The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-11
Uncle sammy and Uncle Tommy.

try-a solid South. Washington Repub-
licd7s.
Uncle Sammy and Uncle Tommy.
They win AXE good team to beat.
They are not boys, it must be admitted;
Uncle Sammy will be seventy-two next
February and Uncle Tommy viii be sixty
six. But Floral Temple was not a colt when
she made her best time. To be sure her
spine was all right, her eyes as true and
her feet as sound as on the day, she was
a frisky three-year old. If Uncle Sam
my and Uncle Tommy have been s'of
their feed" trifle, may not the fact be
accounted for by reason of the arduous
character of their labors in the Presi-
dency and Vice-Presidency from 1877
to 1872
Uncle Tommy remarks, as an excuse
for having desired the Presidency in
1880, that he really felt then that he had
been Vice. President long enough. 1t is to
be inferred that he felt then that Uncle
Sammy ought not to seek a second term.
But something has caused him to change
his mind. He is now in favor of a sec
ond term for Uncle Sammy and equally
pronounced in favor of serving second
term of the Vice-Presidency himself.
He may feel that Uncle Sammy is a tri-
fle more firm on his ''pinsn than he is.
He Is confident that the pair of uncles
are more stlively" than they have been
in wears" In short it is evident that
Uncle Sammy and Uncle Tommy are
as s'wilfin' to take the Presidency
and Presidency for another CD
four years as Barkis was to take Peg
otty for life.
Suppose the venerable pair, are, as a
matter of fact, little the worse for
wearp Have not they suffered and bled
| for their countryP At least Uncle Tom
my has suffered and Uncle Sammy has
bled. Consider the cost of that cipher
and the expenses of the practical
statesmen who visited the Southern
| States in the interest of Uncle Sammy!
Think of the kilograms Gin cipherl
which passed between New York and
Oregonl Think of Cronin's nose getting
redder and redder as the combat deep
enedi There is Pelton, the nephew of his
uncle; think of his struggles in behalf
of Uncle Sammy and his countryi And
| think of the wear and tear of conscience
it cost Uncle Sammy to repudiate the
acts of his nephew in the interest of
Democratic honor and public virtuei
There is Weed, who went to South Car
olina by direction of Pelton with mon-
| ey in his pocket to buy the Electoral
vote of that State, and with the cipher
/ in his pocket with which to report the
purchase. Call to mind Uncle Sammy s
meeting with Mr.. Weed after it was
known that the negotiations had failed
his reproaches. Weeds excuse that
he was merely attempting to "recover
i stolen property and Uncle Sammy S
stern remark (after the Presidency was
gone to Mr.. Hayes) that "if the Presi-
dency was to be Sold that he would
have nothing to do with it''-that 'she
would not even ransom 1t from felons, "
No wonder Uncle Sammy had a stroke
! of paralysis when he learned that Pei
ton, and Weed, and Cronip, and the rest
| of the wicked Democrats had been try
ing to buy the Presidency for him. A
conf1ding, unsuspicious old gentleman,
who loved his country and Was ''will-
in to serve it, to be sure, but who
hated fraud and deception and scorned
all crookedness-outside the business of
railway wrecking-as he scored Pei
toms cipher; what agony Uncle Sammy
must have suffered when he discovered
the rasealities which had emcompassed
him round about. Having been con-
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knowing how innocent and how profit
able that control had been, what won
4 der that he became the tool of that
i wicked nephew's craftl
But that great grief is now numbered
among the things of the past. Uncle
Sammy has recovered from the shock
of the cipher conspiracy, repudiated the
villains who sought to betray him, and
| spent seven of the best years of his life
in meditations for the benefit of his
country. IF he has now and then taken
sswhirl" on the Stock Exchange on
the inside it has been merely to show
his countrymen that s'his natural force
is not abated."
Uncle Sammy and Uncle Tommy will
make q good team. They are no chick
ems in politics; they know the ins and
outs of political intrigue. They both
succeeded in intriguing themselves out
/ of the Cincinnati Convention in 1880,
but Uncle Sammy managed to get In q
majestic letter of declination in time to
cover his retreat. Uncle Tommy was
not so fortunate, ard perhaps this is the
real reason why he thinks there is 50
strong sentiment in favor of the old
ticket"
1 Uncle Tommy is happy in the use of
terms. The nomination of the two
uncles would make an cold" ticket in
more senses than one. Averaging the
ages of the uncles the ticket would be
sixty-nine years old. Joining their ages il
would be hundred and thirty-eigh
| years old. Taking it any way it would
be the oldest ticket ever presented fol
the sufffsges of the people of this or any
other country.
But the most striking feature of tbs
ticket would be its relation to 1876. I
would be rich In "reminiscences of thu
campaign of that historic year. Il
would recall Uncle sammy's war-cry
Reform is neesssaryr' and Its outcome
the cipher dispatches, the attempt e
steal Oregon, the attemAt to buy Soutl
Carolina, Ind the threat TO inaugprate
revolution In Washington. BY al
means let the two d1ivslyn unniss in
augurate their csmpaign-hurrak TO
the old ticket Of 1sf6s- czscago fsT6unc
i "A Louisviliian, who has no hair 4
spare, makes TIE scientific asserted
that no idiot was ever bafd-headad =