The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-08
The Tenpot Temnest.

The Democrats and their holy Ol-
lowers, the Independents, are in
white rage. What between fury and
amazemeHG they can scarcely contain
themselves. They have fired their
great gun. 1t was, as they thought,
double charged. Best es the usual
loading, they had crammed it full of
dirty missiles of every Obtainable sort.
They were like little boys who, having
stuffed their toy cannon to the muzzle,
run behind the barn to hear it 90 off;
and who stand, finger in mouth, ia
safety but half afraid and wholly de-
| lighted, all agOg for the explosion.
Well, they hear it. But what an eN-
plosiOn! A little pull, q smothered
tizzle, and twenty dirty missiles duly
vomited forth, faint cheer from the
urchins behind the barn, much stencil,
chiefly blown among themselves, and
all was over. The truth is, the whole
Mulligan letter business, to use the
/ phrase, is "played out - Everybody is
/ sick of it. The Democratic and indie
pendent journals have so loaded down
| their columns with it, they have run
| the changes on each letter, and eaCh
| line, and each comma so long, that, TO
/ the mass of even their own persuas on,
| the sub ect is nauseOus to the last de.
| gree. That is the reason, if reason
| be wanted beyond their intrinsic empti-
ness and insignitiCance, why the last
| batch of Mulligan letters have so
| grievO lsly disappointed those who
| published them and why, to finish with
| the metaphor, their gun has ever re.
coiled upon themselves.
And this lame and impOtent conclu-
sion is the "answer to Maine The
Democratic party, weighed down by
continual defeat, "hungry and thirsty ~
as Mr.. George William Curtis declares,
for "spoils," disgraced by the ineitace-
able stigma of opposing nearly all pa
triOGc measures for generation, and
now saddled by its Nemesis in the shape
OF leader who turns out to be unavail-
able rs well as incapable on the very
eve of battle, has no better ammunition
than this wherewith to enter upon its
. coming and perhaps, its final contest
. The half-heaUted adbes on of IammanY
. and the growing schism of Butler,
verify, w r. hardly neaded TO verify the
writing on the wall and assure the fated
discontinue.
As to the Independents, who must re-
| gard their Democratic allies very much
as CULVER regarded his monster
friends of BrObdgnag, they are in a
very sorry plight. They have this eX-
cuse for their tedious parrO.ing about
the Multi an letters, that they have
really nothing else to do. In fOrsaking
their party they did not leave them
selves another leg to stand upon. They
can not attack Republican doctrines
and there are no Democratic doctrines
to support Thus, nothing is left to the
miserable Independents but those an
cient threadbare and empty documents.
They are chained to them as Sinbad
was to the Old Man of the Sea. They
are doomed to continue to the end of
the chapter to chatter uncea iugly
about the Mulligan letters. 1t is their
punishment for abandoning their par
ty; and the sole misfortune about this
u.s. that it constitutes also the punish
ment of their remaining readers
For the grand combination party of
all the talents, COpperheads and PharI-
sees, sel-righteous dudes and Tamma-
ny Hall men, forged-letter mongers and
holy political perloCtiOnists, this mouse
brought forth by the laboring mountain,
this pOpgun that was to have been o
COlumbad, this tempest in q teapot
which their united genius has evolved,
must be q bitter disappointment. But
what would they have2 They are Justly
served for the whole small, vulgar and
unmanly policy they have pursued, and
for which the people win treat them to a
worse disappointment in November -
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