The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-27

there mite be no mistake ez to feelin thel
callous spots on hiz labor hardened hands.
| then he'd him git out in the sun two hour
each day, with hiz face upturned, till he be
come Drowned by exposure to the elemence
| after wich he'd badly SCOT nv clos
made for him, that the people mite feel tha
he he'd attempted to dress up on their account
but that, after all, he wuzn't accustomed Il
so much grandyer.
Then came the most difficult part nv tho out
fttin biznis, wich wuz to instruct him in wa
he shood say, but succeeded. charged hin
espeshelly that he shood never msns6un pol
htix (ceptin that he mite now and then how
mildly suthin about the era nv good feelin)
and shood be speshely keerful to dodge ii
them pints out Nv wich offence mite come
THE toor," remarkt, is to be one nv sen
tlment. We are on pilgrimage to the toomi
Nv our ancestors; we are goin to revisit the
remembrances nv our youthful days and sich
| and 1t must be confined strikly to that. ! hev
| arranged with our committees on the route tC
organize for spontaneous outpoilrin nv the
people TO receive 700. and 700 must speek to
EN- at each stoppin-place. Iwood recommend
that your responses to the greetins be mostly
alloosions to the grandyer nv the mountini
and the purity nv the air and water, and. abovs
all, don't forgit the mother biznis., Ef You
Good ring in verbal pikter nv yoor mother
yearnin for nooze Nv her absent son, it wood
hev . good effect. Yoo needn't trOt out yoor
father, for fathers is played out. It's the
mother that teches the popular heart. And
yoo must git yoor eyes in condishen to drop q
sympathizin teer or two Of occashen demands.
1 hev done good things before now by Weepin
perfoosely at the rite time" j
Thus prepared, the fsrmer-statesman left
the classic shades nv Chappaqua.
The mint the procession he'd started onto
its teor, packt my valise with . bottle, snd
possibly shirt or two (tho RELY forgit about
the latter, payin so little attenshun ez do to
the mere Injuries nv life), and started for an
speech last year. and consekently knowed
all the principal Demokrats. put up At the
old familysr tavern, where the ticket knowod
to be good. he'd barely time to hist in three
or four elugs afore it wuz noised abroad that
1 wuz there. In twenty minits . person ap-
peared to interview me. He interdooet his
self ez Mr.. Sl0dgers, o Liberal Repubikin,
Horace. / askt him to drink, wich he did,
and then went on. He uuz disguised with tho
corruption and rascality NV the Republican
party, and felt that he must leave It. He
wanted purity-he yearned for . return to
suthin beside off1ce-seekin. Hence he he'd de-
cided to support Greeley. But, !" resumed
he, II hev made sacn6ces in this, and I must
uct bSuOOItuc6e. WuZ al uObuCC0o6lul SP-
plicant for the Post Odis in this village under
Linkin, in 1861 then agin in 1865. I succeed
ed in gitten 1t nv johnson IN 1856, whom the
then incumbent wuz dismist, and held it till
April, 1869, when the tyrant Grant dismissed
me and reappinted my predecessor, and left
me to lAnguish all these years without ofishel
position, and to subsist on the petty earnins
nv my wife, wicb is . milliner: Ef Horis I.
elected, kin I hev that offs? kin control
the Liberal vote NV this county, sir. hold II
in the holier Nv my hand"
"Say no more, SIR" sed I. 81 fully spprc-
shiate yoor poeishen. Nv course kin make
no positive promise; but 1t is safe to say, sir,
that the posishen shel be yoors. But thai
Ltral Republican vote, sir, must be all polled
We shel hold 700 responsible for It"
He left the presence pr0fooSe nv thauks
and took four more drinks, hand-funnin.
Mr.. Slodgers hedn't any more than got ou
when another citizen entered and announced
hisself ez Libral Republikin, wich his namt
| wuz Perkins. He wanted to be understood, Il
begin with, ez holdin the Libral RepublikeI
| vote In his hand. He Good control it. With
out his aid nothin Good be done with it. IL
created it. and he held it to-day. But he hei
made sacrifices. He he'd bin . candidate fol
| Treasurer nv the county reglerly from 1855 X
date; but he'd alluz bin defeated-by fraud
| The last time he wuz defeated-by fraud-ht
| hedn't but two votes in the county convention
his uncle and brother-in-law. He wuI dis
| gusted with the offis-seekin party, but Good h
| be sshoored Nv the Post Offs in the event n
Greeley's elecsken? He felt that Of he eve
| wuz agoln to hev an offs this wuz the time
He wanted that Post Offs from the time b.
wuz twenty-one years old. without my IN
fooence," sed he, "the Libral Republican il
this visinity will be nothin. l, sir, hold tina
vote in the holler nv my hand Kin hev tha
| oeas2"
/ A~tl A. =
| and wuz oblivius nv everything that precede
it. Ireplied that nv course ve coodn't max
promises now, but that he shood rest easy.
felt that there wood be nothin in the way u
his appintment the minnit the Farmer nv Chap
paaus shood be inoggerated. " But, sir, tn
Libral Republican vote must al be out; VI
shell hold yoo responsible for it."
"Trust me-" sed he. with look nv glad
ness on his hungry face wich never sav
exalted and he took his leave, and took tw
more drinks.
Skasely he'd Perkins disappeared afore N
other cum, who announst hisself ez Mr.. E
Matchitt Matchitt remarkt that he rejoice
at the movement wich led to the nominashe
nv Mr.. Greeley at Cincinnati. He he'd allu
acted with the Republican party, but the oi6i
seekin tendency nv the members thereof he
disgusted him. and he he'd determined to qu
it. He he'd infiooence. He controlled tho Lii
raj Republican vote-in fact, he held it in tn
holler NV his hand, and without his infeoenc
nothin Good be done with it. But he he'd mad
sacrifices. He wuz an unsuccessful applican
for the Assessorship in 1861, and agin
1865. President johnson wuz pleased to CIV
it to him, but he wuz removed BY the merc
less tyrant, Grant, in 1863, and one Nv h
| minions appointed in his place. He he'd Be
at times that he wood accept the Post Oh
ef it wuz rendered him, and ez some slite .
acknowledgement nv his services in contro1i
J the Libral Republican vote he shood expe
it. ain case the good Greeley is elected, X
: hev it ?"
We drank, and forgettin all about Perkins
replied promptly that, NV course, no positi
! promises Good be made at so early date, b
I Good say frankly that there coodent be a
doubt about it. And Mr.. Matchitt took
leave thankin me profoosely, and promil
, that the Libral Republikin vote, wich he co
trold, shood be out.
then took several drinks by myself.
How l got to the train that mite, or '
transpired, know not, hev IN indistil
idee NV hevin mob NV men in my room, q
the cars, and found myself some hours af
in New York, and then back to my quarters
Ten DAYS after / received four letters. Tn
e nv EN- wuz from Messrs. Slodgers, Pork
and Matchitt, each reproaohin mo with d
plicity in promisin the Post Ofis to the I
others, and each ashoorin me that he slt
controid the Lbral Rspublkin vote NV
county. The other wuz from tho iandlc
enclosin bill for busted furnitoor, and Sta
likewise that he'd made an ASS Nv myself,
T. the only Libral Rapublikins there wux In
10 county wuz Slodgers, Matchitt and Perki
,r and that they wuz nv that pekoolyer str
Q, that the Republikins rejoist more ferver
T. when they left the party than they did o
ID their success in North Carolina, must Z
D. either likker or politics. They don't "
n. well together.
TX (Wich wuz Postmaster, and hopes to be g
ID The Race for the White House.
N The nomin.tio for President {