The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-12-04
An Electioueering speech.

An Electioueering speech. 4=
The following "modeI speech, was de-
livered by Mr.. Daniel II. Russell, the Union
candidate for Auditor, at the late election
in Mississippi. Swan was his competitor,
and the Secession candidate, and aecordips
to the Tuscaloosa Monitor, was soreiy puz-
zled for renly. The speech is rare sps-
cimen of American fumor:
Ladies md Gentlemen ~ rise; but there
Is no use Of my telling you that; you know
| Pm up as well as do. | am Il modest man.
very-but have never lost picayune by
It IN my life. Being scarce commodity
among candidates, thought would mem
ton it, for fear if didn't, you never would
hear it.
! Candidates are generally considered as
nusances, but they are not; they are the
poltest men in the world, shake ycu by the
hand, ask you bow's your family, what's
{ The prospects for crops, &c, and am the
pol,est man there is IN this State. DaYy
Crockett says The p0litest man he ever saw
when he asked man to drink, turned hls
back, so that he might drink as much as he
! pleased. | beat that all hollow; give a
chance 10 drink twice il he wishes, for not
only turn round, but shut my eyes. | am
not only the poitest man, but the best eiec-
tloneerer; you ought TO see HE shaking hands
with the yariatous-the pump handle and
pendulum, the cross-cut and wiggie-waggle
| understand the science perfectly, and if
any Of the Country candidates wish instruc-
tions, they must call on me.
! Fellow-citizeus, was born--if hsdn'e
been, ! wouldn't have been candidate; but
| am going to tell you where. Twas not
in Mississippi, but twas on the right side Of
The negro line; yet that's no compliment, as
the negroes are mostly born on the same
started in the world as poor as a church
mouse, yet came honestly By my poverty,
! for ] inherited it, and if did start poor, no
man can say hut that have held my own
remarkably well. 81
Candidates generally tell you if you think
they are qualified, &c. Now. don't ask
your thoughts, l ask your votes. Why,
there's nothing 10 think Of except to watch
and see that Swans name is rot on your
ticket. If go, think TO scratch il off and put
mine on. am certain that am compe-
tent; for who ought to know better than |
/ do? Nobody. | will allow that Swan il
the best Auditor in The State, that IL, till I
am elected; then, perhaps it's not proper
I for me to say anything more, Yet, as an
honest man, am bound to say that be.
! lieve it's a grevious sin TO hide any thing
from my fellow citizens; therefore, | say
! that it's my private opinion, publicly ex-
I pressed, that l'll make the best Auditor ever
in the United States.
/ 'Tis not for honor wish to be Auditor,
for in my own country, was offered an
Office that was all onor--Coronor-which
/ | respectfully declined. The Auditors of
fee Is worth some $4,000 year, aud am
{ in for it like a thousand of brick. To show
my goodness of heart, I'll make this offer
! 10 my competitor. am sure of being elect
ed, and be will lose something by the can.
vass; therefore am willing to divide equal
/ ly with him, and make these two offers.--
! III! take The salary, and be may have the
honor; or he may have the honor and III
/ take the salary. -Ir
Ia The way of honor, have received
enough TO satisfy me through life, | went
out TO Mexico, ate pork and beans, slept in
/ the rain and mud, and swallowed everything
except live Mexicans. If ordered to sgo,'i
went; CHARGE charged; break for tho
chapparal;' you had better believe beat Z
quarter nag in doing my duty. T.FF
/ My competitor, Swan, is bird of golden
( p!umage, who has been swimming for the
last four years ia the Auditors pond, nc
$4,000 year. am for rotation. I want
to rotate him out, and rotate myself :n,--
+ There's plenty of room for him to swim out
side of that pond; therefore pop in your
votes for me, III pop him out, and pop my
self in.
! j am for a division of labor Swan SAYS.
he has to work all the time, with his nose
down TO the public grludsrone. Four years
must have ground il TO pint. Poor fellow,
the public ought not To insist on having the
handle of his mug ground clear off. have
a large, fall grown, and well blown nose,
red as beat and tough az sole leather. /
rush TO the post Of duty. offer it as. a
sacrifice. clap it on the srindstone. Fel-
low citizens, grind away-grnd till boiler
enuf, and that will be some time first, for.
I'll hang like death TO a dead African.
( Iime's most out. Well, | like to forgox
/ to tell you my Dame. It's Daniei-for short,
/ Dan. Not handsome name, for my pa
rents were poor people, who lived where
the quality appropriated all the nice names;
therefore they had to take what was left
and divide around among us; but it's an
handsome as AND. .Russeli. Rerem-
ber, every one of you, that IT'S not Swan
I arm sure to be elected; so, enc and all,
great and small, shor, and tall, when you
come dowa to jackson, after the election,
stop at the Adiior's Office; the latch strug
always hangs out, enter without knocking,
take off your things, aud make yourselves
at home. 'hta
/ EDan crawfshed out Of the stand, bob
hing his head like tip-up, amid the cheers
/ for "Dan,"s'A D-m Russell" and ssY oaag
I Davy Crockett."j ist
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