Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-07-26
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Have any OF our readers seen ex-
tracts from Il speech delivered by Jeff
Davis. 10 Liverpool. on landins there
after visiting the Philadelp lphia Exposi-
ton. which reads MS follows? e4 f..f.
Those who control the press are not
at fault in the matter, as all were de-
sirous Of doing what they could to
promote this international, but too
much American, Exposition We say
TOO much Axaertcan;' Mct IS solaat zoe
naean. TIE EXPOSITION Is SUR
FEliED WITH AMERICAN
BUNTING aud American bosh Be.
fore gong further and before our read
ers accuse us OF oritcising without
anything to crtticise, we will stop to
p,itlcularlze one case and that shall
be a Wisconsin, affair. We now refer
10 1Oid Abe, = the war eagle. The
state has:Hnves ed $500 in this exhibit.
Ii Is not'necessary to speak Of the bad
taste andyfhe lltfie appreciation of the
fitness Of things of this display al
a" international Exposition. as all who
are 700 dali to see II without reference
t9 Is wend not see it If column Of
explanation were written x x
j man with any power of obser 1atou
canuot but be struck with the extreme
modesty prevailing every foreign de-
par'meGt Of the exhibition as con
tra,ied with the self audatlon and sort
OF "bully boy" stamped in every
American exhibit. To make it still
wurse IN our northern exhibits, where
ever 1t was possible and in many in
stances where it was not possible. ex-
cept IN violation Of any rule Of decen-
cy-there is something IN praise OF
our great achievemen,s 10 the late war.
WlSCONSIN'S DIRTY i2a OLD
EAGLE will illustrate this spirit as
we'll perhaps, as Anything. In the
Art Gallery IS an immense Philadel-
phia painting said to represent the bat
tle of Gettysburg, wherein The union
soldiers are having a gay and festive
time slaughiering the rebels. 1t looks
about as much like "ye o'den time"
log cabin on another part Of the CEN
! tennIal grounds as it does like battle.
and represents nothing except the
artists ignorance of the subject. and
the stupidity of the exposition man.
ayers who permitted it to occupy a
prominent position in the Art Gallery
x x *
In the art gallery almost if not every
other nation represented is ahead Of
oar own. In this department the Brit
ish government has placed, with be-
coming modesly, large collection of
paintings strangely in contrast with the
American daubs chiefly weak efforts
at self agrandlzement or taunts aimed
at England. Every American who is
not too full of spread-eagle bun;ing,
will, after looking over the American n
and British paintings, feel as if Burns
meant his lines for us when he wrote
20, wea some pow'r the giftie gieus
To see oursels as ithers see us |
1t wad frae monte bunder free us.
And foolish notion" =
Though JEFF Davis naturally hates
the flag that he tiled for four years to
pull DO" q and trample IN the dust. he
ought to consider that this is the cele-
bration of the hundredth anniversary
OF national independence, and nearly
every one expected we would show our
colors, They are glad to see the great
Banner Of Freedom floating 10 the
breeze and hung upon the walls on this
holiday occasion. 5.aTans ed4 d1iW 80
a But we do JEFF Davis wrong. The
fact is he did not deliver the above ia
Liverpool. Davis is too anxious for
the success of Tilden to talk in that
way, though he may feel like it. The
above is taken from an editorial in the
Madison Democrat of last Sunday
morning. We thought the members
Of the old Eagle regiment might want
to see what the central organ of Til
denism said of Old Abe, and there are
great many soldiers in Wisconsin
who will note with interest the effect
that the nomination of apeace plat
form Tilden, has had in making the
old flag obnoxious to his admirers.
Down at Carlisle, county seat in
Kentucky the 1ildenites forced the
widow of Union soldier to pull down
the flag floating over the house, on the
Fourth, sand shot a republican who
showed lndignation at the outrage. !
At PIattsbarg, county seat 10 Mis-
souri,, they unfurled the rebel flag on
the Fourth and bore it triumphantly
through the streets. They placed an
other rebel flag over the front entrance
OF, the Court Honse. But the Union
flag was not torn down, We believe,
The reason being, perhaps. that no one
dared to put one up for fear of be-
ing shot down on the spot. And now
We think of it, if, Instead of going to
Philadelphia, the editor of the Demo
crat had gone to Plattsburg, he would
not have been offended by the flag, and
might have been serenely happy. L
NJ 7o,,a.7 nn.1 FtsEfEAsAS