The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-13
TIE GATE CITY.
MASSEY !.

AFuf,le Attempt "a HatSfy the Hents
ations ~ tbs CoFnsrs.
rsm tie Toledo Blade
Posr OrFis, CoxFEDER1r X ROADS,
witch is in The St1e Nv Kentucky,
i July 81, 1868.
We he'd last mite ratification Ct the Coz
ners w.ch started OUT glonoosly but didn'
end so happily ex it mite. ! he'd gone 70
good deal W trouble about i and he'd mad
all arrangements for feast nv reason an,
surpassed BY none.
he blessed Deacon, McPelter and Issske
Gavitt, who expect respectively to hold th,
posishrn s Nv Asset 80 !, Collector, and Wbis
key Inspector for tbs district, come dowl
handsomely with the funds, enuff TO enable
me 10 decorate the pos. offs with Tags snt
trsnsparencies, and myself with pare u,
ready made pants, wich | muddied consider
able to make em look old 80 that they shood
not suspect their funds he'd bin applied II
that way. Human nscher is an inscrutabls
mystery. They wood objeck did they know
he'd clothed myself with Their money in
stead Nv wasten il on taller candles and SIGH
wch burn out and leave nothing behind.
WIZ economlkle III my expendisoors, OF
rutber but little expese WIZ nessAry. DesirlE
TO wake the enthooeiasm nv the DemOcrisy
| procoored passeluv Confodrit battle flags
.ich the returned heroes he'd brot home
with em, and he'd the ,Alismanic words, "Sey.
more and Blare,'' painted across em. The
effect was gorgus! Ez mite approcht he'd
the trausparencies saved over from . cello.
brashen which he'd bin held after the battle "
Ghlckamaugs lighted up. The. enthoosiasm,
ez the popuiace saw these, and listened "a
captain McPelter, e. be red to em, it wuz
overpowerin. How they cheered ez the
words fasht out into the Mite, Southern
Rites, Southern Men, ard Southern Gov
ernment!.' death to Northern Hirelns!
down With the gorilla Linkiul'' 'Jeff Da-
Wis and the Confederacy forever" And
when Boregard's black flag onto wich "Sey-
more and Bare, wuz painted in red letters,
wuz unfurled, Their arose SIGH cheers for the
nominees nv the Moo York Convention ez
he'd never heard before, nor expect to agin.
At this time jist as everything wnz gttin
red hot the trouble commenced Penniback-
er wich runs our biggest and best d,s'il.ry,
jumpt out o nto the platform at my sugges-
ton, and perposed three cheers for Seymour
and Gresnbax, and three groans for the
bloated bondholders. The crowd, with troo
Dimekratic docility wuz goin to cheer when
Bascom who hez some b.zOs, rfz and swore
that he'd be id ef that should be. Gov
ernor Seymour is in favor OF paying the
Nashnel Indebtedness, principle and inter-
eat, In gold. Reed his speech at the Cooper
Instoot.
'.ls he? is hep? shou,id Peanibacker,
springing onto the platform, lis he? Read the
platform which be acc PSF
Don't Belmont and the Eastern bankers
support him?' yelled Bascom.
''Don Vsllandygum, Pendleton, Brick
Pomroy and dirty shirt Dean support him ~
yelled Pennibacker.
Yoor doctrin," sed Rascom, excitedly,
lis id swindle-a peace nv theevin wicb
IN Arab wood be ashamed Nv, and Seymore
ed so"
"Yoor proposishen is an outrage onto
,pprest people, q grindin Nv em into the
earth under the iron heels Nv bloated aristo-
rats and pampered SONS Nv luxury, and the
platform Seymour stands onto seq So" shout
ID PeDnibacker.
foor swindler," excitedly yelled Bas>
om whereupon they clinched aud roolled
fl the platform, titely huggin, and making
physike efforts 1t ipjoorin each
Their.
To direct the attenshen Nv the populis from
his untoward circumstance, rekested Issa.
her to sing out three cheers Tor Blare
Three cheers for Bare ~ sung out lssa>
er, 'thr Missouri statesman, who will rid us
y Freedmen's Burrows and military roolin
Three groans for Blare!' yelled Punt
II Abishnist and Lincoln hirelin, wich shot
ly uncle IN Missoury and burnt my grand>
1ohers house near iixburg'
''He amt no Abllshuist! exclaimed Is
aher, freed his iettersp
"lts difficulty to say wat he 10 to day
ut II swsre to il he wuz three years ago;
NJ 1t makes no difference. swore four
ears ago to lick any man who hurrahed for
ny member Nv the Biare family
And this infooriated wretch bounced onto
saker, and they rooled of the stand to Join
ascom and Pennibacker, who hedn't settled
ieir onpeasantnis yet.
Before it ended Deekin Po9ram and Ker>
el McPelter got to arguin e. to the pro-
riety Nv recogpizin niggers in the ranks NV
lie party. the Deekin taken one side and
IcPelier the other. The passions Nv these
gentleman WIZ arouzed somewhat
nd before | Good interfere they he'd
ach other by the throte and rolled orr onto
le ground beneath the platform. l sprang
own TO separate them when McPelter turn
upon me, aud wood hev sacrificed me on
lie spot, but the Corners rusht ez man to
I'VE me. III ! owe the most Nv them am
ati.ely sale here and eZ shell be ontil |
sy my debts | shell never die NV violence. |
AT this pint the tite became general Some |
Y TN with Pennibacker, (akkordin es they
ought whiskey, by the bari or by the drink |
I'd the balance OF EN- assisted Bigler and |
,saker Gsvtt ez their inclinashen promptid /
H. In the melee the platform, flag and /
wuz torne down, nearly break
q my leg. for wich WIZ insuffishently re,
uneratid by the handkerchers borrered |
ON the PROSTATE combatants under cover OF |
sslstin NV EN- to rise.
After the ecrimmage wuz over Pollock and |
igler came with three niggers, into Bascom's |
here he wuz repairln damages, wich remarkt |
lat they had held meetin, and he'd passed
solutions thankin the Lord devoutly for |
avin relieved the Republican party Nv the |
Iare family, and sympsthisin with the De-
ocrisy wich he'd reserved EN- and also ac>
nowledging the obligashens, the colored |
en- NV the nashen were under to the De- |
ocrisy for the handsome manner in wich |
slegate to the Moo York Convenshnn, ez |
;soshatln with him on terms Nv ekality, wuz |
step in the direction Nv uooniversal Broth-
mood wlch wuz cheerin. This insultin mes |
.ge. delivered to men wich wuz patchin
p their faces aud washin OFF the blood Nv q !
oiitikle conaia, wuz the reverse Nv shooth |
i.
The rati6cashun wuzn't altogether q sue
ass, but we shell try it again after time hez |
oitened the asperities engendered by the
scent conhlck, and the candidates hev he'd |
me 10 FL their .elres and thair recnrds n thu |
latform. The Corners kin be counted on.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
witch is Postmaster.)