Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-30
MASSEY.
Mr.. Nasby Makes a Final Ap-
peal to the States Holding
Elections this Fall.

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peal to the States Holding
Elections this Fall.
BEET SrAsHUN, (Which is in the State
Nv nlinoy), October A, ls73.-I hev APP
pealed to the people great many times
in my day, generally with very poor
success. The people hev most dis
gustin habit of paying no attenshun
watever to my appeals-in fact, of they
notis them at all, it is generally to GO
and do percisely the opposite NV what i
want 'em to do. But Pm goin for 'em
agin.
Men and brethreni only about two
weeks elapse afore the eleekshuns take
place in several NV the States, and in
November the balance NV EN- hist their
ballots. The question wich 1 put to
yoo is, how are 700 goin to discharge
this momenchus dooty?
implere yoo ez yoo luv yoor country
to restore to power the anshent Democ-
racy, for wich 1 urge the following
reasons:
1st. The Democratic party is an hon.
est party-that is so far ez the Nashnel
Treasury is concerned. Sence 1861 the
Democratic party hez no robberies NV
the Nashnel Treasury to anser for, on
less it may be few millions doorin
that oasis, AndroO Johnson's admins
tration. Our hands hev bin clean for
twelve years--and our pockets likewise.
Eff 700 ask us why our hands are clean
4 shel refooze to anser. Eff yoo re-
mark that we hain't nothin coz We did
not hev chance, l shell pint proudly to
the fact that for twelve years-ceptin
doorin Johnson's administration-our
hands hez bin clean, and shel demand
that we be recognized ez the party nv
purity.
2. In the Democratic party there kin
be no starvashun for the want Nv prin-
ciples. We hev the largest stock NV
principles and the most divurse that wuz
ever offered by any party since parties
wuz invented. We kin accommodate
the most fastidyus, and SCOT any taste.
To the farmer of Illinoy aad Iowa. who
is suffrin from the extorshen NV rail-
roads, we hev such sympathisers with
labor as Ignashus Donnelly and me,
who extended our callused hands, and
line with 'em in the name NV Dimocrasy
| in demandin relief from the monopolies
which is eaten em up. In Mo- York
and the east, wher we are somewhat in
terested in railroads, we offer the peo-
pie Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and me, who
have no hesitashen in saying that, ez
railroads is the very foundation NV the
prosperity NV the country, he who wood
lift his hand agin em 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 nigger suf-
frage in the North, and damn it in the
South, doing both with a yehemence
that sometimes surprizes me. In Moo
York we demand addishnel 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 such swindle NV the peo-
pie at large to build up pertiklar seek
shuns.
In short, like secondhand clothin
store, we hev an assortment NV every
thing, which enables everybody to pick
out eggsackly wot SCOT him.
Doth the capchus critic observe that
there is loosenis in this? Not at all
Eff A. B. wants to go to the Legislacher
or be County Treasurer, it is A. BIS.
bizness to assertane wot the people be-
leeve and then proceed to immejitly
bleeve it hisself. That's what A. B.
wants to do. And that is wot we are
goin to do. We want to go to The Leg
islacher in Ohio to elect Thurman to the
Senit, and in the ether States we want
the offises, and the frst dooty We owe
to ourselves is to find how to accom-
plish them ends.
We can't afford any other policy, We
hev bin eatin grass too long. We hev
bin in the Nebuckhednezzer bizness too
long. We want the oats and corn of the
public crib-we want to have and hold
offises. want the Postoffis at the Cor
ners agin. Capt. McPolfer wants to be
Assessor and Issaker Gavitt Collector.
Bescom desires this, that once more kin
hev money paid him for the likker we
drink, instead NV being compelled to
hear day after day the disgustin sound,
"chalk it down." Sence we wuz put
out NV them places by the tyrant Grant
that mans outlay for chalk haz bin
feerful. .-..-.....
Ez for, me, there must be change
in the postofflce at the Corners, or our
liberties will be endangered. 1 don't
deny that nigger Lubbock runs the
Postoffis at the Corners 20 the satisfac-
ton Nv the people who get mail matter
there but do deny that the emoluments
NV the place or properly placed. That
nigger is putin his salary into a house
for himself, while Bascom is languishin
for the money / shood spend with him
efI he'd the place. Is it to continue
thus?
Men and brethren, ,hev pity on us. Fol
twelve long years we hev supt sorror
slept on stones, breakfasted on woe and
dined on greet. We hev gone down
from old whisky to new, from new tt
alkohol dilooted, and there is danger NV
our gettin' down finally to coal oil raw
We ask you to lift US out. Give us {
show. In the counties were the Dem
ocracy hev ticket vote for it. In coun'
ties where the thing is runnin' indepen
dent vote the independent ticket. Al
roads from the Republican camp lead
to ours. Come over and help us! Hell
us to carry the eleckshuns this fall tha
we may hev suthin to go on in the mex
Presidenshel eleckshun. Then she
every sloon keeper in the country ris
up and call you blessed, and so shel al
the noble army who hev wept and re
I foozed to be couforted. They hev stool
over agin the supplies till they hev beeI
redoost to mere shaddsrs, and a litti
while more nv IL will finish EN-, Com