The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-17

majority.
There seems to be a panic among the Dem
| ocratic President-makers.
| The Graphic expresses the opinion that Sam
Tilden will become nun. None like him now.
| Marble suggests tombstones. Perhaps he
| will get place at the head OF Democracy, after
| all.
The silent agony of the Democratic editor
| is the most moving spectacle of this stormy
| epoch.
| A party must have convictions to win conf
dence. The man who has no political faith is a
thing of putty.
1t was favorite remark of the late Samuel
]. Tilden, reformer, who died of too much
| cipher, to say ''I'll see you later. -
1t would add fresh laurels to his brow if
Edison would invent Democratic platform
upon which that whole party could stand.
Democrats are consolng the Greenbackers
| with the idea that though they may not carry
Pennsylvania this year, they will do SO in 1880
There is at least one crumb of comfort for
| Senator Thurman, now that he is laid away in
his little bed. He made it soft and he will lie
easy.
The only fixed principle the Democratic
| party has is its unwavering advocacy of foreign
| pauper labor against American industry and
| enterprise.
Tho T,,1, hn iphn
| which have been published compared with
those that are to come are as penny whistle to
| a g-horn.
Fernando Wood is financially embarrassed;
he is bad Off politically, too, and is truly in
condition to sympathize with the great Demo-
cratic party.
The music of the Greenback song appears in
the Graphic Every note is marked on the back,
'This is million dollars, - but the song doesn't
seem to sing well for all that
The fiat men in Ohio lost grand oppor-
tunity to put their principles in practice. They
should have got together few votes early, and
declared "this is a majority.''
An exchange says the crop of hay and oats
is SO large in Maine that it is cheaper to be @
jackass than a man. The greenback craze dowr
there was then really question Of cheapness
Thurman is satisfied that he was cheated
!, when he traded with Pendleton a seat in thu
Senate for Presidential chances He woulc
, like to have "Genteman George' take the rag
baby back, at all events.
Cincinnati paper says you can't make
diph heria patient drunk. 1t is evident tha
Democratic politicians don't have the diph
iberia, and it is gratifying to know there is on,
disease they haven't got.
i The Greenbackers have proved themselves
better takers than they are voters, as showr
by the result of the elections in the west; bu
they are altogether too strong to be made ligh
of by the friends of honest money.
Candidate Dimmick, of the Fifteenth Con
gressional district, must feel lonesome. Nearly
all the Democratic papers refuse TO supper
him. He is realizing how much easier it is tt
humbug convention than the public,
The Democratic papers have forgotten al
about the fact that there was an election IL
Maine. That Greenback party that fought sc
bravely in September forgot the better part O
valor, and did not live to fight another day.
| The mortality among Democratic states
men this year is positively frightful. Mr.. Til
den dies of too much cipher, Mr.. Thurman o
too much "Ohio idea. " Mr.. Hendricks of toe
much Communism, and all the Massachusett,
Democrats of too much Butler.
Senator Wallace began speech the othe
day in this way: 'There is something the mat
ter What is it?'' In Ohio 1t seems to be {
1 lila,
it seems to be that the people begin to wax,
, up and realize the danger that threatens.
| The Brooklyn Eagle cannot dis cover VIII,
John Kelly should hate Mr.. Tilden, whose onl,
| crime consists in his having been elected Presi
dent of the United States We rejoice al tn
remark. 1t shows that Mr.. Tilden is charge,
with one crime of which he really isn't guilty
The Republican party believes in the en-
f forcement of law and the punishment of crime
that what man honestly earns or become
possessed of he shall be protected in enjoying
Democracy is the party of lawlessness, riotou
, demonstrations, reputation; Greenbackism
its side show of financial jugglery.
Il Senator Hendricks has done well, but h
e is wishing just now that he had drawn it a trifi
0 stiffer on the currency question. Mr.. Hendrck
1 can read the mystic writing on the wall Just q
Q we'll as any man in politics, and it says that /
@ 1880 one of the signs out before both camps wi
= be, "No Greenbackers or Infiationists need al
b ply"
: A desperate effort is making by the DEM
t cratic journals of the oil regions TO get son
d credit out of the passage of the Pipe line bill
n The record of the Senate shows that ten Repul
n lcans and an equal number of Democra
If voted for the BILL but the record is by no meai
= !avorite source of authority for Democrat
d editors. They prefer to draw on their imag
e nation for facts.
The Republican party proposes that Il
!, dollar for which the mechanic and laboril
If man works shall be the best dollar in the worl
1t Democracy and Greenbackism declare thar
h shall be piece of paper the value of whi
st shall change as often as the moon does, If n
ts as often as the tides of the ocean rise and "a
l. subject to the caprice of gamblers and specul
e tors.