Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-07-20
VIRGINIA RADICALS.

last night and complained that he is
prosecuted and is called traitor.
He has not betrayed anything, for
nothing to speak Of was ever entrusted
to him. He is, not prosecuted, because
he is not missed, and his poor little
speech last night showed the radical
party that the conservatives lost little
in him and the radicals gained nothing.
/. Hayes and Wheeler have been put
in motion in Virginia. They have had
a fair ''centre shot" right at the Capitol
right IN the middle Of the Capitol, right
in the middle Of the middle square of
the central spot OF the S,ate,aad by this
time the excentric circles from this
grand splash in the great deep of
politics are well on their way in. every
direction. Fortunately nought but the
report of this grand gathering will go
abroad To Richmond alone was
! vouchsafed the sight, the sound and the
| smell of this choice entertainment.
Hot is not the word for it. 1t was
enough to melt the brass battons off
the coats Of the black band. In fact,
the base drummer, sat on the head of
his drum until it got SO moist he could
not ''bust' a sound out of it.. The red
lanterns looked hot and fiery enough to
have been letters eongratulatesy from
Thad Stevens.
The platform fairly dripped with
rectiied republican rose water distilled
from the corps Antique. There was a
sound Of revelry by night that, as
Dickens has said might have been
begot by mosquito in the bottom of a
fish born, or an humble bee in bass
violin. At last the sound Of music
died upon the air. Lewis Lindsay had
melted and run down the throat of his
horn 50 that neither he nor any one
else could blow it any longer
, The glorious company OF efficeholders
and office beholders slowly climed upon
the platform and the festivities began in
earnest. There was the first clerk of
i the postoffice grinning at the United
States Marshall, while the United
States District Clerk ehucked wbis
key-gauger under the fifth rib, and he
in turn famed a Government store
keeper, who was rapidly getting con-
fidential with the United States In,
ternal Revenue Collector: And as the
central figure of this lovely tableau sat
the District Attorney with his arm
around the great Mue-ane D. Ball, the
latest republican convert, pointing to
the happy throng of oficeholders, and
whispering something that to our ear
sounded very much like Mathew w., 7,
8, 9. And the worst Of it was that
when it came Mulesaneys turn to talk
he never said anything that sound like
v. 10.
On close calculation there was at
least $4,000 of Government salaries
on the 12x10 platform, which it Mule
ane gets the office he's playing for will
of course be swelIed say $500 more.
Gle would be dear at that.)
Mule.ane was the lion of the occasion
1t is not the first time we have heard
of that animal in that skin. On this
occasion, however, his roar was not a
bray but Bawl.
Mr.. Rams tail Ga wolf in sleeps
clothing) being the baldest-headed
man, was selected, to set Mule aney s
ball in motion. And thereupon Ball
bawled as if he was snatcbing the de-
mocracy bald headed-Qike Rams tail. }
Poor Ball What pity Yankee
ball had not wound up the ball for him
before he destroyed the prestige of a
Confederate officer by becoming a
a radical officer.
But goodbye Mule ane, You are a
very small ball The little tumble bugs
must roll you out of sight.-Rich.
State.
The Alexandria Sentinel, NJ. D. Ball
editor, has gone over, horse, foot, and
dragons, to the republican party.
He gives variety of reasons, all OF
which amount to nothing-says, fol
example, that the democratic party is
sectional, as if it was more so than
during all the time that Mr.. Ball was
its advocate, He says, also that the
great reductions made by the House
show that the democrats are sectional
which is bosh.
In short, Ball has followed Mosby
The party will do without him, pros
badly, and wishes him just as much
success in his new vocation as he der
serves.-Rich State.
M. Dulaney Ball (of the Sentinel)
finds fault with The State because il
did not recapitulate what Mr.. Ball calls
his variety of reasons" for declaring
the democratic party sectional and lu-
dicrously enough says that we misrep-
resent him, because we state the fact
without taking account of the said IVA
riety," which we think is no reason al
all, but only bosh.
As to liberation, we tolerate Mr.
Balls absence without pain at his loss
and we wish him all the success he de-
serves "a cruel wish, perhaps but the
cruelty is not our fault.
Mr.. Ball says that we falsely declar-
ed he followed Col J.. S. Mosby-fo
| that his (BaA's4 ss4fance" was commit
ted before announcement of Mosby's
views were made.
| Whether that is true or not we neitf
/! er know nor care, but certain it is. we
heard of Colonel Mosby's views weeks
+, before the Sentinel declared for Wheel~
er and Hayes. Mr.. Ball has pat HIM
self into a heat for nothing. Nobody
cares how he votes, and he is of too lit
| tie importance to be discussed. His
talk about being misrepresented and
perse cuted is all Observation-Disclosures
State.
The Brooklyn Eagle prints list Of
| leading Germans in that city, heretofore
Republicans, who have now declared