The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-07-16
Democratic friend, come here; take


off your hat; sit down! We woulc
have little friendly talk, little sea
son of rejoicing with you. We're
getting back. You know what we
mean. We're getting back to the
good old Democratic days. You will
perhaps remember that last Fall you
placed great stress upon the campaigu
cry that we must get back to the good
old Democratic days, when business
was lively | for the Sheriff and every
body had plenty to do, trying tc
keep from starving and the American
Eagle was proud bird. You thought
that most Of the older men had for
gotten those old times, and the
younger men did not know anything
about them, and you might fearlessly
hold them up as the sum total of hu-
man happiness and prosperity. Well,
the people seem to have taken you at
your word, and, dear friend, we're
travelling back. We're getting
there" But we are good way of
from the old Democratic times yet
For instance, man may, by hard
work, earn a dollar day, now. In
the old times-while he could earn a
dollar day, perhaps, in some kinds
of employment-the very hardest
work brought from twenty-five to
thirty-seven-and-a-half cents per day.
There are men In the town of Jack
son to-day, who have worked In the
harvest-field for these amounts, and
takes, their pay an trade. We're get
ting back.
Over in Franklin township was an
intelligent farmer who went to rails
ing and fattenlng hogs, during the
good old days. He would buy the
corn in the feld-and sometimes oats
as well-and turn drove of hogs
into the field The grain did not cost
much it is true. When the hogs
were fat in the Fall, he would hire
men to butcher them; then hire men
to take teams and haul them to Ports
mouth; there he would pay storage
until boat came along; then he
would pay freight to Cincinnati; then
pay storage at the market-places un-
til the hogs could be sold-and they
brought him from two dollars to two
and half per hundred weight. These
were the days of the ideal Democracy.
We're getting back. There are yet
living in Jackson County men who
never owned or wore pair of shoes
until they were men grown, and they
earned them by hard work (hold on,
young Democratic friend! We're not
through yet! J and there are men now
living, who, as boys under the good
old Democratic times never possessed
a bat until they were old enough to
earn it by hard work at twenty-five
cents day, and many of them never
owned suit of clothes, but walked
abroad in long tow-linen shirt,
which answered the purpose of under
garment, vest, coat, ulster, and duster.
Imagine yourself, my young Demo-
cratic friend, prancing down Broad
way Street, in the glare Of the noon
day sun, or of the refectors in the
show-windows at evening, with only
a tow-linen fg-leaf upon you, and a
Cleveland and Hendricks badge pend
ant from the tail thereof. We're
getting no! we hope not! But
we're going toward the good old
times. In those good old times
eUery business man an Jackson was
broken up-not one being able to do
business in his own name. Compared
with those times the present seems
like prosperity, and the former ex-
periences under Republican suprem-
acy stands out in princely splendor.
We're getting back. We started
upon this pilgrimage at the very hour
which marked Cleveland's election,
and we're travelling fast.
We are willing, friend, that you
shall get back there. There will be
some advantages for you. Your
washing will not cost much, and you
cannot spend much money for whisky,
and your medicines when sick will
consist Of pennyroyal tea, and tea
made of substance picked up in the
sheep-pasture. Everything will be
cheap, and Democracy will reign su-
preme. The ladies will each get
pair of cow-hide shoes and a cheap
calico-dress once in six months, and
use the gaudy-colored remnants still
to patch the holes in the gentlemen's
butternut Sunday-Breeches. Every
thing will be good, and old-fashioned,
and Democratic-what? Not sick
of the prospect, are you? Well, we're
getting there. The dullness of busi-
ness says were getting back; the
scores Of strong men willing to work,
yet forced into idleness, say we're get
ting back; the deserted coal mines
say we're getting back; the dullness
upon the farm, and the scarcity Of
money, say we're getting back; all
The signs of the times are pointing
toward the fact that Democratic ad-
has brought Democratic
Times. The good old days are coming.
0b, don't you enjoy the prospect? !