Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-03
To the Adopted citizens Of washing.


Can "Bowen's blowers brighten you into
voting for their master. By asserting that some
OF the supporters OF Mr.. Emery are trying 20
revive Know Dothingism? They think they can;
but think ard I know they can't. To endeavor
10 revive know-nothingism in our day would
be just as foolish as il would be to attempt to
re-enact the fugitive slave law!i The public
the one as II Is to the otheri
All this Is electioneering clsp-trap and bal
derdash! And the men who approach you with
such lame and impotent argument are men
who insult your intelligence and good sense.
Boys are afraid of ghosts, and so, too, are some
old ones; but full grown, intelligent, sensible
men are not frightened by shadows or spectres
You are not boys either in size, or years, or in
telligenee, but full grown men; and being such,
have no fear that you can be terrified by the
ghost of Know nottingham, or by the ghost of
anything else VI And so you can tell the "blow
ers' that this hnOw-nothing business Is "played
out" long ago; and that IL they would succeed
in frightening you into voting for Bowen they
must put their wits 90 work to trump up some
thing new and more substantial.
Know-nothingism was species Of folly Of
which men cannot be guilty more than once in
a lifetime. Ii is dead and damned; and that is
all about i'll, Those who were most active in
the movement have long since heartily repented
Of their folly; and more than this you cannot
expect. Ex-know-nothngs you will find in
every party, As you will find ex-sinners in every
church; and 1t would be just as reasonable for
you to oppose a man because some Of the former
support him, rs il would be TO oppose a church
because some of the latter are found in it.
Then, let US hear no more of this nonsense about
the reviyalOf know nothingism!i
For this city, just now, the one thing needful
is an honest, patriotic citizen for Mayor; and
capable, honest Board OF Aldermen and Com
mon Councilmen. Mr.. Emery ID just such a
man az this; and the gentlemen on his ticket for
ward officers are the men whom we sorely need
to restore the credit Of the city and save 1t from
financial disgrace and death!n
If Say les j. Bowen was as wise as Benjamin
Franklin, and as patriotic as George Washing
ton, he could accomplish nothing good, because
OF the men who surround him. Could he shake
OH these men, even if he tried ever so hard to
accomplish that feat? He could not There
they are, and there they will remain as long as
be does Then drive them out altogether!
Human caterpillars they may be termed, since
they are as destructive to the growth of the city
as the other grubs are to the growth of the trees
have examined Bowen's ticket for ward otfi-
GERS, and take it Just As il stands il is the weak
est ticket have ever yet seen y! II Bowen's
managers had spent from January till now in
an effort to get up the weakest ticket that could
possibly be put into the field, they could not
succeed any better than they have done. Good
God! Is there no educated man, no able man, on
the Bowen side Of the question who can be put
on that ticket to save it from contempt and
damnation? 1t seems not. If hated Bowen,
and L certainly do not, would pity him; for
never did q Captain attempt to put to sea with
such green, worthless crew!
The very best that can be said of them is,
that they are weak, Ignorant, ambitious men;
and such men are always spectacle Tor angels
to weep over and fiends to laugh at.
Take, for instance, the Irishmen amongst
them. Are they able and educated men? Let
those who know them answer that question.
Have We no able and educated Irishmen in
Washington? We have, and plenty of them!
Are they all for Emery? Are none to be found
on Bowers side but those weak and incompe
tent ones? IL seems so, and is so in reality!
In view of this state of things, / can only eX
claim; God in His mercy deliver our city from
the mismanagement of such a set of men. Let
~ III yphn lnua Inf init tad kafa
and who wish to make il the Paris of America,
rush to the polls on next Monday TO save il from
ruin. With such Major as Bowen, such a
Corpora alton Attorney as Cook, and with such
ward commissioners and contractors as they
have, and such legislature as they propose to
have, we should all go to the bottom together.
Then let men of all shades of religion and poll
tics, and of all races and nationalites combine
TO take our beautiful city out of the hands OF
the destrovers.M AN freshman.
Washington, June 8, 1870