Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — A Political Gloss ary. [ARTICLE]

A Political Gloss ary.

Natioonl Republican. A True Reformer—A Republican who bolls his ticket stud dots all in his power to elect the Democratic candidate. A Patriot—One who votes the Democratic ticket—the ofteuer, the better. A Partisan—Oue who votes the Republican ticket. The Down-Troduen South—Copiah, Miss., and Danville, Va. Oppressing the South—Advocating the right of each Amerian citizen to cast one ballot and have it fairly countod. . Waving the bloody Shiit—Objecting to the murder of Republicans for opinion's sake. Reviving Memories of the War— Praising a man who fought for the Unioh. ’ . Political Purity—Anything to beat the Republic-tiis. T • Caroiaal D -lnocraric Princ:pal—Objection So anything a Kepiibticih* administration may purpose to do. iTemocr-c ic Progrcs-—CI timing credit for amthirg ru<eessfn!ly od by the Republican party. Civil am vice Refer So—Patting Democratic in offm). . TbtJ Venal Pre-e— Republican journals. - Ga Aiding the Purity of th* Ballot Box«-*iwutioR Republicans wlio try to Vet*, ' V

The following i* taken from the autograph album of a Crown Point girl, and is supposed to have been written by a youtfe of Lowell: “I ‘fetcrtxl on the ocean’s briny shore, and With a fragile reed I wrote upon the sand, 'I love thee!” A wave rolled by ’and blotted out that fair impression. Frail reed! Cruel wave! Treacherous sand! No more I trust thee, but with giant hand I’ll pluck from- Norway’s shore her tallest pine, dip its top in the crater of Vesuvius, and on the high and burnished heavens' I’ll write ‘I love thee v and I’d like to see any d d wave wash that out.” —[Lowell Local NewS. We have just received, from Ann Arbor, Mich., a copy of “The Palladium,” the annual publication of the Secret Societies of the University of Michigan. It is an unique and elaborate volume of about 150 pages, and is profusely illustrated by numerous designs, mostly of a humeroUs character and engraved on wood; trut the various society emblems'are printed on steel engravings, ana are fine specimens of the art. Mr. Elmer Dwiggins, of Rensselaer, is the managing editor, and seems to have been the principal contributor to the literary departments of the book. His writings fill many pages, and are, mostly,of a humorous or burlesque character, and in the form, usually, of poetry or burlesque plays. Although they contain a large number of local allusions, which those not members of the University cannot understand nor appreciate, yet they reveal, even to the uneuitiated, the possession of remarkable literary abilities, in certain lines at least, and which, we venture to predict, will yet give their possessor a wide reputation.