Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-13
POT-HOUSE POLITICS.
The Character Of ;hc Things Engaged in
 EXpounding lis h,rits.

The Character of ;hc Things Engaged in EXpounding lis 'ttrits.
 As a general thing the bar-room politician is not attractive personally. He rarely pays much attention to his clothing or his general makeup, be- cause his time is completely ab iorbed with matters of great political import. He is kept so busy saving tha country that he has no time or rre.gy to waste in removing grcaae spots on his raj ment or in manipulating Q clothes brush. The blush on his cheek is not caused by his glowing with heaven born enthusiasm for the just cause of the people. nor by the ruddy hue of robust health, but may safely be at tributed to an inferior brand of whisky. The average pot-house m0gul of small caliber is the victim Of many strange hallucinatiOn5. One ot his pet delu- sions is that he is indispensable. He harbor5 an undehned sort of suspicion that the continuance of the planetary system, somehow or other, rests on him. As for the political party to which he claims to belong, or rather which he imaEines belongs to him, he is perfectly sllrc that but for his sage counsel it would fall to pieces and re- solve itself into chaos. l. is almost impossible for the sm1ll-bore dema- gogue to believe that his party could survive a single campaign in case he oh hA ftF ha only debt, by the way, which he ever does pay.
 Instead of being modern Atlas with the whole world on his shoulders, he himself is a burden grieyous to be borne. He wandors around, never al- towing himself to stray far away from the saloons. ike an evil spirit seeking rest and finding uonc. anl flowing nos cody else to find any, either. He will malt gentlemen on the opu5iic highways, and unless they seek safety iu flight, he will intlict on such victims. in whisky-laden whisper, whole libraries of stale political lore and decayed cam paign rubbish.
 In regard to the actual services he renders his party thc3c witt always be an honostliTfan'h )j op l.ol. There Is good reason tD believe sat this pos tulant for pap does moro to cause the respectable element of his party to go over to the opposition thun all the other causes put together The shrewder politicians and o.ice-seal;ors perceive that the unsavory hut enthusiastic dem- agogue is ia reality a ..ayerous Jonah, who should be promptly inserted into the raging main if the ship is to be saved, aud they often do throw him overheard; but he always bobs serenely up and swims lo shore, or i5 picked up by the rival craft.
 Occasionally the small-lore politician gets into power u8d sticks with the pertinacity of a pss t9 stamp in pockct-booh on d l.,ny 6 ... The tax payers discover tau; taey are being robbed by d 70 .t i-.l.sta' cHTnorants Then 1t is that tho mau vAa3a property is being sold tor taEe5 l.f,s his voice and d rebollioUs hoof Gal rails at the smal!-b0re qemi.:o, Ie. An indcpend- ent tidal wave sweeps orar the neigh borhcJa, alt.! tho s.uull-5ore demagogue and his ir-eads gre loit high and dry when the water. rccode
 This style o. po tician prevails, in a more or less malignant type, from Maine to the Rio Grunde. and infests Svery political partv. 60. Teras SiGsags