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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-16


Congressman Peters writes from
Washington to r. NJ. Easley, of the
Hutchinson News, giving most en-
couraging view of Republican pros
poets. 1.-THE Democrats in New York,
and especially in the country districts, -
says Mr.. Peters "are DESERVING Cleve-
land by the hundreds, and announcing
themselves for Harrison and Morton,
This is not a newspaper rumor, but it
is the actual fact as we receive it from
that State every day here. The indi-
cations of the last seven days are that
Harrison and Morton will be over
whelmingly elected, and that New
York will be carried by Harrison and
Morton by an unprecedented majority.
Connecticut, too, is absolutely safe, as
it is now regarded. About Indiana
there is no question. New Jersey will
later wheel into line, although if the
election came off DIT present it would
possibly go for Cleveland. The fact of
! it is that Cleveland will be left with
out anything but the solid South, and
we may get North Carolina and West
Virginia out of that. There never
has in this country been known such
an unexpected cyclone as will strike
the Democratic party in November
next. This information will do to bet
OH. Even the Democracy here quietly
give it up. The detection from the
Democratic party in New York and
Connecticut in the last seven days has
been unprecedented in the history of
the cOIntry,n
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A sad Annidsnt.

A little before O'Clock last evening
Johnny, the thirteen-year old and only
son of ]. a. Freeman, contractor and
builder, shot and seriously injured
himself with a 22-caliber pistol. John
ny Evarts, a neighbor boy, was outside
fooling with the window shutters,
while young Freeman was in the room
taking a bath. He asked his playmate
to leave the window, but he kept on in
a playful manner bothering the bather.
FINALLY Freeman said he would make
him leave, and running in another
room he brought out the revolver and
began loading it for the purpose of
frightening Evarts. While he was
pushing in the cartridge it exploded,
the ball entering the abdomen, just be-
low and to the right of the navel.
From the position in which the gun
was held the bullet must have passed
downward and back. Three physi-
clans were at once summoned but no
attempt was made to probe for the
ball. He rested very easy most of
the night and this forenoon4He drank
some water occasionally and talked in
a rational manner. He suffered a
great deal of pain during the latter
part of the night.
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PLUME ON TIE PRIVATE SOL

DER.
Private Dalzell, in book he has re-
Gently published, takes occasion to say
that 1.-The American people despise a
private soldier; they have never ele-
waited one to any Office, and never
will, !" and Senator Plumb brings him
up standing for the reckless statement.
In letter to DalZell under date of July
Is, Senator Plumb says:
Your horizon must have been very
narrow or you uttered in a moment OF
anger that which is a SANDER both up
on the American people and the pri-
vate soldier. Two of the State officers
of Kansas, and think three, and one
of the judges of the Supreme Court OF
that State were serving as such
through an entire term of enlistment.
Three of the seven members of Con-
gress from that State entered the SER
vice as private soldiers, and served as
such until near the close of the war,
when they were promoted. at least
two of the district judges of Kansas
were privates during the entire
period of their service in the
army. There has never been
any distinction made in that State:
and do not know of any elsewhere
between the private and the officer con.
corning preferment to Office. 1t is
safe to say that at least two-thirds of
the county officers in Kansas were sol
dierS, and that fully half, if not more
of them. were private soldiers. The
Kansas people have very decided pre-
ference for eX-Union soldiers, and am
fully as liable, if not little more go
to prefer the private to the officer.
cannot speak from any extended
knowledge of the condition of things
existing elsewhere, but l recall nov
that private soldier Is running fol
| Governor of Illinois, and that another
l private soldier is treasurer of thai
State. You may speak for Ohio, but
am sure you do not speak for the reSi
| of the country. AS / write i recall thu
fact that Warner Miller, late United
States Senator from New York, enter
cd the service as a private soldier, anC
1 have no doubt i cound find multi
tudes of instances of the preferment O
private soldiers for official place in thu
Northern States since the war. RE
Senator Plumb's argument is very
nice, but it has just about as mucl
logic in it as has the foolish utterance
of Private DalzeIl, who is rapidly be
coming recognized among old soldier
as an unmitigated nuisance. Our sen
ator forgets to state that for each com
missioned officer in a full compan,
there were at least thirty privates. ant
take the ebb and flow during the en-
tire war, possibly the ratio of private.
to officers was still greater than this.
And yet, with this extremely Iarg,
margin to go on, and with thu
republican party always avOwing it,
love for 1.-THE private soldier, i
seems queer that the private s6ldiel
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Grand Affair.

A grand party was given Thursday
night at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Clarke, on Twelfth avenue, by
the young people in the city, in honor
of the visiting young ladies and also
of a few who contemplate leaving the
city on extended visits. Mr..
and Mrs. Clarke's elegant resi-
dence was beautifully decorated
and the large and well kept lawn was
lighted with dozens of Chinese lanterns.
A very large platform, affording ample
room for all present, had been erected
in the lawn for the accommodation of
those who wished to engage in social
dance. The GOODNESS of the weather
added very much in making the even
ing very pleasant one. Refreshments
contributed toward making the affair a
grand success.
Those present were Misses Gertrude
CLOSER, Helen Scott, Florence Hood
Minnie Hewins of Cedar Vale, Kas.
Lille Dale, Laura Holderman, Mae
Flory, Lou MoultOn, - Sheldon, Of
Evanston, m, Anna Brewer, Sylvia
Hole, Ruth Thomas, May Whitney
Emma Coon, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. New
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Maj. Hood, Mr.
and Mrs. Bootey. Mr.. and Mrs Bel
McCandless. MIR. and Mrs. w. III
Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Fuller, Mrs
Jean White, Mrs. Lenora Sedgwick
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenney
Messrs. Ed. Beecher, L. L. Martin, e
w. Kinnan. Ed. Green, Norman Davy
Justin Soden, A. L. Flory, Charle
Forbes, Minor Whitney. E. G. Lufkins
Joe King, C. Cawkins, Bert Bennett, {
Squires and E. Martindale.
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who is an Office holder is an exception
rather than rule. For instance in this
very state Of Kansas boti OF our sena-
tors, Plumb himself, and Ingalls,, too,
were commissioned officers, while, we
believe, every congressman from the
state was also q commissioned officer,
not excepting the three referred TO
above.
To be sure there are plenty of good
reasons why this should be so. 1t is
only reasonable to suppose that the
men who by cheek, influence or gall
OF even by the more noble attributes OF
courage and capability, succeeded in OBJ
tanning commissions during the war
have had enough of the same qualities
since then to push themselves to thu
front in political affairs.
| But that the private soldier has al
equal show with the commissioned of
ficer seems extremely doubtful, 70
were it SO the proportion of the latte
holding political posts would not b
quite so large as compared with tn
former.
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THE WICHITA CLUBS

Even Private Social Organisations Net Safe from
the Prohibition Law.
Not many days ago we had an arti
Gle in these columns calling attention
Is the organization of several clubs in
this city, and also published an extract
from a Wichita paper stating that
clubs were being formed at that place
by the score, the principal features of
which were sociability and the flowing
bowl. By the following special dis
patch it will be seen that even these
latest lodges have come to grief, and
that the druggists whisky trust in
Kansas is carefully guarded by the
provisions Of the Murray liquor law:
WICHITA, Kas., Aug. 10.-A member
of the Progress club was tried to-day
before Police Judge Dixon, charged
with being engaged in the liquor traffic.
The case brought up the question as to
whether a member of club was ex-
posed to the Kansas prohibition law
Able attorneys were employed and the
case lasted several hours. A decision
was rendered in favor of the city and &
| fine of 800 imposed. An appeal was
4
appear in the district court before many
DAYS.
| The attorneys in behalf of the cit
held that the book containing list O.
the members of the clubs in their pos
session as the result Of the work of de
tectives could not be taken from them
but could be used by them as evidenc
against all other members. The attor
neys for the defense argued that tn
books were not the property of the cit,
and could not be held as evidence il
cases that had not been filed. Tn
court gave the opinion that the book
could be held by the city, but aske
until tomorrow morning to make
anal decision on the question.
Twelve jointists were pulled to-da
find paid the regular fine of S25 to tn
city, with no appeals.
The result of the case against tn
club has created considerable CON
ment and the belief seems to preva
that the existence of the clubs is place
in a more threatening attitude tina
ever.
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Hnx is This9


The Troy Chief prints the follow
ing:
''TRoY, KAN, July 81, 1s8S.-To the
Democratic Central Committee of DON
iphan county: l hereby tender my res
ignation as chairman of your honorable
body, to take place at once. My rea-
SONS for so doing are that l believe
the position upon the financial ques-
tions of the day, dictated to the Demo-
cratic convention at st. Louis by Pres
dent Cleveland, and embraced in the
Mills tariff bill, is detrimental to the
best interests OF our country; and be-
lieving this with sincerity, l find it
impossible to any longer affiliate with
the Democratic party, and have cast
my lot with the party which j believe
represents policy which is most con-
ducive to the welfare of the producers,
manufacturers and laborere of this
country. L believe in protecting
American labor, and am opposed 80
building up British institutions at the
expense of the wage workers of Amer
lea. l shall be found hereafter work
ing in the ranks of the Republican
party. J. j. BAKER"
Comment is unnecessary. This sim
ply shows that the forces at work
throughout the Union are also actiyeIn
Kansas
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Albert Griffin On the Third Party.

The Democrats and the Third party
people were much disappointed that
Albert Griffin did not consider himself
snubbed at the Chicago convention,
and follow st. Johns example by kick
ing out of the Republican traces. But
they underestimated their man. MIR.
Griffin is too earnestly interested in
temperance reform to allow personal
pique, even had he suffered any, to
veer him from the straight path. He
estimates the Third party movement
at it's proper value, and is not at all
backward about expressing his opinion.
In late letter Mr., Griffin roasts the
ProhibitIonists after this fashion:
To hear these zealots talk in their
lhop-skip- and-jump fashion one would
| think the Wiping out of existence of a
party 5000, 900 strong by one about a
| twentieth as large is a mere pastime
for them, but proper statement OF the
case will show that there is an element
of doubt, in fact several doubts. Here
are few of them: If we can defeat
/ the Republican party this year, by
drawing from its ranks enough jealous
| temperance men to enable the saloon
party to triumph; and if the Republi
can party becomes so cowed that it re-
fuses even to kick and Straightway
gives up the ghost; and if its members
prove to be devoid of human nature
| and conclude to kiss the hand thai
smOte them; and if woman suffrage does
not prove to be AN old nan of the
mountains on our shoulders; and if {
majority of the people suddenly become
Indifferent to the tariff, currency, i'm
migration, labor, land and other ques
lions about which they now care NOR
than they do for anything else; or If W.
are able to make the supporters OF boil
sides of other questions believe we favO
their views and if enough of these an
tagonistic elements can be welded to
gether under our leadership to consti
tute a majority party, we will Surel!
win. And then, and in that case, i
our legislators are uniformly wise; ant
our officers Jealous and efficient; and
no new set of misguided enthusiasts
rejected Office seekers, crankS and mar
plots, are led by our success to follow
our example, and break our party T.
pieces, in order to use its fragments II
the building of another, before we shal
have done our perfect work, we vii
wipe the saloons from the face of tn
earth-as soon as we can, and every
thing will be lOVely-With us on top.
This is rather severe and will max
some of our Third party brethren siz
zle, but it will impress the unbiase
observers all over the country as bein
a true expose of the Prohibitionists
| nOsitiOn
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There is one important fact that Sem
ator Voorhees, seems to overlook in
every political speech he essays to
make, and that is that he himself has
record. In his recent harangue at
Terre Haute he charged the Republican
party with conspiring to discriminate
against and degrade the immortal
greenback. SThis conspiracy, he assert
ed, was entered into in 1852 when the
greenback was made non-receivable
for duties on imports and for interest
on the bonded debt of the United
States. With regard TO this charge,
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, secretary of
the Republican Congressional commit
tee, has this to say:
81 was amazed when l read that
passage IRON Senator voorhees,
speech. AS member of the House in
1862 he voted against the Stevens
amendment to the bill to authorize the
issue of greenbacks. That amendment
made the greenback legal tender fol-
all purposes. including customs duties,
interest on the public debt and for all
debts owing by the United States tc
anybody within the United States
The amendment W as adopted and theI
Voorhees, voted against the bill, along
with PendletOn, Vallandigham, Sun
set Cox, Holman and most Of
the other Democrats. The Senat'
few days later passed /;
legal tender bill which was in many
! respects the same as the House bill
When the subject again came befort
the House, and the Senate amend
, ments were considered, Mr.. VOORHEES,
: voted for the proviso requiring interes
on the public debt to be paid in coin
That amendment was carried by vot'
: of eighty-eight to fifty-five, and forty
) two of the Affirmative votes were cas-
by Democrats, while fifty-three of tn
: negative votes were cast by Repubh
y cans. In other words, the Republican
: conspiracy to degrade the immorta
: greenback succeeded lay the votes o
n forty-two Democrats. Including VooT
4 hees, and forty-six Republicans, Will
q fifty-t Republicans and two Demo
3 Gratis voted to prevent it. Mr.. Vool
e hees evidently has forgotten the paI
o he took in the conspiracy, or else b
a has changed his mind. He was one @
= the criminals in 1852 whose crime he S
, | vigorously donOunceS- in 1885,
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GEN. SHERIDAN's promotions were
as follows: Commissioned second
lieutenant, November %, 1854; first
lieutenant, March l, 1861; captain,
May Il, 1861; colonel OF volunteers,
May %, 1862; brigadier-generaI of vol
unteers, July l, 1862; major general of
volunteers, December 81 1858; bngadier
general of regular army, September 10,
1864; major general of regular army
November 8, 1864; lieutenant general
of the army March 1, 1863, and gener-
al, June ], 1888.
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THE following may possible be true,
as We find it in the editorial column of
the Kansas City Star. Nevertheless it
sounds a little fishy:
The effort to introduce private de-
tective methods into Mexico has proved
a failure. Upon the application of the
Mexican Central railroad TO a noted de-
tective agency in this country, a mem
Der of the force WAS sent to Mexico to
ferret out thefts which had been COM
mitted on the cars, presumably by the
employees of the railroad. The detec-
tive, disguised as a brakeman, APP
preached some of the conductors, who
were under suspicion, with a PROPOSE
ton to rob the cars. The matter was
promptly reported by the conductors to
the magistrate of the city i'll which the
train was lying. and the result was
that the detective was sentenced to
thirteen years imprisonment in penal
settlement in Yucatan, for melting
thievery. The superintendent of the
railroad sought to save the detective
by making full explanation of the
matter, but the judge decided that a
conspiracy to ruin train employees pre-
Sented no mitigating circumstances
and informed the superintendent that
if he was a party to any more sucf
schemes he would be sent to keep his
detective company in Yucatan.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-16

Mr.. HUMPHREY has been challenged
by the democrats to meet Judge Martin
on the stump and discuss political
issues with him, yet republican editors
pretend to know nothing about it. If
your man has any sand. trot him out.
You should not be afraid, ne has a
good margin of votes to fall back on
Democrat.
If talk would save the democrats OF
make their cause just, General Grant
would never have been able to have
defeated them at Appomatox. Blythe
way, what's the matter with having
a discussion between Harrison and
Cleveland? Possibly the Democrat
would not be anxious for that, as Har
rison is, unlike Grant or Humphrey
about as good talker as he was I
| fighter
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A DAY or two ago the Democrat had
quite lengthy article abusive of Chi
cage manufacturers because of the
small wages paid the girls employed in
the factories. AS shown up by the
Times of that city. But the hypocri-
tical editor of the sheet that has most
of its type set in Kansas City on the
Cheap John plan has not word of
sympathy for those who work for him
self at even lower wages than paid by
Chicago manufacturers.
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DURING the campaign of 1910, says
the New York Star, huge wooden
ball about ten feet in diameter was
rolled from one end of the country to
the other, beginning at Cumberland,
Maine. Its progress excited a good
deal of enthusiasm for the first Gen
eral Harrison, and an attempt is being
made to repeat the experiment this
year by the republicans of the same
town. The original ball is, of course,
not in existence, but another one has
been constructed as near like it as pos
Sihla
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The funeral services of the daughter
of II. H. White were held at the resi-
dence Friday at 8 O'Clock, a. m. Mr..
White and his mother came in Thurs
day afternoon as expected and they
knew nothing of the sad event until
apprised OF it at the depot. Rev.
Sargent conducted the services and his
remarks were full of comfort and
blessed promises for the bereayed
family and friends. Some appropri-
ate music was furnished by the Methe-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-16

LAST evenings Democrat gives what
1t calls The Mills BILL and a COM
plete list of duties reformed thereby,
which is fraud on its face, being sim
ply extracts from the bill calculated to
deceive the people in the interests of
democracy. AS an example we give
Sec. 40 of the bill as passed by the
house, and. which the Democrat in its
plate article does not even refer to:
Sec. 40. That all clauses of section
S244 OF the revised statutes, and all
laws amendatory thereof, and all other
laws which impose any special taxes
upon manufacturers of stills, retail
dealers in liquors, and retail dealers in
malt liquors, are hereby repealed.
And yet the Democrat claims the re-
publican is the free whisiy'' party.
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AMONG the charters filed yesterda

AMONG the charters filed yesterday
at Topeka was one called the Hutch
inson Social Club" object, social en-
jOyment. Directors, Henry SchmeCz-
Ter, Otto Kock, Z. Bowen, Wichita;
Dell Haynes and john Boyd, Hutchin-
son. 1t is to be hoped that this inva
sion of the Dutch from Wichita will be
promptly repealed by our excellent po-
lice, and'that, together with the fellow
Hayns and Boyd, they will be locked
up somewhere for the good of the OF
der. If Hutchinson wants any grol
shops she will start them herself
Hutchinson News.
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IT i'll becomes the Emporia Demo
Ocrat to howl about the oppression OF
the poor laboring man or hurl INJECT
ives at the Santa Fe company for pay
ing starvation wages to its section
hands, viz, IS cents a day, while the
Democrat itself does not pay even as
good wages as these to its printers
the foreman of their Office only receiv.
ing So week, or S2k cents day. This
is Free Trade" with vengeance.
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Over 200 farmers and stock men at
tended the sheriff's sale of cattle at the
Missouri Pacific stock yards Thursday.
The cattle for sale were those formerly
belonging to the Jones boys of Reading,
and over which there has been somuch
difficulty. There were 12O head and
they brought very fair prices and sold
rapidly. L. F. Pruyn conducted the
sale and c.. S. Cross acted as clerk.
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dist choir and others. The remains
were incased in in q beautiful white
plush covered casket, very hand
somely ornamented.
AT the conclusion Of the
services the casket was born
to the hearse by the pail bearers
Messrs. Joe King, W. C. Harris, John
and Verne harrington. and followed by
the family and friends proceeded to thu
cemetery at Neosho Rapids where the
remains were committed to their last
resting place.
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ONE reason of the treasury surplus
is the deficiencies in appropriations de-
liberately made by the democratic ma
jority of the house. Their policy is to
run the government on deficiencies in
stead of its revenues, for partisan pur-
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a REMARKABLE strip of the new
railroad from Buenos Ayres to the
Andes is probably the longest tangent
in the world, extending 2ll miles with.
out curve. 1t is further notable as
having no bridge in the entire distance
and no cut or fill exceeding about a
yard in depth or height.
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IT is claimed, on apparently good
authority that the shortage in the
wheat crop of Great Britain and
France, for the coming year will be
from 10000, 900, to 100, OOO, 600
bushels, and that the deficit cannot
be met by surplus from India where
small crop has been harvested. To
the Uuited States and Russia West
ern Europe must then look to meet
the deficiency. This being true, our
farmers may depend npon better
price than they have realized for
several years past. Do not be in a
hurry to sell.
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TIE saloon keepers of Kansas City
are showing themselves to be veritable
saloonatics, by making an ayowed at
tempt to control the politics of the
city. It will result In republican vic
tory if only persisted in.