The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-04
LOUIS BRIX.
HE DISCUSSES THE RESIDENTIAL
QUESTION.
HOW THE REPUBLICANS TAKE
DOWN THE PHILOSOPHER
AND HOW THE DEMOCRATS
SWALLOW HIM.

GRANVILLE, ID. G., May 25, 1872
It's amazin' what difference there Is
in cussin' and discussin' things. Now,
can just set down with a copy of Greeley
hangin on the wall before Inc and cuss
him and all the fellers that support him,
by the hour and never stop Tor breath.
And when I get to thinkin' how they've
been and split up the party, get fuller
OF dams than q country mill stream. II
cussin things would cure em, Id have
everything all fixed up inside of twenty
four hours.
Filled with virtuous Indignation, after
readin Greeley's letter a acceptin' the
nomination, this mornin', went out to do
a little promiscuous cussin' about Greeley
in particular and the Cincinnati platform
in general. Meetin man who knowed
to be an old republican, opened out with
a broadside against Greeley and every
Teller what supports him. / hadn't
more'n got fairly warmed up when he
said he was the wrong mamie was
another feller-he was for Greeley.
After recoverin' my breath l said to
him:
"Can you call yourself genuine repub-
lican and support that fanatical old fool,
who don't know nothin' but all about
farmin'?n
He said, "Seein's Greeley's the founder
OF the republican party, 1 think l can.
When 1t comes down to genuine republi.
can.sm, Greeley's right there"
But he's splittin' the Republican party
all to pieces, and a man amt good
Republican what would bust up his
own party"
IL don't see as he's splitting it any
more than Grant. He was nominated
by Republicans, and has just as good a
right to head the Republican ticket as any
other man in the party. He's the first
man in the field, and those Republicans
who won't support him are nothin' more
nor less than boilers"
mo such darned thing, he was nom
mated by lot Of boltin' politicians and
nobody but Grant has any right to run for
President. That thing was fxed long ago.
Look here, my friend, there's no use in
getting excited. As there amt been any
Republican convention except at
Cincinnati, can't SEQ what there was to
bolt from. don't know as Grant owns
the party"
~ don't care, you're all an Internal set
of bolters-you and Schurz and Trumbull
and Sumner, and the whole Of YOU.
You're bound Grant shan't be president,
and you're in cahoots with the democrats
to beat him."
"Well, we are bound Grant shan't dis.
grace the party and the country any more
with his bull-pups and horses, and if
the democrats are mind to help us beat
him, we'll accept their aid and thank EN-
for it,,
but Greeley bailed that old traitor
JEFF. DavsW
well, that amt any worse than Grants
appointln' that old traitor Longstreet, TO
office, and pardonin' Moseby, the guer-
"But Greeley can't write SOS YOU can
read it,"
"And Grant can't talk SOS you can un.
derstand him.
Somehow or other did mt seem TO be
maxim anything a discussin' the question
with him, he was so cussed obstinate. so |
LETT him alone in his folly. He ought to
have been ashamed Of himself and a hung
his head when l rebuked him, but he
wasn't, and he looked me right square in
The eye just AS if he thought he was right,
When teller gets SO hardened AS that.
there amt any use oftalkin' with him.
CON up street cussin the obstinacy of
Greeley Republicans, met an old Demo-
crat, when jokingly saluted with
How are you, Greeley"
"Thems me, says he.
What, you Amt goin' for Greeley ~
"Thats my ticket"
"Why, he's Republican I"
"Guess he's as much of "A Democrat ms
Grant was Republican when you fellers
took HIM up"
But you've been cussin him so many
years, how can you take him up now ~
Guess we're about even on the cussin'
business, and if he can stomach a demo-
ratio platform, we ought TO swallow re-
publican candidate. And from the way
iou fellers abuse him, guess he can't be
! very good republican"
But he's fanatical old fool and amt
1t TO be president"
"lf we're rs long In bein' convinced of
hat fact ms you've been, it'll be a good
while after the election"
You fellers are a devilish set OF fools ,
% 70 and vote for Greeley, when you
'ou'a run IN man of your own"
And you fellers will be bigger fools ,
!. you run the chance Of bein defeated
by nominatin' Grant, when you could /
, ae e. a s'raight.out republican like Gree