Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-13
TUNKHANNoCK, PA.
Wednesday, Jan.13, 1869.
A Sticker.

A Sticker.
Were it not for the little insignificant
looking ''e" in the name ''Zeba, " we should
he almost, if not altogether inclined to the
opinion, that the following statement
copied from the Harrisburg PNtriot-as to
the mode in which paytriotic ''paste
singer" got his finger into the sticky dish,
referred to the Hon. Ziba Lott, of this
county.
When the last named gentleman left here
for the Capitol, he was dressed in his LEG
islator clothes We can't think he would
consent to soil them, with the sticky, glut-
inous compound, called paste. We Shanf
believe that our Ziba is the identical
"Zebd' spoken of. Nothing short of his
return in the spring, with a soiled and
ruined suit-with pockets filed with paste
brushes, damp and sticky with recent use );
will convince us. He'd hardly pack them
with his share of the Purdon's Digests,
manuals, records, pens, envelopes, paper
and other Legislative perquisites.)
His absence however, inclnes us to the
opinion that he must be, somewhere, stuck
in the paste, used in such expensive guam
titles at Harrisburg last winter.
But, read the story of ''Zeba."
Hon. ZEBA LoTT.-The historical failings
of the Lots is to look back Mrs. Lot once
looked back upon the corruptions of the
city which had beguiled her understanding,
and now We have the Hon. Zeba Lott cast
ing a longing, lingering, backward glance
upon the fiesh-pots in which he was wont
to dip his Legislative spoon when a member
of the House. The Hon. Zeba cares moth
ing about the honors which attach to q
Pennsylvania law-maker; others may wear
the laurels of the legislator others may
carry off the palm in debate, or receive the
plaudits of the public for successful hits in
Buncombe but as for the Hon. Zeba Lott,
who was last year a member of the Legisla-
ture, his ambition will be fully satisfied if
he can paste and fold documents for the
gentlemen who compose the present House
of Representatives. He not only looks
back upon Sodom, but returns to and re-
enters it, even if it must be in the humblest
and most degraded condition. He cannot
help if, for he is a Lott.
Yesterday, in the House, during the elec-
ton of subordinate officers, the Hon. Zeba
Lott was nominated as one of the radical
caucus candidates for FASTER and FOLDER.
Mr.. Brown, of Clarion (dem., moved to
insert, in lieu of this nomination, the name
of George SCHNEIDER, of Cumberland county
a MANNED soldier. Mr.. Brown sent up to
the Clerks desk, and had read for the in
formation of the House, paper signed by
Governor Geary, Secretary Jordon, Audi.
tor General Hartranft, Surveyor General
Campbell, and other distinguished radicals,
recommending Mr.. SCHNEIDER TO the good
offices of the House A debate upon the
motion sprung up, in which Mr. Brown,
Mr. Cornman, of Cumberland, Mr. Nice OF
Schuyllill, and Mr.. Playford, of Fayette,
all democrats, cOgently and eloquently
urged the propriety of adopting the motion
whilst Mr.. Strang of Tioga, Mr. Davis, OF
Philadelphia, and Mr.. Nicholson, of Beaver,
all radicals, opposed the motion with great
vehemence and bitterness The motion
was lost by a strict party vote, the demo
Gratis voting for it, and the radicals against
it.
Thus the radical majority in the House
gave this small position to Hon Zeba Lott
ex-member of the Legislature, in preference
to George SCHNEIDER, the manned soldier
Mr. SCHNEIDER is q member of the radica
party, and the objection of ''disloyalty'
cannot be urged against him. But the
Hon. Zeba Lott had to be permitted tc
crafty his PENCHANT for looking back up
on the stews of Sodom, even at the expense
of this one-legged radical soldier.
Oh shame, where is thy blush