Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-11-04
DOOIITTIlE.

Doolittle has been with us again-hav-
ing done such good execution in Peunsyl-
vania, Ohio, and Indiana, he returned
upon us of Wisconsin, In spite of the
fact that wherever Doolittle went the path
behind him was Illuminated with Repub-
lican victories, still the Democrats chung
to their theory that he was a great man
and successful expounder of their doc
trines. Poor Doolittle be looks more
solemn than ever; but we cannot wonder
at it, for the man who has experienced
the changes which he has passed through
during the last few years must have a
vivid realization Of the uncertainty of HUI
man affairs and live in constant dread of
what the future has in store for him.
Five years ago he delivered strong radi-
cal speech in Wat ertown, and we remem-
Der we'll how he announced with solemn
visage and deep sonorous terms to his
awe-struck hearers, that he was San earn
est mau come to talk to earnest men y
It was the first time we had heard him
get it off and we thoughtful big thing
Less than two years after he wheedled,
coaxed, and bored our State convention
into adopting some conservative, milk and
water resolutions which had the effect Of
disgusting nearly every Republican voter
in the State. The next year we find him
as chairman of the Bread and Butter con-
ventlon at Philadelphia, with brooks of
salt water running down his cheeks at
sight Of Massachusetts and South Carolina
coming into the Convention arm in arm.
Soon after we saw him standing alone,
"grand, gloomy and peculiar" on the Re-
publican platform, dec laring that the par
ty had run off and left him but that he
would never be a Democrat. Not lone
after the Legislature of tbs State request.
ed him to resign, but in the most super.
clllous manner he refused to do so, SAYING
that the backwoodsmen of Wisconsin did
not know what they were talking about
He finally reached the end of his through
trip, landing squarely in the bosom Of
Democracy, and began the campaign a
few weeks since in Milwaukee by address
ing wondering and delighted copperhead
audience as acknowledgements" .n
One of our neighbors has tame crow
which possesses the peculiar qualities Of
that bird--the love Of mischief and the
faculty of imitation--in a remark able de.
gree. Not long since, in passing we saw
the crow standing upon fence initiating
IN the moss comical manner the gable Of
a goose, while below him on the walk had
gathered large flock of geese, whose
physlognomies, SO far as their limited
means OF expression would permit, exhib.
tied the utmost wonder and delight
Gould they have spoken, no doubt each
goose would have said, ''can it be possible
that this fellow who looks SO little like a
goose and has acted so little like one is
after all, a goose :" AS We passed on
leaving the crow and geese Cabling alter
nately and with ever-increaslng inthusi-
asm, we thought of the facile Doolittle
and his wondering, yelling and delighted
FellewDemocrats" in Milwaukee. ~
But let US not mourn the loss of Doolit
tie, for since he left US he has been far
more efficient Republican campaigner than
ever before, and after his short remaining
term of office has expired he will sink into
an obscurity and oblivion for which there
will be no intermiss:on nor redemption.
Vale Doolittle.