Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT 1T.

A postal from a Democratic friend,
who we fear is not actuated by Christian
motives, reminds us that there has been
an election in Ohio, and asks, "What do
you think about it ?" and again, "Want
to sell your ROSTERS % Well, sir, we
think that just now we are publishing
an agricultural and family newspaper,
and We think we never before thought
so much of news and farming and so lit
tie of politics as we have since Wednes-
day morning. Hang politics, anyhow
It's a mystery to us how any man can
like them, and it surprises us to see
what hullabaloo people make over such
a contemplate question as who shall be
governor of Ohio. what do we think
about it ?" Why, we think it's the
worst year for fruit ever known. The
winter was a very severe one. The buds
didn't set we'll, and there was Stanley
Matthews frost about the 4th of March,
and there have been scorching winds
from the South and chilling blasts from
the North all summer, and we have had
blight and caterpillars and borers and
curculio, and we haven't got any apples;
that's what we think about it. "What
do we think about Ohio % Why, that
she is a sovereign State, State notori-
Gus for greenback lunatics and commun-
lists, bui still an integral part Of the In
ion, and as such entitled to manage her
own affairs, do her own voting and her
own rejoicing and bewailing. We don't
want any part of her, and we won't med
die, not bit of it. Catch US mixing
ourselves up in Buckeye politics. Not if
we know it And as for studying cleo
ton returns from that State we think
any man ought to be in better business
We don't know much about Ohio law
and don't want to, but if they have held
an election out there recently, it is to be
supposed they had right to, and if they
hadn't, it's none of our business. They
don't take the Mirror, and we are not
going to strain ourselves to enlighten
them or tell them how to vote or when
they have voted wrong. If they want
our help they must subscribe, for ours is
not foreign mission publication, and
besides we have our hands very full try
ing to convert the Democratic heather
at home. So don't ask us about Ohio.
But our ROSTERS are not for sale. Just
now they are moulting, their plumage is
little bit off color. their voices a little
hoarse and their spurs little dull, and
an amateur might think them useless.
We don't, for we have seen them that
way before and they always come out
right. Wait until spring and you'll
hear them.
"What do we think about it ?" Well,
not being political paper just now, we
think it's mixed, but if we were polit-
ical paper we should think it was one of
the happiest dispensations of Divine
Providence that the Democratic apple
trees always bear when the fruit isn't
worth picking, and that the Democratic
party always wins its victories in years
when there is no president to be elected.
There couldn't be better arrangement
than this, for it sort of evens up things
and gives both parties chance further
more we should think that these off years
are excellent ones in which to try exper'
iments and to find out what people favor
and what they oppose, and we should be
very, very thankful that between now
and 1880 there is ample time to correct
all mistakes and to re.enlist and reor
ganize the army. And if they had hac
, an election in Ohio and the Democrats
had captured the Legislature and render
: ed the reelection of Stanley Matthew
! impossible, we should have been com
forted by the thought that they nigh
, have killed better man; and finall.
we should think it was about time TO
Republicans to stop pulling hair ant
calling names, and go to work with ant
: for each other.-Mirror g. Farmer.