Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-30
An EditorI al OtheIlo.

D. P. in Washington Gazette.l
We know of few pursuits so forlorn as
accounting for poll teal defeats by par.
tisan editor, so as to comfort his readers
We have in this blessed free land of ours
heavy reserve, varying from one-tenth
to a majority of the veters, and on this
reserve the plucky editor draws, with
conclusions that are comforting in the
extreme. The most noted instances oi
this kind is an intelligent gentleman
by the name of Bloss, connected with
the Cincinnati Enquirer. For twelve
years this indomitable man Of figures
and Democracy has been accounting for
defeats in such manner as to make the
J defeat superior sort of victory.
Bloss had come to be considered q
ready reckoner. 1t was his specially to
account for disaster so as to prove to the
Democracy that it was victory. When
therefore, at midnight he sat at his table
on the second Tuesday in October, with
the thronging multitude half drunk with
10y and bad whisky about him, Bloss was
bewildered He sat with the virginia.
white sheet before him, with sharpened
pencil in his hand. and he waited in vain
those stunning defeats out of the bowels
of which he was wont to bring success.
"What yer got to say to it2" cried a
red faced Damocrat, full of that Western
finance which generally comes from a
jug. 1
district" responded Bloss, I can show
that if we have full vote we can beat
Lawrence any time.'
Lawrence is beat, cried q reporter.
Bloss twirled his pencil in an absent
minded way for moment, then bright.
ened up and said: well, let me hear
from the Western Reserve; can show at
any time that the Western Reserve is
Democratic by 10000 majority if"
1.-THE Western Reserve is all gone to
pot" shouted sub, rushing in with a
telegram.
Bloss rose from his chair, deliberately
put away his pencil and paper, and pull
ing his plug over his intellectual eoun-
tenance, strobe out. He walked through
the roaring multitude, unheeding the
blazing rockets, the bonfres and the
mouthing cannon. Entering Augs, he
seated himself at table.
Lager, Mr.. BlossY" asked a waiter:
mo. sir" responded the man of bad
writing and brilliant figures. " No, sir,
this is a case that calls for liquid nitro
glyeerine. Othello's occupations gone.
am 0thello-not jealous, nor an Ameri-
can citizen of African descent. But
my occupations gone. Had Othello
taken to whisky, good oldrye or Bourbon,
he would not have made such dutfer OF
himself as to suffocate Desdem Ona and
puncture his corpus. Young man, fetch
Othello Bloss Of the lost occupation some
whisky"
About an hour after one Of the sue.
cessful candidates found Bloss in tears.
"Why, Blossy, whatyer bout; airyer
so drunk yer don't know we've whipped
emT
my friend" responded the ready
reckoner. regard me as wreck, look
on me as q ruin, whose corrogated,
crumbling front terrihes the obserYa'
lions its magnifcence solicited, orwords
10 that effect For twelve years, twelve
long years, Alphonzo, have ! calculated
victory oat OF defeat. And now comes
victory, an Overwhelming victory ana
oh, me friend, the figures remain fhe
same. That non-votiug population re-
mains. aud tomorrow morning DICK
Smith will use me own reasoning to show
I fhat II should have been Republican
tr:umrh. Ne friend, l would hang me-
self were not Opposed on principle 70
capital punishment, What eaF 90 but
gel DRINK and weep?
And 30 the ready reckoner rolled IN.
der the table 3 melancholy ruin.
The next morning RiehRrd Smith,
true to Bloss prophecy, drew on ths
voters, and achieved famous victory
for the Republicans.