The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-10-27

Ol tHo pOlItlCdI SGatuS Out L nave all
faith in our race. L believe the genius
Of the people will necessitate change,
and that our nation will grow IL moral
power and intellectual liberty, and will
institute new order of things for the
promotion of good men and for The over
throw Of unblusRing swindlers, party
hacks, and hypocritic villains.
The play often savors of the comedy
Who can but laugh to see New York
cut throat hiccoughing patent loyalty and
showing a nostrum of lefarm down the
throat Of a New England Puritan.
1t is pretty TO see what lam b. like ap-
pearance some politicians can assume as
occasions demand. 1t is pretty to see
their ingenuity in reducing their ponder
Gus ears to reasonable size, or in convinc-
ing the people that such are divine ap>,
pendages and signs of genius. There
is peculiar trick which some politicians
have, when disappointed, of twisting the
public nose In such way as to get a
howl Of sympathy. Worn down hacks,
in viewing the crucifxion of their hopes,
try to attach the magnificent finale Of the
dying thief, and often succeed in gaining
admiration.
1t is amusing to see how some politi-
clans say they do not want an Office
whereas they are dying for just that
thing. Anyone knows there is hardly a
man in the county that would not take
all the Offices he could get | would
take one myself if [ were old enough and
knew how to drink whiskey. The COM
munity is full Of large cared guides, each
of whom with bottle Of ''eye opener
in one pocket and a fountain Of aoisc7ons
in the shape Of a penny whistle news
paper Of stolen blatherskite in the other,
is ready to swagger on with the country
to glory and prosperity. Such merry,
kind hearted, stomach loving, fellows not
only watch to see which way 'fthe cat
jumps" hut are careful to stroke 'poor
pussy" the right way, especially in frosty
weather. Hereon hangs a tale, what with
political degeneracy, and social non-con-
formity, which of itself makes periodic
injections into The body polite, this coun
ty has hard dose to take.
The political wool gatherers of this
county in the Democratic party seem to
bo foro, al IN RI cooro4 o;ro1oc r;pc., ol;.ro.
clans, ard bastard Ku-Klux, all cham
pions Of the whiskey tub. The sides of
such reprobates should be mauled by
every Rough and Ready" They ought
to be ground by the ,nili-stones of popu-
lar wrath. The public ought to rise in IT'S
strength, and hurl s',.cc,n blood, from
Its great heart. When swlndlers of equal
Democratic calibre are engaged, why
shoaid the public care which wins? The
honest masses are not supposed to gct,up
a moral enthusiasm in paying large sal
aries to thieves. IF man must be swaI-
lowed by reptile, what boots it wheth-
er it be an Anaconda or Crocodile?
When people allow themselves to be
whirled off by race prejudicas, and eaten
up by local interests, they are apt to be-
come not only deuationalized, but Ito
coin wotd) decountyized. It becomes
! like drunken spree where every man
hits his nearest neighbor 'for high"
| In the words of tie poet Bailey;
He'll burns before them all
It'll by HelI-light they do their cilicfest deads.
| ana hy itei lghs they shine unto eachother;
ANA iicll lies thick fog glares red round
And but for Eel theg would gcope in utter dark
| re IStOt seems to have made a mis-
take in identifying editorial whims with
party interests. The idea that party is
to be the slave Of a local newspaper, ha !
ha! The genius Of our people is not sub
ject to political popery. Such an idea
savors Of the must and moth of the dark
ages. Indeed, it is superbly silly What
under heaven does the world at large or
even the pat IS of this county care for
editorial sparring? they care no more for
it than they do for the braying of so many
jackasses. No, Mr. Plot, | have too
much confidence in the good sense of our
fellow citizens to think they are the
dupes to the sloppy infallibility Of editors.
| understand that some exceptions we're
taken to my article in last week 5 issue.
that some one not having the courage to
give his name, and being such a fool as
not to be able to advance an argument, is
so superbly silly as to make a personal
attack upon critic not particularly in
terested, and whose name was not sub
scribed This is simply Ridiculous The
public has too much good sense to fail to
see the impropriety of such an unpro-
voked proceeding. Indeed it is contempt
IDLE puppyism.
i So [ am to be attacked by q coward who
has skunk into the grandam back biting
style. In other words, for public amuse-
ment, [ am to be made victim Of a
/ sloppy squint-eyed hero ola quill pluckcd
from the dirty tail-feathers Of hen.
Ha ha hope it is not so for his own
sake, and for the sake Of common human
ity; for my kind soul says he shall ache.
IF such a scurrilous attack comes out, |
will give him such dose In the next
issue as will settle his canine stomach.
Now, kind readers, in the meanwhile for
your amusement, take this for panto
mine, the toe of my modest, but uDgreas-
ed boot, hard up against the Dubious
member of the brute. O.
OUR REPRESENTATIVE TO CON
GnESS.