Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-16
THAT $40, 600 MORE.

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Everybody, Of course, realizes the
fact that political campaign involves
many expenses. There are fireworks to
stimulate the admiration of youth;
there is powder burnt to rouse the slnm-
bering or apatbetic; there are torch
lights innumerable, to convince waver-
ing neutrals of the power which rests
in the party that carries them ; aud
there are flaming posters that announce
future eloquence and prepare the mind
+! for feast of rhetoric. 1t is qnite IA
tional to suppose that all these little in
dulgences incident to politics must be
paid for, and it is hardly judicious rea-
soning to argue that because man is
generous and aids his side by liberal
donation, bribery is the motive which
suggested it. We can readily under
stand how gentlemen whose profession
is the law, find politics an absorbing
study. We can also deduce from this
a satisfactory reason for muniticence
when finances permit. The profession
of law and the adoption OF strong po-
litical sentiments are so closely related
that some of the money made by prac
ticing the one may, with perfect con-
sistency, be given in support of the
other. The less Immediate interest one
has in the result, just SO much will his
liberality diminish, The captions and
complaining give nothing. Those in
mercantile life. who simply espouse one
side or the other, give in small sums as
their means allow.
We do not look to such as profess to
be outside the inner circle for astound-
ing figures to indicate their benevo-
lence, especially when City Treasures
are open to the managers of the party
they would aid. 1t really seems waste
full. Our credullty was therefore strong
" tested when we read the statement
that prominent New York druggist
had placed $40, 1000 at the disposal of
the Democracy. IF that party has be-
come such powerful drug that one of
its own darling disciples bids for it to
bottle up for future use, our expecta-
tions are realized little III advance of
time. We had ourselves become fearful
that such would be its fate, but we did
not anticipate seeing the purchase made
in open market.
Now what is it supposed that this fra
grant decoction will cure after Mr..
Helmbold has profusely manipulated
it, and become its sole vender by let
tiers patent? Anything we suspect that
is susceptible of being influenced by
Santa Cruz rum IS. T.-1S60-X? p and
a distillation that is born of Rye. We
really think the $40, 900 cheap invest
ment in view of the advantages gained.
Triple Extract of Democracy will doubt
less be the most popular thing in the
market, and rank next to Ammonia in
strength. Nothing in mate''ia naeClica
will furnish comparison. Chemistry
is on the eve of a new discovery. 1t
will cure everything that can be stimu-
lated into health by the aforesaid dis
titled cereal, everything that can be re-
vived by sniff of John Aliens district,
and all delicate diseases which can only
be reached by paradoxioal remedy as
aristocratic Democracy. We predict
for it a success far excelling that of Blu
chu, and we congratulate Mr.. Fl. upon
the discriminating foresight which he
has manifested We furthermore cor
daily commend it to the public in ad-
vance of its announcement, and we may
soon expect to seeit advertised on every
wall big enough to harbor
an industrious Hottentot, and every in
accessible ledge apparently in the
United States and British Provinces.