The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-07
ONLY IN FUN.

From the N. II. It7neS.
One natural consequence of the attention
which we have called to jeff Davis treason
able haraDgues is that the Democratic party
begins to repudiate him. Not being quite
bereft of their senses, the leaders see plainly
that platform constructed by jeff Davis will
never win q Presidential election. So the
Democratic papers are engaged In that we'll
known process, which is described in homely
Language as ''pulling the wool over our eyes. y
We need not mind what Davis says--so we
are assured. He does not mean 1T; it is only
his ''way" of talking; and even If he did mean
what he says, nobody pays any attention to
him. He is only one man, he is little
''cracked," ETC., etc. These tactics will re-
mind many people of the line taken by the
burglar when he is caught at his work. He
has q crowbar, jimmy, and skeleton keys on
his person, it is true, but they are not in
tended for felonious purposes. The crowbar
is in reality his toothpick, and the keys are
only meant to wind up his watch and open
his wife's piano.
Before the public we're aroused to the i'm
portance of this new stumping trip of jeff
Davis, no Democratic paper condemned his
speeches. Everywhere in the South he was
received with bands of music, professions.
and other indications of popularity Young
ladies insisted upon kissing him, and old
gentlemen called him ''their President" +"
What is the good of denying these facts?
They stand upon record in Southern papers
We have not misrepresented them in any
wayne tell the tale exactly as it is told,
with every symptom of pride, in the South
ern journals. The Columbia Is. o. Ph@nip
informs us that when Mr.. Davis was called
upon to address his friends che could but
speak the honest sentiments of his heart" 1"
Just so-that is what we have pointed out.
ha j1 10 xSa
not be agreeable to some people," We do
not mind admitting that they are not agreea-
BILE to us, and there are good many more in
this part of the country who feel much about
the same as we do on the subject. The
course adopted by the Southern Democrats,
and their sympathizers hereabouts, is as mean
as it is dishonest. The moment the opinions
they put forth are criticized in plain terms,
they cry out, ''You are trying to make politi-
cal capital out of us. You do not quote the
context of jeff Davis speeches" We say that
both these pleas are evasive. The quotations
we have made in these columns from JEFF
Davis speeches do not admit of being ex-
planned away, and in our news columns we
have printed the speeches unabridged. There
they were for anybody TO read at full length
What an absurdity, then, it is for any journal
to pretend that the ''context" could alter the
meaning of the particular passages we have
quoted In leadlnS articles. lt Is equally nom
sensical to pretend that anybody wants to
make political capital out of jeff Davis. We
would all much rather be without the kind
of ''capital" which he offers to our notice.
But it is very important that the people
should not be in the dark with regard to the
sentiment existing at the South. Is it not a
fact that JEFF Davis has produced more effect
on Southerners by his speeches, and brought
out their sympathies more strongly, than
any other man who has gone among them for
years past? Of course, the Democrats will
try to persuade the public that all this means
nothipg-what else is there left for then,
to do? They dare not take their cue
from the South, and so they try to
hoodwink the people about the real
state of affairs there. Let us see
whether they can invent policy which their
Southern friends will be willing to adopt.
That will be the best test, and when they
come to face it they will see, if they fail to
do so now, what difficult game they have to
play. The Republicans will win, because
they need not try to please traitors on the
one hand and bamboozle true citizens on the
other-and when we see the ridiculous candi
dates who are at present being ''trotted out
for the Presidency, we are confirmed in tn,
opinion we have always held that they will
win with General Grant at their head.