The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-16
The Office We are After.


it the risk of being charged with 'sdicta-
/! toriai interference" III the affairs of the Sec
ord District, we NAV hazard the remark that
! Donnelly is secretly working for the Demo-
| cratic nomination in that District--St Paul
Press.
Joseph. why will you strain Gods
holy truth in that way? You know
you created the foregoing statement out
Of whole cloth. We will give 800 to
any charitable object you may desig-
nate, if you will produce title Of evil
dence to sustain your statement. But
you can't you kno W you can't. Joseph,
you did, you led-you did-you know
you did.
Two years ago Joseph was sure we
| wanted the nomination on the Republi-
can ticket for Congress in the Second
District. He was thunderstruck when
Just as the convention assembled, ready
to nominate US, VIC came out in q letter
expressing our determination to support
Horace Greeley.
Then Joseph said, HE wants the Lib
eral Republican and Democratic nomi-
nation for Congress; that's what he's
| AFTER
| But when the convention assembled
he was once more covered with aston
ishnlent. We not only did not ask the
nomination: we rcsolutely refused it.
Then said Joseph, Now | know what
he's after. he wants to run for Gov
ernor.'' And he so prophecied. But
10! when the Owatonna convention met,
| il 1878, We were not candidate: and
Joseph was more perplexed than ever.
But piuching up courage, he has tried
it again, as above.
Joseph, possess your soul in patience;
we are not a candidate for any Office.
We believe in the Grange doctrine, that
the office should seek the man, not the
man the office. We believe moreover
that the people should rule, not the
federal otfce-holders' money bags, as
heretofore.
There is. however, one office we
lcolttd like to fill, and that is, the Office
of Undertaken to the corrupt Rings
Monopoly Party which now dominates
this State. We hope at the next cleo
ton to decently bury them. big thieves,
little thieves and all, so deep, that.
Gabriel will have to bore an artesian
bcI1 +, {J,r;r or,,,oc ~ cora 4Lo how, ~
resurrection will sound in their ears.
One Of the cpitpahs on Shakespeare was
in these words:
Renowned sperser, lie q thought more nigh
TO learned Chaucer: and rare Beaumont lie
A little nearer Spenser, to make room
For SHAKESPEARE IL your three-iold, four-iold
tomb
To lodge all four in enc bed make shift
Until doomsday; for hardly will q fifth
BetwiSt this day and that by fate be slain
For whom your curtains may be drawn
again.
and when we bury the Ring we viii
put..over them some similar inscription
for instance:
Renowned Short Horn, lie a thought more
/ nigh
Tie Sacred Cow; and sweet O'Driscoll lie
i little nearer Short Horn, to make room
For Joseph, in your three-fold, four-fold
tomb,
To lodge ali -four in one bed rake shift
Until GoonlSdav: for hardly will q fifth
Betwixt this day and that by fate be slain
Tor whom your curtains may be drawn
again.
And what sweet bad-full they will
make. The two lean kline, Joseph and
Frederick, sandwiched between the two
fat kline, Short Horn and the Sacred
Cow. And how fragrant their bed will
smell. for the great poet tells US:
The actions Of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the DUST