The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-02

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tioo hsd taught him that platforms Old
not always declare the real princtples or
intentions of parties. mo one," said
he. "obiects to the resumption OF specie
payments at the earliest practicable
moment"
"Do you mean to say that you think
the platform was constructed by the
party on the Talleyrand principle-that
it is a mere assortment of words concern
ing the actual intent 2 and that Gov.
Tilden is about to declare that intent or
read it out through the PLATFORM Make
another platform, in fact run on bothf"
mo; didn't mean that. mean that
don't know what he Is going to say,
and that it would be lndecorous In me to
anticipate him."
He was inflexible on that point, and
the conversation branched of upon other
topics, beginning with Bret Harte, stray
Cling through the Elizabethan damatists,
and bringing up at the
UNIVERSAL RHYTHMIC MOTION
which pervades the universe and all
things in it. They talked as two men
with good cigars, in social place, under
a bright moon, and with long evening
before them can afford TO talk. They
had been discussing the broad language
of the dramatists in question, and refine
ments which in these later days rejects
all mention in polite society ofthe things
which polite society OF the Elizabethan
day spoke of without blushing. Stew
ards idea was, that sense was sense,
and genius none the less genius tor hay
ing few mud stains on its coat
1--WE are passing now," said he,
'through what call wave Of Miss
Nancyism-a wave of prudency; and l
believe we are almost on the other side OF
g it. You can see it rolling away"
This brought out the wave subject,
and here he launched himself again.
''rhis here talk about
+ HARD TIMES
is all brain wave. We hear people
talking about hard times-hard times
;, and grumbling. The truth is, that hard
times are IN peoples minds. never saw
!, the day yet that l couldn't get all
needed to wear and eat, and all wanted
to do. Talk about the greenback pro
;, ducing financial depression. | haven
: seen or heard OF the time when there
, wasn't paper money i'm existence, an(
:. necessary in fact and Id rather see thu
# government issuing it than lot OF ir
70 responsible private concerns. The eartl
y is just as fruitful now; the attraction o
= gravitation sends water down hill I,
l.. turn mill wheel just as fast as ten year
10 ago steam is just as expansive, and irol
,e just as hard. The law of supply ant
. demand is the same, and
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
No are in the aggregate just as exactly bal
a. anced as they ever were. Ten years ag'
~ could raise a bushel of potatoes ant
trade it TOR a pair of shoes, as l cal
now. could wear out the shoes jus
20 as fast. and the shoemaker could eat an
digest the potatoes just as well then q
now; but suppose the shoemaker takes
- into his head that lie won't trade ME tn
shoes, and I take 1t into mine not to trad
him the potatoes. We come to deaf
80 lock, and have hard tines Andjust 6
: hard times are made. They come in REF
ular tram-ways, a big one every TWEEN,
years, smaller one every ten year
80 That's all there is about it."
A little while after, striking upon tn
-, subject of bonds, he expressed his OPT
:" ion that if all the bOnd-bolders in II
- world were
he STRETCHED UPON GRIDIRoNs
cd and their bonds burned under them. II
,o. world would be just as well off as it W
no now. Yet he was not repudiationi'
~, No man had ever asked him the secoI
,nn time for a dollar that he owed.
i, After another excursion into geneI
tas fields, he came back into politics.
had been somewhat more of political
.,, he admitted, than was commonly su
ing posea. ne was "ie,ioer ., .ne ooh'e
for ton of 1864 that nominated McClellen
mo "Did you vote for the peace reso
, n, ton ?" he was asked.
III "No, sir didn't. voted against
and But that resolution was not passed as
,,o was afterward construed, nor was
otto meaning attached to it in the convent
60 the same that the Republican party tacl
on to it aiterward. Harris Of Marylal
,ent and O. Brien of Peoria (he's up in c
cago now made loud speeches about
and there is where the mischief v
/, done.
oro Did he expect to be elected? Well. a!
,ha that, he wouldn't be bit more surpri
ron, il he were elected than he had been wi
hon he was nominated and endorsed.
go, hadn't much hope for the rest of cit
I, .ho ticket, except Hise. The Independe
oate polled 10000 votes two years ago, /,
II ,s those were mostly drawn from the
dol publican party. Allowing that they
no, tanned half of that. the other halt goi
und back to the Republicans (which he
I of leved was allowing more than all
r. is possiblites), he thought the Republi,
ten majority would be so impaired rs to r
,hiIe der 1t easy OF obliteration. He had he
that people were asking
the "wHo Is LEW STEWARD"
and that divers Of the opposition accu
lers. him of being an obscure man. VIVA
rho, he were obscure? Could anyone ms