Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-11-20
SILLY STIFF.

of his satellites did not like the
aanner in which this establishment
7as illuminated Tuesday evening,
We are not counting neither his nor
heir good graces. We are illumi-
lated by Democratic fire the year
ound. There is nothing spasmodic
bout our Democracy. We eat no
'roso by virtue of our foolhardiness.
Ia, ia, New London.-Mexico Intel
igencef.
If the above don't sound like a
olubber from some big school boy
We give it up. What can be the
with our cotemporarys Does
it want the eartha It is o elected
Congress and can try to peddle
and postofices to its
hearts content. No sooner is the
election over than we are RECALLED
with the above.
"Flatulent," we presume, is a good
word. We may or may not be 'fiat-
ulent." We are a good many things
that our contemporary may Or may
not be, but we shall not mention
them because we want our Congress
man to be in good humor with him.
self and the rest of the world as there
is no telling what he might do con-
sidering the power q entrusted to
him @ of appointing and displacing
35 cent postmasters, etc, etc. The
LEDGER has no satellites" The
LEDGER has friends. 1t does not
think it is brilliant enough to fur
nish light for other parties. Our
contemporary has satellites" We
do not presume the friends of the
LEDGER cared whether u cotempo-
rary Illuminated or not ; we are sure
the LEDGER don't care. Our idea is
that not a dozen people noticed
whether it was Illuminated Or not.
Yes, we presume you are '.illuminat-
ed with Democratic fire the year
around" Some one connected with
that Office is, we are sure, Illuminated
with something. No, we do not
think there is anything "spasmodic'
about your Democracy. What there
is about your Democracy is not spas
modic. You always say something
about your Democracy every time
you open your mouth. Now yor
speak about that which is not about
what you have. You need not apol
ogize or explain anything about YOU
Democracy. If you have it with yor
and it is not s~pasmodie we dom
think any one will try to steal you
spasmodic other things (not you
unspasmodic Democracy
"You eat 40 crow" Well, well
That is pretty good. Do you eat a
alls Is there anything spasmodi
about your eatinga The public
very anxious to know just what yo'
do eat and how often you cal
Slnce you IT, e5ected
should bulletin your meals ever
day SO they could be given to tn
associated press just as the last met
, of a man to be hanged is telegraphe
all over the country. So 'you don
eat crow" That reminds us of
statement we once made. When "
went into the newspaper business VI
established the principle of 'suppol
a yellow dog if he is nominated.
We did not expect to ever have it
do. You can't tell what viii happe
in politics. "Crowl" "Eat crow
We thought we had been eatin
"yaller dog" all this time, or buzzar'
, or hash made out of the two. But
. is over now ; our stomach is all RICH
t but it is terrible to have the ghos-
: of animals you have been eating ri
up from their carrion and laugh
you and say you was fool hardy
, ETC., ETC., for eating us. Heaving'
"A book agent never treated us
| badly.
eta, ia, New London" Now v
, are not sure what the above mean
E We have a year and a half old bt
! down at the house Che is not a can6
: date for the postofice-he is not O
{ enough) who often says "Ta, t
papa" Now is it not strange no
Z brains of the same softness run
, the same channel? But the wol
, New London" is what catches o.
| eye. We we're in New London on
tt-only once. Why does our ''uniat
Q lent, unspasmodic" contemporary +
b mind us of this? Wepauset to wee
The people of New London r s
ciable, but there is no saloon in Il
town. How can any man drown b
. sorrow in a place like thatf The
t is no water there either. The pc
8 pie have no use for it and the sto'
all go to the creek. New Londt
: has several drug stores but visito
don't know the ropes and the on
way to drown your sorrow is to han
8 yourself. We had a very ~interestil
time while at New London. What
called a Congressman was nominate
8 or said to have been nominated viii
we were there. Whether the non
Q nation was '.aatulent Or spasmodi
8 we don't remember. In fact we we
not enough interested in the matt