Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-26
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February 10, 1874.

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February 10, 1874. !
| hev bin anxshusly scannin the polit-
ickle horison thro the telescope NV hope,
to diskiver in the sky the bow Nv success.
| thot that at last my faithful search he'd
bin rewarded My rainbow was reflected
onto the clouds NV the immejt fucher by
the corrupshens Nv the leaders NV the Re
/ publikin party and the consekent dissatis-
fackshun NV the rank and file NV that
| organizashen. Good we only yoose this
ez a wedge to get that cuSsed party TO
split, and Good we hook one fackshun
onto our party, then we shood hev a clean
majority, and | woodent Civ ten cents to
be inshoored the Post Offs at the Cor
ners, which is the alpha and omega Nv
my hopes.
| heerd Nv one town in Ohio in witch
the Republicans he'd trouble on ther
hands, and, ez an experiment, | deter
mined to go there and see for myself
whether or no a coalshen Good be made
between the Democrisy and the ant-cor-
rupshen Republicans. | argood that eff
! it Good be done in one town it Good be
| done in thousand, for human nacher is
the same everywhere.
| preached the idea to Deacon Pogram
| (at whose house | hev bin visiting for
| three years) and to Bascom, who immejit-
! " figgered what the railroad fare would
| be, and they unanimously consented to.
| advance it, eff | would agree to stay away
| two weeks. These men are Citing TO be
disgustingly calkelatin.
But went, and found at New Babylon
the yoosual state Nv affairs.
There wuz there dozen Dimokrats
who never drank nothin, and who follered
| legitimit biznis. Then there wuz the
great mass Nv the party made up Nv the
doggery keepers, the doggery hunters
that vast mass to whom clean shirts is only
seen on twict in their lives viz.:--when
they are married and when they are buried.
| The Dimocrisy wuz in a minority OF per
haps fifty.
Two years ago the Republicans in Moo
Babylon had electid two rather scaly fell
lows with whom they he'd he'd trouble.
| The auditor and treasurer had been dis
kivered at connivin with contractors, and
the village he'd, between EN- all been
swindled out of about $400, Ez the Re
publikins had bin cussin the CreditMo-
| biier and Back-pay IN Congress uphill
and downdale, NV course, to be consistent,
they he'd to denounce corrupshen at home
with ekal vigor.
Becoz NV the misconduct NV these
offishels, large number of the Republi.
kins swore that the Republican party had
outlived its day, and that the time had
come to bust it and make new organiza-
shen, and they called upon wat they wuz
pleased to call the decent Democrisy TO
| unite with EN-.
Thompson, Brown, Jones and Smith,
| the decent Democrats Nv the village,
agreed with EN-, and Peoples Conven-
| shun wuZ called to nominate ticket on
the basis Nv reform, witch wuz to be sup
ported by the opponents Nv corrupshen,
irrespective Nv party.
1t wuz that convenshun | went to Moo
Babylon to attend.
The hall wuz crowdid. Immejitly Bill
Rag, witch kept the largest rum-mill in
the village, sprung to his feet and moved
that Lawyer Swipes, his cheefest Gus
toner, be made chairman, which wuz
carried. Then Johnny Tag, which keeps
another doggery, moved that Saml Bob
tale, his principal customer, be Secretary,
and that the Convention perceed imme-
| jitly to nominate ticket to be supported
| by all the citizen Nv New Babylon who
wuz opposed to corrupshen in the present
Administrator in village, State and the
General Government, witch moshen wuz
carried
The Reform Republicans tried to git
Squire Broadacres on the ticket for Mayor
but it woodent work. Rag and Tag he'd
emptied their groseries into that conven-
shun, and they wuz voted down ten to
one Lawyer Swipes wuz nominated
with whoop. Then Sam Bobtale wuz
nominated for Treasurer, and Bag hisself
| for Recorder, and five Nv the same stripe
up men for Aldermen.
! Good Hevens!" exclaimed the Reform
| Republicans, " this Amt wat we expected
| We can't stand this-yoo can't expect US
| to-"
My deer sirs," replied Thompson, one
Nv the decent Dimocrats, ''it is unfortu-
nate, | confess, but 700 see these men
control the majority Nv our vote, and we
RELY can't help ourselves"
"But if you are really for Reform, why
don't you leave organizashen witch is
controlled by SIGH men? Smikey, the
Republican defaulter, is bad enutf, but Ell
compared with Bobtae he's an angel Nv
lite. We didn't leave the Republican or
ganlzashen, ez bad Ell it is, to git into
wuss one. We want to git out Nv the
hands of the Sankey's, but we don't want
to drop into the keepin Nv Rag, Tag and
Bobtale. That amt wat we bargained
for Eff the decent Democrsy can't con
troll that organizashen, wat kin be done?"
81 RELY don't know, Smith, Jones,
Brown and myself moan over the power
welded by these men, but we can't help
it. Eff we split with them, | may lose the
nomenashen for Congress next fall, and
Jones may not 90 to the Legislacher We
can't break our party lines we can't in
decd
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