The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-22

couldn't be satisfied. a primary
election was held on Saturday. Can
didates and their friends rushed
about frantieally. The colored popu-
lation were allowed to cast their
ulation did cast their maiden votes.
We never had much confidence IN the
coons as voters. We now confess we
were mistaken. They are an unpar-
alleled success as maiden voters. Ii
the polls had not been closed at SIX
o'clock Saturday some of them
would be casting maiden votes yet.
Coons are every bit as good at
voting as Massachusetts soldiers.
And they are hard to beat. But the
coons voted early and often. AS
much as ten or twenty times apiece,
and like Oliver Twist wanted more.
They were evidently intent upon
making up for lost time. We think
the majority O. them are even with
the present generation on voting.
IF not they viii be the next chance
they have.
Well. the battle commenced early,
mother" Express wagons, cabs,
buggies, etc, were doing a lively bus
mess all day in bringing in the boys.
The coons didn't need any bringing
in. They were thar" early. So they
were at a late hour. Gin mills did a
lively business. Mokes and mean
white trash iraternized over the
flowing bowl. And the colored
troops fit nobly." They voted
noblyer. The dashiag Colonel
French jerked himself around
among the coons. He was in his ele-
ment. He felicitated himself on in
Producing that resolution. And was
happy. And the contrabands stayed
with him. The dithyrambic Quinn,
who immortalized himself by taking
hash with a respectable negro lady
who occasionally washes his shirt, was
there also. He beamed upon his col
ored friends. They beamed on him
and voted Gufin all the time. And
Gufhn was happy. A few real nice
men were there. But they tarried
not, but unto the mountains of Hep.
sidam. And the dark brigade charg'
ed. On TO the polls they went
And great was the slaughter. The
" mean white trash" who were no
candidates fed. And for a time
! Ethiopia reigned supreme. Such cut
ting and slashing and scratching wa
never seen before. Now, ordinarily
a coon isn't very bad company. Blu
when they get together in large mum
bers, and are a little warmed up, the.
smell. And they smell bad. As
s consequence, the atmosphere il
the Court House vicinity was redo
J lent OF a perfume not quite a
/, nice as Night Blooming Cereus
which left the field to the coons
and they voted. Voted often. Tn
battle continued until night cast he
mantle over the city, and the polls wer
, closed. The judges poured cologn
water in the ballot boxes, and pro
! ceeded to count the votes. They al
wore gloves, too. And such a count
/, French, the noble French, the astut
French-the heightened French-th.
sweet scented french-the coon-loY
, ing French, was defunctl The coon
. hadn't voted often enough, AM
French is doomed to hide his ligh
/ under q bushel foranother season
Guf6n-the nice little Gufhn-th
: piggeI-feeding-with Gufin--th
D learned Gufin-old Coke-on Little
9 ton Gufin--Went through lik
a small boy through a rotten cheese
Gufin is nominated. Byron Elliot
: for Criminal Judge and Frank Ham
= ilton for Auditor are nominated. An
nobody else is as far as heard from
The vote cast is only about tire,
thousand more than Grant received
WHICH raminds US of the DAYS whel
the Pilgrim Fathers voted in Cente
township. The delegate convention
will have to do it all over next Satur
day. The man with tho most wealth
will go through then all right. An,
, the battle RACES still, mother"