Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — Caleb Cushing’s Inconsistencies. [ARTICLE]

Caleb Cushing’s Inconsistencies.

Caleb Cushing voted for every bill which John Tyler vetoed, stoutly defended the vetoes which came from the White House, and then again voted for them. This prompted Mr. Granger, of New York, to say in debate that Mr. Cushing’s course reminded him often of the reply of an old woman who was asked what she thought of one of her neighbors by the name of Jones —not the editor of T/tc Madisonian- ■■v.-. d with a very knowing look replied: “Why, I don’t like to say anything about my neighbors; but as to Mr. Jones, sometimes I think, and then again I don’t know, but, after all, I rather guess he’ll turn out to be a gocd deal such a sort of a man as I take him to be.” The gentleman himself, said Mr. Granger, makes me think of a smart fellow I saw in a circus the other night; a very sprucely-dressed, active young man, who was equally ready to mount every horse that was brought within the ring. The first nag the honorable gentleman mounted was the Bank poney; and round he went merrily to the sound of the music. Presently the stout horse Veto was brought out, when, giving the Bank, pony a cut or two with his whip, up he sprang on Veto’s back, and round the ring he again went with still more complacency than before. Then came the second bank bill, the gentleman voted for that; then what was called the little tariff bill, he believed the gentleman voted for that; and last of all followed Hie great revenue bill, lie voted for that. Yet, voting in succession for all these several bills when they were on their passage in the house, this same gentleman got up as soon as the vetoes one after another came in and defended the President's rejection of the measures he had himself supported by his votes with a servility which the gentleman from Accomac, Mr. Wise, would have scorned.— Boston Budget.