Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Discouraged. [ARTICLE]

Discouraged.

Hlinois officeseekers at the National Capital are discouraged for two reasons; because there are not enough places, and because Mr. Cleveland seems to be in no haste to make appointments where there are no vacancies. “The trouble is,” says one of the leaders of the Chicago delegation, “we Want the earth, and Cleveland really seems to have some very fixed notions about what he calls civil service.” —Chicago Tribune. They are coming. “Brick” Pomeroy, famous for his bad grammar and anti-Union newspaper of war times, and later for a mining scheme, tonneling a mountain for silver, which brought him to discomforture in Colorado, proposes now to start a Democratic newspaper in Washington, one “to herald the rising of Democratic reform and the era of public decency.” —Chicago Tribune. v The just-elected Democratic Mayor of Utica was arrested as n rebel spy during the war, and, it is alleged, in order to get free swore that he was a native of Canada and a British snlject. This suggests a question as to his eligibility, which will have to be decided before he takes his seat.

Texas gave Cleveland a majority of 132, - 168, and New York but a plurality of 1,047, and yet the Empire State gets Manning and Whitney, while the Lone Star State still has her Gov. Hubbard on hand spoiling for a good situation where he can give advic,e. —Inter Ocean. As Oyster met a Mouse in a Clark street restaurant. The Oyster put on airs, swelled up, and declined to sit beside the Mouse. “What ails you?” inquired the Mouse. “You need not put on such sirs over me. You are only an insignificant Oyster.” “I am not insignificant,” retorted the Oyster, tartly. I am of immense consequence to the people of this country. I haye decided the destiny of the nation for at least four years. Had it not been for me, no Democratic President would have been inaugurated this year. Probably you don’t know what style of Oyster I am?. You shall be enlightened. lam the New York Count l” Then the Mouse, being a Democrat, took off his hat and bowed reverentially. _ ■