The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-29
DEFEATED AGAIN.
tPeck's Sunl

The election is over and the result IS the same as 1t has been for so many years, the SKH's candidate is defeated. No person has ever tried harder to be on the winning side in politics than the editor of the SNN has. Seymour and Greeley and TIlden, advocated by the San when it was political paper, before its eye teeth were cut, were all defeated, ruthlessly slaughtered to make re. publican holiday. This year this paper with its usual ill-luck guessed wrong again, and advocated Belva Lockwood's election, believing that the people who had become tired of male presidents would rally around Belya as one man. They did just about rally as one man, and we are the man. Our candidate has followed former candidates up the waters of Salt River, and while this Is being written she is doubtless sitting in skif
 up that awful river, looking for land ing for her frail bark, and swearing at the voters who went back on her. ltis awful to think of this defeat, as she had set her heart on warming the presidential chair, and her constituent is sad also. Defeat is a thing all candidates must look upon as possible, but woman can- not stand it as well as a man. Seymour, when defeated, went to his home in Utica and continued his cheese making but Belva cannot make cheese. She does not know the combination, and if she attempted to make cheese she would cut it bias, and trim it with the same, and put hooks and eyes on the rind, which would never do in free country. Greeley was defeated and he went of to his farm and died of broken heart, but Belva can't do that. 1t would not be any con- solation to her to die. Tilden, when de- feated, went to his bachelor home and kept his mouth shut. Belva could not do that, as she is 2 woman. Neithe. could she lead the life of a bachelor, as Tilden has, because she is married. The only thing for the SHn's defeated candi. date to do is to go home and make it warm for Mir. Lockwood. What has he been doing all the time Belva has been running for president2 He has been at- tempting to keep house, and it is safe to say he has made mess of it, as all men do under such circumstances. Belva can go home and find fault with Mir. Lock- wood to her hearts content, and if she works it right she can so occupy her mind that the sting of defeat will not huri her so much. It is probable that in her absence Mir. Lockwood has neglected to put the winter fiannels on the children, ana they have all taken cold by this time, and there is ginger tea to be made and stomachs of the babies, and she can deliver part of her inaugural message to Mir. Lockwood as she straightens the children out. Then Lockwood has prob- ably forgotten to pay the hired girls while his wife was away, and she can make him fax around and attend to that, at the same time giving her opinion of a man who neglects the most essential part of housekeepics. She will find on her return home that Lockwood has neglected to lay in a winters stock of coal and potatoes, that he has not engaged a farmer to bring in butter, and has neg lected to pay the egg woman until she has quit bringing eggs just as eggs are becoming scarce. Belva can lecture him on the sin of piocrastination. He has probably forgotten to make engagements with the dress makers to come and fit bCtNd inaugural 0tCSSt duQ tuCtc dIG a thousand things he has forgotten or neglected, if he is a man, as there is reason to believe he is. If Belva cannot get the campaign of her mind and for get defeat while taking her husband across her knee, hguratively speaking, she can get an engagement at a dime museum, as the first and only defeated female candidate for the presidency, and while travelling about the country on exhibition
 she can be eleotioneering for the cam paign four years hence, and and lay her plans so that when the campaign opens she will have all other candidates beaten at the start. This may look like forlorn
 hope to a woman who is not young now, but that is the only way we see out of her difficulty. Certainly, after being a presi- dential can date she cannot go home and go to alarming socks and sewing on pants buttons, because such work would
 be humiliating. Belva, whatever you do, don't lose your grip. Don't cry over the spilled milk of political campaign, but brace up, hook up your corset another hole, set your teeth firmly, and go in to win, and the .S1n will stand by you to the last conscious that if you live long enough you will be ruler over nation or know the reason why. Belva, don't have mysteries, whatever you do, as that is something your constituent will not have going on around him, not if he knows it.