The Portland daily press., 1884-09-03
Nasty Sees Curtis and Beecher in a
Vision.
Their Effort TO Cleanse the old Giant De
mscracy-Wbnt Came of H and OF
Them.
[Frnm the rolado Blade !

Their Effort TO Cleanse the Old Giant De-
mscrRcy-Wbnt Cnme Of H and OF
Them.
From the Toledo Blade.l
CoNFEDR1T X ROADS witch is in the
State of Kentucky, July 2O-I had aruther
dreem last mite wch left indelible impress
shun on my memry. 1 don't understand
why l should contiuelly dreem, but vishuns
come to me now nitely. can't see why. It
can't come from fzzekel causes, for 1 live
reglery as alluz hev done. 1 fill up regler-
ly at Bascom's every mite. The amount /
hist in depeRdin on the temper of the ole
man or whether Their is stranger from Lou
isvile ther, an roll off towards my peceful
couch about II an sleep ez l alluz heV done.
Why then, shood I dreem more than ust
to?
In my dreem last Dite methawt the old gil
ant Dlmocrisy wuz trotted out to be put in
order for the regar four years race. His
old grooms and hackers wuz with him, but
it looked ez though by common consent they
had turned the keer of him over to a moo lot
with he'd him in hand. There wuz George
Wilyum Curtis and the eddytur of Tue Moo
York Times, and Henry Ward Beecher and
a lot of fellers from Massachusetts,, witch wuz
a examinin him critically and maxim sejes-
tuns ez to wat shood be done TO improve his
condishun.
George Wilyum looked him all over keer-
fully.
"Ther's too many spots ON him." was the
remark, "Here is a sore spot marked 'Sla-
very anuther 'Seceshun,' annther 'Repoo-
diashun,' anuther States Rites an duzen
others, witch are positive blemishes. They
must be removed"
"Troo," said the Massachusetts, felers,
"but doubtless they are Only skin deep aud
kin easily be rubbed out. The fust thing 10
do, therefore. is TO rub 'em out"
"Eggsackly," said Curtis. "We will i'm
meiitly pereeed to rub EN- out"
The ole hackers smiled sardonic smile,
for they knowd the giant better than that,
but cheerfully furnished brushes and con-
sentrated lie aud all sorts NV powerful sopes,
and George Wilyum, Mr.. Beecher and the
Massachusetts, fellers went at it.
They appllde the sope and the hot water
and they scrubbed at the spots an hour or
two till they wuz out of breth, but it didn't
remove them. In fact the frickshun made
EN- shine out the more prominent.
They stopped an gazed at EN-.
"Trooly," said George Wilyam, 81 hev
scrubbed faithfully and have redoosed the
size Nv the giant iUch, but the spot re-
names ez dolefully plane ez ever"
"VerilY," sed the Massachusetts, fellers,
''the spots we hev ben workin at are not err
radicated by no means; on the contrary they
are even more disgustinly visible TO the max
id eye."
Then they commenst agin. The body nv
the giant wuz bein visibly redoost under the
operashun, for 1t seemed ez tho all Their wuz
NV him wuz dirt, but the spots rema ned.
They wuz puzzled to know wat to max Nv
it. Finally Henry Ward Beecher, witch had
scrubbed more faithfully than eny NV EN-, took
penknife and jabbed vshusy round the
spot he he'd bin workin at, aud made an egs-
aminashen, and thru down his soap and
brush in despare.
tits no yoOse" WIZ his breef remark.
"Scrubbin is in vane. These spots are not
mere skin deep-they go cleer thrup'
"Troo," said George Wllyum Curtis. 81
heV made the same diskivry. Let US cut EN-
out"
Then the old hackers interlered and pre-
hibitid it. Ell 700 cut EN- ont you'll kill the
giant It's born in the flesh and can't be
eradicated. To eradicate the spots would be
to eradicate the giant. It's NV no yoose.
700 must take him ez be is.''
The Massachusetts fellers took Wun
good look and wun smell Nv the
giant carkis tina had been workin at
and holdin ther noses retired with
CRATE rapidity. George Wilyum Curtis
and Henry Ward Beecher tride to git ava,
but tina had permitted the giant to git grip
onto EN- and tina coodent and tha lade
dnWp hnoidn him Ifsf I O1ra
There is a moral to this dreem wich no
wun nose better than 1 do. The fact is,
DimocrisY is Dimoerisy. and it amt nothin
Else. We cant make it over or improve H.
Wat Dimocrisy wuz twenty-four yeers ago 1t
is now, and il amt nothin else. Horris
Greedy tried 10 reform us, but in ended in
rooinin Horris without don US any good.
We are DOW tryin to hide behiud Cleveland,
but Cleveland is too thin, and the people
see thru him. Behind hum is the same old
carkis. George Wilyum Curtis and Henry
Ward Beecher ana them fellers are tryin to
do sutbin with it, but tina can't undo facts
or change the Dacher Nv the animal. Dim
ocrisy is Dimocrasy, NO matter who is in the
sadie or who is engineer in the race. It's wun
ndivisidle, allnz the same and eternal Ef
we Good only lay down and die and be born
agin or suthin, it wood be encurldgin; but
no matter wat clole we put on or wat we
PEERLESS, it's the same old cancer, wich kills
evrvthin it tuches.
I'm afrade shal never sit in that post0fis
agin, nor will Deekin Pogram tost his shins
at the cheerful CRATE IN the collectors offs.
Our strength is our week.-Mrs.. Eff we don't
stay Dimycratic we amt no hin, and eff we
do stay Dimycratic we are killed. We can't
go over to the Republicans for wat chance
wood we hev ther, and to stay by ourselves
is starvation.
l am going to call a convenshun to make
compromise with Blaine. l am goin to
offer him the privilege Nv runnin the GUY
eminent eff he will permit us to hold the
offises. Eff he declines this our case is hope
lis indeed.