The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-03-21
The Order Of the Retiring Fro.
cessfOn.

l. 1T NEW DVMlNlON HAS no itbttiS
from republican officials who are APP
pretending the speedy use of the of
fetal scalping knife-it doesn't pro-
TESS to have anything that is has not;
but here is the exaugural procession
at Washington as seen by the New
York World
The venerable Historian of Given
ty Years with flag bearing the le
gend, "Now is the Time tc Sub
scribe"
The editor of the New York 1rib
une with his credentials to the Unit
ed States Senate iA-his eye-carry-
ing banner labelled, ''rhis is an Ag
gressive Campaign"
Gen. John A. Logan with field
glass looking towards sunset for the
tolerably sure Senatorship he traded
for barely possible Vice Presidency,
and banner bearing a motto from
Esau's history about trading his
birthright for mess of pottage with
the modern military addition, "And
a pretty mess | made of it,
FIX President Arthur, under his
own private flag and his own carriage
carrying away from Washington
eighty-two pairs Of pantaloons and
the best wishes of Washington's
best society. Motto: "Adieu, adieu:
sweet, remember me-"
The Forty Thieves-that is few
of the principal ones-to wit; Gen.
| Belknap, the Indian Post Trader;
Admiral Robson, the Navy Fraud;
Boss Shepherd, the Washington City
Ringster. The rank and file to be
made up of the Credit Mobilier
Sanborn, Indian Bureau, Pension
Bureau, Black Friday, Star Route,
Howgate, Keifer, and Swain Swim
! oilers.
A long train of army wagons, filled
with the Republican Plumber
stolen from the Tilted States Treas
ury.
The Dear Delightful Dudes who
have held cIerkships in the do-noth-
ing State Department, followed by
representatives of all sorts from "Our
Best Society,"" preceded by band of
choristers singing the old English
lay:
Hank, bark, the dogs do bark,
The beggars have come to town,
And some in rags, and some in tags,
And some in velvet gowns.
Tom Brady and Steve Dorsey with
flag bearing the motto, sour Star
Out" Band playing "We're Band
of Brothers,
knights of the Higher Law, SOC
strong, headed by DR.. Burchard and
his alliterative artful aids.
The Hon. VIM West, the blind or
ator of the Chicago Republican Con
vention, with his eyes wide open at
last.
| Geo. Bliss, carrying a banner with
this beautiful inscription:
The Star-route spangled banner,
Oh, long, long may it wave
Ger the land of the free and
The home Of the knave!
A battalion of Monopolists, facing
the West, and bearing the legend
"You may Bend us, but you cannot
Break u.s."
Two thousand disappointed Re-
publican Office seekers in trailing
plumes, chanting the hymn, "Wait
till the Clouds Roll By"
A magnificent effigy of Gen. But
Ter, borne by supers in the disguise
of laboring men. ~
Navy Yard Contractors in hall
mourning. Grand Marshals Roach
and Robson in front.
Two Regiments of Americans who
were not protected while abroad.
Three Regiments of Manufacture
ers who were over-protected at
home.
Sixteen chariots of Obscense Polit-
ical Literature not used in the cam
paign.
One hundred beautiful Youths in
Greek costumes who are expected to
vote for a Republican President in
1888.
Five hundred Lobbyists in good
clothes, accompanied by their tail
ors.
Old Clapp and 1900 closely shear
ed and bleating Department Clerks,
Salary Grabbers, Carpet Baggers
Electoral Commissioners, Indian
Agents, Mississippi Improvement
Architects, Gun Contractors and
other historical wrecks on foot.
The School Journal for March was
issued on Friday last. This number
is said by many to be the best one
yet issued. Its editor and manager
promised that it should improve with
age, and he is making his promise
good. The Journal will be a great
help to the teachers of the State in
their work if they will read it care
fully and heed its advice.
|
Some of the Republican newspa
pers complain of the inauguration
visitors at Washington-that they
were sunburned crowd-not at all
elegant. No, the dizzy blondes have
gone. If we are rightly informed
the boys at Yorktown and Appomat
tox were a trifie sunburned. An6
the millions who toll and bring il
the goodly fruits of the earth, who