Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-27
CoNFFpRIT x ROADs.


Southern indiana, in witch | he'd some
friends, and assist in fiXin the COLISEUM
betwixt the democracy and the liberal
Republicans, that they mite march to
victory without question. | didn't like
to leave the Corners. The Spring time
hez come agin, gentle Anne, and it is
pleasant here The trees is out into
blossom, the little birds is liftin up their
voices tremendously, the weather is
warm cnuff to go barefooted, and the
st0un in front Nv BaScom's is never SO
}lyasaDt to sleep upon ez now The
warmth disposes you to slumber, and
the flies amt come yit to murder it.
Lickker never tastes eZ well in Kentucky
ez in Joon. But when did | ever hest
tate to 90 where dooty calls | went.
The county hez alIuz bin slitely re-
publikin that is. republican by perhaps
two hundred majority; just euuff to let
our people cit a site at the promised
land without ever entering into it. The
liberal movement took so well there that
it become a certain thing that eff the
democrisy and the Republican boilers
Good only pull together, triumph wuz
ashoorcd But, | thought to myself,
this can't possibly be. It will go well
emuff till they come to maxim aplatform,
and then they'll split into fragments.
There is too hefty q difference atween
the ingenany dimocrat and repubIikin-
a difference based on principle-to ad-
nit Nv a hope that they kin ever pull to-
g.ther. But determined to do my best
and sn0othe things so ez to make agree
meut ez easy ez possible.
| advised. to wunst, that an informal
cansultashun be held, and that six re-
preventative men from the democratic
party. and six from the Republican party
who had gone over to Greeley, should
be appointed, and empowered to fix
everything connected with the cam
paign. The caucus was held, and the
following wuZ them as wuZ appointed
to arrange the detail
DeMocrats-Smith, Brown, Onslaught
messy, Peters and Blodgett.
Liberal Republillins-Jones, Thomp-
son, Adams, Dodder, Potters and Mug
gins.
These gentlemen met the same after
noon NV their appointment, and | acted
as a sort of umpire, that there might be
orCer and system observed.
Mr. Smith dem. remarked that the
fust thing in order wood be to fix the
platform NV principles in SIGH a way that
both wings NV the new party Good stand
onto It, Without a platform to stand
onto, go democrat Good go into a cam
pane with any feeling of safety He
wood propose the discussion nv the diff
ferent ishoos afore the people. 1t wood
be nessary, Nv course, to white down
in one spot and swell out in another, to
git the principles adapted to the slitely
diverse idees NV men witch hadn't kept
together ez it were, and he wood reject
that Tooniversal Amnesty be first dis
Gust.
Now, SEE I to myself, 1.-THE first in
stallment Nv trouble is onto us" But it
wuzn't.
The other eleven had been yawnin
fearfully doorin this orashun, but they
each choIled off their respective yawns
long enuff to eXclaim in korus:
80 blarst yooniversal amnesty!
There amt no doubt but wat we shell all
agree on that pint Go on -
| wuz delited to see them ruff pints
got over so easy.
''Wat shell we do with the suffrage
question ?" asked Mr. Smith.
''Blarst the suffrage question:" ex-
claimed the three with one voice. eve
shell hev no trouble with that
"The tariff"
"D-n the tariff /" shreeked the stur-
dy eleven ''there can't possibly be any
trouble with the tariff, nor viii there
be any difference NV opinyun regarden
nashnel banks, sivil seryis, revenoo or
any thing else. We shall agree on all
NV that, Pass it.
'sThank heaven, | thot, ''they see the
necessity NV sucksess, and are tractable.
There amt nothin' else that can make
trubble."
They all yawned terribly. There wuz
an anxious silence for perhaps a mint,
which Mr.. Peters (dem,) finally busted.
"Wat we want to know" sed he, sis,
who shell we nominate for sheriff "
Mr.. Jones, Glib. rep.) sed with mulch
urged him to accept that place, and he
to take it.
Mr.. Peters remarlzt in a sarcastic
tone that Mr.. Jones he'd been, eff we
Good take his word for it, solissited by
his friends uvzthe Republican party to
take that posishen for ten years, but ez
his friends wuz compozed principly Nv
himself, his father, one son and his
father-in-law, he he'd never took it very
mulch. He wood see the colishen in
Tophet afore he would consent to see it |
made the vehicle for carryin played out
ablishnists. sIll never consent. sed |
he excitedly, ''to see the best offs in the |
country filled by a rotten, dekade rune
gade. | want that offs myself"
Immejitly Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Peters |
were settlin their differences on the floor,
in the manner for which southern In |
jeany is celebrated.
Thompson Glib. rep.) sed the majic |
word "Auditor y Immejitly Mr. Brown
(dem. sed thot that place he he'd con-
sidered hizzen to witch Thompson re-
piled that Brown wuz only in this move
ment becoz the reglar dimocrasy wood |
never nominate him for nothin.
skThat place, sed Mr.. Thompson, sis
so pekoolyerly adopted to my abilities
that hey"
Mr.. Thompson and Mr.. Brown wuz,
in less than second, rollin on the floor
in bear hug, each frantically endeav-
orin to possess hisself NV the others left |
eye and rite arm.
Mr.. McCloskey dem. and Mr.. Adams
Glib rep got into an argument on the
floor, es to witch shood be nominated for
recorder; the treasurership furnisht Mr..
O Shaugnessy (dem. and Mr. Dodder T
Glib. rep. an occasion for set to; Mr..
Smith (dem. and Mr.. Potter Glib rep.
concernin a seat in the legis-
chur, and over the county clerkship Mr..
Blodget (dem.) and Mr.. Muggins Glib
rep partook NV each others ears, and
tasted each others gore. They were all
on the floor rollin in each others arms
to wunst; the air in the room bein thick
with the groans and oaths NV
the gentle combattants.
| didn't know at the time how the
matter resulted, for an Injeany free fife
lasts an hour, and / hedn't the time to