The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-30
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
The republicans have a Journalin
Palatka from whose masthead their
colors are flying, and they have in
nomination ticket as we have duly
announced. But upon what grounds
the present campaign Is waged we,
with the general public, are as yet
profoundly ignorant. If upon that
ticket stood the names of the Messrs.
Teasdale, Lyle and Cowgirl we
should not feel so lonesome void,
for each of these gentleman has
political record which their fellow
partisans have often endorsed, and
with which we have been openly
confronted on many a hard fought
field. Their opinions, their wishes,
their hopes and their strength we
know, but in fighting the present
campaign we are like the Irishman
who hunted flea and was utterly
unable to find him.
The conservative democratic NOM
inees have defined as clearly as the
English language will allow, their
position and their intentions If
they are recreant to these at ITALIA
hassee, they can be held to strict ae-
count by their fellow-citlz and
falsehood to the platform they have
adopted would be political suicide
both to themselves as individuals
and to the party which has now
made itself responsible for their
work. They have visited every pre-
cinet in the county; they have ex-
pressed their sentiments freely from
the stump, and they have answered
squarely every question put to them.
But while they have been confront
ed by an opposing ticket, it has real
ly seemed that the fight was against
e will-o'-the-wisp, which defed iden-
LITIGATION and refused to do more
than make an illusory showing ?
Will the ticket vanish into thin air
before the broad light of the sun
which will rise on the fifth of May
Did the real leaders of the republi-
can organization in Putnam pur-
posely nominate Messrs. Mann,
Wordsworth and Fowler that they
might postpone live issues till they
could be more clearly presented be-
fore our people for ratification ? So
1t seems to us, and in this these lea.
ders of the opposition show them.
selves, as usual, clear-sighted con.
sistent politicians
King Richard could sever with
one blow of his broadsword a pom
derous steel mace, but he found al
his strength of arm Intellectual wher
a down pillow was offered to hi,
stroke, Like this pillow exactly il
the ticket opposed to us; shapeless
yielding, soft; incapable of square
position; unknown in its outlines
underlined in its proportions and dan
gerous only because it tempts t.
sloth. TO the enemy who smiles
and sleeps it may be pressed to nos
tril and mouth till death ensues, but
it is powerless against the man who
is awake to the conflict forced upor
him. And we are awake. From
the farmers field and the mechanic
bench, from the store and the Office
appear unmistakable signs that our
people are awake to their true inter
ests and alive to the suffocatins
peril which threatens them.
For a return to the old constitu
tuition would stife industry, clos
the life of business and choke I'll,
vital breath of progress. If it
deadening hand upou our publ,
pulse was ever necessary, as it
friends ailege, it is surely not need
ed now. In 1868 the changed con
ditions of public affairs which re