The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-29

but ne flnally conylnst them that Rose
Grams wuz trooly the Dimocratic nom
inee, and that it wuz no joke watever
| he'd great deal Nv trouble witt
em. They wuz bound not to toucI
Rosecrans, and they swore they heo
bin betrayed and sold out The plat
form, however, saved us. When Ireac
it to EN- and explained how cleerly j
condemned the war by refoosin to pay
the Indebtedness injured in prosekoot
in it, and how Indignantly it spuned
the administration and so on, they be-
came cool.
Eff Rosecrans hez RELY come to us, .
| sed, "let US open our arms and take
him in" They retired not pleased,
but in sich state that hev no doubt
the heft Nv EN- will vote, ez yoosual, an
unscratched tickit They took down
Micklelan; why not Rosecrans?
That mite, after retired to my vir-
chus couch, fell unto a troubled sleep,
and dreemed. The dreem wich affiict-
ed me wuz more instructive than enter.
tainin.
Methawt the Dimocrisy Nv Ohio wuz
in council, seekin for a leeder in the
comm confick. They trotted ont in
review, all nv em, but they couldn't
find man in the party who wuz not so
fearfully defective ez to be totally and
entirely worthlis for the posishen. Val
landygum wuz ez spotted ez leper,
Ranney wuz tinged with the rather ad-
vanced Dimocrisy NV 1868, and the
other men spoken NV wuz full NV polit-
ikle ulcers, biles and running sores.
The menshun NV their names made the
people hold their noses. One more
wise than the rest in a fit NV inspira-
shun sung out "Rosecrans.." and the
ice hit 'em. Rosecrans wuz trotted
out and they all fell to admirin him.
He wuz well bilt and comfy, and his
figger showed strenth and endoorance.
lie wuz encased into glitterin coat NV
bloc onto wich shone the most gorgus
decorashen wich Good bo conceived In
letters Nv lite NV exceedin brilliancy
wuz the words ''West Virginy," "Stone
River" "Iuky," and "Chicamauga," i"
with the names NV other achievements
more or less notorious, and these dec
orashens with his epaulettes, military
sash and sword, spurs and SIGH, envel-
oped him from head to foot in brill
liancy the gorgeousnis Nv wich wuz be-
yond compare. The managers nv the
show wich trotted him out squinted at
these things mint, but they squinted
more pertikelerly at the multitood wich
surrounded them, to see the effeck
wich it perdoost upon em, they slidin
out NV site ez he advanst, so that they
woodent aobstruct the view. The site
took the people-ther rose up from the
thrOng a most enthusiastic cheer, and
hats went up into the air by thous-
ands.
"It'll do! it'll do! Thank the Lord
it'll do" shouted the managers, and
they immejitly fell to embracin him in
their extacy. Vallandygum fell onto
his neck, but the spot where his hand
struck the General obliterated "West
Virginy;" another delegates paw blot
ted out "Stone River" and the next
embrace bustid "Iuka, "Chicamauga, >
and the rest NV it. An anshent dele
gate from Holmes county, which had
taken an active part in the resistance to
drafts, silly drawd his sword and threw
it away; another delegate hacked ori
his spurs; a third snaked orfhis epilets,
and before the poor fellow knew wat
wuz bein done with him, they he'd COB
bled pretty much all Nv the ornaments
wich he'd glittered so bravely onto him
"Don't-for Heven's sake, don't =
ejakilatid one who wuz a candidate fol
county Office in a close county.
"Wat are you doin?"
"These things must come orf NV him
to make him acceptable to our people, y
and they eagerly stripped OFF one thing
after another.
"Git out Nv the way, there" shout
ed another party comm up, "put these
resolutions onto him and he is ready"
They clapped EN- over him-he stag
gered and gasped, but managed tc
stand up
"For Heavens sake!" he said in q
pleadin' tone, "for Heavens sake take
this orf"
"Impossible!!" returned them wicf
he'd the matter in hand. "You'r all
right newsstand aside all NV yoo and
see how the people take him now"
They stood aside, but to their sur
prise the people turned up their noses
ez though they smelt suthin, and Kissed
ominously, instid NV cheerin
"Show us Rosecrans," they cried.
''This is Rosecrans!" replied Vallan.
dygum, putin his arm round his necl
affecshnitly.
eve don't know him in them clothes
and in sich company" returned tht
multitood, leavin in disgust.
In my dreem, the managers, wher
they saw the multtood treat their mar
SO skornfully, fell to revilin NV him anC
kickin and cuffin nv him. | awok,
jist ez he wuz tryin to git away, batter
ed, bruised, besmeared and besmiched
l thought, ez lay ponderin on tn,
vision, that possibly, when a soljel
trades his military repetashen FOR
nomenashen at our hands that it doe
strike the people jest as tho he het
traded uniforms during the struggle