Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
THAT PEEP INTO THE LAST
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

GEN ERAL AOOIMDL1'
EDITOR RECORD: Isee in late issues
of your paper several articles enti-
tied "a peep into the last General
Assembly," over the nom deplume
of three stars, in which the writer
lauds individual members, instead
Of giving US "peep" at their work
ings as a whole body, | am not
surprised at this, as it is much easier
to tell what that body did not do
than to tell what it did do, and make
any reputation for them by 1t. We
took several "peepS" at the last gen
eral assembly, through the news
papers, and could not make much OF
1t. We looked straight at it, then
over and under, to the right and to
the left, shut our left eye and opened
our right, then likewise the other
but failed to discover anything laud.
able in that honorable (O body. But
the stars have a greater altitude than
we, and If the writer occupied their
spheres, he may have seen some
hing more commendable than we
did. The greatest act we saw that
body perform (though perhaps not
the most henorable) was when they
severally or collectively walked up
to the treasurer's Office and drew
their six dollars per diem and mile
age, with free passes over the differ
ent transportation lines, that did
not cost them a cent, in their pock-
cts. We have been taught that it
was not honorable to receive pay
for the same thing twice, or for
services that were not rendered, or
expenses that did not accrue. We
suppose the different transportation
companies must have taken ma
tural liking to the members of the
general assembly, or that they ex-
pected to receive some remuneration
from them, as they seldom make
such presents for nothing, and as
the legislature voted not to tax their
property, We infer that that was
their pay for passes they sent out so
freely to the members.
Your three stars correspondent
seems to confne himself principally
to eulogizing the different members
Of the Legislature thus far, and in SO
doing it occurs to us that, like the
different railroads in giving their
passes, he has some object in view.
1t reminds US of little play we in
duIged in, in our Juvenile days,
called "bo-peep." 1t was acted as
follows: We would stand behind a
chair and "bo-poep". (which meant
see what big man or elephant |
ann at another little urchin, on the
other side, or perhaps sitting in its
mothers lap, and the little fellow
would look through the chair very
1ravc and serious, as though he ex-
pected to see something great, but
on beholding such diminutive spe-
cimen Of humanity as we were, We
would both have a hearty laugh.
Then he would "bo-peep" at us, and
the same result would follow. Stars
seems to be "bo-peeping" at or ele-
phantlzing those other parties, and
if they know who he is they will
probably "bo-peep" back again.
Then the laugh will come in, and
we shall find out who it is.
There was one article in the last
legislature that was very cheap, we
Judge by the amount of it displayed,
and that was what is generally
styled buncombe. Buncombe speech
es and buncombe votes were freely
given, to be heralded back to the
"dear people," of course, and that
seems to bo what Stars is dealing
out to those spoken of; or, in other
words, l will make you out an ele-
phant, and you make me out one,
and no body will know what d.
minutive intellect we have, and We
shall get a fat Office. This buncombe |
business, to say the least or most of
it, is very thin.
S+oro -, aulo o;1;,c. o&bou. AL