Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-05
POOR DESERTED SIMON DRUM.
Let Him that Hath Tears, Prepare
tn Shed Them Now. 81

POOR DESERTED SIMON DRUM.
Let Him that Hath Tears. Prepare
to Shed Them Now.
1t is but a few weeks since the Locofoco lead
ers and papers all over the country were bewail-
ing the removal of Simon Drum from the Green's
burg Post Office. The very air was filled with
their lamentations. Simon had only held the
place some forty years, and il was the most ruth
less cruelty in the Wbig Administration to turn
him out of office. Indignation meetings were held,
at which boasts were made, that "Old Simon"
should be supplied with better Office at the hands
of his Locofoco brethren. Well, they held their
convention on the 10th ultimo, and allwere uptoe
to see what would be done for the "martar" whose
head had fallen under ".whig prescription" Mr..
Drum was announced by his friends as candi-
date for the Office of County Commissioner. An
appeal was made to the convention to stand by
the man that had been so cruelty treated-that has
done so much for the Locofoco cause. 1t was
even pleaded that his defeat in nomination would
be disgrace to the party, and prove that all their
professed sympathy was hollow hearted hypocrisy,
the object of which was to raise hue and cry
against the New Administration, without cause
But the appeal did not save him. -Four ballots
were had, and Drum was beaten two to one, MIR.
J. w. Marshall being nominated on the last ballot.
So the sympathy for poor Drum has all oozed out,
like Bob Acres, at the fingers. His tremendous
popularity was not sufficient to obtain for him
nomination for the office of County commissioner.
But the Locofocos of Westmoreland know him.
and can appreciate his merits. They have writ
ten " hypocrisy" upon thoir own front, and pro-
nounced him unworthy" So poor old Drum
9" In vain looks back to what he was before;
He sets like stars that fall to rise no more"
The following is the Locofoco ticket of West
moreland county:
Assembly-John T. M'Cullouch, H. p Laird,
Joseph Guffey. Sherif-John Huges. Register
T. ]. Barclay. COMMISSIONER. w. Marshall.
Auditor-Ephram Lloyd Coroner-B. Haines.
TruStees-D. K Marchand, H. d. Foster.
The Westmoreland Aatelligencer in noticing the
ticket, says s
sin scanning the above ticket the reader will
not be little surprised that the name of Simon
Drum, is nowhere to be found in the honored list.
Alas! for poor Simon Drum" He has now ex-
perfenced, and the people have witnessed the hol-
low hearted sympathies of Locofoeoism.
All must remember the inconsiderable grief
which seemed to overwhelm the Republican, and
Pennsylvania Argus-the Pittsburg Post, Bedford
Gazette, Pennsylvania and Washington Union,
in consequence of Mr.. Drums late removal from
the Post Office in this place. Tears flowed like
" rivers of water" down the grief worn visages of
these weeping Jeremiahs.
And, at the great supper of coincidence, without
distinction of party,) poignant grief we'll feIgned,
seemed with many, to dull the ' keen edge of ap-
petite" and the genial flow of conviviality which
were wont to enlven the social board on less mel
anchoy occasions was quite absorbed in the re-
grets of sympathising friends (without distinction
of party) B- G-a
And then-the speeches and toasts delivered
on the occasion the touching eloquence-the
warm adulation-the deep sympathy expressed
for the revered guest-the scathing, scorching,
whitening, invectiye poured out against Wing pro-
scription and ingratitude, moved some locofocos,
it was said to tears, and no doubt to the beefthat
the party only waited with imparience) the op-
por,unity to bestow upon Mr.. Drum some fat Of
fee, that in his declining years would enable him
to support his family, and sooth the asperiies that
accumulate in the pathway of old age.
But o! how vain are the hopes that are based
upon political faith especially of the genus Loco
foco. The fountain of its tears is so shallow that
it is dried up before they have begun to 1ow--its
sympates are like Jonah's gourd, the worm ofin-
gratitude is at the root and they wther before the
first rays of the morning sun.
We stated at the time that the day was not far
distant when locofoco consistency would be put
to the test; and its hypocrisy exposed. That day
has arrived, and the predictions of many have been
fully verified. 1t was predicted them, that Mr.
Drum would get no Office from the party and
that prediction has proved true. Mr.. Drum was
used for the occasion for the purpose of creating
prejudice against General Taylor's admnstra.
ton ; but the device has been completely frustra-
ted and exposed. -"
Of all the fat Offices which the locofocos Of
Westmoreland county have in their gift not one,
either great or small, has fallen to the lot of poor
Simon Drum" a}34. sEt