The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-19


tricks that are vain " Of the little gang Of make
believe refornlers, styling themselves lndepen-
dents, the contemplate bitterness Of their selfish
purposes, and their incapacily to accomplish
them, becomes daily more apparent a meas
ure of that very cheap commodity, s9ft-socp,
surreptiousy sneaked into the political teaketile
when no one was watching, and diligently agita-
ted by these Juveniles, did for . minutes time'
and infinitely to their childish delight, raise itself
to very mountain of ffoth and bubbles, 10 the
rejecting surfaces Of which these Tom Thumbs
and Fat Boys saw themselves reflected in great
proportions and prismatic coloring. The convex
reflections of these gaseous bodies actually put
heads on the images there rs large as those of
other men, and the delight created in the minds
of the little agitators was wonderfully like that
evlnced by the baby, when first admitted to the
ea-table il saw its little head enlarged in the sides
of the silver sugar bowl. But the time came
when the teakettle was wanted for practical
purposes by the grown-up people in the political
household, and then what became of the soap
suds! A stray bubble or two was seen sticking
in the hair and ear-holes of some of the descen-
dents of men whose record is the history of
America for day or two after the kettle was
put on TO "be at the Quincy love feast; but
even these, We notice, are one by one melting
away and drying up Mrs. Winslow's SoOth-
ing Syrup" is now in order for very young
stomachs that are windy there is nothing like it,
we are told.
IT'S well enough so. Let people who require
severe experience as teacher learn that so far
the genius of American economy has evolved
but two ideas, neither of them new-the right
of the people to retain in their own hands the
| power to govern, which is Democratic, and the
| theory that such right shall be delegated to
central power of but limited responsibility, which,
in essence, is miscalled Republicanism. He who
assumes in this country TO think for his neigh
bors in matters political, and aspires to become
leader" whatever that rather ambiguous
term may apply in a land OF schoOl-houses and
printing presses, can't bestow his talents better
than in studying the principles that are embodied
| in these two ideas They are tough, and have
been found hard To digest, and apply for many
| recurring ages of civilization. Some of those
ancestors whose record is the history of Amer
ica," wore their jaw-leeth down to the raw gums
in chewing this everlasting human cud, and
died leaving little else behind them than a eak-
| stomached descendency, with only digestion
enough to cry for a little teat to be placed in
their toothless gums flowing with pap and money.
There are in the affairs of governments and
party contentious often occurring opportunities
| for watchful, reckless and selfishly-vain men to
| take advantage of some unforeseen issue OF minor
| importance, and by means and measures as IA
miliar TO their designing minds as abhorent to
more respectable people, so play upon the pre-
JUDGES and for the moment excited imaginaiions
of the people as to come to the surface and for
season float majeslically like drowned ass in an
eddy, TO the entire disgust of all who are for the
nonce forced to breathe the foul exhalaions
arising from the putrid thing But the disturbed.
waters soon recede, and the floating carcasses
on its surface, together with the bubbles and
scum that drift around them, are left stranded in
the mud, where bleaching jaw-bone may lie as
sad warning to any other presumptuous don
key who may feel disposed to become Independent
of the established fords and bridges in crossing
| the current of public sentiment even were he
lineal descendant of the illustrous forefather
whom BALKAN bestrode.
We rather like men with ancestors, especially
ancestors of an historic record, and when that
record discloses thoughts and actions becoming
patriotic men, good and true we are persuaded
sad degeneracy must attend the vain-glorious
descendant who has no like thought g. and ACT TO
We are constrained to think that any worthy
ancestor who lent his purposes to recording the
history of this country would have been so elated
with pride, if present at the late Quincy Con-
| veDtion, at the Esprit that had been raised
there" by his possible descendent as TO go back
to the mysterious realms of spiritual life rather
persuaded that the herd-book had not been prop
erly kept
In party without precedent, a reformation
without principle, a political organization
without PLATFORM revolution without a pur
pose, staff OF selfconstted leaders without a
notwithstanding, it strikes us, can be so pow
erful help as ancestors. They give tone to
the thing, you know. 1T was my great Mater
nal Bovine Grandmother who jumped over the
| moon, and the taurine youth, with independent
proclivities, who proposes to get away with the
Legendary spoon A western man once ex-
hibited horse of most striking appearance TO
the stock-men of neighboring State for the
purpose of introducing the stock among them.
| While the animal had every appearance of being
horse OF fine parts and breeding, his owner, a
nervous, volatile little man. had no record of his
pedigree. Another man, with broad shoulders
and lofty stature, made his appearance the
scene, with very little and insignificant horse,
but for which he exhibited pedigree as long as
halter strap. In the competition for the Gus
tom OF the people in those parts the big fellow
rather ridiculed the little mans fine horse for
want of any record of ancesters," and insisted
that the wonderful advantage his dmnutive lii
tie brute had in This respect couneracied the in
significance of his appearance. In his earnest
ness he exclaimed: Look, my good people at this
pedigree. Do you know that in the veins of this
horse of mine flows the blood of ancestors
whose record is the history of the turl:"-and
looking scornfuy at his little competitor with
the big horse he cried out Don't mind that
fellow; what's a Iud-horse without pedigree"
WhereupOn The little man arose, and cried, "Yes,
but say d-n a pedigree witlout a studhOrse"
AS the poles will be closed at shutdown on The
day oil the election and held i'm every lice part of
our precincts and not in the graveyards, the
country VIII doubtless be.safe from the suffrages
OF The Independents ancestors, and as these
seem to be what is left of. their constituency that
settles it.
Co.educatiOn Of the Sexes.
Et1if0r Of KLori1ioo Az ANNA .l;sa..;.f.o,;o-