A YANKEE'S POLITICAL STRATEGY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 165, 10 July 1878, Page 4

A YANKEE'S POLITICAL STRATEGY.

" When I told 'em tbat the bloated bond-bolders robbed 'em of their hardearned wages, to roll in weaith and dress in purple and fine linen, like Solomon ia all bis glory and the lillies of the valley, you should hear 'em •bout. The bond is the sharp piuted stick to poke up tbe people." " And how ebout Philadelphia?" said the other. "Well, I was not so hefty tbere. There's a heap of bonds in Philadelpby, and there's no use in rousing prejudices*— painful feelings— misunderstanding. It aint politics. What's good for one sile aint good for another sile. Tou sow your seed as the land lays — that's politics. Where people halnt got no bonds there's where to go in heavy on bond-holders Bat in Philadelpby I gave it to 'em on Reform, and corruption, and the days of theßevolotion that tried men's souls, and/, that; sort o' thing — and w&fltiio' we bad Washington, back •gain. That's always a tremeodaorjs

pint, aboufc Washington ; aad when people are skittish on great questions, you fall back on the Father of his County. You ace — — ." "But Washington's dead," objected the disciple. "Of course he's dead,"' said the other, triumphantly, , 'und that's why he's a living issue in a canvass. In politic?, the deader a man is, the more you can do with him. He can't talk hack." "And BboutMaesachusette, cow?" the humble inquirer asked. "Well those Yankees don't take 100 much stock in talk. You can't do much with the bonds and corruption in Massachusetts* Tha you touch 'era up oo whisky and the nigger. The evils of intemperance and the oppression of the colored brothers-— those are the two bowers in Massachusetts." " Rhode Island ? " « Oh, well, Rhode Island ia a one-horse State where everybody pays taxes and goes to church; and all you've gofc to do i9 to worry 'em about the Pope. Say the Pope's com in' •to run the machine." — From " Green Pastures and Piccadilly," by William Black.