The Republican journal., 1875-03-04
Letter From Eochland.
Correspondence of the Journal.

ROCKLAND, March /.
Contentment is worth two in the bush. |
am content. The polls of Rockand have been
put in requisition, and the candidates mounted
for inspection. The general battle to-day was
not decisive. The three asprants to the May
or's seat have displayed truce signals, and each
called around him his fathfuls for Il council of
war. | shall not respond to the next reveille.
When ''the bugles sang truce, | went to my
tent and lay down in despair. We the ''unter-
rified' in your correspondents ward. have met
the enemy, and we are theirs. The blood of the
vanquished stains the "bruised arms" but no
brains have been discovered. don't think the
quartermasters furnished any for the campaign.
The dead will furnish good subject for pro-
longed sitting of our political coroners. Their
epitaph should be, ''Died of too much caucus. -
| was candidate, but | ceased to be a few
moments since. The warden informed me
could retire, as my services were no longer
needed as n candidate. | have learned a deal
concerning caucuses i'll this fight. The deal
comes chiefly from the bottom. Sit-back-
euchre is the game. The man who sits back
gets euchrrd. ! sat back. The man who site
down suddenly on the ice has field whereon
to moralize. | am the individual who pos
seses said real estate. But l am not in a frame
of mind to cultivate my ac(h)res. Would |
were Granger.
Why | failed of an election will always re-
main mystery My constituents all said
had sure thing. l think may have, but it
looks to me very much like Je0t Visions of
civic honors no longer dazzle me. Ny speech,
prepared for delivery when should be thronged
by congratuatory constituents, will never see
the light. | had prepared it especially to suit
everybody. The "unterritied' We're to be con
graduated upon the general result; the Repub-
licans We're to understand that | was E'iust as
good Republican as anybody, only the Demo-
Gratis hadn't found it out :" the prohlbitionists
were to be promised an uncompromising war
upon the ''infernal traffic. and 4 revolution in
favor Of Undermined cart wheels" had been
prepared for the Changers. | have concluded
not to make the speech.
The day before election, shook hands sew
eral times with every man in my ward: | visit
Sd all the places where they keep the motive
power, and stood treat as long as / could stand
anything. paid everybody | owed a dollar in
the opposition party, even to my doctors bill
and minister tax. These last two required some
nerves, but Twas bound to win. I quoted, az
thought, the nerves of the opposition. by con-
tidentially informing them that they were all
right, and wouldn't need to work any | can
yassed the ward and computed the local value
of noses.
l had a list of '',loubtfuIs.r
| haven't any such list to-day.
My doubts are all removed.
But as | said, am content. I conclude we
are to have no Mayor, as there has been no.
body discovered with enough votes sticking to
him. They may take breath and try it again,
but I'm carried to the rear. I'm "doon now"
You will excuse my saying quite 50 much
concerning myself, but somehow Ihave become
more interested in myself than in any one else
lately. | understand that candidates are apt to.
" Ill now give you a sober statement of the
race Tor the sWeepstakes-the Mayors Chair.
These horses We're entered for the race on the
trotting park. The first entered was
the Prohibition Colt raised by Neal Dow: the
second was the Republican Half-breed well
known as the Jockeys favorite and lastly the
jackson Thoroughbred, showing signs of ace.
but in good condition. There was some lively
scoring for the word SGD" The Dow Colt
to become unmanageable. Pools at
the Aldemens rooms went off with a rush.
Prohibition got the pole, and side bets We're
offered three to one. At the turning Of the first
quarter, the Dow hackers hedged, as the colt
made 4 bad break, and the old Thoroughbred
ranged ahead and got the pole. The Half-breed
stretched out with good deal of promise, but it
soon became manifest to his hackers that his
bottom had been overestimated. The Thorough
bred slowly and steadily widened the gap. COM
ng IN on the home stretch at a spanking old
democratic gait, passing under the wire amid
he applause of the spectators. But by rule |
peculiar to the municipal track, distance" is |
'equlred for an award; but as he lacked length |
u distance" it was declared dead heat. |
The next heat will be trotted after the legal |
even days notice.