The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-27
DORSEY'S SARCASMS.
The Great Star Reuter- Utters Some
Cutting Phrases On Men and
Politics
[st. Louis special to Chicago Inter Ocean. !


s. w. Dorsey, of star-route and s2-bll fame,
was found by your correspondent day among
the delegates in attendance on the great cattle
convention now in session. 1t is evident at a
glance that he is making desperate effort to
reform, and to make amends, TO himself at
least, for the past indulgences in politics.
and public life A few words of con-
versation confirms this IMPRESSION and also
proves that he has an immense contempt for the
Old Guard and its new members. He was
asked: What do you think OF Mr.. Blaines
course In stamping the various Statest"
i believe that the ablest man alive is the man
whose tongue has been cut of, and that there is
no genius so great that it will tighten mp the
common good sense that controls our people.
The chances are more than ever that when a
candidate for great office attempts to
advocate his own claims he will make
have a maxim, sexcuse s'accuse.' The moment
Mr.. Blaine opened his mouth he made the mis-
take OF defense. When he wrote the lett er about
his family he made the mistake of accusation;
he made every woman i'll the country feel that
there was base for false charge. What he
ought 10 have done was to have pointed to his
children, his grandchildren. and his family and
his life for forty years. IL was the d-dest
idiotic thing and cost 100000 votes"
How do you explain the result in Indiana?"
he was asked.
How do 1 explain it? How would you explain
the difference between the burning of cord Of
hickory and cord OF soft pinel Indiana is o
State of intelligence, and is SO evenly divided in
its political views that the tip OF hair on either
side will carry it."
How about Burchard?"
Il don't know him, but will make vent
ure that he wears a 16 boot and a hat A
Protestant clergyman with no more sense
than to talk about Romanism in an improper
way hasn't the decency to bury his mother /
have a large sympathy for such men on the
ground solely OF their littleness and narrow
ness. In New York City, where / had an
Office for fifteen years. l think it safe to say,
that every great enterprise, every public endow-
ment, all the progress, came from the Catholics
and Jews. Then to hear this fellow talk is to
my mind good deal like the hen that tried to,
lay goose egg. She injured herself and broke
the egg"
do you think it time that Mr. Blaine should
retire from politics."
All know is, that he has been retired"
DO You think Mr.. Arthur could have been
elected?"
"'rhe best answer can make to that is that
we find IL easier in our own country to round
up common and tame beef than likely and act
i've steers. We prefer an easy round up, but the
difficulty is the beef Is no good when you get it.
In order to give Stephen the first an oppor-
tunity to express his contempt for Stephen the
second, which seemed fairly boiling out of him,
he was asked: What do you think of Mr..
Elkins' management of the canvassY
Il have always admired the great benefit
that comes from by-farming. The trouble in
this case seems TO be that the milk wasn't
good. presume Elkins was furnishing all the
wet nurses teats from his brain Whether the
teats or the brain was short, ] am not sure.
Boys in short dresses shouldn't try to be school,
masters. Pretension defrauds none but the
pretenders.. Between pretension and idiocy
there Is no lining.
He was then asked IL he thought Cleveland
would make good President, and replied:
We'll, don't know. I've heard 1t said that
vines hold up trees, but my belief Is the vines
Pulitzer and the other sisters of charity will
have to yank that cradle pretty lively to keep.
the baby awake, but from my experience with
them know their power OF yanking.-