The Midland Journal

Dr. Mackall's New Party.

New parties are all the go now. Dr. Mackall we need not introduce the doctor, every one knows him—has been outlining his in the Democrat, and in addressing his friend John S. Wirt in the last number of the paper, sketches the policy of the new order as follows:

But, my young friend, our new reform party is open even to pin-feathered birds. We make no distinction on account of age. But I warn you in advance if you knock at our farm house doors you must first wash your hands of your new fangled Civil-Service fancies, and be prepared to take hold of the plow handle with a Jacksonian grip and do an honest day's work for fair wages. If you bring your mule with you, you must warrant him not to kick in the traces. But we cannot offer you we working men "Bar" wages we propose to reduce salaries to an agricultural stand-point, scaled by the market value of our farm products When wheat is 80 cents a bushel we will allow our Custom House officers four bushels a day for their services instead of from thirty to forty bushels, as they get now. Our clerks and other non-partisan officers will not be paid five dollars a day when we have to work ourselves for our victuals and clothes and are glad to get these. Our Members of Congress will have to come back to the old five dollars a day pay and stealing, and we think our President might live on the value of the best farm in Cecil county a year. This is the kind of reform with which we propose to starve out the spoil system, and it will prove far more effective than your Civil-Service law. Why should public servants be paid from three to forty times the wages they could make in private life, and why should a Republic pay far higher salaries to her officials than are paid by any government in Europe? We are coming along on this route, my friend, and just as sure as Grant reached Richmond by indomitable pluck, so sure will the people reach Washington some fine day in their farm wagons, to attend to the inauguration of a farmers' and workingmans' President. Would you like to be our Attorney-General, Mr. Wirt? If you are not over forty-five, perhaps you may.

R. C. MACKALL.

The great weakness of the doctor and many others is, they never can muster courage enough to master their own political bigotry and vote for any candidate that is not labeled by the crafty partisan wire puller as genuine.