The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-04-08
HOW A PAPER DROPS A HY.
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And now we know why the Tesds
''North West" has been hyphenated pa
per. 1t was the mutual property OF Mr..
G. T. Judd and Mrs. Myra Judd, and it
was Judd Judd concern. The male
Judd is an arrAnt Greenbacker, and
the female Judd belieTes Greenback.
ism an awful humbug, and she led the
paper as far as she could IN an inde-
pendent direction, and hence it was
Greenback Independent IN its pro-
cllvitIes. He was editor and she
was editress and hence the paper
was of hyphenated gender as well
as byphenated in politics. Things got
to be nightly mixed, and the hyphen-
ated process could hardly hold the
two ends of the North West together.
The readers began to fall out with the
male Judd because his Greenback doc
trines appeared 30 foolish to them, and
his end Of the concern began to grow
rickety, while the good editress held
her end steady, and the hyphen be-
tween them came near dropping ont.
Hence we see in the North Vest of the
twenty fifth Of ApIll q vsledie,ory from
the male end of the hyphen, by which
he drops off, and sslutatory from
the female end OF The hyphen, by
which she hangs on. Through acol-
umn and a quarter, she male Judd
takes leave Of his tripod, while The fe-
male Judd shows her good sense by
making her sweet bow in half a COL
umn. He pines, and she gushes, and
the hyphen drops. He says:
To you, my greenback fr.ends-co-
laborers with me in defense of the
Christianity taught 10y Christ, and of
tue principles of democratic republi.
can governmental support OF the
right in its conflict with wropg-ln be-
half of the enslaved In their struggles
with tyrant masters-in defense of our
own manhood our own God-given
freedom. and for the protection of our
wives and children, our homes and
firesides, let me say, be not dIscour-
aged. The day of your redemption,
your triumph, draws nigh. What. if
the North. West, as your advocate and
defender, is sileneed, you still have the
ballot-box-that engine of power
which tyrsnts hate. Hotes cote your
principles. Talk talk your greenback
doctrines until you are able to cote
yourselves into power-until you can
vote the bonds and the cursed specie
basis humbug and fraud, upon which
they res, into snnihilatiop, ald t1eir
ADVOCATES intd political oblivion.
Mccoy and Still. and George Wash.
ington Jones and the other great green
back disciples may wipe the watery
visions from their eyes, and buckle on
their srmor, and build temple to the
memory of the mattyred Judd. He
has fallen in the path of righteousness,
and deserves place beside De Ia
Martyr in the temple commemorative
OF the "Christianity taught by Christ. y
Gently lay him away. He is too pure
and sweet to be made President oil
these United States, and should be
embalmed that his corpus may rest
within a crystal shrine where Green.
hackers may pray. Lay the beautiful
thing away. Mrs. Judd, who must be
a real business woman, says:
1 promise to give the paper my best
energies, and in return 1 ask it's friend,
to give it support that will enable
me to make 1t all that they or could
wish it to be, as a material aid in the
building up of our county.
The North. Vest has been published al
Montague, and it will be continued al
tlie same place by it's talented editresi
as the NorthsOest.