Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-23


! Nothing less than seven or eigh, hundred dol.
lars
SO much as that? Och, blood-er-nouns, but
won't be illigant Eight hundred dollars =
! feel rich already. Who cares for Musther p ?
Bad cess 10 him =
Don't forget the meeting tonight said Mr..
R, moving away.
'Niver fear. I'll be there
and, above oil, be at your post tomorrow
1t is the great day of battle, and unless every SOL
der is in the field, the enemy must conquer. Go
early to the polls, and vote your ticket, and then
see that every man whom you have an influence
does the same thing. A long pull, a strong pull,
and pull altogether, will do the work for US
Then you know the motto-",o the victor be-
long the spoils." Good bye my friend And
The candidate shook Murphy warmly by the hand
and left him
'Pah" he muitered to himself, with DISCUS,
and Impotence, as he got fairly clear of the yul-
gar freshman. 4 shall be glad when this work
is over. I'm half sick with disgust and half
mad with fretting sense OF humiliation. But
they are our tools, and we mus, work with them
After our work is done, it Will be an easy matter
to throw them aside
Patrick Murphy had been in the country lust
long enough to secure legal naturalization, and
thus get the power o: vote in our elections -
As 10 the Constitution Of the United States. he
had never read the first article and his ideas Of
the splrlt OF our institutions were bounded on all
sides by the word liberty. Soon after his arrival
he became aware that duties and responsibilities.
undreamed of in the 'oud country, - were rest
ing upon him. He was lone of the people" M
on whom rested the welfare of the nation
There was party in power, whose aim was 10
restore the old monarchcal and aristocratical
privileges that were such a curse to Enrope. and
who sought to trample the poor working man
under ioot Pat was soon politically Underlined
by the party that first gained his ear attered his
seIt-Iove, and excited his natural beIigerence
and as whiskey, an article 10 the nse Of which
he was born, flowed as free as water a, the head
quarters of the party, his affections were not on.
Iy won, but firmly retained
Pats first electioneering experience was the
one that first brought him in familiar intercourse
as an equal with Mr.. R than whom there
was not, in feeling, more thorough aristocra,
to be found. He was one of those who really
desplse every thing below them but, being a
lover OF power and an ofice-seeker, he could talk
of the dear people, and shake them by the hand
with an appearance Of interest and regard while
IN his heart ne loathed their very presence. His
manner of treating Murphy completely turned
the lrlShmans head, and made him so insoIent in
his manner TO his employer, Mr.. p, that the
latter had been several times tempted to dismiss
him from his store, where he was engaged as
laborcr and porter.
On the night before the election, Murphy was
at the public meeting as he had promised
W hile h occupied the stand as speaker,
he stood close beside him, hurraing and throwing
his hat in the air at every emphatic sentence
Far above every other voice was heard his, ever
forever. '-sh----- q Nd 80
After the adjournment Of the meeting, he met
R at the ward house, and was hand in
glove with him, for the space of an hour =
When he started for home, about one o'clock in |
the morning, his mind had become SO confused |
by drink or selt-conceit, most probably the former
that he was in serious doubt whether he were
not the candidate for election himself, and R. on
ly one Of the working members of the political
firm. Murphy had some doubts whether he |
would 90 to the store at all on the next day Ii |
was the great election day, when battle was 10 |
be fought, and when every man should be at his
post, and ready to do his duty. After some de-
bate, he concluded TO 90 and open Mr.. P--s
store, and put the counting room in some order, |
previous TO the arrival of the clerks. Then he |
would take the day to himself
1t was about haf-past eight clock, that Pat
presented himself to the owner OF the store, and |
with an air of unusual self-impouauce, said
i shall be absent the rest of the day, Musther |
P
How so, Patrick ?? inquired his employer.
dts lection day
We'll, what of that Lave you right to
vote 2
Sure and have, as much as the bes. Of ony
yez
Then you're naturalized ?
'Dade, and am thOt.'
But ii won't take you all day to vote. Half
an hour, or an hour at least, is long enough for
YOU to be absent from the store
1--we something to do besides vote. I'm one
of the ward committee to attind the polls
You are = Mr. P spoke IN a tone of
contempt that rather nettled Murphy,
'Yez needn't fash body in that way, Musthcr
P. Ise got rights and privileges as well
as any other mon, if | am poor he answered, a
little Indignantly
I've no wish TO interfere with your rights,
Patrick said Mr.. P, seriously As !
a citizen, your right and duty is to vote, and
time enough for that have no desire to with
hold. You can 60 and cast your vote, and then
return 10 your work. as | shall do. But TO re-
lease You from your obligation TO me, that you
may have time to NEEDLE in what doesn't con-
oern you, and interfere with other mems freedom
I'D Young, Is what CANNOT Co An-uoE Is Uu-
" day in the store We have large amount
Of goods 10 pack, and canno; dispense with your
services
My duty to my adopted country.
'You needn't talk to me after that fashion,
Patrick interrupted Mr.. P, impauently.
Vote your vote, if you wish to do So and leave
the country to take care of itself. 1t will get
on well enough without any Of your meddling
interference
% yis. That's the way ye nabobs try TO lord
it over Us poor men, hen ye think We have US in
VI power" reiorted Murphy, in an insolenttone,
But I'm no, just ready to kneel down and etyez
put y'r foot on my neck
Ny friend said Mr.. P sharply-he
was BY this time quite angry-l don't want to
handy words with you You can 60 to the polls
and vote. III give you an hour for that purpose
and you may vote for his Satanic Majesty, If II
pleases your fancy, for all care. But # you're
no, here at the expiration Of an hour, I'll hire a
man in your place.
Mr.. p
Twill hear no more on the subject, replied
the merchant, turning quickly away and walk
ed back into his count0g-r ON.
Murphy stood cogitating few moments, and
then, mUttering indignanily-'No purse-proud
nabob shall lord it over ne I! walked erecily, and
with firm bearing, from the store.
What did he care for the loss Of paltry .iiu-
( alton liz tho. ,,,bau in few DAYS he would bs