Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-31

for Him which He IL not 10th TO Enter-H.
Announces Himself Candidate for Governor
In His Modest Way
From ths Toledo Blade
PEPPER's TAVERN, Holmes County, O.,
August9, 1869, !
There WIZ Providence in my
bein compelled to leave Kentucky
speshel and crownin Providence in
my comm 10 Ohio. | shell never
doubt Providence agin. | thought
it hard to be compelled to leave my
comfortable quarters at the Corners,
and | murmured when forced 10
trust myself to the cold charities nv
an unfeelin world at my advanst age,
but it was all for the best. Ez high
and exalted ez is the posishen Nv q
Kentucky Postmaster, the posishun
nv Governor of the third State nv
the loonyun is more exalteder.
The declinin Nv General Rosecrans
wuz not unexpected. Indeed, when
Senator Thurman started for Califor>
MIA the next day after the convenshen
TO indoose him to decline, | kaowed
he wood succeed. Thurman has
winnin way with him ez Vallandy~
gum discovered two years ago next
winter.
Rosycrans wuznt never the proper
man to lead the Dimocrisy nv Ohio
to vietry. No matter how sound be
may be on all the questions now be-
fore the people, there is an odor at
tached to the name witch is stencil
into our nostrils, and the men witch
run our State Convenshun ought to
have knowed it. The troo Dimocrat-
le intelleck is limited-it don't take
in too many ideas to wunst, nor does
it shift with facility. Doorin three
years Nv the late onpleasantness we
wuz kept bizzy trainin the Dimocri-
sy to hate this name, with SIGH ez
Burnside, ct cstery, We succeeded.
About the time Nv the fghtin Nv the
battles Nv Stone River, Iuky, Chica-
manga, and partikerly about the
date Nv the arrest and exil Nv our
then msrtered saint, Vallandygum,
the very mention Nv Rosecrans'
name wood set any Dimocrat in Ohio
TO froLhin at the mouth like mad
dog. The Dimocratio antipathy to
the name amt changed. We mite
tell EN- that this same Rosycrans wuz
our candidate, but the people wood,
IN moments Nv forgetfulness, heeve
stones ct any man who wood perpose
"three cheers for Rosycrans |"
They'd apologize immejitly when
they remembered themselves. but
kin an apology repay for broken
head ? Halt of our orators wood
hev been killed before the campaign
wuz half 5vor. There amt no yoose
in tryin to git up enthoosiasm under
SIGH circumstances.
Now that Rosycrans is out of the
way, the question is which Nv our
chieftains she'll take his place?
For obvious reasons, it wood be
sooicidle to nominate Vallandygum.
He can't get Republican vote, and
Their are hosts Nv Democrats who
don't like to hev it sed they voted
for him out of regard for their pos,
terity. 1t won't do to nominate
Cary, for he's too recent convert,
and, besides, he used to occasionally
lecter on temperance. Ranney won't
auser, becoz Ranney alluz wears
clean shirts takes bath tHict a
week, and goes somewhere TO church
with his family every Sunday. He
" ould doubtless git some Republican
votes, but he'd lose more than enuff
Nv the Democracy to balance the ac>
count. Henry Clay Dean wood SCOT
exactly but he lives in Iowa. Jesse
D. Brite wood anser, but he is a clti
zen Nv Kentucky. Sammy Cox hez
alluz lived clearly, tho be is sufficient.
~ versateel to change all thatin time,
bat unfortunately, he's in Spain, and,
besides, he's citizen Nv Moo York.
VINO THEN Shell WE NOMINATE F?
anser without hesitashen, with>
out affectashen Nv modesty-ME.
am, just now, the chief among
ten thousand, and the one altogether
lovely. l am the MOSES witch is to
Iced the Democracy Nv Ohio out Nv
their land Nv bondage into the land
fiowin with milk and honey.
One advantage in nominatin me
wood be-there amt no danger of
my declinin. I never decline nothin
1t may be urged that / amt known.
7 THAT'S the very reason why | shood
DC nominated. What wood Vallan-
dygun give eff he wuzn't known 7?
We never succeed with a'known can
didate. We kin say in counties
where they prefer men whose hands
wuz drencht in goar that kill ! my
thousands, in counties where they
went for peece, by KILN Provo Mar
shals and sieh-that | wood hev died
in my door yard, eff I'd he'd one, SOON
er than hev gone South.
Ny other pints are ez fellows:
| kin hold more Nv the Democratic
party strate in traces than any other
man in the State / wuz originally
q Democrat; voted for Jackson and
for every Dimocratic nominee from
that date on to the present. tits my
proudest boast witch | wish inscribed
onto my tombstone when I hev gone
hence-I never scratched tikkit,
Ny war record is cleer. At the
breakin out Nv the war, I opposed
everythingth the Governmental l did
not.stun the Massachusetts golfers in
Baltimore, becoz I wuz not there, but
| slung up NJ hat when heerd Nv
it. and wept bitter tears becez | wuz
not there. | did not volunteer. On
the contrary, when drafted, I made
the best Nv my way to Canady, to
join Vallandygum, and only failed to
make my escape thro the trcaehery
Nv Ablishnist who worned hisssli
into my confidence by heven q copy
Nv the Moo York Day Book and /
pint bottle nv sod>corn whisky il
mis- hind coat pocket. | thought, il
( nv InnOcenca that nne sO enuipDet