The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-19
MoUTnIS0s OLA BOURBON.
Mr.. Eustaes GibSOA's Wild Vail for Il
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Chicago Times,
Another Daniel has arlEen in the palace
Of the reactlonary Bslshazaar and an
nounCed his Interpretation Of the mys.
terlous writing on the wall, His name is
Gibson, and he is q Representative from
the Huntington district, West Virgins.
The guests, gaunt, ~cadaver0us Of ytaage,
very hungry and thirsty, are waiting Tor
tho visnds Ia word meaning %oillCes) 10 be
brought in. There Is m u~pRCC0untable
delay. Murmurs are heard among the
hungry and the thirsty, accompanied by
illusions to feeling OF inward emptiness.
Terrified eyes are turned toward the wall
where q Presidential hand has written:
1.-THE spells system must gol" Suddenly
Mr.. Gibson arises in the midst and pro.
Ceeds to remark that "he can see nothing
but treaChery in the course OF the Presl.
dent respecting tho distribution OF the
MISUNDERSTANDING that torbodss disaS'
ter to he cause Of Democracy" unless the
patriotic champions OF that tacred cause
shall devise some plan to arrest him in his
reasonable career.
The orator went on TO reviow the battles
that have been fought to gain the spoilS.
ton power during the lest sixteen years,
beginning with that Of 1865, when tho
democracy" inscribed on their banner
the battle.Cry Of population, and were
led to the slaughter by that mellinuous
mossback, Mr.. Seymour. -Four years later
they elected o new commander, and, with
the most rampant protectionist and Wilt
fer Of everything that went by the name
Of democracy ut their head, followed by a
banner inscribed: Anything, o Lordl
for the ofiCesl" Defeated again, they
changed front again, and in 1876 joined
battle for the spoils with q hard money
captain at their head and q sham'
money captain at the tail Of the
procession, marching In opposite direc.
tIons. Failing again, they changed their
tactics again, took a Pennsylvania protsC.
ZIONIST for fgure.heRl, raj up airee trade
banner, and pulled 1t down when they
came In sight OF the enemy, displaying
protectioniss Colors in Its place, Routed
again, they resolved, 10 1884 unless tho
member from West Virginia is IN uu-
trustworthy historian), to try the ostrich
strategy by sticking their spoils.huDgry
heads in tue sand and p~laCarding their
rump with the words "Civil service re.
form" To strengthen the deception lac
cording 10 the member from West Virgin.
ia), they took q civil service reiormer for
their STANDARD bearer" harboring not
the least doubt that in case they should
be go lucky as to win the battle, the gaIb
Of civil service reform would van.
ish like the disguise Of the mys.
terioug villain In a pAntomime, and
reveal the genuine old.fshioned
JaCkBonian diSburser Of the patron.
ago. To their great astonishment, they
won. But their confident expectations
were nevertheless sadly disappointed.
Their civil service retormer did not prove
10 bO the sham. and fraud they expected
him to be. He was not, "a they supposed,
an incorrigible spokesman in disguise,
playing tho part OF hypocrlte.in.Chicf.
Instead Of proceeding TO apply the "time.
honOred Democrat principle Of rotation"
he very calmly announced TO the clamor.
Gus horde Of the hungry and the thirsty
that that principle would not be applied.
Tho Presidential flag is still there. Where.
fore, In the view OF tho reactionary mem.
Der from West Virginia, the President is
a treacherous rascal that Is committing
high treason against the noble army Of
patronage.beggarS, and thereby threaten.
Ing "disaster 10 the cause Of democracy"
The remarkable deliveranCe OF the
member from West Virginia invites q
little consideration Of the question
"What Ia the cause Of democracy ?"
That the member omitted to define II
with precision occasions regret, because
he has left the world TO infer what he
understands by that phrase from the tenor
Of his remarks. II is something, 1t APP
pears, that q party has been organised to
uphold, pursue, defend, champion,
etc. In the Presidency battle OF 1884 that
party was victorious, the member says;
but at has been betrayed by the men
that It oleyated"-plainly meaning that
the President Is the child Of those that
have betrayed II, by withholding from
"the boys that gained tho victory" the
loot and booty that they fought for. The
cause Of democracy" must mean, then,
the loot and booty, spoils, patronage,
public Offices, and enployments that the
Of that cause fought for in the
Presidency battle, but that the victory las
not given them by reason Of the treaChery
10 that cause Of the President they
elected.
What does the member from-West vir-
ginia suppose that the respectable part Of
mankind will say Of q party that ID an or
ganization Of such . Cause-thAt 10 an
army Of ireebooters whoBe cause Of battle
ls q desire to revel Upon the "spoils Of
victory2"
II L. immaterial whatever he may sup
pose. Because II Is certain that the judg-
nent Of all upright men will be that, for
the Well.being Of the country such q band
oil depredAtors can not be destroyed too
soon, and that no man can serve CiViliLG.
ton, his country, and his God better than
he who writes upon the wall Of their In.
banquet chamber the sentence Of
their destruction. =