An Infernal Mockery

We ask sometimos in astonishment, says the Cincinnati Cumine,rclal-azcltt, why men like General i'isk lend themselves to this horrible abuse of the good naine of the cause of temperauce, and engage in a inockery so infera all And we are told about this by those who areutterly candid and well informed that the abolition of slavery bas fired the dreams of all sorts of neformers by profession, and the more impracticable the performance proposed is, the more conijdently it ispresented as acasecoincident with that of the original insignificance of abolitionism. It does not do any good to teil them that theabolitionists never abolished slavery, or even coutributed seriously to that end. Inside the temperance party the politicians of the country who f ancy themselves too good and sweet to go into the roughness of practical politics are found eoddling each other - telling each to each in what glorious oio ver they wou ld roü if they could, by a sudden turn of affairs, become the leaders of public opinión. They are highly imaginative, and fancy that they have beard the bule-call just a little in advance-and they are infunated with yanlty and ambition to be at the head of the procession. And even so General Fisk is taught by flatterers that if he can defeat the Republican party this year. the party wiü disband and he will be the leader and elected President in four years froin this. A more foolish notion never got into a sane man's head. No one who has appeared in the shabby, false and mean conspiracy of this campaign that is for Cleveland ir. the name of temperance, will ever be tolerated for a moment asleader. He will be justly and always regarded with hostiüty of the bitterest nature. We do not believe the Democrats can gain enough through the betrayal of Republicaus by the Third party mendacities to defeat Harnson aud Morton, and if they do General Fisk can go to his place in the public contoinpt aloBg with St. John.