Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-03
cen defeated by fraud.

last time he wuz defeated-by franz
he hedn't but two votes
the county convention his uncle =.
brother in-law. He was disguised r a.
the otfis-seekin party, but Good bo
assured of the Post Offs in >.
event of Greeley's election. He ~
that eff he ever wuz agoiu to hey an or
this wuz the time. He wanted ~,
Post Offs from the time he VIM :,
years old. without my intooenoo
sed he, "the Liberal Republican W..
in this visinity willl be nothin, 7 q.
hold that vote in the holler NV nv bani
Kin hev that offs 2"
1 he'd taken two drinks while talr.
to him and, wuz oblivius of evervtb;n.
that preceded it. l replied that :.
course we ccodn't make promises nov
but that he shood rest easy. felt ~,
there would be nothing in the wav =.
his appointment the mint the Farm,
NV Chappaqua should be inoggereotaj l.
"But, sir, the Liberal Republican vo.,
must all be out; we shell hold VOC -
sponsible for it.
Trust me-" sed he, with a look n,
gladness on his hungry face which
never saw exalted; and he took h,
leave, and took two more drinks,
Skasely he'd Perkins disappears
afore another cam, VINO announced he
self ez Mr. Eli Matchitt. Matchi:t No
markt that he rejoiced at the NOV
ment wich led to the nominashen NV
Mr. Greeley at Cincinnati He had d,
luz acted with the Republican party
but the offs seekin tendency Nv H.
members thereof he'd disgustad him
and he he'd determined to quit it. H.
he'd inflooence. He controlled the Jib.
eral Republican vote-in fact he held !,
in the holler Nv his hand, and without
his infooence nothing Good be dom
with it. But he he'd made sacrj.
fees. He was an unsuccessful an.
plicant for the Assessorship in 1861
and again in 1865. President johnson
wuz pleased to give it to him, but he
WIZ removed by the merceless tyrant
Grant, in 1869, and one of his minions
appointed in his place. He had sed at
times that he would accept the post.
offs, eff it was rendered him, and ez
sum slight acknowledgment NV services
in controllin the Liberal Republican
vote he should expect it. In case the
good Greeley is elected, kin l hev it
We drank, and forgettin' all about
Perkins, l replied promptly that. nv
course, no positive promises Good be
made at SO early date, but / Good say
frankly that there coodn't be any doubt
oh nd Nat L.
leave, thankin' me profoosly, and prom
ISM that the Liberal Republican vote,
which he controld, shood be out.
| then took several drinks by myself
2
How l got the train that mite or wat
TRANSFERRED know not. | hev an indis.
tinct idee Nv hevin' mob NV men il
my room, and NV much drinkin'. SUI.
flee it to say, l woke on the cars, and
found myself some hours after m New
York, and then back to my quarters at
Chappaqua.
Ten days after received four letters.
Three NV them WIZ from MesSrs Slod-
gers, Perkins and Matchitt, each re-
proachin me with doopliclty in promis.
III the Post Office to the two Others, and
each ashoorin me that he alone control
led the Liberal Republican vote Nv the
county. The other wuz from the land
lord, inclosin. bill for busted
furnitoor, and Stain likewise
that 1 he'd made an ass nv
myself, ez the only Libral Republicans
there wuz in the county wuz Slodgers,
Matchitt and Perkins, and that they
wuz Nv that pekoolyer stripe that the
Republicans rejoist more feryently
when they left the party than they did
over their success in North Carolina
l must quit either liker or politics.
They don't work well together
PETROLEUM v NAsBY,
(Which wuz Postmaster, and hopes to
be agin.)