The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-11-20
BURCHARD REATBLAlNN.

fBURCHARD DREATBLAlNN-
This is ALTERATION. ALTERATION is
always considered a rather smart liter
ary trick. The poet Pope INDUCED in
it . great deal. Rogers also abounds
In it. When he wrote loft up the
stream of time turn my SAIL
somebody suggested that in order to
complete the ALTERATION it should be
loft up the stream Of time 1 turn my
tail" DR.. Holmes wrote 1.-THE bum bic
bee bass drums doomed beneath
which is the best example of allitera-
ton and ''echo of sound to sense'' ever
written, notwithstanding the fact that
the critics 60 on sticking to VirRil's
''Poor Kitty. poor Kitty, poor Kitty
imitation of the galloping of u horse.
This is preliminary to what we are
coming at. 1t is claimed that allitera-
tion did it. And a preacher alliterated
the criminal ALTERATION. These preach.
ers make bad mess when they run
their tongues into politics. The Rev.
Burchard's 3 fool ALTERATION Of ''Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" it is claim
ed, turned tho Irish Catholic vote from
Blaine.
Query: Whether ALTERATION is not a
felony under the New York statutes;
II not, can it be made so ut once, there
and elsewhere, so that fools who carry
all their religious prejudices and fanat-
ical moral ideas into political cam
paigns can be held to . strict account;
The Prohibitionists claim that they
did it.
The Jawg Weelum Curtis independ.
ents claim that they did it.
But the Burchard Bigot begins to be
belabored badly and blamed boldly al
the boss blather skite who beat Blaine.
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
says:
st. John was helped little in the
cities Of the seaboard by the high NOR.
al Independents, who persisted in
screaming against Mr.. Blaine's person.
al character until it was discovered
that Mr.. Cleveland was not immacu.
late, and then went on screaming in
the void. He was much more assisted
by the clergyman, Burchard, who
would seem to be a fool 80 karats fine
and whose smart ALTERATION as to
Rum, Rolnanism and Rebellion, !" cost
the Republicans more votes in day
than the weeping Independents had
won by six months moaning and gnash-
ing of teeth.
Emory Storrs says:
1T was not Elkins that managed the
ousbreak of a sublime and effulgent
ass, which, along with the Belshazzer
feast, beat US when we had victory in
our grasp and fairly won.''
did Tom Donaldson get up the par
son AFFAIR."" asked.
Mot bit of it," said Mr.. Storrs.
THE ministers got it up among them
heard, and it was we'll enough, and all
went perfectly until that awful fool re-
mark that dashed victory and success
from the hands OF great party and
revolutionized the government Of ma
cost us the states Of New York, Con.
uCVkSOuO o1lA ANC" OCASCys ~ O"CpU
back the voters by thousands and turn.
way. Now, had it not been for that
ghastly Burchard b'under and that ia
tai mistake of the Delmonico feast. We
would have won great victory, and to
whom would have been given the chief
credit? Why to Mr.. Eikins. I tell you
the vote shows splendid management
t1>4 - NJ. L.
ciates. and our defeat is simply due to
something he could not see Or provide
against. It is the height of injustice
to charge the two causes Of our failure
upon him. They are due to the men
who orga 1lzed and put through the
dinner and to Mr.. Burchard himself. y
II hear it talked that the Burchard
episode was shrewd trick manipulat.
ed by Mr.. Beecher and Others"
THAT is nonsense" said Mr.. StOrrs.
II know Mr.. Burchard we'll, and the
performance is eminently characterist.
ic Of the man. It was q blunder, and
worse than crime"
Senator Murphy, Democrat, says:
Burchard's 8 remark and that dinner
beat you. Burchard's remark alone
would have done it. You had US beat.
en-, and I had no doubt of our defeat,
but after Burchard's remark felt no
doubt of our victory. only wondered
that so many 1rishmen stuck to Blaine
~ did. The Irish almost saved Blaine
in spite of Burchard and the Independ'
ents. After that remark I expected
we would carry the state by 10000.
can account for 1000 votes in this city
of my own knowledge that were turn.
ed away faOm the Republicans by that
remark. The head waiter at the Gilsey
house says he knows OF about twenty
employees Of the house who were affect
ed by that remark to vote for Cleve.
land, when they expected to vote fol
Blaine.