kellogg
" Co., of Kansas City and were received
and paid for at the Western Union
office in this city. That such is the
fact any one can ascertain by going to
the trouble to inquire of Mr.. CleaVer.
Democrat.
If this is true, let Mr.. McCown give
an order to any reputable business man
of Emporia, granting permission to
Mr.. Cleaver to make an affidavit as
regards the specials claimed by us to
have been stolen, or to produce the
records of the receipt of them, and we
will agree to humble apologize to Mr..
McCown in the most public manner
possible, if our assertions are proved
false.
AS to the 800 now IN the hands of
Mr.. Dunlap, it does not belong to the
NEWS company, but is part of the
small savings the editor of this paper
made setting type, or at other honora-
BILE work in the printing business. If
Mr.. McCown is as short of funds as he
claims, we will lend him S1OO-''pro-
vided he gives us good security" If
his story be true, he runs no risk to
lose, and yet he has. a splendid oppor-
tunity to give more to charity than he
would probably otherwise do in his life
time, were he to live to be as old as
Methuselah.
Mr.. Cleaver is not at liberty to dis
close the contents of any of the tele-
grams he receives, any more than Post
master Birdsall is at liberty TO open and
read private letters received through
the mails. This is not a question OF
money, but one of veracity and honor
The editor of this paper saw one of the
Democrats men copying News bulle
tins on more than one occasion, but hG
would never have pushed this matter
to the extremes it has gone, had moi
McCown INDUCED in vile insinuation.
and BLACKBOARD expressions such as arr
|, unfit to and are never used by a gen
tlaman
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
1aAn.Iaaa.

Ed Borton was exhibiting yesterday a
white silk ribbon badge used in 1910
when General Harrison grandfather of
the Republican nominee, was the Wing
candidate for president of the United
States. At the top of the badge was
printed the words Lei the people
rule" Then picture of the American
eagle. Next, the American flag with
the names of Harrison and Tyler
printed in the folds, under which the
words ''Retrenchment and Reform"
were printed. Then appeared the pic
ture of q log cabin at the corner of
which stood a barrel of cider. The
words RAISED June s, 1910. by the
Campbell County Tippecanoe Club
followed. This will be 40 campaign,
minus the cider, log cabin and the
coon. Wen have Harrison just the
same.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THE California republican journals
and party leaders declare that Harri-
sons anti-Chinese record of half a doz-
en- years ago will not injure him now
in the Golden State. All the California
delegates except one voted for him on
the last ballot. This shows that Har-
rison is strong at the only point at
which it was feared he would be weak
ON the Pacific slope.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

WE do not believe in personal jour
nalism. But when McCown makes in
famous accusations against us aud uses
vituperation and blackguardism, all OF
which were uncalled for by any action
on the part of the editor of this sheet,
then we propose to either make him
prove his assertions or stand before his
fellow citizens for what he is-a cow
ard, who neither backs up his asser-
tions by his money or his muscle, and
who Is too base to apologize. He should
take lesson from his fellow-coppeI-
head, Dan Voorhees,.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
TECUMSER TALKS.

An interview was had with Gen. w.
L. Sherman on Wednesday last, in
New York, and this is the way he sizes
up the republican nominees and their
chances:
think there could not be a more
powerful ticket than Harrison and
Morton. l think that every man who
fought for the preservation of this
government should vote for these men.
They are both strong union men; one
IS soldier and the other q statesman
both we'll tried in their country's SER
vice. Harrison, think, well be as
strong as Blaine would have been. Of
course i would rather my brother John
had got it,but the republican party
should be the judge and select its own
standard-bearer. 1t is now the duty of
every true citizen to stand by these
men, who were true to the country
when she was in danger. There has
never been a true union man sent to
represent this country IN foreign lands
under this administration, and it is
time for change. believe Cleveland
has done the best he could:
have no fault to find with his admin
istration; My feelings, though, carry
me back to the war. / would
not keep up sectional differences.
Every Southern man has the
same rights that we have, but
Mr.. Cleveland has sent out to re-
present US men who would have starved
us during the war. They are what /
call the Copperheads. Cleveland is
seventeen years younger then l. He
should have shouldered a musket and
have gone to the front. Everybody
capable of carrying a gun should have
offered his services. Then the war
would not have lasted as long as it did.
At Vicksburg and Gettysburg we were
short handed, and if those men who
hung in the rear had gone to the front
the war would have been over a year
sooner that it was.
The candidates named now are won
derfully good, Harrison is a man of
great character, good habits and line
age. He Is good every way and fit
and proper person TO go to the White
House. Now it is fair and square
race between the two parties.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

According to the abstract in the
county clerks Office from the assess
ment rolls there are los, 591 acres of
cultivated land in the county, 375, 493
acres unimproved; 1854 town and
city lots; assessed value of land, So, 51S,-
$50; value of lots, 81, s4s,116; value of
railroad property, s72s, 16l; personal
property, $1,41s.s17; total valuation,
7,514,O:3. The average value of land
per acre is 1918. The average value
of town lets is S135. IS.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

GENERAL GRANT made a declaration
welve years ago which seems, in the
light of present events, to have been a
prophecy. He said: "When the Dem
ocratic party comes near to complete
control Of the country it will break its
back across the Allegheny mountains
on the tariff question"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

IMAGINE sedate doctors of divinity,
judges of high courts, cold-blooded ed
itors, aud other professional men not
accustomed to cutting up high jinks,
yelling like school boys, tossing their
hats in air, and hugging one another.
Such was the scene in Gen. Harrison's
law Office when the news came that
Pennsylvania votes for Harrison and
he Is nominated" In the cAnter of
the group was General Harrison, his
face immersed in halo of smiles. He
was mOdestly trying TO make two
hands go around among fifty persons
number that soon swelled to thou
Chicago Tribune.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

A BROTHER of Ben Harrison lives in
Kansas City and he is a democrat.
This is one of the sad effects of living
in Kansas City.-State Journal.
You forgot to mention the fact that
he is one of the democrats converted
into good republicans by the excellent
platform adopted at Chicago, and the
equally excellent nominees as standard
bearers of the principles promulgated
in said platform.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

IN 1855, when the first national re-
publican convention was held, and
when John c. Fremont was nominat-
ed for the presidency, Henry Sloan of
Indiana, was permanent chairman of
the convention. In 1860 George Ash
mum of Massachusetts,, was the chair
man; in 1864, William Dennison, Ohio;
in 1858, j. r. Hawley, Connecticut; in
1872, Thomas Settle. North Carolina;
in 1876, Edward MCPHERSON, Pennsy1-
vania; in 1884, J. B. Henderson, Mis-
souri,; in 1888, NJ. NJ. Estee, California.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
A Sketch of MortOn's Life.

Lew PARSONS Morton was Dorm In
Shorthand, VT, May Is, 1924. He be-
came clerk in a country store, soon
developed an aptitude for business and
rose rapidly. In 1850 he was made a
member of the firm of Beebe, Morgan
q Co., merchants of Boston, and IN
1854 ne moved to New York. where he
established the firm of Morton s. Grin
nell. In 1868 he founded the banking
house of Morton, Bliss s. Co. in New
York, and that of Morton, Ross 81 Co.
in London. The latter were the fiscal
agents of the United States government
from 1873 till 1884.
The firms of which Mr.. Morton is the
head were active in the Syndicates that
negotiated United States bonds, and in
payment of the Geneva award of $751;
500, 900 and the Halifax fishery awards
of $5, 000, 900.
Mr.. Morton was appointed honorary
commissioner to the Paris exposition
in 1878. In the same year he was cleo
ted to Congress as Republican, and
he was reelected in 1880. In the lat
ter year he declined the nomination
for Vice-PresideDt on the Republican
ticket.
President Garfield offered to nomi-
nate Mr.. Morton for secretary of the
navy or minister to France. He chose
the latter post and filled it from 1881
to 1885. Through his intercession the
restrictions upon the importation OF
American pork were removed and
American corporations obtained a le-
gal status in France. He was an
American commissioner general to the
Paris Electrical exposition, the repre-
sentative of the United States at the
submarine cable convention, and pub
licly received, in the name of the PEG
pie of the United States, the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World.''
Mr.. Morton, in 1897. purchased SCI
Ierslie,'' the estate of William Kelly,
at Rhinebeck, on the Hudson. The
degree of LII. D., was conferred upon
him by Dartmouth College, in 1881
and by Middlebury in 1882. In 1881
he was a candidate for United State
Senator
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05


THE Kansas City Star says the great
heart Of the republican organization is
with Blaine, and that Harrison will.
not bring to the canvass the great en-
ergizing forces which inhere, to such a
distinctive degree, to the man from
Maine, This may possibly be the case
in Kansas City and Missouri, where
neither Blaine nor any other republican
can expect any available assistance.
But in Kansas, and other states that
are not welded to Clevelandism, the
feeling is just the other way, and the
announcement that Harrison was the
choice was greeted in this city not
only with great sigh of relief, but the
town went wild in the way of demon
strating its gladness.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

GENERAL BEN HARRISON was the
only outspoken candidate on the anti
saloon question before the convention.
He endorsed the movement hear lily
from its inception. He is a teetotaler
and unequivocally endorses the tenn
perance plank adopted unanimously
Monday night.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THE first concern of all good govern
ment is the virtue and sobriety Of the
people and the purity of their homes.
The republican party cordially sympa-
thizes with well directed efforts for
the promotion or temperance and NOR
ality.-Republican Platform.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THE democratic assertion that the
ticket nominated at Chicago does not
emphasize the platform previously
adopted by the same convention, is
laughable when it is remembered that
Cleveland had himself nominated be-
fore he made his platform.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05

THREE deaths by lynching in one day
in Kansas is rather strong argument
in favor of a death penalty law. John
Bisbee and Wyle Lee were hanged by a
mob at Parsons, and Chubb McCarty
met the same kind of death at Mime
apolis Yesterday.