Show DANOE DANCE YS disastrous there was method in the madness of the royal dane cre read ad Rakes veares hamlet but we are sorry to state that there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason in the rambling manner in which the democratic party is acting of late no one will accuse this journal or its editors past pastor or present to have enthusiastic republican predilections far from us but much as we detest the record of the republicans public ans contest their claims and protest against tho the honesty of their professions we are in duty and truth bound to admit that the democrats arc are again as they have done so B often committing the egregious mistake of slaying the hen public opinion which lays tho the golden eggs of popular majority votes present U S house of representatives is overwhelmingly Democratic more so than that of any previous congress for long r years back the senate also ha bal only a slight republican majority and altogether we may say that the democrats with wise and prudent sagacious and shrewd management of tho the great national questions could so shape public opinion greatly disgusted with republican isms iams misrule and office monopoly radical rascality and carpetbag carpet carpel bag back salary grabb ism that it would poll a solid democratic vote at the national presidential elec tion provided the democrats presented a united front and a united platform with an unimpeachable candidate at the head bead of the ticket such as samuel J tilden was in 1876 and W S hancock in 1880 but that is just where the shoe shoo pinches tho the democratic tidal wave which swept over so many states in november 1883 did not only break to pieces republican rotten timber and blow into prominence respectable wise counselors of the democratic party it also raised from the slums and morasses of corrupt party bossism and obscure ignorance men whose democratic baago was their only claim to distinction tiou men of many minds and many men of no minds were lifted on that tidal wave the crest of which was not always pure nor clear and tho the results are seen in the recent legislative transactions in the house where so lamentably little is consummated that the republicans public ans though they have done nothing cither either laugh in their sleeves filled with the spoils of national patronage to the detriment of public interests wo we can not hero detail tho the few and anduar far ve achievements by the large democratic majority in the house they are thus fa far as unfruitful as dead sea apples anyhow and some of them will prove as fatal as can bo be im agines to their prospects in november such buchas as the fitz john porter restoration which will give the republicans public ans the welcome pretext again to awing owing the bloody in tho the breeze of northern prejudice or the refusal refus M to increase th tb tariff duty on wool which will lose the democrats tho the buckeye buck Bucke eye yc state worse than tho the republican republicans lost it last year on the liquor question the party whose patron saint is the immortal thomas jefferson and choso whoso standard bearer should be the reform governor state the president elect of 1876 is s split p lit up too badly in two hostile factions free trade and protection not that the republicans arc are not riot as much divided on the delicate question of international commerce but they having shrewder party leaders and stricter party discipline refrain from handling or even evou touching the burning nettle they prefer to have the tile two factions in the opposite camp fighting each other and if the free trade democrats of the west pass the 1 tariff reform bill the republicans will reap the benefit of the foolhardy act by the inevitable disaffection and find defection of the Prote protection evon democrats in the E eastern astern states this brings us back to our heading chenos we started tho the didas 7 77 danco dance of damsel democracy of whose egr egg danco dance pud puck of april 9 0 gives us BO so telling and bately so truthful a cartoon presentation E sen tation theres the giddy girl in her flowing shamrock bedecker bedecked arm her eyes blindfolded with stupidity tripping the tile light fantastic toe too towards tow ards the purple cov ered presidential chair stepping on oil a s of dangerous questions two of which naval appropriations and civil service reform she has bris already crushed with her awkward heel lice while her right fore foot is just in athenet thenet the act of stumbling stumbling bling on the ominous orn inous oval of tariff reform randall is trying 0 to tug her slender waist back ending the disastrous danger 21 but carlisle coland cos and others had bad rather let the young lady go on while on the opposite tide side sherman kelley of pa logan and other republican war li horses are holding their sides bending their backhand back sand nod din ding 9 their heads in undisguised 0 glee and anticipation over the mad of the tile merry maiden in her excited egg dance much as wo we personally would like to see a change iu the national Adminis administration tri aaion a change which would probably equal tho the change effected in mythological das days by hercules after aller he lie cleansed the augean stables wo aro are becoming afraid that the change is le less as certain than it was last as t No the democratic party lias has too uncertain a gait there arc are too many and too many sided advisers and nod sorry though we be we arc tire apprehensive that too many eggs will be broken to leave enough fur for a democratic in the white house on march ath 1885 |