Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-02
HARP Nv ERIN ,'SLooN; i
9TH WARD Moo YORK,


AT THE LATE ELECTIoN.s ftskE ,9t4Ss So
HARP Nv ERIN 'SLooN; !
? 9TH WARD Moo YORK,
s,ssiss.. rs November 12, 1870.
THE eleckshun in Moo York is over for
which Heaven be praised My sole sinks
within me when look back and think NV
the alarmin progress our wunst free coun-
try hez made in the direckshun Nv despot-
ism-how gradually but how .shoorly our
rites are bein wrested from us. The last
eleokshuh in Moo York wuz conducted in
manner wich calls blush. to my cheeks
whenever / think Nv it.
The tyrant and despot who sits entrench-
ed in State in Washington perfected by
bayonits hez PERSONNEL to attempt to CON
troll an eleckshun by military power. Bay
onits at an eleckshun! Bloc coated hire
Inns sent to city TO infooence an eleck-
shun! Moo York votin-not ez she pleases
but according ito a law Nv Congress, sed
law bein enforced by debased and degra-
ded soljery 81 Ez an, iAmerikin citizen l
shudder at this and so does Teddy
O'Rourke and Tim O'Shaughnessy wich
wuz Judges NV the eleckshun with me in
our deestrick in the 9th Ward
We he'd bin notified. by the chiefs Nv
Tammany the day before the eleckshun
that soldiers he'd bin sent to the city whose
bisinis it wood be to see that everybody
voted who wanted to, and that we mustn't
refuse. nobody Z We took our seats in the
mornin in a state Nv mental depreshun
wich may be imagined, but can't be de-
scribed. From time immemoral this dees-
trick he'd bin yoonanimusly dimocratic,
and it wdz the pride NV the Dimocrasy to
keep it so. They he'd a simple rool by
wich it wuz managed. Eff man offered a
vote whose name didn't begin with an o.
or a Nc he wuz requested by the chal-
lengers to show his ticket to them. Eff he
refoosed, ,-Or, in the event NV his complying,
eff it wuz1anything but the strate Tammany
ticket, he wuz dubbed about the head till
he comelto the conclooshun that he didn't
care about yotin, and got away ez soon ez
possible. ."H 4
But all this W " to be changed by the ex-
ercise Nv broot forse, ON the part Nv the
tyrant Grant, and we he'd bin notified to
yield to it's O'Shaughnessy and o Rourke
wept like children. There is in the dees-
trict, some thirty niggers, and the boys he'd
procoored clubs NV souperior strength and
length, expressly to meet the exigencies NV
that case. The polls bein at my place, I
he'd procoored three barrels Nv a pecoolyer
whiskey with red pepper in it to inflame
EN- to the proper pitch for such an emer-
gency, and our other preparashens for fair
eleckshun were made in a most complete
manner. as sa
We sat behind the ballot box--me and
O'Rourke and OsShaughnessy. Before the
box stands Patsey Farrell Tiny ORyan,
Jimmy Domaine and score NV others, all
with dozen drinks in EN- and new clubs
in their hands. Upscomes "a man and of
fers vote, giving his name ez Thompson.
Last year the man by the name Nv Thomp-
son wood hey bin pounded into jelly be-
fore the word he'd escaped his mouth for
he wuz born in Connecticut and sich hez
never bin allowed to vote at these polls.
see by the ticket wich he hands me that
its Republican ticket. Patsey Farrel
raises saelub but / warn him by look
not to strike. take the vote, put it in
the box, with sinkin sensashun at the
pit NV my stoniick, and Thompson goes
away unhurt. The knowledge that the
poundin Nv Thompson would bring down
upon us the bloc coted hirelins NV the mil
itary despotism under which we live, sub
jects the deestrick to the disgrace Nv re-
ceivin Republican vote from Connect,
cut man! Good Lord are we in free
Amerilxy or Austria !? FREE AMERIKY
forsoothi
But it didn't end with Thompson. MIG.
gers came up and voted. The inferior race
he'd the impoodence to fall into line with
white men, and vote after them and before
thems This cost us at least one hundred
votes. Teddy, O'Donnel he'd voted twice,
on contract he he'd to vote eight times at
this polls. 1t so happened that each time
he came up there wuz nigger before him
in the line, and one behind him. The third
time he came up to vote the third name on
his list itwuz eZ before--he wuz sand
wiched IN between two niggers. Indignant
at this, land who can blame him p Teddy
askt me if this thing wuz to go on all day
ef hesw,zsto be compelled to put in bis
other five votes behind a niger each time,
and be perventid allday from KILN one Nv
ems
/ soothed Teddy all Good. 1 told. him
how 1t wuz-the situashen we wuz in, and
begged him to be pashent and endoor wat
he coodent help. 3, .rsfsg i ~ at
But he woodent. The chivalric nachel
Nv the nan wuz so stirred up that he re-
foosed to vote agin. Rather than hev hin,
lose his days work L took the five votes a
wunst and certified for him that he hed
voted EN- ez per contract, that he mite
draw his money. "a wuz not altogethe
disinterested in this either. The entire
scum will be in my till in less than week
for Teddys wife manages to keep .th
childlyen clothed, wieh leaves him entirel,
free ovN the more groyelin cares NV life.
But want it distinctly understood tha
this interfesrence Nv the oligark at Wash
inton didn't affect the general result paI
ticle.e We dldHnt count the votes till lat
at mite, after Tweed had heard from th
rural, distriks. "a messenger come int
the room and annouenced that everything
wuz ready now to beN, counted.
How much majority do you require u
meT ea