The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04

conundrum or frivolous inquiry. Over
the abundant manifestations of woe
which we see among the leaders of
that great but unfortunate party we
would fain draw the veil of decent
and decorous regard 1t is their fu-
neral Theirs as exclusively and spe-
cially as though it were protected by
copyright and covered all over with
letters-patent. 1t is no business Of
ours, nor do we have any desire to
stand off and coldly criticise the char
acter of the procession, the behavior
of the undertaken, or the department
of the mourners. The corpse is theirs
it is for us to sit silent as the heavy
heeled sexton waves his screw-driver
and calls upon the friends and rela-
tives to pass up the north aisle and
down the south aisle, and take their
last view Of the remains;" for us only
reverently to uncover as the hearse
goes by. And if we can remember
little or no good of the departed, we
may at least say that there has seldom
been funeral of so absolute charac-
ter or one which upon the whole gave
such general satisfaction.
Nor have we any desire to hurry up
the settlement of the estate Ample
time should be allowed to dull the edge
Of affliction and accustom the bereaved
to their new condition. But we do
venture just at this time because
we are at all impatient, but because
the general public seems anxious for
early information on the subiect-to
inquire whether the party which has
Just gone out feet foremost has left
any effects; anything whatever to be
administered upon; anything to war
rant the heirs in keeping up the sign
or continuing the business at the old
stand. There have been times when
the deceased claimed to have on hand
a large and we'll selected assortment
of political principles Most of them,
however, were exclusively for South
ern consumption, and the withdrawal
Of that trade during the war left the
party pretty nearly bankrupt. For
the past twenty years it has been
eking out precarious subsistence by
speculative ventures of one kind and
another. from some Of which it en-
loved brief accession Of good fortune
sufficient to turn its head and set it
on the widest schemes and most haz-
ardous enterprises; but from none Of
them did it derive any permanent
profit. 1t speculated very largely on
the reverses of the war, and once or
twice seemed the gamer by it, but APP
pomattox caught the party long" of
calamities and no market for them,
and it went all to pieces. Since the
war it has snapped up anything and
everything that was flung upon the
market that offered the slightest
chance to trick the public and make
short turn. 1t speculated reckless sly
upon Republican disaffection with the
Grant administration; upon military
rule at the South; upon carpet-bag-
gers; upon corruption in Office; upon
the hardship of paying the National
debt; upon the difficulties in the way
of resumption; upon hard times; inHa-
ton, greenbackism, grangerlsm, Ill
denism; and, finally, on the condona-
ton of fraud.
None of these have been profitable
ventures, though the party in the cof-
fin worked them all with great assldu-
ity. and at times seemed to be amass-
ing capital at rate which would
place it above want for a term OF
wears. But these accounts were pref
tv much all closed out at loss some
time before the recent catastrophe,
and in the late elections the chief bu-
siness was to rescue as much as posi-
BILE from the disastrous speculatiOns
ON Anti-Resumption in Ohio and