The Portland daily press., 1872-08-19
SkowHEGAN, Aug. 16, 1872.
RUsTICUs SETS OUT.

.... .a... SKOWHEGAN, Aug. 10, 1917.
RUsTICUs SETS OUT.
Mr.. EDIToR,-The Tribune was the first
paper ever read, and when its editor was
put in nomination for the Presidency l did
not hesitate to give my support to the man
so much admired. And when it was an
nounced that he would be at Augusta on
Thursday was in perfect fever OF excite
ment till at length beheld him in the flesh.
What sensation it gave me-the sight OF the
features that first saw delineated in a carica-
ture more than
e TWENTY YEARS AGO.
The picture was in an old illustrated Brother
Jonathan. Horace Greeley and James Cor
don Bennett, both at that time travelling in
Europe, were represented as meeting casually
and rushing into each others arms in trans
ports of affected delight. The former is ac-
coutered in the old white hat, tilted back at
monstrous angle, while the old white coat
streams back in the wind as he rushes to his
(Bennetts) arms. l remember that the letter
press was something like this:
Bennett.-My dear Greeley, how do you do?
How happy am to meet you (ASide-Confound
like vagrant soarecrOwD -ynf III '..-..
Greeley.-My dear Bennett this is the hap
piest moment of my life! (Aside-Hang the
id scoundrel, wish he was in Halifax)
And here he was, the hero of ten thousand
caricatures here he was with the eager,
peering, childish face, so often described, and
with the fringe OF white hair and the classic
vestment made so familiar by Mast!
A FUNNY OLD MAN
as ever was seen. A tired, fat, fabby, old
man, too, as if he were lneal descendant of
Horatius Flaccus of our school days, his name
having got corrupted in process of time into
Flaccid Horace But l must say that the
hero of my youthful imagination keeps a
.s1.I.. BAD COMPANY. Wise tgt's
What does he with the old pro-slavery
Bradburys, with the Rices and the Kimballs,
and the Pillsburys of Kingfeld? Bless me!
what crowd of red-nosed Democrats, as full
of disloyal venom as ever in their private
conversations, are these who cheer him so
vociferously! How gracious, how apologize,
how cringing to them is our stout old Horace,
who used to lash them so vigorously when all
their talk was Of hanging him instead of max
ing him PRESIDENT How sorry he is that he
ever smote them, and how full of tenders of full
indemnity for their wounded sensibiiities are
all his speeches! ''Make me President and I'll
do you good'' is ever on the lips of this great
Chappaquack! Hang me, if l will vote, after
all, for this soaper of rebels, this traitor to
principle, this restorer of the BourbOns! l
can but notice that nearly all our reputable
soldiers keep alOof from him. Nearly all our
tried and trusted leaders in Maine politics will
none of him. cannot think that Hannibal
Hamlin, Lot M. Morrill,, John Lynch, WIN.
P. Frye, James G.. Blaine, John A. Peters,
Eugene Hale, Sidney Perham, Arson P.
Morrill,, Israel Washburn, S. E. Spring, Jo-
siah Fl. Drummond, Thomas B. Reed, Nelson
Dingley, Jr., Joshua Nye, Abner Coburn,
Gems. Conner, Fessenden, Plaisted, Beal,
Mattocks, Roberts, and hundred other good
and true men are wrong, while CARLETON,
Lang, Lebroke, knight and the other disap-
pointed office-seekers are right? I shall vote
for Grant!
.. AN INCIDENT. - .rl
Not more than half the men who went to
see Mr.. Greeley at Augusta will vote for him
in November A little incident which oc-
CURED on the excursion train from up river
shows how La gely mere curiosity and the
cheap fare was the motive that impelled the
attendance Of large crowd. A resolute
looking, middle-aged man, with black hat,
stood on the platform as the train entered
Augusta and was addressed by friend in the
street with, s'Why don't you take off that
black hat and put ON white one ?'' ''Be-
cause" he shouted back, 81 am not that kind
of a man. l lost three sons in the war and 1
never want to lose any more. / can't trust
the white hat partyp' .......-
JOHNNY APPLEsEED.