Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-05
THE ANNUAL ELBGY or GRIEF.



The Brightest Thing OF the Ga n'paign.
Mr.. j. p Dolliver was temporary chairman
of the recent Iowa Republican Convention.
lie was notified of this selection only few
minutes before taking the chair. His ad-
dress took the audience by storm. A few ex-
tracts will be read with interest. Mr.. Dolli-
yer is only 26 years of age, and is the recog
nized leader of the young Republicans Of
Iowa.
SURE CURE FOR POLITICAL DYSPEPSIA.
Gentlemen ofthe Iona Republican Conventions
Out of the abundance of my heart thank
you for the honor which your favor has con.
ferred upon me. 1t builds up mans polit
cal constitution to take front view Of the
fighting strength of the Republican party Of
Iowa. II any of you have friends that are
bothered with political dyspepsia, who find
trouble in selecting from the printed bill OF
fare of Republican politics, l advise you to
bring them here and let them look in the
face of this magnificent assembly. Your con
ventions have always been deliberate, your
nominations representative, your campaigns
popular, and your bslot-boxes too full for ut
teranoe Of straight Republican tickets. Con-
sequently Democrat has not been seen on
election night for quarter of a century. The
music of the telegraph Office has been their
annual elegy of grief. They look upon
bulletin board az an enemy of free govern
ment and accept the first half of Franklin's
maxim, "early to bed" when the returns are
coming in.
THE PRESIDENTIAL NoNENTITY.
The first act of the Democratic party ia to
file schedule in bankruptcy. Already their
property is out of their own name. Their
national standard is in the hands of man
whose name is not disclosed by the Democrat
ic national record. Four years ago his name
could have prudently been used as an alias
under which to travel incognito all over the
known world outside of Buffalo To elect
him President would be like lending money
to a stranger on the train. 1t takes the cheek
of the Democratic managers to play the
whole American people for suckers thank
God that we belong to party that saves the
crown of its public honor for the brow of It's
actual leadership. With the Democratic par
ty nominations are made not so much to rep
resent the party as to disguise it. In its long
struggle for existence the men who have made
the history of the party go to the wall. 1t is
the only party that ever existed whose candl-
dates and platform never throw any light
whatever either on its management or Its
lhllu. IN IhGl, mOutIu DtuOtlhth VI Nuo
practical school have no creed except the oath
of office.
THE AUGEAN STABLES.
All the important Democratic principles
are unfit for use They have been left out in
the field just where they were used last, with
not even bunch of swamp grass thrown
over them, in sun and rain, until rot and rust
have done their fatal work. 1t is true they
talk piously Of the need of reform, and with
an inexcusable libel accuse the integrity of
the Republican civil service They work
their favOrite classical allusion to the Augean
stables for all there is in it, These they rs
sert must be cleaned out Yet from the gen
erAl appearance of the crowd that is on hand
to do the business, the average citizen is like
ly to conclude that their intention Is to steal
the fork rather than clean out the barn.
THE GREAT LOCAL ISSUE.
It is true they precmpt all sides of the tariff
question. They profess to settle that issue
by jargon of words without precedent in
| the annals of nonsense and confusion. You
might as well try to fit the hundred headed
dog of the ancient fable with a straw hat as
to place candid and Ineligible tariff plat
form under the feet of the Democratic party
They approach that question and nearly every
| other like a man emptying hard coal ashes in
high wind, with their eyes shut and their
backs to the subject
THE KIcKERs.
Now and then you find Republican who
| enjoys the momentery Importance that be-
| longs to the kicker and the scratcher. The
shortest road to celebrity nowadays is to ad-
| vertse your conscience in the newspapers
| There are Republicans who treat their con-
science as if it we're the stock in trade of a
baking powder factory. They solemny pro-
test that every body's conscience has alum in
it except theirs They adopt the doctrine of
Matthew Arnold and insist that in order to be
safe the nation must furnish the remnant with
| complimentary tickets and a front seat. They
would have the country govern itself by the
advice Of persons whose names, if l may bor-
row phrase from your good friend Gov. Car
penter, are written in the herd book Of high
political grades.
| THE CONVENTION OF INDEPENDENTS.
Only last month convention was held in
a New York parlor, in which the only creden.
tas called for by the committee were a writ
ten pretence of holiness, and the only creed
required of the membership was, 81 believe
in the communion of the saints of Beacon Hill
and Franklin square" Let them commune.
l trust they will stick together till they get
thoroughly acquainted with each other
have a curiosity to see the effect of genuine
| Democratic candidate on an unusually sancti-
fed nostril. This campaign will last long
| enough to show to every sensible mans eye
that no possible combination of tight pants
and hay fever can defeat the anxious will OF
the real conscience of this country-the Re
publican millions of America.
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