The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-04-09
No, THANH yOu

No. THANH YOU.
Come now, good State Journal, sit
down here, and let us talk together
about the political situation.
You say to us:
at is plain YOU will never be happy
until you abandon the corrupt Democ-
'racy and join the Republicans. Come
Sin. friend Oberly; there is still ROOM"
No, thank you. What was 1t the spi.
der said to the n.y. No. no. Even ad-
hitting our party to be going to or at the
bad, what about yours Would 1t be
wise to get out Of the Democratic frying
pan into the Radical fire. Who. having
good sense, would advise us to leave the
Democratic pastures. poor though they
may be, to batten on the Radical moor |?
Abandon the corrupt Democracy and
Join the Republicans Why. my dear
Journal, the Republican party Is not, If
We arc correctly informed. proper ref
uge for person flying from corruption.
If we remember correctly, large mouse
Of corruption--indeed whole drove of
mice, some thousands in number was
lately found in the Republican meal tub.
Is II not the voice of the lamentcd and
poctical Republican, Col. John A. Joyce,
that we hear yelling or swelling, OF
something Of that kind, out Of the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, mournfully singing
| Ny name was johnny Joyce,
| Ash stole;
AID IL made my heart rejoice
A cried with shouting voice,
| A. stole,
And wrote with my good pen
For the measures and the men,
| As stole,
| Of The loyal Radicals
Shouted all of us. the pals.
As We stole
Is. it Is the voice OF Joyce. How
| sad and beautiful his song. What was il
you said, my dear Jouruoi, about the cor.
rupt Democrats.
And, by the way. is not that long pro
| ccssioD. headed by the unfortunate Bel
knap--tlc applc-cater. the yiclder to
temptation, the lattcr-day Adan--is
not that long procession, winding its way
towards the pcnitcntiary rs mourniulIy
as funeral procession toward the grave,
| a Radical procession: All. sir. il those
who march in it had in their honest
hands torches, and on their shoulders
| Tanners capcs, no ono could distinguish,
that procession from one Of your politi-
cal professions OF ls72-no one. IN 1t
| are the same feIlows-tlic very same men
who were loudest for Grant when Gree
ley was being killed by the tongue
Of Radical Malice and Falsehood. All il
lacks is the government brass band that
used to 20 before its brass faces. Ex-
! cuse US but did We hear you make re-
mark about the corrupt Democrats
Before we forget to remember, VIC
beg to call your attention To the rObberies
at the South. Who plundercd Arkansas !?
and Texas and Georgia? and Virginia .
and North Carolina? and Mississippi
Who are now plundering South Carolina
| and Louisiana? II you do not zee proper
to make reply, let Echo answer. But
don't you know Or course, being some
what intelligent, you do But have you
the honesty to admit, that, In all the
Southern States, Radicalism means
thievery. And, by the way, does it mean
much else in the North.
| Put that down, now. Don't shake
that shirt-that bloody, blasted shirt in
our face. That's trick of yours. When.
ever We get you in corner, out comes
your bloody shirt, and to the breeze you
fling it. But the trick won't work with
MS. We are talking about your corrup
tion.-
As we were saying. Radicalism and
Corruption are synonymous terms. Or
II We were not saying this. were about to
say 1t. 1t Is fact, and you know it. And
yet You have the impudence to say to us:
"fou will never be happy until you
abandon the corrupt Democracy aud join
the Radicals"
Really now, friend Journal, you ough
to be ashamed OF yourself and at once
In a paroxysm Of political remorse, you
should abandon the corrupt Radicals
and join the Democrats, who will be jus
as honest as the day Is long when Davit
Davis sits In the White House.
Come, now our arms are open. Fly
into them