Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — DEMOCRATIC BLUNDERS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC BLUNDERS.

If there is any one thing that possesses tne soul of a editor more than another it is his disposition to ye continually talking about "Democratic blunders.” These Jellows keep red-hot and still get hotter in each campaign* .nth the id*a that “Democratc blundering” is again to . weep their own party into i >ower. It might be well to re- * ord a few of these “blunders” nthin the past fourjyears, that < >ur readers may know how se.ious they are. Here they are: Ws have held our own in he United States. We have changed the Unit d States House of Representatives from a Republican body of twelve majority to a Demoratic one of seventy-seven majority. We have elected a Demo- • ratio Governor in California n place of a Republican. We have | elected a Demoratic Governor in Colorado in place of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in Connecticut in place of a Republican. We have elected a Demo•ratic Governor in Kansas in place of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in Michigan in place of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in Nevada in place of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in New York nplace of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in Pennsylvania in place of a Republican. We have elected a Demo cratic Governor of Ohio in place of a Republican. We have elected a Democratic Governor in Tennessee in place of a Republican. Not to say anything of the election of Butler in Massachusetts a year ago, and the sweeping Democratic victory in Virginia last fall. We have rescued Indiana from Republican rule, and we will ‘blunder’ into the election of a President next fall. If this is “blundering” the Democrats do not need to be as much alarmed about it as the Republicans.

From the Indianapolis Herald, slightly changed: “It is said that Governor Morton materialised and appeared at a spiritual seance in Indianapolis one evening since the unveiling ceremonies took place In his honor. He spoke freely of the event and was in a oheerful frame of mind. In answer to the question, “How are you satisfied with the ceremonies of unveiliug your statue?” He said: “1 am deeply grateful to the peoplejof Indiana for their honorable renembrance of me. I hope I save been worthy of their oraise. The statue is a good likeness, and the sculptor has lone all he could to throw iround it the august spirit of ;he war-like times in which I ived. I was, pleased at all the dnd and eloquent words spokm of me by Ex-Senator McDonald, my most intimate personal frend through life.” — Chen bowing, and turning as fto go away, he said: sEx■Senator McDonald will be the aext President of the United ■states. God bless an d prosper :he American people under lis administration.” Then, waving his hand majestically, le vanished.

We have just ascertained iow Grant’s Pass, in Southern )regon got its name. As it vas in a curious sort of manler we publish the origin of it. 'When Grant was a lieutenmt he was camped at 1 that )lace with a party of soldiers, und they got to playing euchre or $1 on tne corner. The game : : tood three to three. Grant licked up ms cards and had he right bower, ace and king, ie concluded to pass, thinkng he could euchre his opponent, a burly miner. The re mlt was that he lost his dollar, ind the place was called “Grant’s Pass.”—Exchange. A Wyoming jury, composed if seven men and five women, were shut up for two days and wo nights, and yet they ;ouldn’t agree. It is said that f they had remained out If or seventeen years there would lave been no verdict, as the ive women talked the seven nen deaf the first six hours.— Brooklyn Argus. I