The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-22

others, all with dozen drinks in 'em
and new clubs in their hands. Up comes
man and offers vote, giving his lame
eZ Thompson. Last year the man by
the name Nv Thompson wood hev bin
pounded into ajelly before the word had
escapaed his mouth, for he was born in
Connecticut, and SIGH hez never bin al
lowed to vote at these polls. 1 see bs
the ticket wich he hands me that it is
Republican ticket Patsey Farrell raises
his club, but Iwarn him by look not
to strike. l take thesvote, put it in the
box, with a sinkin sensation at the bit
Nv my stomick, and Thompson goes away
unhurt The knowledge that the poundin
Nv Thompson wood bring down upon us
the bloc coted hirelins Nv the military
despotism under which we live, subjects
the deestrick to the disgrace Nv recelvin
a Republican vote from Connecticut
man Good Lord are we in free
Ameriky or Austria? Free Ameriky, for
sooth 20 --''
But it didn't end with Thompson.
Niggers came up and voted. The infer
ior race he'd the Impotence to fall into
line with white men, and vote after
them and before them. This cost at
least one hundred votes, Teddy @ Don
mel he'd voted twice, on a contract he he'd
to vote eight times at the polls. 1t so
happened that each time he came up
there wuz niger before him in the
line, and one behind him. The third
time he came UP to vote the third name
on his list, it WIZ ez .before-he wuz
sandwiched in between two niggers
Indignant at this, land who can blame
him y Teddy askt me of this thing wuz
to go on all day? eff he wuz to be COM
PEELED to put in his other five votes be-
hind niger each time, and he proven
It'd all day from killing one Nv them =?
| soothed Teddy all [ Good. / told him
how it wuz-the situashen we wuz IN,
and begged him to be pasllent and endoor
wat he coodent help.
But he woodcnt. The chivalric nacher
NV the man wuz so stirred up that he re-
foozed to vote agin. Rather that hev
him lose histlay's work | took the five
votes at Wunst and certified for him that
he he'd voted EN- ez per contract, that he
mite draw his money. | wuz not alto
gether disinterested in this either. The
entire sum will be IN my till in less than
week, for Teddy vile manages to keep
the children clothed. which leaves him
entirely free Nv the more groyelin cares
Nv life. ii
But I want it distinctly understood
that this interference Nv the ollgark at
Washintun didn't affect the general re-
suit particle We didn't count the votes
till late at mite, after Tweed had heard
from the rural deestriks A messenger
come into the room, and announced that
everything wuz ready now to be counted.
How much majority do you require
NV me p US.
"Lemme see," said the messenger.
running his finger down a list, this is
the sixteenth deestrick Nv the 9th Ward.
You are set down for 3l2 majority. Did
you pole that number Nv votes p
NO only 27O, and Nv that number
probably 40 wuz for Woodford. -
That don't matter. Count EN- 3l2,
and all for Hoffman, We hev bin loosin
in sum NV the rooral deestriks, and in
sum NV the wards In the city, and it must
be made up.
This is perhaps ez shoor way Nv dom
it ez the other, but it isn't satisfactory to
the people. Is does away with the ser
vices Nv great many repeeters, which
hev aluz made livin by votin, and ez
Their amt no fightin at the polls, a great
menny shoulder hitters lack employment.
Then agln, it is open to another obieck-
-shun. We made the vote in this dees
trick yoonimus for Hoffman. There hez
bin more than thirty men Of the dees-
trick who hev come out in the papers,
stain that they voted for Woodford, with
a view Nv maxim trouble Wv course it
wont amount to anything, for we run the
courts and everything else in the State,
but it unpleasant and disagreeable. EFF
these fellows he'd bin knocked on the
head when they offered their votes, ez
hez bin the custom, they wood not be
able to say now that they actilly voted
for Woodford.
But all this trouble results from the
apathy and cowardis Nv the Dimocrisy
themselves He'd we he'd the nerve to
hev shouldered muskets in 1864, and res
Good Richmond from the grasp Nv the
AbIishnists-ef we he'd established the
Confedracy ez we shood hcv done, we
never shood hev seen our rites goin from
Us one by one. But we didn't do it, and
we are driftin into worse than despot-
ism. In Moo York alone hev we any
rites. and them is bein assailed perpe-
locally [ shoodent wonder eff at the
next eleckshun a Federal officer shood
hev the countin Nv the ballots
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(wIcb WIZ DoStmaStar