People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — Reform the Refomers. [ARTICLE]

Reform the Refomers.

There is in New York what is called the Democratic reform club. Now we don’t ask that club to reform the Democratic party, that is a hopless task, nor do we ask it to inaugurate the millennium, no nothing of that kind, but we would be pleased to see it exhibit its reformatory power by reforming itself. Should it perform that much needed and difficult job, we, ourselves will move to have it excused from further duties. This aggregation of reform tendencies gave a dinner to those having similar tendencies. Nowit so happened that each of the invited felt it incumbent on himself to enlighten the rest upon the necessary reformatory measures, and it so happened that one “crisp”speaker “was turned down,” whereupon all these unreformed reformers took it in dudgeon, solemnly vowed that when reformers were overloaded with reform ideas at a reform dinner given by a reform club were unceremoneously “turned down” that ended all reform measures. Well, I swow.