The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-22
publicans. while not voting for Me-

pubIicans, while not voting for Me-
Kinley.
That unrepublican part of Dewey's
vote to come will be mugwump. No;
he wouldn't pull the entire, sallow,
mugwump strength. More than three
ffths of our mugwump citizenry are
to vote for Bryan. Your mugwump
is, per nature, a kicker A straight
Democrat or Republiean-indeed. the
normal man-as a rule, strives to pro-
duce something in government; he
looks forward and seeks to accom-
plish the new Not so with your
mugwump. He never looks forward;
he proposes nothing. He finds fault
with what is. and strives to destroy ii.
Such being mugwump nature, it is Sc
genital that he is ever found arrayed
against what is. In this instance,
Mckinley. His Buckeye Bonelessness
being in, the true mugwump hates
him. He would have hated a Demo-
crat had one been in the White House
in McKinley's stead. II is mugwump
nature. In carrying out his nature
he ever votes against the party that's
in. Thus it befalls that the mug
Wump votes right half the time;
which, when one thinks on the small
ness of the mu9wump mind and soul,
is no bad record. This Fall the mug
wump is going to be right: some will
vote for Bryan. while the rest will
vote for DeweT or go voteless. None
will support Mckinley; that Trust
lackey will not have the least of mug
Wump countenance. It's The Nerdict's
own belief that Dewey should run:
he would go a long way towards de-
feating Mckinley, which would be
better public service than even his hot
days work at Manila. Apropos of
Dewey: letter-writing friend in
forms The Verdict that Dewey is
much stiffened and stay-lathed of his
Presidential hope by the example of
Grants long ago selection to be Presi-
dent. There Dewey makes second
mistake. There is, as say the Scotch,
an "unco differ" between the two.
The nation owed Dewey its compli
ment: it owed Grant it's life. And so
folk think \ days target practice.
and one man killed. will hardly, as an
achievement, stand comparison with
the career of that Silent One who,
fighting from Donaldson to the Wild
erness, counted his dead by the hun
dreds of thousands; and who, when
the war was won at AppOmatoX, I'M
buckled his sword belt, laid his arms
aside and was the first to say: Let
US have peace" There is a difference
between Dewey and Grant, and Dewey
should preserve enough of his vision
to be able withal to notice it, There
are years, perhaps centuries, to elapse
before Opportunity from Genius will,
in the vast smithy of events forge for
us another Grant. And whatever the
excellent sort of the raw material, he
will not be hammered and fashioned
on any battle-anvil of one day. Dewey
should not mislead himself. nor let
such as Whitney fool him. His vanity
should be more on its guard; his COM
nonsense should rouse. Nor should
he argue aught from his reception in
New York. There were four raptur-
Gus millions who howled in his honor,
true, But that sort Of thing does
not mean popularity: it mean Curl
osity. The wrenhead public always
shouts.-It shouted when Charles /. was
crowned, and shouted later when his
neck was chopped with an axe and
block that winters day at Whitehall.
The public that shouted for Cromwell
shouted just as loud for Charles H.;
and later still for William of Orange.
No: you may make nothing but
trouble for yourself when you trans
act stern business on the fact of a
crowd. Ali one knows of the public
is that no matter what ones service
c. ones worth of work, or parts. or
good repute, more will come to see
one hanged than hear one talk or lift
one into place.