Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
Editorial Corresponds nee.

| IINttSN-Aity Ott. in, 1904.
n u.) from indianapolis to Cincin.
natl, even at night, in such u superb
coach as the railroad company run be-
tween those two cities, is luxury
which people who travel from Grinnel
or Washington to Chicago know moth.
ing about. We have held meeting
over which l had the honor to preside
and OF which our better-half" was
Secretary, whereat it was unanimously
Resolved that the company owning
the Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad
shall, and the same do hereby receive
our thanks for running the best cars
in America, and for knowing how tc
manage a road, according to our notion
of things" But what's railroad to
things" in general, especially to the
| defunct Mackerels Cars Why they
want nothing but funeral car, and
that of an exceedingly plain and cheap
| character. Little Mackerels, did say
Who has seen any this side of Pennsyl-
vania? Mackerels: Why it is said in
! have been Dodd-damned by Oliver Nor
ton, who had the courage aud patriot
ism to seize their weapons and expose
their Internal plans. Mackerels? New
er was school of them sitter than in
| the grand old North West. dedicated
forever to Freedom by the wisdom of All
old time Democrat. They are stiff.
stark cold and dead
The court-martial in Indianapolis,
before which are being tried several
members of the Indiana Democratic
Rangers, is only demonstrating that
other men besides Dodd are guilty OF
conspiracy and treason. But what is
that voice which reaches me over the
wires from Iowa? More Democratic
Rangers, eh? Well, the Cops. of Iowa
say their skirts are clean from the faint
of conspiracy and treason. But what
has the the grand and petit juries OF our
United States Court in Iowa said to the
Poweshiek and Mahaska Rangers: No
reasonable organization in the Demo
they?
Passing up Fifth street, I think ii
was, to-day, my attention was attracted
to very creditable bust of Henry Clay
and still another of Daniel Webster
And where do you think they were,
reader? They adorned the front of a
very cheap Jew clothing store, and were
clad with such apparel az Was there to
DE bought. To what base purposes the
great and good are brought, thought l.
AS these Jews displayed the familiar
aces OF Clay and Webster, 80 do the
buyers and sellers of principles display
the term Democracy. The Jew store
was no more attractive to NE because
Clay and Webster were there, than are
the reasonable and humiliating purpo-
ses OF party, with the Democratic
name.
Here, there and yonder I read "lst
Ward Union Club Room" "3d Ward
Union Headquarters, and so on, but
not once to-day have l seen a Demo
cratic banner or club room.
IN Ohio the contest is at an end. The
October storm stripped the Butternuts
of their foliage. Since then not a snake
has Kissed. Ohio is safe for 100, 900 on
the Sth, and her giants feel so secure
that they have gone into the harvest
fields of Kentucky and New Jersey,
hoping to save much good wheat,
among the tares. Even PendIeton has
been compelled to retire to the embrace
of SeymOur's New York friends, and
seek relief from his recent prostratiOn.--
The day before the Ohio election, PEN
dlct0n was mum on the Union question,
but opposed to coercion. The next day
he had no opinion but that of "Union. "
Now " Union" may mean the union of
Il Southern with North Western Con-
tederacy, or it may mean q union where
in one party gets all, tho other nothing,
ana there may be union with total loss
OF honor by the one party. "The
Union y IL too vague term. Mr.. PEN
d!eton's ideas OF Union have long since
been made pubiic anG the people have
time and again, and viii still again re-
pudiatc then.
Sheridan, when he struck Early,
Knocked thunder (not very refined, but
an expressive term out Of the Chicago
platform. Ohio, and Indiana, end
Pennsylvania, sent it reeling. The
thing has scarcely spark OF vitality
since Pap Price resume.; his "trot aud
early was Knocked entiwaye the third
time. Cops, prepare Your eDitaphs.
your sends of life are nearly run out.