Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-05-06
A Representative Reception.

John P. Irish, the rollicking Representa-
tive from johnson county, and editor of the
Iowa Press, gives the following humorous
account Of his reception by his constituents
"Home again and among the cobweb.
and behind the dazed and dingy windows
| OF the sanctum! Anxious creditors ap
proach with their pleasant solicitations with
a serene belief that we brought the State
Treasury down with US, instead of the I'M
paid board bill that awaits hquidation.-
Pleasant constituents drop in to d-n us 70,
! deeds done in the Legislature, and find faul
because the national debt is not paid, and
Cuba recognized as result Of our presence
in Des Moives. Do we owe the national
debt, that these bucolic constituents should
SO abuse US? Are we expected to recog
nize Cuba,-without an introduction.
We are also reminded by this perennial
stream of jolly callers who are just now en-
livening the dull editorial existence, thai
Cults got US down. Well, we know that
Why ieer at US about misfortune like that
He got US down, and John Russell, John
Kasson, and demi-John. The party last
named is friend of 10. Shepard's and was
lobby member.
These visitors invite us out to their homes
in the green lanes of the quiet country,
where the butter.cups are blooming and the
cowslips are slipping, out where the pigs
Economically root among the daisies and
wild parsnips, and the gentle kline scratch
off their winter hair on the corners of the
worm fence, they ask us to come out there
Sundays and they'll whip US, they'll knock
the socks off us, because we voted for q
herd law. Why should our socks be knock.
ed off for that? Wright, of Sac, will have
his hosiery knit gratis by grateful constit-
uency because he voted for the same thing,
they will feast rather than fagelate him.
Why do we differ? Why this melancholy
division Of cor populis
Why?
!. Again they jeeringly demand that we
should divide our stamps with our constitu-
ents. Will some reasonable and middle
aged constituent tell US why such dividend
should be made2 Will our bald and be.
loved constituent, Ezekiel Clark, or some
one else who is posted on dividends, call at
nine O'Clock tomorrow and answer this con-
undrum7
In all the crowd that has welcomed US
home dunning US and borrowing money and
threatening to thrash us, there was one over
burdened tax payer who earns an arduous
living by SEEMING and selling suckers in the
spring, and lying in the sun in the summer,
he, this son of toll, rebuked US for our
vote on the Capitol till, and drew touch
ing picture of the vast estate melting away
under increased tax, dissolving and being
absorbed into palatial building in Des
Moines. As we thought Of his burden of
tax of eighty seven and half cents, weigh
ing him down like another Old Man of the
Sea, an incubus upon his fine genius for
chewing tobacco, we were too overpowered
by an habitual melancholy which is always
developed b. such incidents as this, to say
that no capitol is to be built if an increase
Of tax is required. But maybe he will see
the law maybe be will learn to read by-and-
by and will read the law when we publish it
in our reliable Journal. And then in the
Joy of this discovery he will regret that he
saddened US. And so, as set forth in the
foregoing, the natural Joy that we feel in re-
turning home to our parents has been
heightened and rendered more apparent.
Even Brainerd seemed glad to see US back.
Yes, even he was so glad to see US that he
has not spoken to us since We returned.
clone again, ETC., etc.