Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-11
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
OAAnA, N. T., March A, 1859.


Dear Gazette .-Whew, whew, what a
smoke our municipal election has caused
It's hardly cleared away yet,-not exact
ly certain what's did, and what's not did.
7lS votes cast for Mayor,-Poppleton re-
ceived 392; Byers, 326. $50 voters
didn't care a continental damn" which
beat,-felt just like the old woman who
saw her husband in a desperate struggle
with the bear,-says she, ego it old boss,
go il old bruin, devil Of a bit do | care
which whips"
Nobody would consent 10 take the Office
that the people wanted, consequently the
field was left to Byers and Poppleton, old
c%rohies, old partners. The people felt as
if they might as well vote for one as the
other. Generally the same objections
that applied to one, applied to the other.
People suspicious, -dark hints abca!
Know Nothingism. Pops friends charg-
ed Byers with having opposed the intro
duction of foreigners into the Territory.
Byers retaliated ,-came out in an affida-
Wit on the morning of the election,-swore
that P~oppleton and Hanscom undertook
to initiate him into a Know Nothing
Lodge here in Omaha during the first
session of the Legislature. Some people
taken by surprise ,-others, not, Pop got
hold of the Authenticated it,-jumped
right up four teet,-liked to have fallen
backwards,-one hand raised high up il
the air, he swore twas u damned lie
got up for ~electioneering purposes,"-ther
took a shoot for Irish town, as straight a:
q bee line,-lnet q son of " ould Ireland
- shook him by the hand,-treated to bac
whisky-then at a $40 pace to the Doug
las House-then around town generally
coat tail out a, angle of as degrees.
Say old follow, did you ever see a pis
jump, "cut up" and run, after his tail haC
been eliminated from his bodyl Well, j
you have, you can approximate TO a fain
idea of what a figure Pop cut while run
ming through town. He finally subsidec
Things looked queer, Hanscom cuSS'c
in drdiy,--said twas true, but twas
shabby trick in Byers to tell on 'em. Sal
isbury winked ,-Redick looked down.
Rankin tickled,-"laughed in his sleeves,
glad to have c~ompany-he you know, wa
a Know Nothing at Keokuk,-always ha
been a blot on his democracy. He is gia'
to have Pop and Hans in the same fl,
with himself. 1t turns out that all three
(they, who claim to be the simon rure
true blue democrats, and who lately a,
tempted to organize the democratic part
for their own especial benefit have a
been members of the Know Nothing or
der. Well, you know the old adage
" when rogues fall out" &C., but it's jus
as true, they tell the truth on each other
Pop comes o t with a printed disclaimer
but he only denied being a Know Moth
ing at the present iime,-he didn't den
hdring been one at some former time
Nobody charged him with being one q
present. Well, Pop is elected, but it
worse than adefeat. The democrats VIII
voted for him, say they have been deceiv
ed,-never suspected him of having bee
a Know Nothing. If the affidavit of By
ers' had come out three days before tn
election, neither Pop nor Byers woul
have received fifty votes. However, i,
} just as well as it is. The CLIQUE is don
for. The developments are rich,-mor
are promised.
!, Yours, &c., QUIZ.