Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
Massey.
MIR. Nasty Makes a Final Appeal to
the States Holding Elections this
BEET STAsHUN.
A. N &c - tLn C,,ta ~ Ii1Inny
(Which is in the State nv Illinoy,)
October q, 1878.

very poor success. Inc hCf q
most disgustin habit of payin no atten,
shun watever to my appeals-in fact, eff
they motifs them at all, it is generally to
go and do percisely the opposite Nv what
want 'em to do But Pm goin for EN- agin.
Men and brethren! only about two
weeks elapse afore the eleckshuns take
place in several Nv the States, and in
November the balance Nv EN- hist their
ballots The question witch put to 700
is, how are 700 goin to discharge this
momenchus dooty?
| implore 700 ez 700 love yoor country
to restore to power the anshent Democ-
racy, for witch l urge The following rea-
sons:
1st. The Democratic party is an honest
party-that is so far Ell the Nashnel Treas
ury is concerned. Sence 1861 the Demo
cratic party hez no robberies Nv the Nash
mel Treasury to answer for, onless it may
be q few millions doOrin that oasis,
Androo Johnson's administrator. Our
hands hev bin clean for twelve years
and our pockets likewise Eff 700 ask us
achu our hands are clean-I shell refooZe
to anser Eff 700 remark that we haint
stole nothin COZ we didn't hev chance,
| shell pint proudly to the fact that for
twelve years-ceptin doorin Johnson's
administrashen-our hands hez bin clean,
ez the party nv purity.
2. In the Democratic party there kin be
no starvashen for the want Nv prinsiples.
We hev the largest stock Nv prinsiples
and the most diverse that wuz ever offered
by any party since parties WIZ Invented.
We kin accommodate the most fastidyus
and SCOT any taste. To the farmer NV Hi
nov and Iowa, who is sutfrin from the eX-
tOrshen NV railroads, we hev SIGH sympa-
thiZers with labor ez Ignashus Donnelly,
and me, who extend our callused hands
and iine with EN-, in the name Nv Dimoc-
risy, in demandin relief from the monop-
olies witch is catin EN- up. In Moo York
and the East, Wher we are somewhat in
terested in railroads, we offer the people
Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and me, who hev
no hesitashen in sayin that, ez railroads is
the very foundation Nv the prosperity NV
the country, he who wood lift his hand
agin EN- is an Agrarian disturber. We
offer the farmers Nv the West free trade
with our rite hand, and the manufacturers
Nv Moo England and Pennsylvania high
protective tariff with our left. We accept
niger suffrage III the North and damn it
in the South, doin both with a vehemence
that sometimes surpriZes me. In Moo
York we demand addshnel banks-in the
West we want hard money--on the lakes
and rivers we alluz will demand internal
improvements by the general government
on the broad prairies we denounce any
sich swindlin NV the people at large to
build up pertiklar seckshuns.
In short, like a secondhand clothin
store, we hev an assortment Nv everything,
witch enables everybody to pick out eggs
aCtly wot scots him.
Doth the capchus critic observe that
there is a lOosenis in this? Not at all.
Eff A. B. wants to 90 to the Legislacher
or be County Treasurer, it is A. BIS bizi-
ness TO assertane wOt the people believe,
and then perceCd to immejity bleeve it
hisself. That's wot A. b. wants to do
And that's wot we are goin to do. We
want to go to the Legislacher in Ohio to
elect Thurman to the SENT, and in the
other States we want the offices, and the
fust dooty we owe to ourselves is to find
out how to accomplish them ends.
We can't afford any other polisv. We
hCv bin eatin grass too long. We hev
ben in the Nebuckhednezzer biziness too
long. We want the oats and corn of the
public .b--we want to hcv and hold Off
SEES | want the PostOflis at the Corners
agin. Captain McPelter wants to be AS
SCISSOR, and Issaker Gavitt, Collector. Bas-
com desires this, that once more he kin
hev money paid him for the likker we
drink, insted NV being compelled to hear
day after day the disgustin sound, "chalk
it down" Sence we wuz put out ov them
places by the tyrant Grant, that mans out
lay for chalk hez been fearful.
The time hez come for change in the
administrative NV public affairs We
want a complete, sweepin change We
want Reform-that's what we want.
Boss Tweed says so, and SO does John
MOrissey, Oakley Hall and Lew Campbell
We want purity in place-ef 700 don't
believe it ask eny one nv the crowd that
went out with Johnson. DOolittle, Nv
Wisconsin, wants no more rings. Dick
Connolly insists on putin down cOrrup
shun, and Donnelly, Nv MinnesC- y, de
mands that the Augean stables smell be
cleaned.
En- for me, there must be a change in
the Post-otfs at the Corners, or our liber
ties will be endangered. | don't deny
that niger Lubbock runs the Post-offis a
the Corners TO the satisfaction Nv the
people who get mail matter there, but
do deny that the emoluments Nv helplacC
are properly placed. That niger is put
tin his salary into a house for himself
while Bascom IS languishin for the none,
i shood spend with him ef | had the
place. Is it to continue thus?
Men and brethren, hev pity on us. Fo
twelve long years we hev supt sorrer, slep
on stones, breakfasted on woe, and dine,
on greet. We hev gone down from ole
whiskey TO new, from new to alkohOl di
looted, and there is danger NV our gettil
down tfneally to coal oil raw. We asl
700 TO lift lis out. Give us a show L
The counties where the democracy hev
tickit vote for it. In counties where III
thing is runnin independentvote the indie
pendent ticket. All roads from the Rl
publican camp leads to ours. Come owe
and help us! Help us to carry the elecb
shuns this fall that we may hey suthin t
90 on in the next Presidenshl eleckshull
Then shell every sloon keeper in the cour
try rise up and call 700 blessed. and s
shell all the noble army who have wcpt an
refoozed to be comfortid They hev stoo
over agin the supplies ill they hey bee
redooSt to mere shadders, and littl
while more w it will finish en- Come II
and save EN-. May the hearts Of the pee
pie be fetched. PETROLEUM V. Massey.
(Which WIZ poStmaster)