The Portland daily press., 1873-09-01
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crat in politics, and aluz hez bin. He hez
diskivered that the farmers are groanin under
a desputsm. He don't own no farm hisself
nor he don't buy nor II any prodoose nor
anything else, nor hez he eny pertikeler bizi-
Miss, but he teels there is an incumbus wich
ways onto the labrin man, and for one, he
feels like putin his shoulder to the wheel
and histin it. He expecks to be the Demo-
cratic candidate ior County Recorder, and if
the farmers kpow their friel.ds- EFF they only
kin be brought TO recognize them whose harts
beet responsive 60 theirn, and put him on
their ticket he heZ a soft thing NV it. He kin
truly say that he never laid under tree, see
in the hard-handed victim NV monopoly
sweatn under his ill-requlted toll, without
feelin for him, and his buzzum heeves ~ he
thinks NV the opportunity he hez now to
champion that class. He says he is the best
man for Recorder in the county.
Mr.. Cephas Billins holds that the only ref
uge the farmers hev is the buzzum NV the
Democratic party-that's where they want
to 60. He feels in his sole they are opprest.
He ant jest shoor eZ he knows wat ther
wrongs is, but he PERSONNEL it he'd suthin to
do with mOnopoles or suthin NV that sort,
but watever it wuz he stands ready to de-
nounce it. Let us, he sed, organic Grange,
to wunst, and when it comes to the eiecshuu
let us see ef the bloaed Republican patty
shood ride ON the backs NV honest worl.in-
men-;he hard handed agricultOorists.
Last week we held meetin in the back
room, and resolved ourselves into a Grange,
with Pettus, Blather, Billii s, and myself ez
the pIinsiple ofisers. Hevin just got the Or
gauizashen all safe, and in proper handle, we
ishood an address to the farmers of the coun-
| try to come in and iine. | urged eli to let
the farmers olgan-ze it, but my co-laborers
| declined. They sed they preferred to make
| certain that The organizashun shood be in
| the hands NV the troo friends Nv the labrin
classes. They didn't care to take the chan
ces.
We hev assoomed costoom in accordance
with our new agricultooral deparcher. We
hev heavy stogy boots. bloc over-hauls tucked
into EN-, hickory shirts, and broad-5rimmed
chip-h hats. We each NV us carry black-snake
! whip, instead of a cain. and sprinkle hay-seed
in our hair every morning. Blather is so en-
tboosiastic that he daubs clay on his boots
every mornin, and Billins took whet-stun
and rubbed the inside NV his hands three days
industriously to get up satisfactory calus
We address each other ez Farmer Billlns- Far
mer B!ath-r, Farmer Pettus, and Farmer
Mas v, and our conversashun is principally
about agrcultooral matters. The other cusses
have more zeel however than discreshun in
this direckshun. Bi!lins wuZ out in the coun-
try with us, and looking wise ez he passed a
field of wheat sed that them wuz the best
lookn Winter oats he he'd ever seen, and he
wondered whether the farmers NV that section
planted corn yet in October. He he'd found
it better to sub-soil it in September, so ez to
give it a good start 60 prevent Winter-killing.
I wooden't hev he'd an actooal iarmer
| heard this idiocy for small postoffis. Aud
| hev other trubles with em. Pettus wuz agoin
out to address Grange in cow.hide boots,
| check shirt and over-hauls, ez a simple, plain
| farmer, an unostentashus son NV soil-with
dimuud ring on bis little finger. l hev to
watch him and make him take it off and put
| it in his vest pocket atore he begins 10 speak.
| But while this advencher hez its drawbax,
it is after all ez pleasant ez anything l hev
he'd. Drinks furnished gratuitous by the
Democratic Central Committee, and board
| likewise; for ez we hev only Republican
! majority NV 200 to overcome in the county,
they think the chances warrant some expen-
ditoor shel stay here and run this campane
| in the interest oflabor.
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