Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-11-21
Political Gins.

+ lie laughs best who laughs both first
and last.
Magnetic men really do not seem to
know when they re whipped.
Now that the Illinois legislature is
dangerously close, it is barely possible
that David Davis is sorry he stepped
off the fence during the presidential
election.
Republican pluralities in republican
states are getting smaller, and SO like
wise are the democratic pluralities in
democratic states. Both are moving in
the right direction.
Oneida county N. Y. which gave Gar
field ,946 majority, voted for Cleveland
by a majority Of 10. Oneida county is
the home of man who was once des-
crihed by Mr.. Blaine as having a ''tur-
key gobbler strut
The independents of New York gave
the Blaineites so much to do that they
had no time to look after the stalwarts,
even had they been able to do anything
with them. Tie knife entered under
the fifth rib, and and reached clear
through the half-bred anatomy.
OF course Gov. Cleveland is in receipt
of very many congratulatory kilograms.
Every man gets them when elected to a
great public trust. There is nothing
very valuable about the great run of
such messages, except to show how
many little men are anxious TO get their
names into the newspapers along side
of the great ones of this republic.
What has become of the Blaine and
Logan club which Mrs. Logan organiz-
ed among the coachmen of Calumet av-
enue last summer? The society papers
seem to have lost sight OF the organiza-
ton.
Brother Blaine and his gang of des-
peradoes are nice men TO talk about
fraud. Every specimen of political
fraud committed during the last twen-
ty-four years can be traced directly to.
these wretched corruptionists.
There Is tinge of melancholy in the
reply of Secretary Lincoln when asked
his opinion of the election. 81
have no opinion TO express was the
reply. Il have just been down street
to buy hat. Nobody bought it for me;
paid for ii myself"
1t was no doubt quite wicked in the
democrats to keep perfectly quiet after
winning the presidency. Did the repub-
licans sit down, mute as mice, in Octo-
ber, when the first vague report from
Ohio came in, or did they proceed to
paint the country red?
The goddess of liberty is entirely sat
isfied. The hysterical sobs we hear do
not emanate from her, but emerge from
the profound depths of Gail Hamilton's
pectoral system. There is great diff
ference between Gail and the goddess.
Gail does not divide her petticoat at the
knee.
Mr.. Gould is so unfortunate as not TO
be able to please anybody. Since that
Albany dispatch he has lost favor at
Augusta. Gail Hamilton spitefully al
ludes to. him as ''that Wall street
shark" and incidentally observes that
the election seems to have knocked out
some of his front teeth.
The hurrahing of the democrats has
naturally caused thousands of sore
throats. The republicans are not very
well either. They are afflicted with
thousands of sore heads.
The expense of holding a general cleo
tion in New York is quite an item. The
bill which the city will have to pay
this year amounts to sl56 $40, including
| pay Of poll clerks and inspectors, rents,
repairs stationery and printing.