Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-12-05
Bill Arp ON the Collapse.

As the poet sed s'ile agony is over.''--
Them cards in the sleeve would hav beat any
honest hand. Bes i-des, as Thomp Allan
would say, we played badly. Baltimore
Convention, and O'Conor and Alex Stevens
and a limited supply of votes has beat US.
Well, we still live. lin not gnin to be bad
about it. Old Greeley amt no Kin to me.
Grant amt neither, ard that's whats the mat
ter. talked tor Greeley and writ tor him,
and voted for him. but never did bunker
after him. Il made such All ever astin fuss
ia my tsmily had like to run away. Yaal
see Mrs. Arp wasent rekonsiled. She were
strait, and when she aint rekonsiled things
aint as plassid as silver lake around my
house. don't mean tTsat times Il hot Or e.
perate, but to say The least OF it they are pc
kuliar. A man likes to has lis bed and
wife was strait it dident become me to be
very crooked. And i want--at home. Shes
a good oman and shell endure eyerytli, 4
and not grunt nor groan, but she wont COM
permise worth a cent. told her had no
pertikler use TOR Greeley and that he was a
dame old infatayated bumbug, but thar .onr
poper belonged to the great nntcrryfid,, un-
satisfide, transmogrifide Democratic party
and must Keep into line. She sed some re-
marks about papers tyjn by the day and by
the week and about sell respect and inae-
,pendence and the like, and / grew meek like
Moses in few minutes. The fact is I'm i
meek man. I've laid awake OF nights a ru-
minatin how meek was.
Mrs. Arp thinks the paper ought to take
tstruth'' for motto and work up to 1t. I
told her 1t would be a dangerous experiment.
but size says it has never been tried yet. II
wasnet afcerd the little Arps would perish
to leto durin the experiment would try it,.
Old Shanks says we can't be wsrsted foy he
has tride lyin for 20 years and 1t wont pxy.
lie said it would be m episode In the press
a.kurosity, something like elephants or an
ekiipse or John Robssons circus. He says
sometimes paper sukseetls by lying, like
the New York Herald ana the Tribune and
Forney's paper. but it has to be well backed.
The Herald has got SO now il can quit par
fy and set back in a cheer and the truth i'm
hits old age like an Old speculator who
has made 4 tortune by cheatin and ryin and
then puts hie money in stox and retlres. He
says that political papers lie from 80 per cent
down to 10 and that Forney is the only edl-
tor who ever went fun up to 100 and kept
it there.
Well, now that Grant has get iii. don't
see any necessity OF rnnnin the Commercial
at high pressure. II all the lyin Issues amt
de1, they are past doctorin. Now is good
time to go to deyclopin the country. We
can raise children and chickens by the loco
in 4 years. Some Of our folks is 4 teIiin
around how the country could have been
saved. and all that. Old Shank thinks he
Old shank Is. He don't gas around. but jest
tells me privately, and asks me 10 say nolhin
about it. which I don't. But heard one
feller a goin it, and he said, Gentlemen, it
the people OF the South had have taken my
advice, this kalamity wou1dent have hap
pened. ! talked 70 EN-. and preached 70 rsn,
hut You might as well have tried TO stop y
Gawtalnaller hurricane with thinlbie full Of
sulphursttcd hydrogen gas.
Well, j don like his surt nor his gas. 4
don't do any good. The thing las happen
ed--tne dog IL ded. Grant sint agoin totake
away our bred, corn nor tobaker As tor 9
for a few little post Offices and tax collectors,
{ dident care anything about en-. Them
what's Qot en- needs em, reken. aud its
took power of low down hard work to get
em. ss sass
We've got all the State officers. from Coy.
smith down to the bottom, and I'm satisfied.
Hnrrai l0r old Georgyl
BILL. ARR. u
p. ST. remarked to-day ina crowd: We
ARE nation Of thieves" and an ofiisholdsr
slipped up t, me and whispered, Call no
names, Bill; call no names. Thars some
thing wrong about TINT man. 3D. I.
When tie rain falls, does it ever rise agains
Yes, in dess time.