Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-10-25
POLITICAL PICKINGS.
POLITICS AND PLANTING.

Politician-"Come now, Mr., Granger,
| want you Ia do what you can to help
me To represent your town In the Leg.
islature this Winter
Farmer-"Wal, dunno; old Good.
ing's been thar for ten years or so, and
S done fust rate IS far IS | can disk,ver."
Politician ayes Mr.. Gooding is an
able man, n very able man; but you
don't want to keep one man in office
forever. Why, it is just the same in
public office as in farming. You
believe in rotation, don't your"
"Yas; but then don't you know, i amt
a going TO plant last years periater
field with skunk cabbage this year,
just for the sake o rotatin'. D. ye
ketch my idee. Mr.. Brown"
1t is to be presumed that Mr.. Brown
did. Atany rate. he didn't stop to
argue the matter further.-Boston
Transcript
NO SECTIONAL ISSUES NOW.
Prospective bride" How long
ought honeymoon to last MAP"
Ma-"They usually last only few
weeks, but | knew one to last three
months"
"How delightful! Who was the
brideg"
II was"
"Perhaps mine will, too"
81 fear not. The country is not
troubled with sectional issues now"
why, what difference does that
maker"
II was married to your father the
day before he went off with the three
months volunteers
wATTERsoN BEFORE THE CONVENTION.
On the 9Th of July, 1884, the Louis.
vile Courser Journal, one of the long.
esl-headed, ablest and most influential
Of DemocFatic journals, said: THE
idea of nominating Cleveland, who
absolutely has no special claims upon
the party, who has been an obscure
man until very recently, who has done
nothing to entitle him TO the nomina-
lion and is being fought by the best
Democratic workers, over Joe McDon-
aid, of Indiana, Is the hight of political
absurdl,y and tomfoolery,"
hENDhlVhS 40 AN oDoi II oSiiONAsi
Thomas A. Hendricks voted gainst
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments; against the admission OF
Colorado and Nebraska, and in 1864
iudorsed the Democratic platform
declaring that the war was failure.
SHORT BITS.
No other man of the aye has such
lon'ying as James G. Blaine com
VIEWS ITn"a,s, "4s people believe in him
"nef'fh9' VIZ, Tntellsgeacer.
Where will you lid your smoke.
stacks, plant your enginvs md nl.ce
your looms? On British or Am,rican
ol?-Des Holmes Register (Rep).
st. John is accused OF circulating
salt mackerel as campaign documents.
They are among the strongest cold
| water arguments ever invented.
The New York World claims %, 900
Democratic plurality in New York
city. This is equivalent To admitting
that the Democrats cannot carry the
State.
A Democratic victory in Ohio would
mean The election of Cleveland.-N.
Y Herald, October 9th. III is a poor
rule thai viii not work both ways"
The Democrats of Pennsylvania are
without hope in tins campaign. They
do not even 90 through the form OF
torchlight PHILADELPHIA
Letter.
One objection against Candidate
Butler is, that if he should be elected
President, Congress might order his
portrait printed on postage stamps
Nerport, r. Neaos.
Governor Cleveland thinks the tariff
question ian irrelevant discussion"
General Hancock pronounced it "a
local issue The phrases are equally
unfortunately. Y. Star.
In May last l52 Democratic Repre-
sentalives voted for the Morrison Tariff
bill--s measure which several British
papers declared would afford the
British manufacturer considerable
relief.
We're Cleveland Protectionist he
would moi have stood the least chance
OF being nominated for President by
the July Convention. and were he 10
renounce his principles now would
be falal to his csndidacy.-Galuestoa
Feos (Dem.).
One peculiarly OF the State cam.
paign in Ohio this year was the fact
that the County Republican Commit.
tees did much Of the work which the
State Committee heretofore attended
to. Tue smallness of the campai On
fund compelled resort to this meth cd.
but it worked we'll. M III