The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-27
There will be no paper issued
from either Of the Offices in
town next week.

position On the GubernatOrlal and PreSlden.
tial questions Now men and brethren do,
for Heavens sake, keep COOL The weather
Is altogether too hot for gentlemen of your
immense rotundity to go to worrying your.
selves over matters that should be as plain
to your visions as are the noses on your faces.
The Jefersonian has not hesitated to declare
its whereabouts on the Gubcrnatorial ques-
ton. 1t has no axes to grind, and no friends
or enemies toreward or punish, that it must
even forsake its party and oppose its party's
nominations to accomplish its purpose. Ii
is Republican to the backbone, and, per con
sequence, for Governor, supports the nomi-
nees of the Convention which assembled at
Harrisburg, on the 10th of April last, from
Gen. John Il. Hartranft down to the end OF
the list
On the Presidential question the Jefferson
inn is, with slight variation, some what in
the same fix with its redoubtable friends of
the Democrat and the Argus, and is conse-
quently compelled to await the action of the
Baltimore Convention, before settling down
in the Harness. Neither the Democrat nor
the Argus know, certainly, who they are to
upport-whether their candidates are to
prove, politically, to be either fish, flesh or
even good red herring They do know who
they are to oppose, however, and it is on this
line that they are, just now, fighting most
Justify, with the weapons best suited to the
popularity of their position-flth and false
hood. The Jc6erSonian, has its candidates
before it, and feels no small pride in the
fact, that in Grant and Wilson it has patriots
true and tried-men in every way worthy of
its support, and the support of the whole
people. But it cannot know certainly,
prescience not being gift with it, who it is
to oppose, until the Belmont Savans of
Democracy, at Baltimore assembled, decide
whether they will risk the contest before the
people with true blue, representative Demo-
Gratis for President and Vice President or
whether they will sell out to the liberals,
and, adopting the Republican folly of "a,
with Horace Greely, run the risk of being
most cgregiously Johnsonised.
As we travel only where Republican princi-
Piles and Republican usages point the way, and
as Grant, Wilson and Hartranft stand as so
many faithful guide boards on that way, it
needs no great reach of Imagination to find
the path in which we tread no prophetic
skill to foretel on which side we viii be found
working when the time for work arrives IF
our curious cotemporarics are as well settled
in this respect as we are, their line Of duty
lies plain before them, and their labor to
convince the people to travel with them will
be, truly and sincerely, labor of love for the
cause in which they are enlisted, instead of
a mere scramble for the loaves and fishes,
with great prospects of being badly cheated,
as promises to be the case.
But how is it really, with our anxious CO.
temporaries? Does not their fix present one
face of broad comedy, and another of the
Mclodramatic? Can it be seen without ex-
citing the risibles, and the next moment
drawing forth the lachrymal? Is it not a
virtual confession Of the fraudulent character
of modern Democracy ?-of fall from the
principles of Jefferson to the embrace of
mere Demagogueism? Think of the Philos-
pher Of the Democrat, and the deepl
Csesarian genius of the Argus, looking
each other squarely in the face without
smiling grimly through their tears over the
novelty and hardship of the situation =
Think Of Amandus Orevus, an occupant of
the very upper row of Democratic apostolic !
ship, with his Monroe Democrat, singing
usty hosannas over the outrage inflicted
upon his party, by the forcing upon it, for
its nominee for the highest Office in the gift |
Of the people, man selected from among
the very blackest of the black Republicans
Of the land. Not word of protest does he |
atter-not even a murmur of discontent-l
out, with anything to win" as his motto,
he leads the masses of Democracy, as so
many sheep, to the shambles erected by a |
lifelong opponent. 'Time honored princi-
pies" and all the brilliant legends of the
Democracy are laid by him, without a pang,
at the feet of one whose whole life has been
spent In bitter and unrelentlng antagonlEm
to it.
Think too Of the great Caesar of the Argus,
mighty in his wisdom, great in his adher-
ence to principles, immaculate in his politi-
al purity and immense in the virtuous indig-
lation with which he knit his eyebrows, and
shook his head, at the mere suggestion of
elling out Democracy to the adventurous
arpet baggers" at Cincinnati, now caving
neekly to the situation. For weeks his pen
crlbbled and his scissors shipped in opposi-
ion to the consummation of the attempted
outrage. At first buoyed up with the hope
# success, then doubling, but now convinced
hat lie too must bow the knee to Greely, he
eeks consolation in queeryipg US as to our
,osition All the fire of his great genius is