St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-03
VOLUME 44---NUMBER 2249.

record what Mr.. Lincoln's and Gen.
Garfield's "little women really said or
thought but, making a postulate of
our knowledge of the sex, we may safe
ly conclude it was to the effect that 81
told you so," or 81 always knew it,"
But with Eliza the case is different.
She couldn't have told anybody so, or
have known it without telling-though
that OF course, goes without saying
because her husband himself had no
inkling of it before. And as women
get their political information, and a
large share of their other secrets, from
their husbands, she cannot now impose
upon the public any statement that she
"felt it in her bones" or "dreamed it
out" at any time in the past The
question, therefore, of what Eliza will
say is still an open one. Coming down
from principle to particulars, and again
predicating our remarks upon knowl-
edge of the sex, we make haste to graf
ify Mr.. Osgood's natural curiosity as to
the line of remark adopted by his good
wife. Presuming that she is sensible,
an honest, high-spirited and large
hearted woman, Eliza undoubtedly
said: "They've made tool of Joshua.
T'll teach him better when he gets
home! Setting himself up for Govern
or, indeed It's all he can do to gov
ern himself with my help and the
Lords. S'pose he can't see that all
they want is to elect Fusion Govern
or and Legislature, and then where'll
our temperance be? Governor, is it
To go rampaging over the State and
get 1000 or 1000 votes while those
thieving chaps that tried to steal the
state last year scoop in the offices. I'll
govern him when he gets homel It's
provoking to see how little it takes to
upset man. Now, there's Joshua.
He's done a world of good talking to
poor, fallen men, and getting up reform
clubs, and persuading young fellows to
sign the pledge. Every man he gets to
stop drinking is nail in the rumseller's
door, Folks can't sell what nobody
wants to buy. l wish every bar was
buried in the bottom of the ocean, but
that amt Joshua's forte. It's his bust
ness to help men and to save them,
and not to set himself up as the boss
constable of the State, for that seems
to be these lunatics' idea of Governor.
Don't Joshua know that it is the Pres
idential year, and everybody is in
downright earnest7 What sort of
help does he expect to get in executing
temperance laws from folks that would
try to steal the government and when
caught at it and sent home with their
tails between their legs, come up the
next year and ask the people to give
'em what they failed to carry off, And
how long does he think the Republi-
cans will keep Maine at the head of the
temperance states, if he and his clubs
go back on them in every pinch /?
There's some things almost as bad as
liquor, and cheating in the election and
tampering with the returns, and trying
to hold to offices that you've been vo-
ted out of is one of 'em. l just wish
Joshua was here this minute. rd give
him my opinion of this third party an
tics pretty quick. 1 'spose he thinks
I'd like to be spoken of as Mrs. Gov
ernor.' Mrs. Fiddlesticks 1 don't
tackle kindly to being Mrs. Make-Be-
lieve-Run-for-Go Governor so that some
folks whose hands ought to be used in
packing stone for the State may grab
the chestnuts that Joshua has pulled
out of the fire ~
And that is what Eliza will say, or
words to that effect, if she is the woman
we take her to be.