Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-24

don, when in fact they retained
their identy end at the final test
looked out for themselves.
Aside from getting office, the Cali
hrnia mixture had no fixed object
or doctrine. The democrats thought
sufficient to swallow the three other
political factions, or at least give
them ! small proportion of the NOM
inees in order togain a decided party
victory; but when the day came to
mix the hash the oder was strongly
workingmen. Hence they entered
the campaign without aiming at ma
tional Or local issue, aside from a de-
sire to work themselves into office
by this coalition. Of course the re-
suit Is discouraging to the democrats
Of California, especially, and is a well
dealt blow to the party all over the
country.
In Maine, q coalition, then a quar-
rel and subsequently a division Of
the democrats and greenbackers on
state officers, and a kind of an
scratch you if you1l scratch me" on
representative and local nominees,
caused them to meet a defeat earned
and deserved. In Massachusetts we
Ind ! hash o. equally u~npalatable
- that which sickened Californians
md soured on the stomachs Of Maine
feebied greenbackers, and flavors the
whole with a class Of street loafers
who run the party known as work
ingmen. Butler urges it as a good
dish; but il will prove as indigesti-
bic TO the intelligent people Of that
con1naonwealth as ten-penny nails to
= meadow lark. Good republican
Iowa holds her nostrils when near
democratic headquarters. No hash
IN August ever equalled that in per
fulne. With maggots and shippers
the roth Of broken promises and
political worry and tussel il dashed
into . fog as fatal to the interests Of
true government and national right
eousness ~ truly the steam that rises
ftonsthe smoke-stacks Of pandamo-
MUM ona winters morning tells Of
warmer weather below for the
wicked.
But IN the South, and especially
in Mississippi, We find a different
kind Of hash. The democrats and
greenbackers pull together, because
Of the shooting propensities Of the
former A enfeebled condition of the
INTER-. A Southern greenbacker be-
Reves in an unlimited issue ofgreen-
backs, no work, profitable Offices,
md something to swear at. The
democrat, permit an unmeasured use
Il profanity if they will vote all
right; and they 90 SO far as to de-
1nand il, producing a shot gun as an
~azguement. Tx Mississippi a demo-
csat and republican negro dare not
expr1. a6y antipathy to being
hashed dixon tried it in Yazoo
16dhty, and his widow is administer
ing on his estate. .Chisolm opposed
the shot gun policy Of that amalga-
mated party, and he is now an
angel Hundreds ofothers are now
in eternity because they opposed
southern political serfdom, and had
the independence to rise above party
intrigue and local abuses. To cite
Or make . comparison it is only nee
easaxy 70 take southern democracy
- \ towering example Of all that is
rotter, dishonerable, and dangerous.
+ i SAFE to conclude that where
several political parties pool results
1ngain sectional victories that the
lending spirits are working for purely
pers0nal AeEkandiz1ment, without .
thOngft Ut adding TO the good Of the
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