Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-29


| Donnelly. There would be more real mourn
ers. There would be great many crocodile
tears she'd of course as there at all funerals;
but think if
CHARLEY JOHNSON AND FLETCHER
were called upon to stand by the side of Wash
burns political grave, they wonld come down
with regular old biiny tears. Them fellers
would need mop rags to wipe away the salt
water. They would feel worse than the man
who was kicked to death by sheep"
"They would think, there is divinity that
shapes our ends rough-hew them as we will"
Suppose Washburn should be electeds then
what Mr.. A. ?"
HE would put on more airs than country
stud horse on
GENERAL TRAINING DAY.
You could not touch his coat tail with a ten
foot POLE"
''The question is, will he be elected?"
''That is more easily asked than answered.
He is popular with certain class, but the
majority of the people think he is too per,peaa-
dicula,'-that is the way they express it. He is
good fellow in his way, but he is going to be
terribly disappointed in his vote.
''Well, Mr.. A. Iasked what is your opinion
of the
wAsHBURN FAM1LY?"
81 look at the family''-here the mules start
ed and he jerked on the lines-'I look at the
family as an Inverted pyramid. Or perhaps I
can better express my idea by saying the fami-
ly reminds of two-gallon molasses jug,
turned bottom side up
The first boy was the smartest.
He represents the jug full of molasses, before
any of it out. The second boy was the
next smartest. He represents the jug with
about gallon and a half in it. The third boy
was the next smartest; and SO on down until
you come to William, when the jug ran dry.
He represents the empty jug"
$50 you think he would make a good rep
resentative to Congress, ifelected %
eyes, think he would make good repre-
sentative if the Republican party had any
thing to represent. But he would make a
mighty poor representative for the people. The
trouble is, all the ideas he has ever advanced
or advocated are dead. His candidacy at the
present time, makes me think of a man getting
mounted and
| LOADED FOR BEAR
after the game had been caught,
killed, skinned, and eaten up. The Republican
party has outlived it's usefulness, and has only
been kept alive for the last three years by fan
ming and stimulants. While it is now lying on
| it's deathbed, gasPing for breath, Washburn
comes up, putting and blowing, looking for the
bcar.n
why do you think the Republican party is
dead, Mr.. APP
Il think SO for the reason that republican
government is founded upon the virtue and in
teligence of the people. The party is entirely
off these planks. 1t is floating loose in the
| water without even board under it to keep it
up. They have
STOLEN EVERYTHING
| from the Presidency down to Sherman letters
you can't turn a corner without running
against Belknap, a Robson or Sheppard.
Returning boards laugh at honest elections,
and receive appointments for setting
them aside. If we look for intel
ligence, every ray of hope is dispelled-
the inside of iron doors covered with mildew
and mould, absolutely corroding for want of
use, while millions of people walk on the out
side in bankruptcy and distress.
BANKRUPTCY AND TRAMPs
were never heard of in America until the Re-
publican party came into power. Why has
mourning taken the place Of song and the
pig weed taken the place of the rose? That is
| what l want to knowp'
Says the gentleman holding the mules, ssAll
this comes for want of intelligence on the
FINANCIAL QUESTION.
1t comes from an insane idea on the part of
the Republican party, that the government
stamp should be put in yellow dust instead of
| piece of green paper to make money"
Says the gentleman, holding the mules. eff
an unmarried woman should set day positive
ly when she would become mother what would
you think of her virtue and intelligence? That
| is what Republican Congress did. 1t went
and named a day positively when the country
would give birth to specie payment-that is
what made all the trouble. Not when gold
should be worth as much as greenbacks: but
when greenbacks should be
WORTH AS MUCH AS GOLD.
Then, after making this wise and virtuous
declaration, what do they do? They go to work
to destroy the value of paper money and build
up the value of gold. What has been the con-
sequence? Six years ago, we will suppose that
gold was per cent; above paper: Ny ne dg
there could have sold his house for $1,000 in
paper money. He could have taken that paper
money and converted it into gold, by paying
| 6 per cent. premium, and therefore could have
sold his house for about So, 400 in gold.
That same house today, you can't
| sell for 81, 900 in paper money that six years
ago might have been sold for $4,000 in gold
Can you see any virtue and intelligence in rob-
bling my neighbor out Of $4,000 on his prop
erty?
| The way to have resumed specie payment
| would have been to declare that on a certain
day paper dollar should be worth as much as
a gold one, then went to work and built up the
ing the war. IN this way the hard times could
have been averted. But the Republicans tell
us if we strengthen the value of paper money
we create fictitious values. would rather have
fictitious values than
NO VALUE AT ALL.
! would rather have speculation and activity
than to lie It'll and rot-the way we are doing
now. Couldn't my neighbor have sold his
| house six wears ago for S94OO? Would that
have been fictitious value when he could get
it in gold?
! just here, the gentleman holding the mules
stopped to spit, and got chance to put in a
word edgwise.
Says 1, ''Mr. A., all the Republican party
claim to be living for now, is, to give us a
sound currency @i@5t
Yes, : says he, s.they are going to give it to
Us the same way the old man gave his son 800,
600. He was lying IN his death bed and as
the family stood around him receiving his last
words and bidding him last good by, he