The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-08-06

we would be there to watch the trl-
umph of Democracy over Republican
ideas, and behold the barefoot Demo-
cratic statesmen boast, between the
squirts of tobacco juice, of the glories
of ''our management of the Guv'-
ment." We're getting there!
*,*
Prof. Henry Nichols, of New York
is credited--or rathered charged
with the declaration that the earth
is alive, that this great, variegated,
and not altogether homely globe upon
which we live and move and have our
being, is an immense monster, with
powers of breathing, feeling, and en-
joylng itself, like other living crea-
lures. We fear the Professors idea
has not the novelty of being new
one. The earth has for ages been
considered dangerous living mon
ster. and human creatures have been
known to run away and hide rather
than disturb it by so much as striking
spade or hoe into it, yet other hu-
man creatures will lounge upon its
bosom with entire fearlessness and
impunity. There are a great many
items that bear the Professor out in
his view of the earth. How could
there be rolling prairie, or frown-
ing cliff, or a gently heaving meadow,
or smiling landscape, if the earth
itself is not alive? Not that the Prof.
got his idea through the medium of
poetic inspiration, for there are still
other evidences that the earth is alive.
The Prof. has seen tive haye seen
it ourself, actually moving about.
But this is generally accomplished by
twining its fond embrace about the
bodies Of mankind. Yes, the earth is
alive! Why, we have known men to
actually go'down into the bowels of
the earth.
We rather guess that Fred Mussey,
of the Com. Gaz., will have to set up
the lemonade to the country boys.
Fred is one of the most brilliant
writers among the young men in
journalism, but like the city boy gen.
orally, he gets mixed OF. such myster-
ious creatures as stake-and-rider fem
ces. In attempting to poke fun at
the Agricultural Department in Sat-
urday's issue, he. says: "With vast
patience andwisdom and expenditure
it discovered that the best post for
stake-and-rider fence is compost"
The searching for posts in a stake
and-rider fence would somewhat re-
semble the case of the young lady
from the city who was shown such a
fence, and innocently inquired if they
''rode them bareback
*.*
"Just as though it was possible for
Democratic President, who has been
in office scarcely five months yet, to
bring the country back to what it
was before it was run into the ground
through the mismanagement Of the
Republican party. Waverly Watch-
man.
Very we'll. Cleveland, then, is un-
doing Republican mismanagement,
and making times better, just as fast
as he. can, is he? During the five
months he has been President the
price Of coal mining has peen reduced
from seventy-fve to fifty cents per
ton, the price of day labor from dol
lar and quarter to fifty cents. At
this rate, how long will it take Cleve-
land to undo the 'mismanagement"2 ?
You will observe, dear friends. that
the Republicans are not charging
these times to anything Cleveland
has done, or may do. We are con-
demning you out Of your own mouths
Instead Of manly argument, you have
chosen the line of demagogy, and
howled to the labor interests Of the
country that you would make good
times, and have things booming gen.
orally, if they would elect the Demo-
cratic ticket. They took you at your
word, and now find out to their sor-
row just what you knew all along
that your speakers lied heroically, so
to speak. Now the Democratic lead
ers stand aghast. convicted by their
own conduct as the meanest kind of
Demagogues. We will not hear very
much from them in the coming cam
paign about poor men, the silent fur
naces, and so on.
*s.*
1t is quite refreshing to pick up, oc-
casionally, the production Of the able
correspondent who, filled with years
and honors in the journalistic field,
feels that his talents should be applied
to moralizing upon the men and the
times, or writing "reminiscences of the
past-in fact, rewriting history from
the memory of something heard OR
read. But the great mind has to be
careful, ,as we'll as the weak beginner
in the literary field. A day or two
ago we gathered up a leading daily
paper and spent moment in reading
an account Of ''the last shot fired in
the Seminole War; We learned that
a party Of Indians were raiding in