Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-08
POIITICAL nOODLEs.


POLITICAL boobies.
To the politician taste Of Office is like
a taste OF blood to the hungry wolf
sharpening the appetite for more Pryor
tells Of the malefsctOr-
Who walked to and fro over the cart,
on bidding farewell, yet 10th to depart.
The same may be said of the chronic
office-seeker-we mean that class who
have filed, and continue to aspire to,
high positions. They walk to and fro
over the field Of their struggles and tri.
umphs, wash their hands Of party filth,
oft bid farewell, but seem reluctant to
depart, and are almost sure to return.
They sink into obscurity, but they hear
the harangues at the hastings, and come
up Just as naturally as doodles emerge
from the dry dirt when called by impor-
tunate boys. They turn their backs upon
the turbulent scenes Of legislative halls,
and spend the irksome period Of their
involuntary Punishment in rural EN-.
Payments and bucolic sports. They
emerge Iom their lurking-plsces by
turning up occasionally at college COM
mencements and agricultural fairs,
where they talk eloquently, admonish'
ing young men as to the mutability Of
human grandeur, the fickleness Of pub
lie opinion, and the corruption of poll
tics. And amid the neighing of pran-
cling steeds, believing bulls, lowing
heifers, bleating rams and gruntling
Berkshires, they lavish glowing pane
Ryrics on the exquisite delights Of the
farmers life. Tney tell US how he lives
in pure, ethereal calm, unswsyed by
ambition and unmOved by the throes
that cOnvulse the political world; how
they arise "ere song OF earliest bird'
ADD ride over the farm before breakfast,
then among their neighb0rs, and at all
times communing with nature in her
squestered retreats, the proper place to
imbibe lessons Of heavenly wisdom from
her inexhaustible fountains. They dem.
onstrate that the farmers life Of blissfal
retirement and virtuous industry has
been the theme Of song and story from
the earliest period of The world. In their
eyes the farmer has suddenly become in
vested with an Importance and an in
tellectusl magnitude infinitely superior
- the statesman. Daniel Webster at the
plow-hsndle, in his old rusty coat, feed
log his pigs and redolent with the aroma
Of the stable, the cow-pen and sty, pre-
sents much more commanding appear
auce than the "great expounder of
the constitution" on the floor of the
senate, giving utterance to the sublime
conceptions Of his gigantic intellect. Yet
with all this affectation Of disgust for
the filthy fray OF the political arena,
and q devotion to the more copgenial
pursuits of privacy and retirement, the
old fever for place still RACES in their
veins and they are anxiously watching
every phenomenon in the political firm.
ament, and looking for the re-appear-
ance of the star which once shown SO
bsnignantly upon their paths. Anxious
to foment discomfort with hope Of Gre
Office again, "a fly, Matched from a
msggot in their owe brains creeps into
the telescope and strsightway they pro-
claim there lie q monster in the heavens
threatening to devour the sum-" Henry
Clay, with all his patriotism, loved Of
fee. After walking to and fro over the
senate chamber, oft. bidding farewell, he
seemed 10th to leave the theater of
his triumphs. He bid a final fare
well to the country and to the senate.
But the shades of Ashland did not
satisfy life spent in the strife, turmoil
and excitement Of politics, and he gladly
returned to the senate. William Allen,
OF Ohio, retired to his "Sabine fsrmu
and engaged in raising prize cattle for
agricultural shows. Everybody be-
Deved that, far removed as he was from
the strife Of p litics, he was contented
and happy in listening the day long to
songs OF birds, the music Of falling
waters, and in looking after his cattle
upon thousand hills. But at the first
call he frsntically rushed into public |
Lie, and, although nearly eighty years
OF age, aspires to the Presidency, Out |
OF office, Andrew johnson looked as |
lonely as monarch in exile. He ioun-
d9red like fab out of water. Webster
loved the endearments of home. but he
could not surrender the excitement of
politics. Wise and Hunter, in Virginia,
are pining in sadness and sorrow for the
places they once adorned. William
n King was senator from Alabama
Tor thirty years, and, when defeated, he
Weps like child, and commenced the
Pursuit Of another Office. In Georgia,
Herschel V. johnson has been in Office
learly fifty years. He was once gov
ernor, long United States senator, ar d
candidate for Vice-President on the
Douglas ticket in 1860. Since the war
he has been elected judge, and it was
supposed he was pensioned for life. But
few days since the Democrats had q
contest for a gubernstorial candidate,
and, like well-behsved doodle, Ext Gov
efnor Johnson, Ex-senator johnson and
Judge johnson seemed willing to imi-