| Show A DEMOCRAT FOR IM IN IT A hot blooded trojan stirred doubtless to excess of anger by the recurrence of march ath w which II 11 ii ch reminded him of the inauguration of the present president addressed the following profane questions to the editor e di tor of the N new ew york sun san sin SIR I 1 have been a democrat since 1864 bavine cast my first ballot on the battlefield for gen mcclellan Clellan Ic I 1 have been democrat enough to vote tor for horace greeley and tor hir grover cleve cleveland k sod twice what hat I 1 want mant to know I 1 is tins this why ia is it that the damned fools in the party are always selected to manage it iu in a pres presidential bial contest why is it that when the cans catis win in city state stat or nation they claim and get all 11 t the ll 11 e offices while when the democrats win the llepun licals still claim and gut get about abou t half of the offices 7 why is it that any handful of cranks who hae have cash enough to hire the basement of cooper institute to promulgate a crank notion can induce efti the democracy to adopt the i ip same providing it is la belled reform I 1 have asked these questions several times here and th there ere but have never yet succeeded in receiving a satisfactory answer anew er D F S starch 4 strangely enough the sun does not answer the questions which its ita correspondent puts so pointedly certain certainly y it agrees with him as to the folly of civil service reform aa as to the crime of sir cleveland in leading leaving republicans in office under his ad minish a tion and as to the mental montal status oi of the men who run the campaigns to a distant observer it looks as though brother t dana hal had clearly found in this irate man from troy the i one link necessary to join in snug and sub harmony the luminous rays of the sun which shines for all and the orthodox straightforwardness of the agile executive officer whose sole creed is expressed in the words 1 I am a democrat |
