The daily Butte record., 1858-09-09
~ Campaigming.

These political campaigns bring
about results Of great pith and moment
particularly to Office seekers and gam
blers; but with none do they work
greater troubles, and vexatious than to
the daily toiling news writer. The
campaign itself keeps him in con-
tinual state of feverish excitement but
then it furnishes him with subjects !;
and like selfregulating machine keeps
itself supplied with material to run on.
But the result, whether for better or
worse is his calamity. The grand finale
leaves him feeling as child feels after
seeing thrilling play; glad it is
terminated, but like Oliver Twist long
ing for more When the fight is over,
your poor journalist feels as Othello
did =; his occupations gone" All his
capital Of sharp-shooting, offensive and
defensive; all his store Of patriotic ar
dor; all his answering fealty to his
party, are but an overstock Of useless
commodities ;-more useless and bur-
densome to himself than the surplus
tickets left in hands of the ballot ped
lar when the polls close at sundown Of
election day.
With this matter cumbering his
senses, still must he cudgel his half par
alyzed brain, and gather fresh stock
of thought to please his abusers withal.
What scores Of half fedged ideas he
conjures up! What perplexity he
finds himself in, when after inumerable
attempts to grasp some one Of the phan-
tasn,s that fit apast his minds eye, he
finds himself entirely adrift, striving,
to master the homeliest, dryest morsel
ofa subject that floats misti'y by him
and all in vain.
Politics are nuisance so to speak.
A necessary evil like the existence
Of flies, lawyers and lunatic asylums.
Without them, the country, which is
periodically in danger, would never be
safe. OF course there is q right and
wrong side to these politics, and if we
didn't keep stirring them over. they
might get fixed wrong side up, and then
we should be in deplorablc plight, and
we might have q continuous century of
"campaigning'' to capsize a wrong side
that we could have kept down half the
time If We had only worked away indus
triously and struck while the iron was
hot. As patriots then, we can't keep
out Of these campaigns we must busy
ourselves with them, and if necessary
50 cngross our minds as to come out
Of the battle with our sconcc boxes
crammed with nothing but the anu
milton and old army stores Of our regis
ments and ba.talions, and so much war
horses as to be united for working in
the harness Of peace and poverty.
Did We not fear making false vows.
We would forswear Campaigns" and
study theology, agriculture, 6eld.sports
s7iritualism or something else but we
know our weakness. and just as much
expect to be drawn into the next vor-
tex Of politics as we do to hear calls for
"copy" within the next ten minutes.
We do believe drunkard or opium.
cater can be reclaimed and made a re.
spectacle member Of society, but when
an editor has once lived into the po-
li'ical puddl,, he is bound for ever
after, to take to the filthy pool, as ma
turally and regularly as goslins rush
for horseponds. Well, "there is a d.
viuity that shapes our ends" etc. and
we can't help it; but we wish that q
campaign could DO ceased off" more
gradually and not leave us SO little fitted
for other subjects of interest and i'm.
portance. We are ,ramping on al
treadmili.