The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-04-11

II any taxpayer gotsup on lis musslo
and finds fault about the new o0iscrs,
he is greeted with cries of:
"Shame ON ye Aman haint no man
at all who don't go in for Reform
Things has got to such pass, that
oven the Skeensboro Dominy, in giyin'
out the him last Sunday mornin', open
cd the services with:
81 want to be Reformer,
And with Rsformers share;
And hold an offs all my life.
And at the old Ring swear"
Things, 1 say, has got to pooty pass,
and no dodgin' it.
All the tavern and saloon keepers have
labeled their Gin-bottles "R,3orm Gm,"
and people who wouldn't drink any
thing afore, guzzle down Reform Gin by
the bucket full.
Everything and everybody, has been
impregnated with Reform, includin' all
the old mados and strong minded vim
min Of the "Skeesboro Soro-Eye-&ss
Society" and the Reform goose hangs
suspended very lofty.
Durin' the Expose Of tho doins of the
old olliscrs bills for 60 hog-troughs that
had been furnished tho village for ahc
public pound was found
The commltty diskivorod only throo
in the pound yard, the rest bcin' in the
pig-pens of the village oflisers
But as big as this ere fraud was of the
Ring, it has been nocked into the middle
of next week by the Reformcrs each
having hog-pen bilt in their barn.
yards, givin' it as an excuse "that it is a
Reform movem ,nt, each of the new Off
sers takin' it upon themselves to keep n
pound for public purposes, and save the
expense of u public pound, by Smllim' a
deU onto the village for over so Hog
pens"
Said one Of the head Reformers to
me:
esquire Green, what is your opinion
of that noble band OF Reformers which
I represent? Don't you think that we
is doin' n public scrvico?"
Soz I, putin on one Of my magis-
terial gazes on to me-
"Sirl Reform is a big thing, and no
mistake in it. The public has been
robbed by disonest offis-holders, ontil
when person has ceased to bo u pa
tient, he has seized to be virtoas AS
remark, we need Reform, and can stand
a heep on it, if it will wash But, Sir
allow an old statesman, which has served
his country in magisterial capacity for
4 yeers, to remark, if Joodas Iscariot
had only trumped up sich lot of Re-
formers as we have got heer in Skeens-
boro, I'm q tee-pot, if his crime woodent
have been handed down to us as q great
achievement of honor, compared with
Reformers. No, sir !" said 1, waxin' elo-
kent, as in the days when ! was Justiss
and used to charge Jeweries 81 haint
agin Reform, if the rite sort but When
she comes to us in sleeps clothin, so tc
speek, Excoose me, if l don't take hel
to my buzzum. Jumpin' out Of the
fryin' pan into the fire haint my bes
holt, not by n darn site, sir! not by {
darn site"
And that ere reformer got up and lef
my presents as suddent as if he had 80
down hard onto handful of Nitro
Gleserine.
Reform heer haint 30 poplar as it was
not by 40 rows of 0pple-trees.
But the last Gum Game caps the eli
max.
Some Of the Reformers are tryin' t,
reorganize the Skeensboro Robmany So
siety, by electin new Ofisers and putin
ON Reform men.
The inhabitants of the internal re
gions mite stick some body else in tn
place of Old Solferino, to WELD the pitc
, fork ; but between you and me, the
, couldn't ever alter the climate enuff S
as to change their summer close fc
| over cotes, not if this Ex-Court nos
. itself.
, That's what ales the foregoin' sosiet,
5 In conclusion, wood say that yo
t can "Set thief TO catch thief, but
you want to reform an offiis-holde