The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-08
Election Echoes.
"Billy7 is q swift runner.

"billy IA swift runner.
The result is Free for all.
The splitter" got in his work.
John was little scared just the same.
The two Jim's got in some lively work.
The combination ticket swept the board.
1t was the republican party against the
field.
We must try to get LongreN without
N0ycs.
Wright was right although it was not
written Right.
Gen. Granger and Matt Longweu each
claim splendid victory.
The prohibitionists polled eighty EIGHT
votes, counting the pieces.
1t il better to be beaten on a straight tick
ct than to win on a mongrel.
Paw Paw has but one supervisor divided
equally between three parties.
Pritchard, the music man, voted ticket No.
one and Prof. Russell No. COL.
II was famous democratic victory. Nine
men out of twelve took the cake.
Less republican scratching would have
given as republican supervisor.
After counting down about half way, "the
subsequent proceedings interested him no
more.
The old nan's legs are not as long as his
son Bangs but he can outrun the boy, Just
the same.
Amid the general wreck, the republicans
have the satisfaction of knowing that they
got ThGyer.
The greenbackers came out top of the
heap. Nine out of twelve candidates came
out ahead in the race.
There are many roads out Of the republi-
can party starting in various directions, but
they all end in the democratic camp.
The various parties composing "the field"
may be appropriately considered as one, and
be labeled The snti-republican party,
Bangs says his father can straddle more
horses at once than he can. Elam should
have taught his son political acrobatics.
Paw Paw prohibitionists led the race in
last Mondays fight, electing eight out of the
twelve candidates which they placed in nom
nation.
Now that the prohibition ticket has been
elected, perhaps there will be no more whis-
key sold in Paw Paw, and then, again, per
haps-.
The next township board will stand two
republicans ive-sixths of democrat, FIVE
sixths of a greenbacker and one third of
prohibitionist. A curious division, but
mathematicaly correct
There were 6Ol votes polled, AL increase of
twenty over the last town meeting. OF these
so&~ -
the straights, ninety seven were republican,
ninety seven were demigreen and forty were
prohibition.
The democratic party is so weak and de-
moralized in this township, that it dare not
nominate single candidate of its own, but
adopts the greenbsck ticket without change,
excepting to label it democratic. "Hev art
the mighty fallen"
The hard ard-soft-antisumptuary -teetotal-
igreen- prohibition saloon sustaining coldwat
or party is proud of its victory. The demo-
cratic fraction of the combination flaps It's
wings and crows the loudest of all. It was
famous democratic victory.
The anti-whiskey total l-abstinence-p -prohibi-
tion-party, the snti-sumptuary-l -laws-saloon
democracy, and the soft money-ragbaby-
down with the national anks-greenback
party in fraternal embrace with the hard
money -daddydollar democracy, all in
one unholy combination, was more than the
republican party could conquer in ono day.
One very estimable gentleman deposited
his little ballot bearing the legend ''prohibi-
tion,' remarking with an air of satisfaction,
For God, Humanity and Native Land.
Another man, filed TO the brim with bulge,
10 faca me- hoo .te
taxable imprint of genuine bourbonism,
staggered up to the ballot box and deposited
the same kind of ballot, with one or two
unimportant exceptions, only it was headed
democratic
"Strarge what difference there can be
'Twixt tveedledum and tweedledee.'