The Osceola times., 1873-08-02
Cometh up as a Flower.

Ifsome stranger from Now York
or st. Louis were to drop into our
Office and carefully read over files
of State Exchanges, he might, per
haps, be surprised TO end that our
most intensely partisan journals
have hardly word to say on the
subject of National politics. Whcth-
er he would attribute the total 81
lence to ignorance or indifference,
we are not prepared to say but if
he were to ask us for an cxplana-
ton, wo would not hesitate to give
it 70 him, "as one having under
standing of these things" We
would say to him, We know in
reason that nothing could possibly
be more fascinating than the study
of national rascality. In a great
and immensely rich nation like that
Ofours, the rascality perpctratcd by
the national politicians, must necos-
sarilY be upon a proportional scale
Ofgrandour a. witness tho back sal
ary steal, in which each member of
Congress had helped himself to at
least $4,000 TO which he was
no more entitled than the highway
man who takes our purse upon the
public road. However, Mr.. Butler
Of Massachusetts,, him who is CON-
monty known as Butler the Beast,
but why Beast We of the south have
no knowlodge,-has proved that Of
this steal, not more than five cents
was taken from each inhabitani of
the United States. This being dem
onstratcd to us, wo necessarily felt
but little interest in national steals
when We remembered that the
great steal of our chief Justice, or
as he is better known, Poker jack,
and his associates, had just been at.
tempted and defeated. We allude
to the Railroad bill, which, dear sir,
was no less than saying to our state :
"stand and deliver, or VIC will blow
your brains out" The only avail.
able brains the state happened to
have at that lime, dear sir, was in
the head of ono Elisha Baxter,
whom Poker Jack in his character
of Chief Justice, had just sworn in
as Governor Of our state. Mr.. Bax-
ter would almost as soon have felt
q streak of lightning carccring
through his system as to have his
brains blown out, (and who could
blame him y and hence he set about
an cxpcdient to keep them in their
proper place. He felt that some
how he was tho state, that is, that
if he did not take her place and rep
resent her, hc would stand in the
attitude OF a mean and contemplate
deserter of his post. Poor, needy
and oppressed as Arkansas was, she
yet had . numleE of Offices to fill.
Governor Baxter, or as we have
since learned to cali hin, " Lisha,"
had the disposal of the offices, and
he didn't hesitate TO declare that
any member Of the Legislature who
voted for that bill over his veto
might 60 to HI and be id to
him, but he never could hold Office
in Arkansas. Now elisha didn't
really say this, but We have not a
doubt but that was what he meant,
and what he would have said, had
he been cursing man. "Bccausc,
says Lisha, ri think Arkansas has
been trampled on long enough
Well, stranger, you ought to have
seen how quick that Railroad steal
was knocked. His Office was just
over the way from the two houses
OF the legislature, and he used to
say in his mild, yet sarcastic man.
ner, that he had no influence with
the Arkansas menageric except
about feeding time. What did he
aesa b. " feeding time = Oh, that