The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
The fEangsnaa Of MRS. S,.rcats for
President.

A short time ago the "policy" wing of
the democratic party-a body small in
numbers, bat large in pretentions-wa in
ecstacies over Sherman. Some of that
party trotted him out, and hurrahed yo-
cilerously for the man, as they claimed,
who could bea. any bipe1 in America rul-
ring over the presidential track. He was
halnessed gaudily, aud, at Saint Louis
made trial. But it was failure and
it was found that very few were willing to
invest in the pool for him, he .'rcare1 up
behind and before" threw his riders and
mounted Burbridge. He threw off the
covering so lightly throSn about him, aud
now stands forth in all his naked deformi-
ty--the scourge, not only of poor, crush
ed, robbed aud plundered Georgia, Miss
issippi, Alabama, and North aud South
Carolina, but OF trusting, deceived and
swindled Kentucky Burbridge, the
Bloody, was, Sherman now says, but tool
in tie hands Of himself, Stanton aud
Holt
What delectablc candidate for the
presidency on the democratic ticket. From
this, o God, save the long-suifering peo-
PIE! They have lived through untoG
prosecutions and expressions through
fendish cruetics aud barbarous and
beastly practices; through rigid sufyeiI-
lance and inquisitions, preserving ever
their fidelity to principle and hoping al
most against hope; they have lived down
false charges, unjust suspicious, grave
falsehoods and brazen lies; but from that
degradation may God deliver them Tor
We fear it would be more than they could
bear!
However, Sherman stock is not so high
ly priced now as it was. Those who
clamored SO loudly for him short time
ago have dropped him, and picked up an
other military satrap, who had not beeu
proconsul Of the Fifth Cromweliian de-
partmcnt more than two days before he
got his name into all quarters of the couu-
try as the man FOR democratic candidate.
The name Of this new light, which for a
fortnight shone with such brillancy, is
Hancock. On the mere mention of it,
democratic statesmen with presidential as
pirations, everywhere crawlcd into their
holes and bid in trembling silence. Pen
dleton burrowed into the earth, Seymour
climbed up a tree, Vallandigham got
down into a drywell, Pierce tainted, Fill
more locked himself in his closet, Voor-
hees shook till his teeth fell out, and Dan.
Rice lied the ring! They were nowhere,
Hancock, the satrap, was everywhere.
His name appeared each morning in the
telegraph columns of the whole press in
tremendous letters. His stock was up, and
the military fever was high. We saw a
seedy democrat rubbing his hands in great
glee one morning.
whats the matter?" asked we.
"What's the rnatter? Well, good deal.
We've got the man now-Hancock."
"For what"
"Why, for president! Haven't you read
the papers? Don't you see?"
"Oh, yes! Hancock-the man at New
Orleans! Hancock, the satrap tho man
acho hanged poor 1Mrs. Surrou'"
Mrs. Sur-oh. ycs!-ahem! that is
but you see We must beat Grant,"
And SO it goes. These policy demo-
Gratis are the craziest fellows in the land.
They would run the devil, if lie could get
a vote from Plutonians, never calculating
the number he would lose on that side
But, like AL the military material that
has been brought out from time to time,
Hancock is disappearing from public view.
He is obscured by the ghost of murder
cd woman
The hangman of Mrs. Surratt won't do
for the candidate Of democrats any more
than the hummer chief will do.-Senttisel
on tie Border