Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-01
Before and After,
Bill Nye in New York Mercury.

Bill Nye IN New ork Mercury.
Last May the Morning Buzzard had
the following "personal" with customary
side heads:
"Returned-The Hon. Ephraim G.
Brown returned on last evenings ex-
press. accompanied by his family, after a
long and pleasant visit east. Judge
Browns return to his home is most
welcome event to the citizens of the
town, and his family was most sadly
missed during the past few weeks. We
gladly welcome Col. Brown home, where
his record as pure and noble cititizen,
and upright gentleman, and unspctted
Christian has so endeared him to every
heart"
Two weeks ago the Buzzard printed the
following double-leaded editorial:
1.-THE convention that nominated Eph-
rain Guano Brown short time ago,
thinking that the people at home would
forthwith indorse its action and rally
around the deceased duck and soiled
dove, Brown, had better 40 and soak its
three cornered head. We desire to place
the Buzzard right with the people before
it is too late. The Buzzard bolts !
was IL uSlUR JLO WiLls Va party
well which is headed by the Buzzlrd to
treat it with cool contempt and to NOM
mate man whose ostensible intellect
has been softened by age and alcohol
till he don't know enough to come in
when it rains2 Will the cunven.
ton seek to ram down the throats OF the
party man whose social record 10 moth.
ing but COB of slime upon our national
escutcheon! That is what it has sought
to do, and the Buzzard desires to state
that it cannot be led by the nose in that
manner. A year ago, when the Buzzsrd
was in the hands OF the sheriff and tot.
tering on its feet, we might have been
more easily whipped into the party
traces; but to-day, in the full sunlig hi
of prosperity, with the tax.list printing
for this fall, with the encouragement of
our paid subscribers and another man,
we come out boldly and bolt the nomina-
tion!
Sand who is this Ephraim G. Brown,
anyhow? Formerly q pedagogue and
afterward q sheriff. That is not all. We
are on the track of an affidavit which
will open the eyes of the people as to the
formor history of Ephraim G. Brown.
"Who was it that twenty.three yeara
ago sold the remains of his mother nlaw
to an oleomargarine emporium, and now
has the audacIty to come before the peo-
pie and ask for the suffrages of hiss fellow
citzans2 These are solemn questions
which the Bu2zlrd proposes to PROFOUND
from now on till election, and when the
sun goes down on the eve of election day
Hon. (D Colonel O Judge q Brown, the
white supulcher, the upas tree, tho bette
noir, the Benedict Iscariot spoken OF in
the scriptures shall be relegated to the
obscurity to which he is no stranger.
"How are we to protect the purity of
our American institutions if we permit
the election of social pus cavity like
EphraIm G. Brown2 How could we
look foreign powers In The face when they
joked us in broken English about our
oleomargarine, and sneeringly asked us
whether we were making it this season
mostly with or without mother-in-laH in
it?
''It is time that free press and free
pulpit and free people should arise and
Jerk Mr.. Brown baldheaded. This is not
fight between parties. 1t is fight for
PRINCIPLE! II 1t is a conquest for o
PURITY!!l What do we care for the
tariff, or the surplus, or the civil service,
90 long as the private character of our
candidate is smirched2
sour way is clear and plain. No
smirch or no vote. Let there be no fool.
ishness or funny business about the cam.
paign. Let Oleomargarine Brown re-
member this. Let this stubborn fact
slash around lonely and desolate in his
fermented brain. The opinion of the
Buzzard cannot be fought. When we
are 30 lost to all honor that our support
can be bought by a horse kleptomanIac
whose life is in the hands of disorgan.
lied and incompetent vigilance committee
we will forward stated bid to Brown,
the alleged human being; Brown, the
biped blot on the face of nature; Brown,
the social wart; Brown, the political ex-
crescence; Brown, the accidental
incubus of the country in which
he lives. Until then we shall
shodt for purity in politics till our ton
sis cleave to the roof of our mouth. IN
til then, with pen of fire and four line
plea letters of living light, we will pro.
claim through these pages that our ballot
and our latest breath are dedicated to the
Joyous task of busting Brown. And
should this announcement catch the eye
of Brown, and should Brown demur to
any of the senti nents which we have
given expression 10 in the foregoing, aud
should yearn for personal interview, he
will find us ut the head OF the stairs jerk.
ing the Archimedean lever Of the Wash.
ington press, ready at all times to wei
coma him with tho three to-pica monkey
wrench and 10 feed him tho false-hearted
statesman with hs own false teeth"