Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-09-04

| TIC uouUicS WlCu Tue peTuOOSerS are Ia
brln under, that we hold meetins per-
petooly IN the room back Nv the bar Nv
the jackson Hotel, to consider EN-.
The leedin sperit among us, aside from
| me, is a veteran svmpathizer with labor,
witch his name is Pettus. Abslum Pettus
Wuz originally a shoemaker, but early in
lite developed talent for holdin offs
| lie wuz elected Sheriff the county, and
| the bench witch knQWd him wunst imme-
Jltly knowd him no more forever. There
| wuZ some difficulty about some collek-
shuns witch he made, witch wuz esteemed
OF sufficient importance to prevent his
bein re-nominated, and like Nebuchadnez-
Ear, he wuZ turned out to the thin grass
Nv privit life for years. which time he
spent prinsipally ornamentin corner gro
ceries, and abusin society, witch didn't rec
ognize him, earnin a livin by collecting
the bills for his wife's dress-making estab-
llshment, to witch, when biznis wuz dull,
he added laundry. President Linkin
Wuz lndoost by the citizens Nv the Station
to appint him Collector the sed citizens
valnly lmaginin that eff lie he'd a good fat
thing he mite possibly pay his debts. Ez
everybody he owed signed his applica-
shun for the appointment he he'd the
longest list Nv names that ever went out Nv
that village. He cOntinyood in offs doorin
Johnson's administrator, heyin come to
the conclooshen that Johnson's policy
was correct, jest after that CRATE man mott
fed him that he should chop off the head
NV eny otiishul that didn't But Grant
BUSTED HIM, sence witch time he hes bin a
| consistent Democrat and lover NV the
labrin classes. He hez seen close times
sence-Often hez he bin without the mes
saries Nv life, for his wife is gettin ad-
| co1
every day. Mr. Pettus goes into the
movement agin oppressive monopolies
and SIGH, with all his heart, sole, body and
strength. He bleeves in the nobility Nv
labor-he holds that labor hez rot its
proper reward, and ez for his part he will
enter into croosade agin the bloated
monopolists, and in behalf of the horny
handed agriculIoorists of the country.
with all the zeal Nv his trooly fervd ma
cher. One Nv the most tetchin sites in
nacher is TO see Pettus eanin on bar.
and dIscoursin on the grandjer Nv labor
lie SEE that if the farmers the hard
handed labrin masses of his county want
a candidate for Auditor who loathes and
hates the Oppresshun NV labor, in what
ever form 1t may come, he is their man.
Mr.. Samuel Blather is another one Nv
the hard-handed who is with US He is a
Democrat in politics, and alluz hez bin.
lie hez dIskivered that the farmers are
groGnln under a desputism He don't
own no farm hisself, nor he don't buy nor
sell any prodoOSe, nor anything else, nor
heZ he any pertikeler dismiss, but he feels
there is an incubus WITCH ways onto the
labrin man, and, for one, he feels like
putin his shoulder to the wheel and
histin 1t. He expecks to be the Demo
cratic candidate for County Recorder, and
II the farmers know their 1riends-ef they
they only kin be brought to recognize
t them whose harts beet responsive to
theirn, and put him in their
ticket, he hez soft thing NV it. He
KIN truly say that he never laid under a
tree, seem the hard handed victim Nv mo-
nopoly sweatin under his ill-requited
toll, without teelin for him, and his buZ-
yum heeves ez he thinks NV the opportu-
nifty he hez now to champion that class.
He SEE he is the best man for Recorder in
the county.
Mr.. Cephas BilIins holds that the only
refuge the farmers hey is in the buzzum
NV the Democratic party-that's where
they want to 90. He feels in his sole that
they are opprest. He Amt Jest shoor ez
he knows wat Their wrongs is, but he per
soomed it he'd suthin TO do with mon0po
lies or suthin Nv that sort but watever it
wuZ he stands ready to denounce it, Let
us, he sed, organize Grange, to NyUnst
and when 1t comes to the elccshun let us
see eff the bloated Republican party shood
longer ride on the backs of honest work
inmen-the hard handed agrcultoorists.
Last week we held a meetn in the back
room, and resolved ourselves into a
Grange, with Pettus, Blather, Billins and
myself ez the prinsiple oflisers Hevin
thus got the organiZashen all safe, and in
| ,uJ,C a. i,
farmers of the county to come in and line
| urged EN- to let the farmers organize it,
but my co-laborers declined They sed
they preferred to make certain that the
organizashen shood be in the hands Nv the
troo friends NV the labrin classes. They
didn't care to take any chances
We hey assoOmed a costoom in accord
ance with our new agricultooral deparch-
er. We hev heavy stogy boots, bloc over
hauls tucked into EN-, hickory shirts, and
broad brimmcd chip-hats We each Nv us
c.rry a back-snake whip, instead Nv a
cane, and sprinkle hay-seed in our hair
every morning. BlatheI is 50 enthoOsias-
tic that he daubS clay on his boots every
morning, and Billins took whet-stun and
rubbed the inside nv his hands three DAYS
lndustriously to get up a satisfactory cal
lus. We address each other eZ Farmer
Billins, Farmer Blathcr, Farmer Pettus.
and Farmer Nasty, and our conversation
is principally about agricultooral matters.
The other cusSes have more Zeel, however,
than diScreshun in this direcksun Bill
Inns wuz out in the country with Us, and
looking wise ez he passed field of wheat.
sed that them wuz the best loolin winter
oats he he'd ever seen, and he wondered
whether the farmers Nv that section plant
ed corn yet in October. He he'd found it
better to sub-soil it in September, so e. to
give it a good start to prevent winter
KILN.
| woodent hey he'd an actooal farmer
heard this idiocy for q small postOflis.
And | hev other troubles with 'em Pet
tus wuz agoin out to address a Grange in
cow-hide boots check shirt and oyerhauls,
ez simple plain farmer an unostenta-
shuS son Nv toil-with diamond ring on
his little finger | hey to watch him and
make him take it off and put it in his vest
pocket atore he begins to speak.
But while this advencher hez It's draw
baX, it IL after all ez pleasant ez anything
| hcv he'd. Drinks furnished gratuitus
by the Democratic Central Committee,
and board likewise, for ez we hev only a
Republican majority nv 200 to overcome
In the county, they think the chances war
rant some eXpenditoor. | shell stay here
| and run this Campane, in the interest of