Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-27

THE Conservative still continues to
manifest its qualification over the Demo
cratic victories, and thus attempts to de-
fine the effects of the elections:
Everybody, Democrats and Republi-
cans, will now vie with each other to in
troduce reforms, and they will watch like
cats to discover any Credit Mobiiers,
sSanborn Contracts, and the like"
The GoaseroatiUe started out with the
proposition, and maintained it so long as
it was necessary to deceive the people
concerning its real sympathics, that the
Democratic and Republican parties were
equally corrupt, that they were equally
responsible for the salary grab and other
abuses upon which it has heretofore found
ed its plea for a new party. Now if these
old parties are, according to its theory,
equally culpable, and the Republican par
ty could only be brought to do right by
defeating it at the polls-we acknowledge
that a little wholesome discipline is some
tlluSS DSliSuSidl upoI "itb llHISllbC VI
reason, or logic, or consistency can orr
neighbor base the conclusion that the
Democratic party will be purified by the
opposite process, by, in fact, placing pow
er in its hands? If the Conservative cares
to appear consistent, let it wrestle with
and reconcile this absurdity if it can Its
argument, reduced to plain terms, is that,
given two men or two parties equally cor
rupt and unworthy, all that is necessary
to make both honest is to transfer the OPP
portunity to steal from one to the other
This is the pitiful pretense behind which
the Conservative seeks to mask its return
ing footsteps toward the Democratic fold
COUNTING THE FLoCK.-A most anus
ing incident of travel came under our OBJ
servation, in the first part of this week,
while in Dubuque. We were seatedin one
of the cars of the western bound train for
home, when the eastern train arrived and
stopped on the parallel track. Among
the persons who debarked for the purpose
of changing to our train was rhearty look
ing, good natured German, with his bux-
ON, comely, neatly-dressed frau, sur
rounded with Uery large flock of bright,
flaxen- haired, round faced lads and lassies.
They were from Illinois, and bound for
ampler scope to grow and multiply on the
broad prairies of Mills county, in this
State. AS may be supposed, the care of
hissnumerous brood of active children.
the eldest scarcely fourteen-drew largely.
upon the ample stock of patience, and the
generalship of patcr tamilias. The man
ner in which he kept track of his flock
forms the point of this narrative.
When the time came for transferring
rthe1 fock fromAthe platform to tie cars,
the father stood at the doorway and as
the boys and girls were handed up he kept
count, "eias. zWei, dret, fer, flint, seq,
ssecen, acAt, mein. ze1n, eli, z~slf," sway
ing his body as he tumbled each squirm-
ing urchin into the Car, until he came
to "zwelf IA sturdy ,.saucer-faced boy of
two years.. as round as Il ball, to whom he
gave q resounding smack and tumbled
him in with the rest. The serious and in
tent air with which the worthy Teuton
went about this business, as if a miscount'
might cost him an olive branch, contrasted
with The rollicking unconcern of the
healthy little imrs, was UNNECESSARILY ludi-
cious and set the whole cal. in "A roar.
The family safely bestowed, the air of
preoccupation vanished, and the habitual
smile again broke overlthe broad face of
slle jonyE3ernan