Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-08-06
FOR the spirit Of Jefferson. ]
POLITICS.

Bill: sHow comes that-Brown is not
known in your end of The county? z"
John ssThat is true but he takes Smith
for Denuty aud We will support any good man
to get Smith ride Do you know Brown7"
Bill: II never saw Brown or Smith either,
but hear thew are both first-rate men. Isay,
John, If YOU will get your friends to vote for
uncle Dick for assessor will help Brown all
I can" 9fte
john: THAT is trade. will poll SO
votes for Dick"
So the ball rolls and Dick and Brown gain
strength. SOFT always has been. and SO it
ever will be.
SCENE II -Wire-worker fixing up slate
to control the nominating Convention.
Mr.. a {: 81 tell YOU, B your Township
has too manv candidates. We must distrib>
ute the Offices so as to obtain friends in every
section. You take the Assessor. give @. the
Clerks: aud will take the Sheriff, and we
can parcel ont the other Offices according as
occasion requires"
NJ b: "Hold IN hold on! my man
can't carry his own Township for assessor, but
he 10 q splendid politician"
Mr. A /: eWell you must put ur delega-
tion in the interest of my Sheriff. but pick
ont men who will support him for Assessor.
The popularity Of my Sheriff and his deputie
will carry almost any weight-C., who do
you want for Clerk p
And thus the wire>workers, in cancus,
cipher ont ticket, on which, perhaps there
Is not a candidate who fat footed on his rer>
sonal merits can carry his party, hut which
makes crowd backed BY influential friends
| r
In other words. several candidates aggregate
their friends aud 80 become strong. 1t ia the
crowd candidate happens TO be with. rather
than his personal popularity that gives him
strength On election day. Influential hard
working hackers constitute political popularity
SCENE TII-Moruing of Convention: a
majority of the delegates assemble in caucus
Delegates fran, - To,unsh;p speaks
"Gentemen, each Of ns has friend picked
out for every office, hut presume we all
want to beat K and his ticket We can
only do so by combining. I propose we Weld
our preferences in regard to the other Offices
and concentrate against him. Having secured
his d"feat, then We can agree npon sheriff
bv compromising about the subordinate offices
a. best we NAV. 7 am willing to support any
competent man for any place to beat K.
n
We agree to that ~
So the ring of the delegates beats the ring
the Wire>workers fixed up to control the cons
ven.ion. but he it observed-the ring of the
delegates is the ring the two neighbors made
that day on the road.
CHOW as I beheld the living creatures. be
hold one wheel upon the earth by the living
creatures. with his four faces.
"The appearance of the wheels and their
work ,cns like nnt" the colour of bervl: and
they four had one likeness and their appear
ance and their work ,cds as it were wheel in
the middle of wheel
"As for their rings, they we're so high that
they were dreadful; and their riggs ,oere full
of ewes round about them four.
when those went, these went, and when
those stood. these stood aud when those were
lifted up from the earth. the wheels were lifted
nr over against them for the spirit Of the
living creature rns in the wheels - Eseh:ie1
''I1e that diggeth pit shall fall into it
and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall
bite him
Whose removeth stones shall be hurt there
with and he that cleaveth wood shall be en-
danyered thereby
eff the iron be blunt and he do not whet
the edge, then must he put to more strength:
but wisdom is profitable to direct" Eccze>
siasies.
SolAqny of a citizen who was not can
didate
Is it possible morbid thirst for Office has
broken up our partv at this most critical june
ture. 1t did not matter how many men were
in the field so long they were .suject to
Convention" nomination would have killed
off all except the nominee
1t appears '.Suhject to a Convention"
means-'provided get the nomination." 1
suppose this is what the lawyers call, a latent
"mhigmiIy.
They say the Convention was not fair yet
when asked candidates about their prospects
they generally answered-"pretty good. if I
am not traded off" All MEETINGS have
come to pretty pass.
They said the fight in the primary meet
selecting delegates the people ignored the
minor offices. II this be so then the Con-
ven.ion was. in fact only intended to pick out
Sheriff and we can keep together on the
Sherifalty. at all events especially, as the
nomination was made unanimous.
* x
Any of the candidates would have suited
me they we're all good men and really dis
liked to discriminate between them No bet
ter man lives than my old friend ---. but
they say x rried to run him, aud it ar-
pears q m.jnrits of the Convention we're de-
termined to beat X. To do this. they
we're obliged to peddle out the other Offices
There were TOO many pigs for the teats. X
I am very glad X cot beat
After this lesson, expect he will let politics
alone.
J NJ. NJ.