The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-02
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command of the leaders, who had selected
several dilapidatcd specimens of fshy
Rcnublicans, as aids, the Democracy OF
the borough imagined that they had
every thing fixed for brilliant Demo
cratic victory at the spring election
They labored, in every conceivable way
both reputable and disrcputablc, more
particularly the latter, to secure this end
They begged, they prayed, they threat
eued, they swore, aud they did every
thing else but stick to the truth to &C
complish it. They nominated ticket.
and they laborcd for its success both day
and night, in season and out of season.
They selected men for the several posi-
tions, in whom the leaders had no po-
litical confidence, solely because they
were less repugnant to the Republican
majority than out and out Simon
Pines !" would have been. The election
was held, the polls were closed, the bal
lots were counted, and 10! they found
their loves labor lost. Their ticket was
defeated
The Republicans, believing that
none but true and tried men should
be placed on guard, selected none but
men of uudoubted political infexibility
as their candidates representative men
of Republican principles, and, of course,
men of honor and honesty. The ticket
| formed, it was left to the candid choice
of the voters for election or rejection.
Not wishing to squelch our Democratic
brethren, ct once, because our fun with
them would then have been at an end, la
Dor was dispensed with, and the ballot alone
was brought into play. The ticket, with
the exception of the constable candidate,
whose opponent had denied any thing
like politics being connected with his
running, was elected This wa. hardly
intended as a condemnation of the men
who were the candidates of the opposi-
ton, but it was a wi,hcring rebuke to
the unprincipled leaders who set them
up" and to the despicable principles
which have ruled the Democracy, from the
adoption of the Lecompton Constitution
policy, to the present time. The msjori-
ties were not heavy, in figures, but they
were certainly heavy in results and effect.
on the tempcrs and hides of their leaders
and their mouth piece. The whip .marted,
and every single one of a majority was as
/ the sting Of bee on the cousciences Of as
hard set Of political sinners, as ever at
tempted to draw comfort from a cheat at
tempted to be imposed upon the people
Our suiable neighbor Of the Demo
crat appears to feel the sting of the
whip with particular severity, He foun-
ders and blows and spirits around much
after the fashion of wounded gudgeon
and gives vent to his spleen in such
words as ' Radicalism," " bigoted tory
ism" tory vipers," and attempts to
d" COuSOldtlOu lIOlu iUNcutiODS SO veal
that even his own partizans laughed at
hi, folly, exhibited in their publication.
| How much better it would have been to
have truthfully acknowledged the defeat.
to have repented OF his numerous past
sins, and to have determined so, in the
| future, to demean himself, as to have
opened the way for prospect of his some
day coming into the portals of that great
Republican party which saved the coun
try in its extremity, and which will con
tinuc to lead the Borough and the Union.
long after the Democratic vampires of
the day are buried beneath the waters Of
oblivion
That the Democrats started out to whip
and got whipped, is nothing new to them
They are so used to it, that they should
look for it as matter of course; and not
90 to getting mad, and calling names when
they are let down as easily as is possible,
and We retain our consistency.