Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-07-28
OFFICLAL JIM-JAMS.

OFFICLAL JIM-JAMS.
Our official neighbor of the "Virginian"
is becoming nervous. In the portentous
TILDEN cloud, which he sees growing
larger and blacker hourly, he sees myrlads
of ponderous curb-stone politicians who are
to be showered down in III into the post
offices. and the guagership and the col
lectorships, those now focal points of the
cardinal principles Of Republicanism. 10
his excited apprehension the curb-stoner
has smelled blood, and nothing will satisfy
him now but to sit in the place of tax
gatherer Boris, of dynamite watch men,
cry, Oh preside over the general letter deliv-
cry in place of the Major himself. His sleep
is troubled by procession of hungry curb
stoners, headed by the Democratic rooster.
whose lean stomachs are about to be filled
by the fat of the bankrupt advertising and
the annual honorarium of the post office.
Those harmless individuals, whom our
neighbor held in such exalted contempt
until they devoured that eminent Repub-
ican statesman, Mayor BIcKLE, are now
the terrifying subjects of his dreams. The
Aulic Council-Auletic would have been a
better word if he had only thought of it
sits on his chest as nightmare. 1t pur-
sues everybody. In his dreams he sees
himself flying from his official stool in the
post-office pursued by ponderous curb
stoner with glowing eyes, and the tin
rooster red hot for the shekels. In his
terror he thinks the end of the world has
come, and everybody must die-eYen Judge
HARRIS must lose his shoes. Even Judge
HARRIS who, according to our good Demo-
cratic friend Of the ''Virginian," has FAC
complished more for his constituents than
any other Democrat could have done"
even he must "lose his Shoes" an Oriental
way, we presume, of saying he must die.
And all this slaughter; this indscrimi-
nate slaughter of friend and foe by the
dreadful curb stoner, is for what? Why,
just that he may grasp the purse strings
and dole into his pocket the shekels. y
Just tina. he may take from the worthy
post-masters and collectors of the revenue
and whiskey guagers the miserable stuff
Jailed shekels, which should be too miser-
ably small to be considered in the high and
broad field of national politics. Considera-
lions that never moved the noble army of
office-holders in Virginia. And so blood
thirsty! CHARTS this time," says cur
friend, but who next? Great Heavens
after the election it. may be osT or Boris
or WILLIAM BROWN orJoHN DoNovANT,
the Pontifex Maximus of the Revenue De-
partment, or the venerable WADDLE, or
some of the MCMAHON connections, or
in the land may fall before the tin rooster
with the dishevelled tail, and cause such a
day of mourning, as has not been seen in
Augusta county, and all for few shekels.
If Judge HARRIS is as much frightened
as our friend of the "Virginian" he is
shelved already. Like the editor of that
journal we too have wholesome fear of the
way the mysterious body manages politics.
He says The has.an idea how the expert
enced curb-stoner manipulates. We ex-
pect he got that idea on the 2ath of May,
when they manipulated the halr of the
late Mayor BICKLE, and scalped several
other worthy gentlemen, who had strong
desire to retain the shekels by the aid of
the Radical vote. If they are going for
Judge HARRIS, he has a very rough road
to travel before the convention, for we see
that there are curb-stOners in several
counties of the district. The Rockingham
Register" says that JOHN EcHoLs, of
Augusta, and S. V. SoUTHALL, of Albe-
marie, will oppose Judge HARRIS for the
nomination, and from Shenandoah we
hear that the dashing HARRY: RIDDLE
BARGER will be put in the field by his
friends. A contributor in the editorial
correspondence of the Page ssCourier,"
urges Col. O'F6rrall's claims on the Con-
vention. All of these gentlemen would go
irto a convention with the backing of their
own and other counties, and the Judge
would have to keep his shoes tied very tight
if he didn't want to have them slipped off.
If they should combine in the Convention
on the ST. ongest man, the Judges shoes
are gone.
1t is a family affair in which we don t at
present take any particular interest in be-
half OF any of the Judges opponents, but,
as one Of the family, we may advise him
that if he gets any more certificates from
the Republican official organ that Ills De-
mocratic shoes are we'll blaSked, the gentle
men from Augusta, Albemarle and Shenan
doah will be very apt to walk off in them