Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-28

Ef Groehy &. necessary to gittin them /
90 GreeYcy. He may shin e. fast e. he
pleases, kim follow him. Put that Post
Office in front nv me, and eff he kin shift
faster than kin, hev over estimated my
powers in that line. He will insist upon
duaificashens strennously. but he hez his
own standard. He believes that them
who admire Horris Greeley are, ex-ofisho,
fit for any place under any Government,
and them who don't amt with d-n for
ANYTHING. I am talented at adniring SIGH
men, am. ..
Pogram, Pennibacker, McPelter and Is
saker Gavitt wuz convinced, but there
wuz still murmurin among the others.
You idiots" sed sternly, lis Grant
republican ?"
:.Hev 700, ez democrats, enything to
expect from him ?"
1--WE hewitt !" they replied.
DO YOU know the pekoolyarities Nv the
great and good Horris We know what he
is to-day; we know wat he wuz yesterday,
and SIGH ov 700 ez kin read plain print and
write without runnin yoor tongues out kin
assertane wat he wuz before that. Wat he
haz been 700 know, but wat he will be only
the Almity, who knows all things kin tell,
sutfishnt account to he made the subject nv
prophecy. We are very certain NV re-
publikin of Grant is elected-we may
hev q republican or demokrat eff Greeley
succeeds. Its an even chance where he
lites, with the per cent. in our favor, for NV
course the Republicans will make fun nv
him, witch is the only thing he never for
gives. Ez an uncertainty is better for us
than certainty, rah for Greeley
They wuz convinst and immelitly Gree
ley Club was organized. In Cincinnati
he'd embarkt in spekulashun. he'd
twenty dollars left from the money he'd
borrowed NV Judge Davis committee and
! invested 'em in fifty white hats Nv an
ancient pattern, expectin to sell 'em to the
Greeley Club, witch intended to organize,
at, say, 81 so each. After the club was
organized stated to 'em that the yooni-
form must be the style Nv dress Nv our be-
loved chief: q white hat and the left pan
looms leg on the top Nv the boot leg, and
that / he'd sekoored white hats enuff tC
supply the club. Here difficulty okkur
red. In the entire party there wHzn'
pair NV pantaloons which want worl
off at least three inches above where
boot-top wood be, and it bein warn
weather the aujence wuz all bare-footed
However they took the hats readily. and
stationed myself at table to receive tn
cash for 'em. A profit of fifty-five dollar
wuzn't so bad. Alas how human hope
are blighted Bascom sed he'd take then
hats. collect the money for EN- and credi
me on account! and he did it, didn'
get dollar NV it.
] swallowed it ez best | mite, for it ain
no good to make row about it. No ont
in the Corners kin oppose Bascom, for h,
hez all the likker there IL. But we he'd ;
jollificashen over the orgonizashen. If i
wuz cheerin site to see fifty men all il
Greeley white hats drinkin the health o
the great Horris in Bascom's new whisky
1t wuz cheerin to see the zeal wich tn
admirers NV the white coated philan
thropist, all in white hats, went for sic
niggers ez they found in the streets tha
mite! don't despair NV seein Niger
logged under them white hats.
PETROLEUM V. NATBY.
(Which wuZ Postmaster1