Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-26
THE OLD POLITICIAN
Discourses Of the Circus and Political
Rings.

Discourses Of the Circus and Political
Rings.
The Old Politician bought seven tickets
and took all the grandchildren to the cir
Gus on Saturday Che has not missed one
nor ''nigger show in many years), and
he was SO we'll pleased that he went alone
in the evening to see the performance
again and the crowd. Under no other
consideration than the fatigue Of these
undertakings would he have been absent
from church on Sunday morning, when
the INTELLIGENCER man found him lust
after the Sunday papers had come in.
Young man, take the Sun on Sun
day. read Republican papers on week
days, but dilute my religion with Dem
ocracy.
about the circus? Well it was a good
one, but the thing l saw most strikingly
from my seat on the upper benches was
what the INTELLIGENCER predicted some
time ago-how much the circus was like
the circus that comes of in our primary
elections, soon to take place and now being
SO actively canvassed. In the first place,
Barnum is yoked up with his old opposi-
tiOn, Bailey and Hutchison-just as
Hiestand is now in harness with his
late opponents, McMellen and Mentzer, and
Geist ambles along docilely with Sensenig,
Wissler & Co. Then Barnum, humbug Of
humbugs, with his greatest show on
earth reminds me Of Geist everlastingly
footing the trumpet of reform Then
there were three rings at the circus, Just
rs there is to be in our little circus next
month-the Sensenig ring. the Mentzer
ling, and the sOrehead ring of tho fellows
who get left by the combinations.
The latter, like the middle ring
ut the circus, is the smallest. A
great many people came to town on
Saturday to see the elephant and so q
good many go into the primary election
campaign to see the political ele ephant, and
come out of it poorer and sadder-but
not a bit wiser men. They go to the very
next circus that comes along. The ami
mails reminded me of the politicians.
Some of the wire pulers are as clumsy as
the elephants, some as deceitful as the
snakes and the way that politicians and
editors malign character makes them re-
semble the hyenas. The circus rider ON
two horses isn't any more dextrOus than
John SmOOthface who promises two or
three candidates and the ground and lofty
tumbling out in that tent On Saturday was
nothing compared with that of the bum-
mer politicians.
Well, young man, did expect to
have some news Tor you to-day, but there
isn't any. The past week has seen no
change in the situation and don't think
there will be any developed in the grand
convOcatiOn Of politicians which will as
semble to- morrow at the county commit
tee meeting. There will be little skirm.
isll over the day for the primaries. John
son is for the last Saturday in May, as a
rule, but the most of the New Era faction
want it as early rs possible, as they think
they are fixed now. McMellcn wants it
put off as late as possible. John NJ.
Orders friends will make dead set to
have Good forced off the Sensenig ticket
for county treasurer and Grider put on,
and will pay to have it done. The man.
ayers may take the money, but they are
bound to stick to Good so as to Get the
Pequea Martic and Conestoga vote. Matt
Fridy prevents Grider from bringing
much to the combination and they don't
forget it. There is to be no time wasted
over the lower places, on the ticket
81 notice Griest and Geist are at it
again. They don't like each other for any.
thing, and by the time they have their
dirty linen washed the public may be en-.
lightencd and edited. l know all about
the matter Gricst refers to and the five
men he will name as having raised $50 to
buy Geist will be himself. Jack Hiestand,
WIN. NJ. Wiley (dec'dl, Bob Houston and
John NJ. Stehman. My own idea is that
the fellows interested on their side tina t
time did raise pool to pay the expenses OF
their campaign and Wiley may have spent
$50 on communications in the Express,
but that paper never took but one course
Oh the question involved and nobody who
knows Geist will belive that he sold his
editorial opinions in that bold way-es-
pecially upon hearsay testimony thirteen
years after, aud long after the only alleged
witness is dead.
Oh, yes-their controversy will be q
bitter one, and you may expect Geist to
draw the gate and let the water Oh. He
will serve up Griest's record as county
treasurer, his law suit with Dave Shultz,
his row with John Brady. and all that
Levi Sensenig knows about Griest's candi.
dacy for Congress. and what Levi was to
get il Griest was elected. And Griest will
retaliate, and the INTELLIGENCER may find
some choice morsels to warm up for its
readers"