| Show DEATHBED DEATH DEAN BED repentance the organ of the moribund liberal party in this city to never so humorous as when it tries to be sober and serious on local politics under such ol circum stances its professions of honor are positively sidesplitting and its pose and pomposity as a counselor of pro pm denoe dence and a claimant for fairness fair are excruciatingly tunny funny who for example to is so dull witted and stolid that he can refrain from laughing at tile the high moral tone in which it advises county registrar walden as to his butyl he must not countenance any partisan tricks look you and must sedulously see to it that no superfluous ious names aro are added and none that are not superfluous are omitted from the lista he must not forget that his one object ought to be to secure the purity and honesty of the registration they are many other delicate hints as aa to what he ought to do and quite as many suggestions as M to what he should not do not but what through it all runs a righteous sound and a goodly but this to strangely at variance with the past record of the voice in question and ana quite delicious in view or of the fact that its only fear in the premises to is that its good advice will now be hooded heeded we hope the official referred to will give his self elected mentor all the honesty and discrimination and fair ness it asks for and a good deal more than it really wants the NEWS will fit at all times insist that strict impartiality and justice be meted out to liberals as a well as an to democrats and republicans public ans we have no present reason to doubt that it will be but we cannot help wondering at the sudden goodness that has come upon this most oracular of ours it must be a case of desperate illness recalling that of another and a still more adroit character of whom the jingle salib when the devil was sick the devil a saint would be when the devil was well the devil a saint was he |
