The Dawson journal., 1885-01-29
VANCE ON DEMOCRACY.
What the Witty Senator Had 10 Say.

At a meeting Of the jackson
Democratic Association in Wash
ington on January 9th, when i
became the turn of Senator Vance
he spoke as follows:
"At camp meeting held MOI
long ago not a thousand miles
from where I live, where there
was shouting. singing and praying,
there came momentary pause.
While the sinners were splitting
on. their hands preparatory for re-
| newed efforts, there came a solemn
voice frOm!the midst of the con-
gregation, which said: Tm a
Dimmicrat,:.I !aml" Laughter. ]
I have the pleasure of meeting
you tonight and saying in. the
same strain, I'm Dimmicrat.'
III I were q political lexicogra-
pher-and if that word is too big
for my friend Tucker seated there,
I can change it to dictionary
would inscribe Jackson's.. name in
it as the great shinings light of
Democracy. Thomas Jefferson
founded on faith, and Jackson
was his great pupil QJackson was
from the county of Mecklenburg,
North Carolina, the county which
is honored by my presence.
Laughter
Stretch your imagination, and
carry them back to old Rome in
the Flavian amphitheatre, and
behold a little man in the arena
contending against innumerable
gladiators. He sinks to the
ground covered with. blood and
gore, after havingsslain his adver-
saries, and presently great
Numidian lion, gaunt and hungry,
is let in upon him. He contends
against the ferocious beast, and
kills it. CSurely,l We would say,
"A God was with him.
Witness how the Democratic
party has survived the doctrine of
notification, reconstruction and
civil war, the blunder ofIEits own
leaders. We cannot say, The
Gods are with it. / was not al
ways a Democrat, I regret to say.
| was a Wing. 1 was late in COM
ing into the fold, but when 1 did
SO | felt so good. I felt like the
man sick in the hospital. One
day the doctor thought he'd try a
new remedy, and had the man
washed, when the patient had
been thus treated and put back
into his couch of clean linen, he
remarked: oh, doctor, if I'd on
ly knew how good washing is I'd
washed years ago. Laughter.
Ii l had only known how good it
is to b. Democrat I'd been one
years ago." [Cheers.
The Versatility Of Nebraska Girls.
A beautiful cowgirl lives near
Munkel, Taylor county, Nebraska.
She owns some stock, which she
personally looks after. At a re-
cent roundup her dazzling beauty
and graceful horsemanship were
wonderful to behold. A year
ling broke from the heard, which
three cowboys failed to confne,
when the beautiful girl dashed
out after it, roping on the second
circle, and pulling it by the horn
of her saddle into the heard. The
boys shouted, wept and have nev-
err ceased to love.
John Sergeant, of Montrose
county, it may be added to this,
has fifteen-year-old daughter,
Miss Nellie, who has been bred in
the saddle, and has been accus-
toned to ride with her father all
over his range. In addition to
the young lady's graceful horse.
manship, she can handle a lariat
and branding iron and can ride q
bucking horse with as much skill
and grace as any cowboy that ha,
been on the range since boyhood
Nellie Sergeant IS lowered by hel
father with one third Of the in
crease of his herd, and when sh
chooses to maray, her HUSBAND
will be a cattle king.