The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
A REASONABLE COMPLAINT.
Protest Against the Undue Democratic Hi
Iarity Over the Election.

Protest Against the Undue Democratic Hi
Iarity Over the Election.
There has been one feature in the late cam
paign that has given me more pain than every
thing else, a feature which [ hope will hereafter
be dispensed with.
There has been too much hilarity on the part
of the Democratic party, For weeks you
couldn't pick up q paper without reading Of some
town that had just ratified at great expense and
in a most pronounced manner. Some localities
celebrated as many as seven times. Every time
that another county in New York was heard
from there would be a demonstration and more
noise. l can stand a good deal of noise if l can
assist in producing it, but when it is made by &
party with Numerically different political views
from my own, 1t CRATES harshly on my nerves.
never noticed the disagreeable smell of a
kerosene torch so perceptibly as l have since the
lery and the whoop of exultation to jar my
system so severely as they have recently.
When our side used to paint the town red after
election it didn't use to have this disagreeable
effect.
But it has certainly been overdone. Up to the
day of election our side had as much eclat, and
encore, ard certiorari as the Democracy, but
when we dropped it and went quietly to WORK it
seems to me as though the Democratic party
might have had the good taste to do the same.
But did it, All, no! Bands here whooped her
up till | almost cried with anguish. Torchlight
professions have proceshed night after night.
CannonS have doomed till / wished | was in Can
ada, and above the deafening roar / could hear
people hurra who had never been known to hur-
ia before.
do not know that all this was done to give
me pain, but | have every reason to believe that
il was. Those who did it knew very well how L
felt about it. They had repeatedly heard me ex-
press myself. They knew that every shout
pierced my bosom like a dagger, and when the
band that we had hired to split the horizon open
for US prior to election passed by, footing for the
other side, it jerked my heart.strings galley
west.
l can bear physical pain like a stole. I can
beat old Stole at his own game, l wot; but when
a political party obtains a victory | wish it
wouldn't give way to such tumultuoUs Joy till |
have a chance to get away. l ask this as a per
sonaG favor to myself and several millions of my
fellow-citizons who sympathize with me in this
matter.
Joy may be so violent that it is injurious.
Happiness may be so great that it is liable to
rupture the membrane that envelops the du-
pick,
While I bow to the will of the people, I wish
that they wouldn't be quite so internally pleased
about it. 1 therefore use, Mr.. Editor, a small
amount of space in your valuable paper for the
purpose of stating that if all hilarious process
sions in honor of a victory, which to me brings
only sorrow and pain, will please remember to
avoid Eighth and Ninth streets and Myrtle ave
nue., in case these ill-timed demonstrations are
to be kept up all winter, [ feel like doing as
much for them some time, should the oppor-
tunity present itself. l am not the man to for
get a favor when it is done me, and 1 would
cheerfully go out of my way to oblige a Demo
crat as readily as 1 would anyone else. All 1
want is a little time to reflect and spread balm
on the places where the skin has been abraded
during the campaign. 1t would be an ignoble
foe who would deny this.
1 am willing to admit that to the ~victors
belong the spoils, but do not consider me a
spoil, if you please. Victory has indeed perched
on VOuT banner CpDtlan1pn of the DamOcratip
party, but l simply ask as a favor that you will
be kind enough to point your Roman candles the
other way.
If their hilarity is to drag itself along till
Christmas, will you please "holler" in a more
subdued tone of voice as you pass a large Queen
Anne residence, wherein a sad-eyed man has
bowed his tall, 1.-THE and commading form over
a tabular statement of the vote in New York.