Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-07-27
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The Four Year Old Democracy!


Cervantes' hero, but are again being enact
ed, with an amusing effect, before the good
people of this county, by q few rampant four
year old democrats who, seized with fu-
ror for office, have lately conceived the ro-
mantle idea that to them has been commit
ted the guardianship of the old line de-
mocracy; and from early morn until evening
may now be seen at any of our public gath
erings this entire batch (seven or eight of
renegade wings, clawing in the blindness of
their Juror at every object, whether whig or
democrat, (perhaps most frequently the lat
ter) that appears TO stand in the way of
their promotion;-now debating which one
of the ole line democrats is TO be struck
down; anon, with all the gravity of Pick
wickian club determining what end of the
niger question they shall severally work
upon in order to satisfy the democracy that
TO these simon pure four year ods, and to
them only, belong the offices, and should any
old democrat demur TO this principle on ac-
count of being himself a tester, he is imme-
diately pointed 10 the great ravoges already
made upon that end of the niger question,
upon which the Testers are at work. Should
another demur on account Of his objection
to the test, he is Immediately pointed to the
scars and seams upon that end, upon which
the non-Testers are hourly engaged in their
futile efforts to close the wounds made upon
the entire carcass in the first blindness of
their fury. And should an honest old dem
ocrat be so hardened as still to doubt the
soundness of this principle, he is referred
10 the address of the Wing Central Commit
tee of 1910, which in the hands of these
four year Odds can be made TO mean almost
anything. For you must know that each
of those gentlemen. like their prototype HUI
dibras, is
''In logic a great critics
Profoundly shallow in analytc.''
And ready upon all occasions TO show that
those whose political opinions are in mar
ket for office should be attended to speedi-
ly. But these fatlings having despaired Of
any effectual aid from the old line democ-
racy, whom they have insulted, in mounting
them into office, are working with all the
ardor of desperation to render themselves
ridiculous.
For this purpose one j. w. A. Patterson
having perhaps more brass and less sense
than any of the others, and therefore more
willing to undertake the terrible feat, boot.
ed and spurred is mounted upon this Test
=, horse, which has already been so fatal tc
the aspiring Jims of Missouri, for neck
or nothing ride over the wings and old line
democrats of the county. Already, in par
perhaps owing to the awkwardness of The
; rider, this piebald, spawned, hip-shotten
, knock kneed, wind broken steed has seizet
the bit and is putting his affrighted rider
through some gyratory maneuvres truly
horrfying TO the four year olds.
The first charge of this testy steed ant
rider was against the old line democ
racy for the privilege of riding the race
After some months surging, some $50 on
of the 100 voters of the county, actual,
. passed in his favor, many of them no doub
:, thinking it as well to sacrifice him as SOM
one of more worth, while others were will
" ling TO risk much for the sake of the fun hi
antics would afford.
Being now fully mounted and plungin,
from side to side, with loud, cracked SCUM,
Of his own brazen horn, his next charge wa
= against some frightful votes given in tn
Legislature in 1874. Many looked upol
this terrific charge as one that must swee]
4 away all opposition, and give to the fou
. year Odds that proud superiority to whicl
their effrontery entitled them, and alread,
i the clappers were on the ground with the
paper cap to crown their hero. But 10! VIII,
this quailing Of horse and rider?-why thi
o terrible CONSERVATION in the camp of tn
four year Odds? Horrible revelation! Th
poll books of 1916 are produced and shov
!, these votes, that promised so much capital
:, and against which all men had been warned
are the very ones that the rider with all hi
g clappers endorsed two years after they wer
given! Who would have believed it, afte
the splutterng and splurging of the Ban
ner's sub-rosa editor, that the man he ha
e selected to defeat Col. Davis on account {
y these votes, was one of those who in 1874
II voted for Davis against the body of the Of
5 line democracy? This testy rider say
as nothing wrong in these votes then, and pei
lie haps endorses them now; but they wer
lie seized upon because they promised to max
III III cumberland so they did with vengeanc
- but il struck those who manufactured i
n Is it any wonder that horse and rider wei
n, driven upon their beam ends by this frigh