The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-10-25
81 TOLD YOU SO.v

Curious is human nature, and oftene,
incomprehensible than otherwise. Thu,
a good many sore-headed men are say.
ing II told you so'' of the results Of
the elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The State result in Ohio, as a matter
Of fact, is most creditable to Democrats
and Liberal Rebublicans, for it shows
great gains upon the past. In Penn
sylvania such combinations were never
made in the history of the country to
put down one party and to keep up
another, and if the result there is not
satisfactory to Liberal men and others,
it must make the faces of all intelligent
and just men who. support Gen. Grant
tinglc with shame; but to the Bourbon
Democrats who rejoice over it,, or who
are satisfied with it, and who echo the
words II told you 3d." We have just
this to say: -
When the wish Of man becomes
father to his thought, or the thought
father to his wish, he begins by saying
to his next friend, II told you So"
When man fails in his best cxpec-
tations Or is disappointed in his wishes,
losing all spirit and encouragement, in
his disappoiutments, he says, II told
you so."
When mans temper and prcjudices
direct his judgment, or when he prefers
to lose all if he cannot get Or control
all, he says, II told you so.''
So a good hater, or an intense and
bitter party man, welded to old idols
and old reforms, forgetting that the
world is older than it was, and that
things change in spite of us, will resist
all advances, and butting his head
against stone walls and granite hills,
will tell you, II told you so.''
Now, there are a great many Of this
class of men in the State and in the
country, respectable in character, In
telligently read in history, good neigh
bors and good friends, who, because
they cannot have their own way, and
their own man or men, will have moth
ing, who are doing all in their power
to prove that II told you so," is
prophet. They begin before the cleo
ton with the cry, What a mistake -
"What blunder! - 'What crime!"
and intend, if possible, to end it with
an Il told yon so," to prove that they
are prophets.
So, at times, they are-but, in such
eases they arc men who make prophe-
cies by working up and on to the end
they predict. They detest Gen. Grant
and his Administration, and yet give
him and it all the aid and comfort in
their power. They abhor ncpotism and
corruption, sectionalism and despotism,
and yet by their silence, CT their in
difference, their opposition or open
hostility, are prepared to say, Il told
you so." In word, these men are
like the second lady in waiting upon the
Queen, who saw her royal mistress
faint and suffocate because it was not
etiquette for any one less tLan the first
lady of honor to cut the stays and re-
lieyc her Majesty. They, too, mean
to sit by and see the nation faint and
suffocate because the man of their
choice does not lead in the race. With
Greeley and Brown they are assured
Of one-term Presidency, Of puriGca-
ton in the Government, of reconcilia-
ton among the people, Of equality
among the States, Of non-intcrference
on the part of the Executive in the
framing Of Tariff and Revenue laws,
Of an end Of personal government
the very worst in the world for Re-
public; but because Republicans lead
in the great work of reform they are
not ready to follow. They see men
like Greeley and Brown, Trumbull and
Schurz, Banks of Mass, Blair of
Michigan, Palmer Of Illinois, Upton
Of Nebraska, and see at least from
$50, 900 to 500, 900 OF those who voted
for Grant in ls6s, now against him,
but they will neither lead them. follow
them, advise with them, but stand
pouting, scolding or folding their hands,
eager to exclaim, told you so.'
They will not vote at all, or vote for
some one who is not candidate, in Or
der to prove how mad they are, and
how much they can punish their
friends.
Now, truce to such politics. We
are to choose a President from two
candidates, a civilian and soldier.
Let us have the civilian for peace and
and soldiers for the field. We are to
choose between one ON the side of
peace, reconciliation and publication,
and one who at the close Of his admin
istration, and seven years and q half
aft or the close of the civil war, sees the
country still divided in regard to race,
section, and almost every subject which
looks to the happiness Of the people in
at least fifteen of the American States
W. havo had a trial IF Grant who