Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

mems party, n there was such a party
already, and at any rate. Identical with
It's position whenever II might be sufii-
cienty organized 10 assume q position
and enunciate lis principles, whatever
they might be. Then a letter 10 the
Greenbackers and then one to the
Greenbackers and WOrkingmen, then
one 10 the Liberal Republicans, If hap
ly there might be any left, then a short
one TO the ProhibitiOnists, and one 10
the Young Scratchers," and a long
one 20 the Independents, and
one 10 the John Kelly Democrats, and
just before the Chicago Convention one
TO the RefOrmers, and then Just before
the Cincinnati Convention a great,
broad, all-comprehensive, but incom-
prehensible general scoop-net Of let
ter ~ everything and everybody, as
surfing them that he was not only with
them, but, as "the training and habits
Of my life naturally lead me to prefer
civilians to soldiers for the great civil
| trust" he was at their disposal when
they made up their states for the Presi-
dental ticket. But they left him out.
The hunters who beat the Presidential
/ field looked everywhere, in every nook
that might shelter q statesman or
soldier, or, as the Republicans happily
/ discovered, a grand combination Of
! both; the hunters examined every
I covert where a candidate might hide;
/ they looked under the bushes and be-
| hind the logs, apd even peered up into
I the trees and watched the sky, but all
/ the time they never thought OF looking
at the lonely, staring, old fence, loom
/ ing right up before their eyes, plain
and obtrusiye in the great bare field,
with the biggest candidate that ever
| woOed the dazzling sunshine Of pub
licity, Tapping his wings and screaming
attention TO his sO-called sentiments
| and alleged opinions. Pity it was, in
[ deed, that the tailors did not have a
/ distinct political organization; then, in
deed, had David Davis engraved his
/ figure on their banners. But the other
/ parties were looking for quite another
kind of bird. True, eagles did not
/ save Rome, but, then, we are not
Romans, David, and you cannot accuse
US Of ingratitude.
And now, he has come down. We
! suppose it was rather irksome and lone
some on the old rail. There was no use
staying there when the four political
parties had swept across the field and
| found their candidates and had passed
down the highway, trumpets sounding,
drums beating, banners futtering IN
the air and honest enthusiasm in the re-
spective crowds rending the heavens
with shouts for Garfield, Hancock, Neal
Dow and Weaver, with never a lonely
squeak for Davis. Truly, indeed, does
Senator Davis say, in his Hancock letter,
1.-The training and habits of my life
naturally lead me to prefer civilians 10
soldiers for the great civil trust Not
" civilians oh mighty holder down of
fences, but ga civilian YOU intended
to say. And we know what civilian
you preferred. He lives in Bloom
ingtOn, and you pay his taxes.
Go to, man of the broad and all
sufficient vest, your vote and you
have but one, is as light as DR.. Tan
ners, and the fasting doctor, out of the
days Of his publication, with his mental
faculties refined by fasting, and his
brain unclogged by an overloaded
stomach, has declared for Garfield.
Write no more letters this campaign,
good Davis, and when the bleak winds
of November have nipped thy latest
aspirations in their gaudy bloom, get
thee up again onto the fence, and this
time perhaps you had better take a
side-saddle with you and make ready
for another four years cruise. The
fence is the Senator'S best hold. He
should stick to it, and rock-rooted in
his favOrite positions, he will be known
in after years as the crock of fence"
in American politics. Bob Burdetle, in
/ BUTLinqtOn HllObeUe.