Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-09-03
THE wV1lEsr YET.
Address Of Mr.. J. p. Dolliyer
on Ticking the Chair In the
Iowa Convention.
Annual T" "Elegy Of Grief" for the Hawk.
eye DcmOcrats-An Eminent Man
Who Is Dead and Doesn't
Know IL.
Uonscienoes with Alum In 'Em-Tight
Pants and Hay Fever Desorting
q Learned Profession to Be-
come a Hangman.

AScAU Mt& s1ss&kss4 s| u
u n6satcabie merit which was delivered III
tho Republican convention Of iowa lab,
week. which il attracting much attention,
The speaker, Mr. ]. r. Dolliver, is young
man of aa, who was notified Of his sc!ec-
ton as Temporary Chairman only few
minutes before he was called to the chair.
1t was delivered with such telling effect thai
it carried the convention by STORM. II
is filed with effective shots. Mr. Dblllvar
has rapidly developed great popularity as
speaker, and Is now Recognized in Iowa as
the leader Of the young Republicans. He
has been invited to go into the national
campaign, and in few days will TAKE thd
stump in West Virginia ana later in the
canvass will speak in Ohio and Indiana:
uensiSn,en OF the Iowa Republican Convention
U0t OF the abundance Of my heart thank YOU
Tor the honor which ysur favor has conferred
upon me. 1t builds up mans political consti-
tuition to take front view Of the fighting
any Of you have friends that are bothefed with
political dyspepsia, who find trouble in selecting
from the printed bin Of fare OF Republican
them look in NE fsce Of this nasnicent % assem- @ M
bly. Your conventions have always been de-
Lucrative, your nominations repreee.itative.
your campaigns popular. and ytur ballot boxes
tickets. Consequently Democrat has not been
eeen on the streets of an Iowa city after o'clock
on election night for q quarter OF q century.
annual eleey Of grief. they look up upon Ma a bnies
tfn-board as On enemy Of free goetitment. and
accept the first half ef Ftaakliii's maxim early
to bed, when the returns are coming in
DkMpCRAT1C BANKRUPTCY.
The fret act Of the Democratic party Ia to flo
2 schetule in bankruptcy. Already their prop
eIty is m ont + Of their own name. Their national
Is not disclosed by the Democratic national
record. -Four years ago his name could haFt
prudcntly been used as an alias unt1ef which I'd
travel ineognito al ever the khnwn world out
be like lentiint mobey to stranger on the train.
IL takes the cheek of the Democratic managers
TO psay the whole American people for suckers.
eaves the crown Of its public honor for the
brow OF Its actual leadership. With the Demo-
cratic party nominations are made not 10 much
long struggle for existence The men who nave We
made the history of tho party 60 to the wall II
u the only party that ever existed whose catidi=
dates and platform never throw any hght what
ever other on its MANAGEMENT or its faith. In
TACT, modern Democrats of the practical school
have no creed except the oath OF office. All the
important Democratic principles are pnfit for
where they were used last. with not even 8
bunch OF swamp grass thrown over them-in
sun and rain, until rot and rust have done their
1t is true they talk piously OF the need of re-
form, and with An inexcusable libel accuse the
integrity of the Republican civil service. They
work their fAvorits classical sllusion to the Au-
gean stables for AL there Is In It. These, they
assert, must be cleaned out Yet from the gen.
eral appearance Of the crowd that il on hand to
do the business, the average citizen is likely to
rather than clean out the bran.
1t Is true they pre-empt all sides of the tariff
Question. They profess to settle that issue by
nH l.
nails of nonsense and confusion. You might Al
well try to At the hundred-he dog 81 the
ancient fable with a straw hat a. to place can
did and intsllisiblc tariff platform under the
that question and nearly every other like a man
emptyfng hard-coAl ashes in high Wind. with
their eyes shus and their backs to the subject.
What must be the thoughts OF man like MI.
Thomas A. Hendricks AZ he sits in his law oflice
and looks at tho top shelf OF his library. and
Globes from is;o TO 1850 flcm lie fugitive
elave law TO the resumption OF specie payments?
Dean Swift used 10 say that censnre Is q tax 1
man pays 20 the public for being eminent: 1t
IL not the fault OF Mr. Hendricks that the Con-
g!aseional record connects him with all the
Diundcrs aud treasons OF recent politics. It Ii
the tax man pays to his gener .tion for the
Victor Hugo, somewhere In the mAstespiece OF
prose fiction, relates singular dream OF Jean
Val5ean, In which the unfortunate man Ii car
Aicu JAVA Al vlhlUu 10 the etf6ete OF his
native village, and there, in the midst OF the
gloom and ashes and dust OF things, inter-
viewed by a gentleman. who eo.emnly asks him:
!, sWhere M - are % YOU going Do yon not know you
thought that II Mr.. Hendricks could once ~
himself enlightened by an appropriate vision
and wander back IN hts dreams to the familiar
assistance to enable him to hear more than one
voice solemnly asking the came oucstionss
Where are YOU going; Do you not Know You
THE FRAUD IssUhL
Mr. HcnoricR u placed upon the Democratic
tacket-not to recall the history Of the Demo-
cratic party. No thoughtful Democrat wants
Avowed purpose Of revivinR the superstition that
surrounds the electoral count Of 1877. With
stupidity tho Democratic man.
laever slept we'll since that celebrated Question
Of mathematics was mp for settlement They
seem to be stfiioted with sort Of intellectual
n e ftlessnsss M that keeps them from the UNDER
u 1880 by the hand Of Thomas A. Hendricks,
The indictment OF IN alleged momentous out
rage cannot be dismissed for want OF proeecu-
dust of eight years without losing interest to the
travelling public. With all due respect 10 Col.
VI .. Of Wisconsin. say the statute OF limita-
slons does % run The dsscendsnts q Cloopstr.
managers to Iarads the venerable
sss EsSs. wsS TerS s.Ssns ths shs
Americ.n people rcmembertnx the long yeazs q
political rapine that have Rivsn the South to the
~ R:1ty: t and a1dins If Tilsn snd
Of these ycars OF felony against
the bail0t-box In the South, have never. to anv
Visible degree. bcwailed their memorable failure
one thank the Democrats party for Tie fraud
issue. Miserable and useless In itself IL sfForss
The country proper occasion to recall that