Year: 1876

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4 DISH TO SUIT THE TINES.


The Great Whtrlt0ig Of Poz5tics- Hoso It 4


Whtsled In WtlMtssgtOn and Jhross0h0ss


the STATED Mystery that ts Puxsltssf


SMsses.7he Prayers Of Mr.. Joseph


and the COl0red Man,


The great whirligig of politics, not only


turns and buzzes in the West, but even hert


in the State Of Delaware, It is spinning


Those who are working the strings, are civ.


ing them double twist, and from one END


of the State to the other, politics is dish


served daily, with slight difference in color


some take 1t white and some take It black,


with strong seasoning of crow. This lat


ter class, are the seekers after harmony,
those who ask for the success of party


through the efficacy of prayers, the same az


did class leader at the Convention of Re.


publicans at Dover, who called upon the


Lord to smile upon them.


In this way politics have gotten very much


mixed, 80 much that when a man tastes of


that dish from the Republican table, he


hardly knows whether to dispute its genu.


ineness, or to incline to the belief that 1t is


as mysterious as that article which the aris-


tocratic boarder terms "mystery," and he


of more Democratic thoughts terms "hash. !"


There is something about this last name


that makes everybody laugh, and that is
always surrounded by mystery, then there


is good reason that people should laugh


when politics are mixed up In such way
as to closely resemble It. A hash


In politics just imagine 1t a time in the
affairs of man when politics and religion


ride smoothly together over the rugged
paths of life, when the smiles of the latter
| secure the fortunes of the other, when sweet
| Temperance comes gently in upon the scene
| and persuades Bachus that he is treading
dangerous ground. Such is the hash of
| politics presented to the Republican people
of Delaware at this time. Under such


combination of circumstances, old Sussex
gravely shakes her head, and knows not
what day may bring forth, but with Mr..
Josephs to lead and direct them in his
strong belief in the efficacy of prayer, there
is some reason to hope that they may get at
light In this mystery which overhangs their
politics-this niger In the wood pile, is
something that the honest old farmers of
that county consider funny, and that Col.
Moore cannot make clear enough to be
understood, why they cannot have the
"ginuine" article and nothing else.
Republicanism in Sussex is q martyr to
the cause, at the Dover Convention, her
caucus went through tbs trying ordeal Of
holding session with no other seats than
those that nature had provided, on the bare
boards, and this was all done in the noble
cause Of securing harmony in the party, but
this terrible mixture of temperance, reli-l
gion, politics and the colored man, all |
shaken up together, and served as first |
class article Of political pot pouri
does not suit the Sussex stomach so well,
and to use the language of one of them to
us yesterday, "They amt taking none O.
that in thern." "Its hard matter to tell
what fellows to vote for" continued
another, "Rum, the devil, temperance, re-
ligion or politics." But the way they are
mixing them allup we must vote for q man,
who has all those qualities, but where shall
we find such man? Heaven has not made |
such a combination of perfection.


In Kent nothing will be done to sacrifice
the party; everything will be swallowed. 1t
is not the bitterness of the dose; it is the
good it will do. Unity must and shall be
preserved, if prominent member Of the |
party did fail in pleasant aspiration, If |
another must pine over defeat, and still |
another must wait until the next time,
when if he continues to be good boy he
will be sent to Washington, again, ii the
party can do it, not as an attorney, but as an |
NJ. G. Things more strange have occurred;
that poor little blackbird, has been torn
limb from limb and his bones picked dry.
1t is the party call, and the minions must
obey.


UP here in New Castle, the party have
even eaten the bones of the poor bird, and
hope to win if they can do 80 by sticking
together. To-day the great Temperance
Convention holds its Session in the lnsti-
tute, and what they will do, is thus tar in
the future, but it Is thought that unless Mr..
Fraime and Dan. Hamilton capture the
Convention,as they did before some good will
come out OF it, and instead OF using cane
to preserve order in the body as was done
the last time, we would advise the Presi-
dent to get good big club, If necessary two
of them. and If needs be dozen or so, and
by scattering them around among the "truly
loil )" they would be enabled to enforce Tenn
perance principles upon the whole comnu-
nifty.


Perhaps they will endorse Mr.. Bird, since
he has cut loose from party lines so far as
to declare Gov. Tilden an honest man, this
must have been strongly anti-Republican
when the leading Republican paper Of the
city omitted 1t from their report,
but be that as 1t may, Mr.. Bird says he can.
not forget that he is q gentleman and tell
deliberate lies, he believes it is the wrong
way to advance the interests Of party, and
those will find It so who indulge In it. In a
conversation few days since, he said do
not believe in mentioning names in speeches,
and if my party expects me to blackguard
people they are very much mistaken. II
cannot and will not do it. Truly speaking,
continued Mr.. Bird, this county is five or
six hundred Republican majority, and in
tend to hold the fort, and i'll must die,
will do so with the harness on my back.


Mr.. Bird is very like the gladiator, and o