Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-21
POST ELECTION WALL
Too Much Hilarity 20 Suit the Dis
tinguished William
The victorious Party la the Late Election
.CeIebrating" Too tigorousiy-fhsy Dis
regard the ssddensd Hearts of the
yanqui.hed- Reform Needed


Dill ny 2 AAtArAtA1RAet
There has been one feature in the late
campaign which has given me more pain
than everything else, feature which |
hope viii hereafter be dispensed with.
There has been too much hiiarity on the
part Of the Democratic party. For weeks
YOU couldn't pick up a paper without read
ine Of some town that had just ratified at
great expense and in most pronounced
manner Some localities celebrated as
many a. seven times. Every time that
another county in New York was heard
from there would be demonstration and
more noise. can stand goo1 deal OF
noise ii can assist IN producing II, but
when il is made by party with diamet-
/ rically different political views from my
own il CRATES harshly on NY nerves
never noticed the disagreeable smell OF
a kerosene torch so perceptibly as | have
since the last election. 1 never knew the
sound Of artillery and the whoop OF exul-
tation 10 jar my system so severely as
they have recently. When our side used
to paint the town red after election IL didn't
use TO have this disagreeable effect
But il has certainly been overdone. UP
to the day of election our side had as much
| eclat. ana encore, dnd Sti tiot u ~ WV ~
mocracy: but when we dropped it and
went quietly TO work II seems TO me as
though the Democratic party migSt have
had the good taste to do the same. But did
it? ALI no. Bands here whooped her up
till almost cried with anguish. Torch
light professions have proceshed night aft
er night. Cannons have doomed TIL
wished | was in Canada, and above the
deafening roar | could hear people hurrah
who had never been known TO hurrah be-
fore.
n do not know that all this was done to
+ give me pain, but | have every reason to
believe that il was. Those who did 1T
knew very we'll how felt about it. They
had repeatedly heard me express myself.
They knew that every shout pierced my
J bosom like a dagger, and when the band
that we had hired to split the horizon open
, for us prior to election passed by footing
, for the other side it jerked my heart
strings galley west.
can bear physicsl pain like a stole,
| can beat old Stole at his own game woc
) but when a political party obtains a victory
wish it wouldn't give way to such tumul'
. tuous JOY till l have a chance to get away
= | ask this as personal favor to myself ant
several millions of my fellow citizens wh'
sympathize with me in this matter.
Jov may be so violent that it is injurious
q Happiness may be so great that 1T Is habl
TO rupture the membrane that envelope
u the duplex.
: While | bow 90 the will of the people
wish they wouldn't be quite SO infernall
q pleased about it. l, therefore, use, Nh
| ~ I'M
IL valuable paper for the purpose of statln
, that if all hilarious professions in honor
n victory which to me brings only sorrc'
le and pain will please remember TO avoi
le Eighth and n nth streets and Myrtle ave
y nue., in case these ill-timed demonstration
T. are 20 be kept up all winter, | fenl hE
doing as much for them some time shout
e. the opportunity present itself. i am M
he the man to forget favor when 1t is doI
III me. and would cheerfully go out of NJ
~ wav to oblige a Democrat as readily as
ty would any one else. All l want is a lit
time to reflect and spread balm on I'll
IN nlaces where the skin has been abrad'
to during the campaign. 1t would be an u
II noble foe who would deny this.
ia lam willing to admit that to the victo
u belong the spoils, but do not consider me
w spoil if you please Victory has, ndee
t. perched on your banner, gentlemen of t
Democratic party, but | simply ask as
OF favor that you will be kind enough to poi
10 vour Roman candles the other way.
We If YOUR hilarity is TO drag itself alo
en ali winter. will you please "holler'
GA a more subdued tone Of voice as you pas
~ large Queen Anne residence, wherein
'O' sad-eved man has bowed his tall, 1.-the q
ss. sa"-eS eu mo" "'1 ..L,,ior s.o,
ie ment of the vote in New York;
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