Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26
Nasty.
rFrcm the Toledo Blade.]

re- er.prrD IN RrsrSEss BY THE DEM
ocRATIc MANAGERS AND HAS a 800
THING IN HIS HANDS, BUT
pIIcurs HIS PROSPECTS, AS 1T hAS
MANY TIMES BEFORE .ooo
Moo YORK, Nov9, 1863.
prrpospEx may be profitable, but when
Of vour piercin eye back and onto
3y;oeo when VOC made cussid ass NV yoor-
elf si thew are far from bein pleasant. am
d. that thing at this present moment.
Wunst agin a forenoon hez been witnln
NV grasn, and wunst agin hey permitted
II 10 slip from me- Ijeot Fool! Loona'
tic arrived in this city two days before
the recent eleckshun, feelin tnat WneIe
votes wuz in SIGH demand there must pG
sntbin to be made for me- by inquiry
found where the headquarters NV tne
Democratic General Committee ior .9e
city wuz located, and at about ~, "A. M,
WITCH means in the mornln, went tlioi y
intendin to offer myself ez man nv al,
work for the two days succeedln. loun III
there vast crowd Nv men, VINO We!e on
nv EN- like me in some respects Varyii NV
course in many pints, but all Nv the SAM sao
snecies The chairman NV the coliilii'Ceo
was distributin funds to en- 10 DC yooseo'
and they wuz walkin up to get lnstruc-
lions in sort Nv a procession. Noticll
that the bizinis wuz bein done loosely, L
dronned into the procession, and shoor
ennff the man distributln handld me
package. savin "Terrence, be shoor 700
cit EN- all up from the ship-Barney NC
Shane will give yez the papers Tor EN-,
and tell yez wat names to vote EN- under
He he'd mistook me for Terence some
body Sbood [ undeceve him? Never!
So. slinpin the package into my pocket,
answered, asso0min the Irish brogue:
aArrah, musha, be jabers, my jewel, I'm
the bye"
Fortunately wuz crowded out before L
he'd time to air much more Irish. wuznt
a success ez a .talkin Irishman. AT the
foot ov the stairs ] opened my package.
It wuz greenbax! "This money" sed
to myself, "wuz given me to further the
coz NV Democrisy; for that purpose I'll
use it. I'll start a grocery" And forth
with that day, I leased room in Demo
catic locality, purchased counter, bari
Of whiskey, dozen tumblers, a Autograph
portrate NV Gineral Jackson and Gov.
Hoffman, and wuz ready for bizness the
mornin Nv eleckshun.
There wuz a rush the moment | took
the shutters down, and took In money
faster than / ever had before in my life.
"At last" sed | to myself, exultinly, at
last hev found my speer. Nasty, yoor
in luck. I'll drink to my luck"
And took nip. Skasely wuz it down
before ward politishun cum in with three
or four voters, which he wuz taxin care
Nv. They drank, the leeder of the party
askin me to iine EN-, witch did. Ez they
went out | coodent avoid drinkin to the
success Nv the ticket; then to the confoo-
shen Nv Horris Greeley, then to the mem
DRY of James BookannOn, then to the
memory of Franklin Pierce then to jeff
Davis, and by, this time found myself
outside of the bar, into the middle Nv the
room, in confoosed state of mind and
body In short, l was very drunk. Moo
York whisky amt like the Kentucky
article.
At this critikel moment man entered
hurriedly and seein me leanin agin the
wall, went behind the bar and helped HIM
self Seem him behind the bar forgot
that | was the landlord myself | knowed
| wuz in grocery-that bein where [ am
most NV the time-but in my intoxication
l forgot that was landlord, and the mis-
able wretch behind the bar, comprehendin
the sitooashen, let me go on in my de-
looshen. Staggerin up to the bar
| sed, =" set EN- up agin," witch he did
and 1 drank solemnly to the memory NV
George III. Pendleton and the other dead
Democracy NV my own whiskey, and then,
like the loOnatic | wuz, paid for it out NV
my own pockit, and | kept paying for
whisky for others ez long ez l he'd dol
lar. The man behind the bar then asked
me to drink, witch [ did; then I asked a
crowd of fellows witch come In to drink
with me, telling the new bar-keeper to
charge it, witch he sed he wood, latin up
roariously.
Its astonishin how strong habit is! The
moment | found | he'd credit, ! commenst
improvin Nv it. set EN- up |" | shreekt
ez each new squad come in. "Set EN-
up!'' and the alercity with which they
drank wuz wonderful The news got out
that in SIGH a place there was loonatic
treetin everybody who come in, and per-
feet stream rushed in.
remember but very little of wat oc-
CURED. | recollect distinctly Nv votin
three or four times, and NV returnin each
time to my place and treetin o crowd,
tellln the barkeeper to charge it. re-
member wunst feelin bad for him, and
sayln confldentlally to a man that wuz
takin suthin with me, that this house
"OulNh u ldoG IOlS I'll III COHJluueU 10 give
credit miscellaneously, forgettin in my
drunkenness that it wuz my whiskey
wuz drinkin and givin to others to drink
all the time?
needn't continyoo this confession. Suf
ice it to say, that the next mornin
awofe in that identical room chilled com
pletely thru There wuz no whiskey in
the barrel, not enuff for my mornin's nip
andI hedn't cent in my pockit, ez I he(
paid all that was left of the committee
money, and wat l he'd taken in early il
the day for my own likker, to the fellow
who took advantage NV my condishn t,
usurp my place.
L shel never succeed on that side Nv
bar. am not kaikilated to take care u,
my own whiskey.
[ shell not, however leave Moo York
We hev got the Legislature now, and
shell find suthin to do. We shell, NV course
repeal the Metropolitan Poleece law anC
all other laws which takes control out NV
the hands of Democratic offishels, and e.
amongst so much steelin ez there is goir
to be there amt suthin for me, it will be
singler This is the troo Democratic par
adise. We hev fat Ablishnists to tax, and
the control is in our hands, and here ]
stay. To git an offs / may have to change
my name TO Michael, ez / did wunst be
fore, but | shell do it. | am too old te
wander up and down the earth, and here
CfT II U ~