Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-27

familiar sight greets lis. There are those
whom we have known and fought for
years. They are pulling the wires, ana
watching the ''new parry" on the stage
with great interest The automaton tig
ures, which seem to move and speak al
the beck and nod of the magician in front
are really controlled by the concealed gen.
tleman in the rear. They dance; but it
is the Democratic hand that pulls the
cord. They speak it is the voice of our
old acquaintance OF other days. They
sing; those sJnorous cadences we have
heard before, tripping lightly over the
! stirring notes of Dixie They laugh it
is the hooking tone that Jared upon our
ears when the Union troops fell back be-
fore the rebel forces al Bull Run, and
when their long ranks reeled, shattered,
/ bleeding, and beaten from the assault on
Petersburg.
There are many who know all this.
Those who have view Of the interior
see the parties at work, while many of
the audience in front recognize the tones
and behold the fraud. But there are 9TH
ers who insist that the feats are genuine,
and that what the wizard processes to do
he actually performs. To drop the simile,
look upon the new party as genuine or
ganization of reform, composed Of those
who are weary Of the corruption of both
the Democratic and Republican parties,
and who heartily desire to correct public
morals and elevate public virtue. They
sincerely believe that the Immaculate
gentlemen who control the Chicago Trio.
uao and the Chicago Times, for instance,
l,y old
tacir integrity, their spotless purity, their
lofty principles of honor, could not longer
endure the wickedness Of the respective
parties To which they formerly belonged
They see men all around them crying
loudly for honesty and reform, whose
lives have been devoted to dishonesty and
peculation. And yet, deceived by the
fair promises and pious CALCULATIONS of
these men, honest, handwriting, consci-
entious voters come up to the polls and
cast their ballots for the new party"
while the old managers giggle and rub
their hands gleefully behind the scenes.
These men have succeeded in Wisc0n-
sin. They have succeeded in some coun-
ties in this State. They will doubtless
succeed in other places; but that the game
Of deception will triumph generally or for
any length of time, is impossible. The
principals may look demure and innocent
enough, but the assistants cannot keep the
joke. 1t is too good. Already they are
telling it and laughing over it. A Wis.
consin paper reads these subordinates
severe lecture for their impoltic mirth,
and tells them if they would go on to
further victories they must conceal their
identity. The New York World is not so
Il It,t L al 81,
Democratic victories Says the World.
"All thought and all talk Of a new opposi
ton party will now be abandoned. We
are safe in asserting that the permanence
of the Democratic party is one of the
things which the late elections have
established. The Democracy will now
is against us, and he that gathereth not
with us scattereth abroad"
The party has not been able TO conceal
the clOven foot in some other respects.
For instance, in 10 Davess County, in
this State, a ticket was nominated, COM
posed, with one exception, of Democrats,
crumb being thrown to the farmers in
the shape of one place on the ticket
When it came to voting, however, all the
restswere elected, while the farmer was de-
men demonstrated. In all these things
lies the trouble. No system of trickery
or sham professions can long be success
full. 1t exposes and defeats itself The
farcical performance of the "new party"
has commenced in good time 1t will be
through with early. The lights will be
out, the curtain down, the audience gone,
before the grand drama of '16 opens The
Republican party will enter upon the
Presidential season with the same enthu-
siastic support that was given it before
political sideshows were in vogue, or be
spangled gymnasts turned somersaults to
the amusement of the groundlings We
can afford to be patient. We can afford to
wait.-Chicago IRter-Ocean.
"A Nevada minister in discoursing
to his audience few Sabbaths ago said
Religion in the heart my friends, is like
four aces in the deck; without it no man