Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-27
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky,
lam 1870

CONFEDRIT X ROADS,
witch is in the State NV Kentucky,
JOon s. 1872.
I wuz invited to go to a county in Southern
Indiana, in witch he'd some friends. and assist
in fixin the coalishun betwixt the Democracy
and the Liberal Republicans, that they mite
march to victry without question. I 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
hftln up their voices harmonously, the weather
Is warm enuff to go barefooted. and the stOop
IN front Nv Bascom's is never so pleasant to
sleep upon eZ now. The warmth disposes VOC
to slumber, and the flies amt come yit to MUIR
der it. Liker never tastes ez well in Kentucky
ez IN Joon. But when did ever hesitate to go
where dooty calls l went.
The county hez alluz bin slitely Republican
that is, Republican by perhaps two hundred
majority just enuff to let our people git site
at the promised land without ever entering into
it. The Liberal movement took so well there,
that it become certain thing that eff the De-
mocrisy and the Republican boilers Good only
pull together, triumph wuZ ashoored. But, |
thought to myself, this can't possibly be. 1t
will go well enuff till they come to maxim a
platform, and then they'll split into fragments.
There is too hefty difference between the In
geany Dmocrat and Republicans difference
based on prnciple-to admit Nv hope that
they kin ever pull troo together. But deter
mined to do my best and smoothe things so ez
to make agreement ez easy eZ possible.
advised, to wunst, that an informal consul
tashun be held, and that six representative
men from the Democratic party, and six from
the Republican party who had gone over to
Greeley, shood be appinted, and empowered, to
fix everything connected with the campane
The caucus was held, and the folowin WIZ
them as wuz appinted to arrange the detale:
DEMoCRATs-Smith, Brown, O'Shaughnessey,
Peters and Blodgett.
Liberal Recommendations, Thompson,
Adams, Dodder, Potter snd Muggins
These gentlemen met the same afternoon NV
their appointment, and | acted az a sort NV UNI
pire, that there mite be order and system OBJ
served.
Mr.. Smith (Dem.) remarked that the fust
thing in order wood be to fix the platform NV
principles in SIGH way that both wings Nv the
new party Good stand onto it. Without plat
form to stand onto, no Democrat Good go into
a campane with any feelin Nv safety. He wood
propose the discussion Nv the different ishoos
afore the people 1t wood be necessary, Nv
course, to white down IN one spot, and swell
out in another, to git the principles adapted to
the slightly diverse idees Nv men witch hadn't
kept step together, eZ it were, and he wood
sejest that Yooniversal Amnesty be first DISGUST.
Now" SEE to myself, the first INSTALL
men Nv trouble is onto u.s. But it wuzn't.
The other eleven he'd bin yawnin fearfully
doorin this orashun, but they each choked off
their respective yawns long enuff to exclaim in
korus:
ooh, blarst Yooniversal Amnestyl There
amt no doubt but wat we shell all agree on that
pintl Go on!''
1 wuz delited to see them ruff pints got over
so easy.
"Wat shell we do with the suffrage ques-
ton 2" asked Mr.. Smith.
"Blarst the suffrage question u exclaimed
the eleven with one voice. we shell hev no
trouble with that!"
1.-THE tariff
ON the TARIFF shreeked the sturdy
eleven, i" there can't possibly be trouble about
the tariff nor will there be any difference Nv
opinyun regardin Nashnel banks, Civil Servis,
Revenoo, or anything else. We shell agree on
all Nv that. Pass itl'
'Thank Heaven thot, they see the ne
cessity Nv success, and are tractable. There
amt nothin else that kin make trouble"
They all yawned turribly. There wuz an
anxious silence for perhaps mint, which Mr..
Peters (Dem.) finally busted.
swat we want to know" sed he, SIS who
shell we nominate for Sheriff."
Mr.. Jones Glib. Rep.) sed, with much warmth
and feelin, that his friends he'd urged him to
accept that place, and he he'd, after much soils
sitashen, consented to take it.
| Mr.. Peters remarkt in q sarcastic tone that
Mr.. Jones he'd bin, eff we Good take his word
for it. solissited by his friends Nv the RepublAln
party to take that posishen for ten yeers, but
ez his friends wuz composed principally Nv his
| self. his father. one son and brother-in-law,
he had never took it very much. he wood see
the coalishen in Tophet afore he wood consent
| to see it made the vehicle for carry1n payed-out
| Ablishnists. 'srll never CONSENT" sed Mr..
! Peters excitedly, to see the best offs IN the
country filled by rotten, decayed renegade. L
want that offs myself"
| Immeitly Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Peters were
settlin their personal differences on the floor,