Show IlL ti 1i 1 SO FLOWERS i Occasionally people send out cards i i and invitations bearing the injunction injunc-tion tg0 Flowers It is hardly h necessary to explain that whether i i the card refers to a wedding a funeral r fun-eral or party or gathering of any character the command conveyed 2 I in the two words above means that 1 j flowera are not wanted on that par f tieulsr occasion from the guests I The injunction is extremely proper I IAI 4 and not only relieves the guests I but the i I from an obligation prevents I J accumulation of flowers to euch an i extent as to make them offensive 4 i Just now the people are issuing v cards to the Chicago convention th I next month and with rare exception c4f 1 excep-tion theae bear the well understood hint No blower the injunction 1 referring in this instance to the ii t pretty but not fragrant New York t 3 posey Roswell P Flower This I i t gentleman has been posing for some years as a beauteous p nk I the pink of perfection in politicsftnd i has concluded that he is so good and t BO pure a man that the White I House is the only place Fultable for him The history of the Democratic I party contains the names of very I few men who professed qualities of I g the heart resembling those of the 4 angels Among Republicans an angelic character occasionally shines j forth One Rutherford B Hayes is aluminous ftj a-luminous instance Your true Dem I W1 ocrat doesnt pride himself upon j absolute freedom from the sins of I I humanity and when a Republican II t1 blossoms out as a truly good man I l he will bear watching As the gentleman I ii gen-tleman from England would say he g I J is liable to prove a blooming idiot I or a blasted rogue There is no I t1 apparent reason why the ca ° e should ii r e be different as regards the truly lit good Democrat Of course it is possible A pos-sible for a man to be good and in I ji politics at the same time but there t Ir are degrees of goodness and when I one gets above the positive and is hunting an office experience teaches that the proper plan is I i to keep him out of the filth I a and mire lest he might be soiled I In hia own estimation Mr Roswell It 4 t P Flower bas attained the superlative I V super-lative degree of goodness and thinks 4 ti that he should be rewarded with I the Presidency All ke has to recommend I i i re-commend him for the place is his E 1 goodness and if we know anything IF J I of qualifications for nomination or kl t I I I election goodness is not one of them t to any striking degree If it were the Republican ticket wouldnt be 1 i Ii I Blaine and Logan by a good deal i ij nor is it likely that your fl t t I grand old Uncle Sammy Til 1 deu would be the unanimous i i i choice of the great party of the it j people for whatever else has been 1 iii i1 i fi said of the sage of Gramercy no j body has suggested that he resembled fi t I i i resem-bled a saint to any alarming extent t No the contrast between Mr 1 4 Flower and his party is too marked t to be agreeable The combination 1 1 I of a daisy President with the great unwashed fora background I ir and support is not charming to the 1 I eye and would certainly prove anything d d any-thing but pleasing to the senses 1 1t The clean New York gentleman and II i1 his delegates to Chicago would do I I i k I well to heed the suggestion on the Ijl ti cards of invitation No Flowers |