The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-09-09
Humorous Side of Politics.
By A. AREFoRarED BUTTERNUT.

one of the great difficulties experienced by the loca
Democratic statesmen just now, is the explaining
away of Wade Hampton Virginia speech. Every in
teligent Democrat knows that his party, as party
| sympathized with the rebellion, all the way through
and endorsed, and swallowed everything Wade Hamp-
ton Jeff Davis and Bob Toombs said then, as it does
now Yet they do not dare to appear in their true
colors. They want votes and openly taking sides
with the Solid South is not the to obtain votes in
the great North.
encountered small knot of butternuts couple OF
davs ago and was soon engaged in discussion as to
what Wade Hampton said at Staunton, Virginia.
Upon being asked my opinion. produced an extract
clipped from newspaper, which read as follows:
Think What Lee and jackson You Would ogt haze done
ssNo no - interrupted of the Democrats, "Hamp-
ton didn't say that. He said, 'if Lee and Jackson
alive to-day, they would uphold these princi-
p1es''-
s'Naw YER wrongr' broke in another Democrat, ''he
said that eff Lee an Jackson wuz alive to-day they
would been on the same side which they IT.
s'Well, now, said another. ''yer purity nigh right
What Hampton sed that eff Lee an jackson wuz
alive this FALL they would voted the Dimocra tick
etr'-
= ssNow friends" asked them, putting all these
versions together, what is the difference in them !?
They mean, simply that the Democratic party of to-
day is the party that attempted TO destroy the
Government nearly twenty years ago, and the same
party to which Lee, Jackson, Hood, Cleburne and
hundreds of other brave Democrats (nOw dead) be-
longed.''
My friends exchanged glances for few seconds
then one of them said:
t'Oh. yes, the same old thing. You can't do any
thing but the bloody shirt!'
admitted that Republicans do sometimes call
up the incidents of the war-''wave the bloody Shirt
ifsyOu please. And take especial pains, in speak
ing of those dark days to pay considerable attention
to the record of the Democratic party during that
time. We read scrap of history, written in blood
upon that garment. We read of long and deadly
conflict; read of debt of billions of dollars;
read the obituary notices of thousands upon thou
sands of the farmers, the mechanics and the business
and professional of the great North: read of
the orphaned child and the widowed mother: read
of the dead lover and the heart-broken maiden;
read of helpless old deprived of its stay and sup
port read of desolate homes, of privatOn. desoa
tion ruin, and DEATH and all this brought about
by the leaders of the Democratic party, simply be-
the Republicans after elecng their candidate
for the Presidency. in 1860 dared to inaugurate him.
1t is no wonder the cOpperhead imp in the North
cringes whenever the Republican party waves the
bloody shirt!
1.-THE SAME EXPREssIoN.'-In one of the business
ing the Northern Ohio Fair. center printed
young admiring the picture of the bull, when
he picked mp picture of Hancock, lying near, and
held it up beside that of the bull. After careful
comparison and study of the two pictures, he remark
ed: II can't see any difference. 1t is the same
preston IN both picturcs!'' And he was right. If
there any difference at all, it in favor of the