Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.1
WASHINGTON, July IL, 1880.


WASHINGTON, July IL, 1880.
The untamed Democrat is a queer an
imal, and has as many curious charac-
teristics as circus trick mule. 1t is
not intelligence in the Democrat, neither
is it in the mule that impels each to
try and deceive the public by professions
of honesty of purpose and directness of
methods. With the mule it is low
and vicious education for tricks that
gives him a semblance of intelligence,
and with the Democratic party tricks is
their stock in trade, and they are as de-
murely attempted and as honestly
believed as are the well understood
tricks of the mule. For a party with
the inherent dishonesty that has stigma
tized the conduct Of the Democratic
party, to put on sanctimonious face as
they 60 through their conjuring tricks,
and then get angry because the audience
laughs is the sublimity of the ridiculous,
after plunging the country in war,
they attempted to take advantage of the
reverses to our arms in ga and declared
the "war failure" and ended by nom
mating for president who had been con-
spicuously failure. The result was,
that Lincoln was reelected by an over
whelming majority and the people prov
ed the war not failure. In the sue
cessive tricks of the party, and now in
the nomination of Hancock we lmmedi.
ately recognize, in spite of new trap
pings and army saddle, our old cream
colored Democratic mule, getting older
and covered with the scars of many a
drubbing. but none the wiser, for in his
adolescent days he was taught these
tricks, and not being progressive with
the age, he cannot invent new ones
Well, we who laugh should not complain
at the amusement offered US each pres
idential year, for the amusement is
harmless one, and hurts no one. Blu
our Democratic brethren should not ge
angry at US, and insist that this is
serious matter, nothing amusing in it
and that the trick of nominating Uniol
general has as yet never been attempted
and that it has the only aggregation
now travelling. l am serious man an,
take serious views of life. but l have no
yet governed my risables over the nom
ination of Hancock, and the attempt 0
the Democratic party to arrogate t
to themselves the sum total of Unto
sentiment and honesty of purpose tina
belonged to the people of the North
Hancock is selected as mere figure
head, as deceptive efigy to point i
one direction, while the whole Demo
cratic army with its herd of camp fol
lowers are pressing on in the same oil
way and in the same direction, the mai
body made up of ex-rebels under thei
old commanders, and under the peace
full Hancock banner you see the CLINT G
rebel steel. No, it's no aggregation {
great curiosities, we have seen them bt
fore, have met them on many a we
fought field, beneath a Southern SKI
Older. with streaks of gray, in lock
then golden, but with eyes undimmec
and purpose as steadfast as then, the
are here in the Hancock parade. Blu
we have met them so often that we al
not dismayed, and while we have som
sympathy for the procession, at the pa
ty that has brought them out in all tn
bravery of trappings we can only laugI
laugh at the idea, that it can for or
moment suppose that one is deceived
and our only surprise is. that the
should once more attempt so 1imsy
trick. Tom.
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