Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-14
sHopDY POLITICIANS.

ohoauyi sSA" WuiSh hos SoWs
into quite general use since the com.
mencement Of the recent war of the
Southern rebellion, yet comparatively
few, other than those interested in army
contracts or familiar with the CONNER.
cial undercurrent and supply transac'
tons connected with the "pomp and
circumstance" of the war, fully under
stand the real Specification Of the word,
A Down East paper informs us, on the
authority Of ''one of the first business
men in Connecticut" that
Shoddy 10 old, worn.out, unfelted wooden
goods made Of slack twisted yarn, picked to
pieces BY machinery especially adapted to
the purpose. It 10 mixed with wool Of Longer
fiber and staple, and when carded together
can be spun finer or coarser, according e
the proportion It bears to the new WOO
making the compound. A large percentage
Of shoddy can be thus mixed with new wool
and made into yarn ft for either warp OF wool
or yarn for Knitting purposes. Mungo. Il
another name for old and worn-out fine felt
goods and broadcloth clothes, pickedt to pieces
In the same manner It 10 the finer article
and when properly prepared can be worked
into the finest black cloth to be found IN thu
market. A very large proportion Of oil the
satinet in the market Is more or less impreg,
mated with shoddy. The same may be saio
Of hosiery and stockinet goods. II Is conse'
q~uently worn BY the many, and those who dc
not get it on In one form or another are TIT
favored few.
Sboddy, however, is not confined to
clothing, blankets, and the various de-
scripsions Of inanimate goods, but |,
enters largely into the warp and WOO
Of the human race. Especially is il
emblematic of the politicians of the
present day, and the worn-out political
hacks of the Democratic party. Old
and "frail," they are always subject tc
be picked to pieces, and are ever ready
to be mixed in with som foreign oil
more permanent element, even more OIL
less "wool," in order to carry out theil
ends. Devoid oftru G moral and social
principles, they roll and surge about in
the great political SEQ, as Ferguson
says, in his notorious "Inaugural,'
"splashiug their angry foam upon the
great ships deck, and threatening new
disasters to the Government"
Whatever form Of goods they may be
reconstructed" into, they are shod'
dy" still and won't do to depend on,
They are liable to break out in a new
place at any unexpected moment, and
never wear we'll. California is full OIL
these shoddy politicians, TO- that the
Democracy are in power there. Birds
Of a feather flock together" and sad are
we to acknowledge that the Golden State
is the paradise Of those frail old fabrics,
But this will not always be so. This
Fall shoddy will be at q discount in
California, and when Grant and Colfal
shall have carried the State-as they
most sssuredly will-at the November
election, such ,hoddy will ever after
ward be deemed only fit for carpet rags
for good honest Republicans to walk on,
We have enough Of them in Nevada,
especially in Storey County, but well
pick them to pieces this Fall and lei
them stay so. Shoddy politicians,
threadbare, worn out demagogues, pre-
pare for q final rest among other shop
worn goods long since laid away on the
political shelf. Shoddy ye always were
oud unto shoddy 70 must return.