The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-03-27
THE NEW SIAMESE TWINS.

THE NEW SIAMESE TWINS.
1t is seldom, in this country at least,
that man meets with such prompt re-
tribution for his misdeeds as is evident
ly about to be visited upon Butler.
1t is only a few brief days since he
was strutting around with Massachu.
setts sticking out of one of his coat-tall
pockets behind and Gen. Grant protrud-
ing from the other. But his triumph
was short-lived. His Simmons busl-
ness has deprived him of all show for
the Senatorship, which falls vacant by
the death of Mr. Sumner. He is like
pig swimming across a river. He has
got across, but he has cut his own throat
in the operation. He is probably also
as we'll done for in his gubernatorial
as in his Senatorial aspirations. But If
he is not, we can tell him, and we can
tell Gen. Grant, too, how they can in
sure that desirable result in 4 way
which, if not satisfactory to them,
would be particularly so to the third
general interested in the business, name-
ly, the general public.
Let these two personages enter into
conspiracy in regard to the Boston
Post Office similar to that which has
worked so we'll in the Boston Custom
x1OuSC. 1AcO DullcI NOul1AOtC Ac<kloOAh3
for example, for this place, and let
Grant appoint and the Senate confirm
him. We would guarantee the effect
of this recipe for very small sum in a
way that would perhaps astonish even
the immobile and non-perceptiven nature
OF Grant himself.
Only let him pursue the course he
adopted in the Simmons case, and let
IIamlin and Buckingham and the rest
| who endorsed that happy thought back
him again; and we think he can connt
upon killing even more than two birds
with one shot, as he did the last time.
| We do not know whether Sanhorn
was "poor boy" but if not, perhaps
Jayne would do as we'll. He does not
seem to have any abiding place in par
ticular, and he might as we'll be shifted
| off to Boston as anywhere else. But to
do the Boston Post Office job f1ttingly,
Grant and Butler must take one or the
other.
| We shall not feel under that weight
of obligation to this eminent firm that
we are anxious to feel If the occasion is
omitted to give another flip to the
rising tide of public enthusiasm which
their previous action has evoked.
| Grant has made no mistake in taking
Butler into partnership. Butler is CA
pahle of doing more things than almost
any man who can be mentioned; and
we know no one who is just now work
ing more in the interest of public virtue
I than he. He has committed hari-kari
on himself, and he has just about fin
isehd what was left of Grant. We
| shall not undertake to decide whether
or no this Is survival of the fittest.
The partnership Is a sort Of Siamese
twins connection, and our interest con.
sists in knowing that the demise of one
of the parties must be sooner or later
inevitably followed by the departure
Of the other. Our tenderest wishes to-
ward this politically loving pair are
expressed when we beg them not tc
stand upon the order of their going
but to go at once. The atmosphere
will be purer when they are gone.
And as n step toward this desirable
end we renewedly offer our advice that
they should Immediately move upor
the works Of the Boston Post Office
NeW York SIN.