Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-12

to tender the bloated bondhOlGer the same
dirty rags .wich he pade for his bonds
pledged to pay the bloated bondhoIder, if
we pade him anything, greenbax for his
bloated bonds or nothin' We went there
determined TO annihiate this yer Seymore
and his bloated supporters.
''Rah for Pendeton, sung out the crowd
Three groans for Seemore, the bloated
| bOndhOlders' agent"
Both cheers and groans were given with
will, and perceeded.
! My friends, you II never know wat We,
| the peoples defenders, had to contend with
The bloated bondholders he'd money-we
had none. They were determined to fasten
! the yoke on yoor necks-wa were determin-
to hist it off. They waz determined to hev
| SeymOre with all Wall street at his back,
fastened on to you to grind you into the
dust, but feelin that if he shood be nomiEo-
| ted we could never support him, we riz in
our mite and manfully compelled 'em TO
Withdraw this man and give the people 5
choice, Geo. Ii. Pendleton the eagle of the
-
At this pint Deekin Pogram' 5 son Cana
liel waz seen putin down the hill ez fast ez
his mule Good git. Joe Bigler notist him
/ fust and rushed out Of the crowd to inter-
cept him. The boy had noospaper in his
| hand wich Josef took from him and rusht
\ to where | was standing on the head Nv a
/ barl
Here's the last Louisville paper" sed
Josef unfolding it. ''Shall [ read it?'
Reed Reed" !" yelled the crowd. ''Give
us the moose Nv the downfall Nv the bloated
bondholders"
Before | reed, sed Josef who had
glanced at the heddins NV the telegraft col
lum, Civ three more cheers for Pendleton
and greenbax. Hip, hip"
'Rah y chcered the crowd
Now, three groans, aud let them be
good ones, for Seymour and his cussid doc
trine, wich viii grind US into the dust un-
/ der the heels nv Belmont, and aid furrin
capitalists by payin the bonds in gold I"
And they groaned ez heartily ez they
cheered
we ez Democrats" continued Josef
- sl--.''--'a.''-.. - ---- = 77' - ~
er to support = any offs any man who
wood pay De 1t injured by an unconsti-
tooshenel government in a unc)nstitooshen
el war. in anything but the deJased curren
cy wich that uncjnslitooshenel government
i:hood."
/ Never never we sware :
VERY good, " said joseph. This paper
wich hold in my hands conveys the afflic-
tin intelligence that on the twenty-sec-
| kond ballot Governor Horatio H. Sey mour,
Nv New York, waz nominated, and that
! Frank Blair wuz nominated by acclamation.
| Ez Seymour is opposed bitterly to Pendle-
tom greenback policy, I spose. NV coarse,
the Coroners will repoodiate the ac&shen Nv
the convenshin."
And with laff wirh wuz devilish in the
extreme, Josef left the stand.
The meeting broke up in row. The Cor
ners felt that they had bin imposed upon
aud he'd I not gout out NV the way | mite
hev bin personally injoored.
The Deekin, Bascom, Kernel McPelter
Issaker Gavtt and [ met in the Postofh
after the excited crowd he'd dispersed an,
consulted. We wuz in ruther tite place
Relyin on the strength of our candidate, W
he'd gone to far in denouncin the, others
tho for that matter what could we do ? Tn
two policies is so cussed opposite that w
can't support the one without denouncln tn
to thcr. 1t WIZ decided that we supper
the ticket We felt it wuz safe. Seymour
if he is electid, can't discriminate betweel
his supporters in the distribooshen Nv post
offises, and after all that is the reel question
at ishoo After given the suhiick a NOR
matoor considerashun, we come to the cor
= clushen that the credit and standin NV tn
Government demanded the payment Nv tn
- Nashnel Indebtedness in gold, and that any
thing short of that wood be repoOdiashin.
e 4 wonder, sed |, that any honest mar
= any man who believes in MAINTAINING unln
y paired the credit of the Government, shoe
. think for a moment NV Payin the debt
= anything but wot wuz contempl plated-hones
il hard gold. At a meetin the next mite /
n ratity Seymour nomination, sed this ovt
y agin, and asked EN- eff any Dimocrat who r.
II membered the glorious fte jackson mao
/ for hard money, wood consent for momer
: to multiply irredeemable paper currency
No let US ez our glorious standard beare
q Seymour, hez so boldly proclaimed, let
= pay our debt in Democratic money-golC
e hard, shinin, yaller gold.-Three cheers f
C Seymour.
+ And they cheered ez vigorously ez [ ev
z heered men cheer Their aint no trouble
i managiu the Dimocrisy, All they want
II to hev il settled wot they are to hurrah Il
!. for, and they hurrah for ii. Notwithstan
e ing the TO pa1c made the first mite, we she
/ poll the yoosual vote for Seymour, and po
D sibly more Yet the experiment wuz a leet
Il risky. will never ratify agin till [ kEO
wat am ratifyin and for whom.
!. PETROLEUM V. NAsBT, p. NJ,
It (Which is Postmaster.
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