The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-27
HAVE A POLITIC.
'' nurdctte's Advice to Young Men OF
Political Aspira lions.

war cry. View with alarm
sna point with pride on your own hook,
out do view and point. If you are very
vigorous you may also at times "recoil
WITH horror You will find this very
affective toward the close of the cam
paign. LII L had time, my son, believe
icould hit you out with full and COM
piete assortment of tools, weapons and
armor for politics.
You should have, at the opening of
the campaign, beside the matters al
ready mentioned:
One dozen kegs of nails, wherewith
TO nail the enemy's lies. Shrek every
time you nail a lie Down with the
Mormons."
A few judicious lies to toss around
carelessly and not too early, just to
keep them busy. Shout when you scat
ter them. Say something mean about
the Mormons.
A few demands" for things that we
already have, and have had for fifty
years. Nobody will notice this if you
only yen them out Justify, and with the
air of a man who is saying something
new. The older the demand" the
louder you must yell when You make
1T. Demand" especially that the Nor
mons be suppressed.
Some pledges" more or less. Pledge
yourself to something easy-the aboli-
ton of Mormonism, the abolition of
slavery and unyielding opposition to the
payment of the Confederate bonds of
the State of Ohio. Roar about it, and
give it to the Mormons red hot.
Remember the soldiers. This is
eminenty proper, patriotic and cheap.
'Twon't cost you cent Stand upon
the house-tops, and in loud voice call
them 1.-The defenders of the Republic"
and declare that they shall have their
rights. Along near the close OF the
campaign you miP''t also promise them
their let's. That's what they'll get any
how, but You needn't say anything
about that. Keep as noisy as possible
and howl: The Mormons must go"
Arraign the administration Oh!
every time arraign the administration.
And common arraignment will not do.
III any platform contain not scathing
arrangement of the administration the
same is n liar and horse-thief, be the
same more or less. If unfortunately,
you are on the side OF the administra-
ton, then you must arraign the other
party. But you labor under great
disadvantage if you are in with the adj
ministration. 1t is SO much easier TO
stand in the street and throw stones ut
the window than to stand in the window
and throw stones into the street.
Blessed be the opposition. Because
why? You're Liable TO run out of
stones. There are no stones in the
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and the man in the window can't throw
until the man in the street has first
fired rock at him. And if it SO be
that the first dornick catches him in
the eye his case is distressing; or if it
be that while he IS stopping TO pick up
the first stone the man in the street
fires half a dozen more at his STOPPING
figure then is the last state of the man
in the house worse than the first.
"Holler" as loud a you throw fast, and
let the Mormons have it ell the tine.
For the reasons set forth above, never
fight on the defensive Always keep
going up and down like raging lion.
seeking where you may investigate
somebody. You haven't taught me
ahy of the parries,' said young
soldier to an old Prussan fencir
master. Parties be-" II have for
gotten the Prussian for that world re-
piled the old muStache. You thrust !;
let the other fellow parry. Lay it on
TO the Mormons, every lick.
BY all means have slogan. No
pa ty is equipped for contest until it
has "a slogan.
In some wards you Will want slogan
that holds quart
Down with the Mormons, remember
And talk loud.
Pat civil-service re orm on the back
Remember that. i'll the hands of the
administration, il is mere instrument
of partisan tyranny and nepotism, an
object of selfish ambition and base
personal greed; but in your hands and
those of your relatives, by conslnguin-
sity, marriage and adoption, public
tation would be place of honor and
honesty, capacity and fidelity, and con-
stitute the only valid claims to public
Endorsement. And right here, oh how
you can seattle the Mormonsl
In regard TO the tariff, denounce
Mormonism as q scandal and a reproach,
that is breeding a decentralization from
its foul and fostering chaps, that is
fetid with rank corruption, that theat-
ems TO pollute the entire system of the
grandest Government on Goods green
yarth." This will catch the FREE pro-
tradetionists
l think there's about all you need to
start with, my boy, and the other
things will occur TO you as the cam
paign advances. It's always safe to let
into the Mormens. They have no
friends east of the Rock mountains, and
very few west. Some Of these points
you may have to modify little, but in
the main you can use them as they are.
They have been used by two parties
during the past twenty years, and have
come out radiant with victory and noble
defeat every time.