The union Democrat., 1870-07-09

not the political perfection we have Dragged
Of for the last 60 or 20 years, Why not ac-
knowledge it? Evils acknowledged are half
cEred. II our fore-fathers were 90 glorious,
why may we not, instead OF annually sound
ing their praises seek to emulate if not excel
them? To do so, we must first know our
own faults. To know them, they LIust be
told us. Perhaps, Mr.. Farley thus reasoned
and dared the disagreable and even danger
Gus Office Of giving bitter pills instead Of sweet
meats. Of course, the patients viii kick and
howl.
Speaking for the Uniun Democrat and the
Democratic party, We say that Mr.. Farley
bad no business airing all our dirty linen on
the Fourth Of July. lie had no business to
shut up our front parlor and best spare bed
room aud take all the company into the SCOT
and smut, dirt. bed-bugs and cock-roaches Of
back kitchen and back bedrooms. He had
no business on SO glorious day to bring
forth oil the old household party smells and
stirring them up to stink sfresh, hold them
one by one under our noses. 1t was indeed
a violation of good taste and an outrage on
good smell.
Having thus discharged our double duty in
all 3h 10 4
party sentiment in this matter, we retire feel
ing relieved and justified and like Mr.. Micaw-
Der able once more to stand erect in the pres
ence Of our fellow-man.
was intense. Patriotic perspiration was cheap
and plentiful. The ladies of the choir, the
band, the President of the Day, the Reader
of the Declaration, the Orator and the audi
ence, all united in one grand opening Of their
pores and disengsgement of the briny fiuidi-
ties of their organizations. The American
Eagle sailing high above In an empyrean of
blue drilling 4 < opened the pores of his
skin and perspired. All animated nature,
men, women, children and little dogs run
ming in and ont from among the legs and pet
tlcoats of the audience, all were stirred by
one common perspiratory and patriotic i'm
pulse.
THE RACES.
After the grafton, Livingston, Nolan, and
Smith ran sack race, Nolan being winner.
When envsloped aud tied to the neck in their
sacks, these three young men looked models
Of grace and manliness. A l25 yard foot
race was afterward ran by Ballard, Nolan
and Gilkey. Somebody won. The races
were particularly gratifying to the Indians
and the Peasantry.
There were scores of nice looking girls in
town, dressed in white, cut low 10 the neck
and lower in the back. We do not like the
aspect afforded by some of these dresses cut
so low in the back, for the girls, having prob
ably been on the road for some time without
grass or other feed are in poor condition and
their shoulder blades are rather too prominet.
But they were sound on pop and ice-cream,
and loved especially the sack races. They
endured it all, heat, dust, noise and confu-
sion, standing on their greater or lesser feet
from ten in the morning until dark and then
dancing all night, until the poor, weak, slim
backed -boned men their partners were ready
to flop and drop and indeed they did flop and
drop, and were to be seen when the dawn Of the
Fifth simmered down to daylight, laid out on
sidewalk, street and saloon, on benches and
door-steps, done up and curled up with their
trowsers shockingly awry and flies setting all
over their red and puffy countenances. But
these girls were still fresh and would have
been pleased could the Fourth have been pro-
longed all through the Fifth. After this, let
any disbelever in the superhuman powers
of woman's endurance forever hold his peace
MAKE YOUR GAME
And old familiar "49" look was given John
Smiths saloon by the presence and operation
Of sundry games such as faro, monte and
rondo. There was the stern and hoarsc cry
Of Come up! money on the outside money
outside wins, two dollars dollar and
half dollar half dollar! Roll Rom
do There was the click of the balls, the
table lined with men, while little farther off
King Faro held his more silent but poten-
tial court. The outsiders had no reason to
complain this time, for sundry men left rich
er than they came. Gambling is good thing
providing one wins. For further proof ask
any lucky ticket holder in the Mercantile Ii
brary Lottery.
DRCNKS.
Our supply of Fourth of July drunks was
numerous, varied aud amusing. Many of
the celebrants made thorough work of it.
What they did, they did with all their might.
Their drunks soaked clean through and
cli1ched so as to come out on the under side.
The Chief of the Rum Brigade staff went to
sleep on the sidewalk at IL Meridian, slept
through the procession and grafton, walked
up q renewed man at dusk, walked into q
restaurant demanded breakfast and was as