The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-09-01


nized the present State government" At
this statement several who had been nod
ding forsome time aroused themselves and
looked like they had heard something.
"0ld Billy Wrath" shook himself AMI
grunted. He afterwards explained that
he should have shouted had not hiscrutch-
es given way. In the midst Of this con.
fusion Maynard became more bold than
usual, and exclaimed, as in fit Of pas
sion, "The Government does nothing that
is not necessary, and if it shall become
necessary to reconstruct Tennessee again,
1T WILL BE DoNEp' When he said thi.,
the fat men in the jury-box all laughed,
and began to whisper among themselves,
saying one to another, "Is it not neees-
sary to reconstruct now-f Are-we not all
in need of an office % Mr.. Maynard re-
sponded, "Congress will not interfere to
take the Offices out of the hands of one
party and place them in the hands of an,
other" The fat men raised their heads,
shut their eyes, and. asked, "Neverl" 7"
"No, never" said Maynard. "Why have
reconstruction if we can't get the ofices?''
enquired all the big fat men at once,
ave had both white and colOred delega-
tions at Washington, praying for this"
cried Maynard. "And nothing doDe,"
calculated the fat men. "Nothing done
last session." cried Mr.. Maynard, "but
next session if-if"-not finishing the cen
tence, though struggling up his shoulders,
and casting look of uncommon shrewd-
ness at the fat meh, which seemed to say,
"Congress failed to reconstruct last ses-
sion, but you fail to re-elect me aud you
will be reconstructed quicker than light
ming" Hereupon all the fat men, and
the man with the muff about his head,
arose and made bow, first to Mr.. May
nard, and then to the audience, which at
this period consisted of something more
than thirty, all looking anxiously at each
other. Silence was there again. And
now the feeling became intense, as May
nard assured his hearers that the fourth
section of the fourth article Of the United
States Constitution was expressly made
to secure the people of this Congressional
District in Republican form Of govern
ment. And the fat men hallooed, elbow
can we have Republican form of gov
ernment without Maynard being in Con-
gress :" The man in the muf said
''That's so; he can do more for US than
anybody He's been there SO long he
knows everybody" But little old fell
low, whose head looked as though it had
exhausted more than dozen bodies, en-
quired, "What's he ever donel He's
talked big in the interests of high tariffs
and whisky tax laws. / am for somebody
who will do something, and do it now! |
have voted for Maynard for more than if-
teen years, on his promise to do something
for the soldiers of 1912, and here I AMI
on crutches; no land warrant; no pensionW
In reply to all this, Maynard began to
halloo at the top of his voice, "KukIurt2
"KUKLUx p "KUKLUXp' % and commenc-
ed pulling slips of paper out of his pock-
ct, dyed with Polk-berries and Percoon-
root. Holding them up, he said, "Bloody.
Moores My Unless you are vigilant
the Kuklux will carry the election even
in this district in November ~ Standing
erect, and seeming defiant, he exclaimed :,
Though destruction sweeps these lovely plains,
Arise, fellow-man, our country still remains"
As he thus concluded, the Judge made
his way to the Bench, and Maynard re-
tired, with five or six waving their hats
in the air and crying, "Bully for him ~
Bully for him p'
q Respectfully, &C.,
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