Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-04

| wien JOSEF look from blm and ruShI
to where | WIZ standin on the head
nv bari.
"Here's the last louisville paper,
sed Josef, unfolding it. "Shel / reed
it?"
"Reed Reed p yelled the crowd
Civ US the nooze NV the downfall
nv the blotid bondholders."
Before | reed, sed Josef, who he'd
glanced at the hcadins nv the tele-
graft collnm, "give three more cheers
for Pendleton and greenbax. Hip
hip"
"Rah p chered the crowd.
"Now three groans, and let them
be good ones, for Seemore aud his
cussid doctrine vich will grind us in
to the dust under the heels OF Bel
mont, and aid furrin capitalists by
payin the bonds in goldp'
And they groaned ez hartily ez they
cheered
1--WE ez Dimocrats, continued Jo>
sef, "hev sworn by our affairs and our
fires, never to support for any offs,
any man who wood pay a debt in
karred by a unconstitooshenel gov
ernment in unconstitooshene war
in anything but the debased currency
witch that unconstitooshenel govern
ment ishood."
"Never never we sware p
"Very good,' said josef "This
naper which I hold in nv hand con-
veys the afflictin intelligence that on
the twenty -seckond ballot Governor
Horasho Seymour Nv New York,
wuz nomenated, and that Frank Blair
wuz Vice President by acclamation.
Ez Seymour is opposed bitterly to
Pendleton's greenback policy Ispose
NV coarse, the Corners will repoodiate
the ackshen of the convenshin."
And with laff witch wuz devlish
in the extreme Josef left the stand.
The meetin broke up in a row.
The Corners felt that they he'd bin
imposed upon and he'd | not got out
Nv the way I mite hev been person
ely ipioored.
The Deekin, Bascom, Kernel Nc
Pelter, Issaker Gavitt and | met in
the Postoffis after the excited crowd
he'd dispersed and consulted. We
wuz in ruther tito place. Relyin
on the strength w our candidate we
he'd gone too far in denouncin the
others, tho for that matter wat Good
we do? The two policies is so cus>
scd opposite that we can't support
one without denounsin tother. We
felt it wuz safe, Seemore, if he is ell
ected, cant discriminate between his
Supporters in the distribooshen nv
the Postoffices, and after all that is
the reel question at lshoo. After
givin the subiiek more natoor con-
siderashen, we come 10 the copcioo>
shen that the credit and standin NV
the Government demanded the pay
ment nv the Nashnel Indebtedness in
gold, and that anything short Nv that
wood be repoodiashin.
81 wonder" sed ], "that any hon.
est man-any man who believes in
in maintaining unimpared the credit
Nv the government, shood think for
moment Nv payin the debt in any
thing but wat wuz contemplated
honest hard gold" At meetin the
next mite to ratify Seemore's nomi-
nashen, | sed this over agin, and ask
ed EN- eff any Dim ocrat who remem-
bored the glorious fite Jackson made
for hard money, wood consent for o
moment to multiply irredeemable
paper currency MOI Let us, ez
our glorious standard bearer Seemore
hez so boldly perclaimed, let Us pay
our debtsin Demekratic money-gold
hard, shinin yaller gold. Three
cheers for Seemore'
And they cheered ez vigorously ez
[ ever heered men cheer. Their amt
no trouble in managin the Dimocra-
sy. All they want is to have it settl-
ed wat they are to hurrah for, and
they hurrah for it. Notwithstandin
tho 70 par | made the first mite, we
will pol the yoosual vote for Sey-
more and possibly more. Yet the
experiment was leetle risky. i will
never ratify agin till | know wat !
am ratifying and for whom.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. W
(Which is Postmaster