Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-14
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
REEF ORMER HEARD FROM AGAIN
ANOTHER APPEAL.
BLOOMING Town,
October the 10th, 1875. {

FORM. GU re layln the invitation be-
fore your readers so they can jine you
in comm forward and then you'll
have more courage to come yourself.
Before the county convention /
happened in Platteville, in a saloon
a place a Reformer never goes unless
he has businessman there was settin
the honorable Noar Ell. Virgin, with
or 9 others who l think was gittin
reddy to reform. One of them asked
his honor up to drink. Our modest
candydate, who wears his hat down
over his eyes to hide his bushes, cast
his effuljent countenance into that OF
the other visitors to see if they would
likely jine him, when seein that they
would, he slept boldly forard to the
bar, tho he was Vergin on the decline
when he looked into my paid face
until I gave him a willin wink. So
think if you can git the wink from all
your readers you'll step up to the re-
form counter.
You make a great cal of fuss about
Gov. Taylor's not answerin that
bounty charge. Now you know, ac-
cordin to my way of thinkin. it don't
need anserin, but if you'd got over in.
to our sheepfold so | could tell you
our secrets, could Taller unfold
that would show you the lushoussbril-
lyancy Of our reform diploamassy.
His excellency has a Bird that like
Noar's dove goes out feelin to see
whor its safe to open the doors of his
ark. That gentle Bird has sent
message to me for use at Blooming
Town, and to Gen. Calls for your
town, and to Thomas Henry Rober-
toon for Platts Vile, explainin the
anser which we are to disc1oze at the
proper time. You see we are wipen
the dust off'n them records. When
we git it well wiped off jus as like as
not you'll find the fgers'll read 81, 1903
instead of $4,000, which Cottage
Grove paid to Supervisor, now Gov
ernor, Tailor. saw a Reformer (he
is now wons get a draft for $3.50,
and he laid it away where it got dusty.
When he got done scrapin the dust
off, the pedestal of the was gone,
and he fixed the flyer a little so you
could see it plane and when he went
to draw the mummy on it the tigers
read $3.50. 1t may take TIL about a
week before election to get the dust
off n them records SO as to see what
the tigers reilly are. This is all l can
tell you now on this anser except that
of them 10 recroots was citizens of
Cottage Grove. and well have their
affydavits to show they got their reg
lar 5000, so you see our Governor did
not make mummy out of his own
townsmen, and he didn't know then
that ennybody outside of Cottage
| Grove would ever have a show to
vote for him. He didn't know then
that his great intellec was big enough
to cover the crate State of WisCon>
sin as we'll as Cottage Grove. /
might add that if the other and
| George Carter had fit in battle as me
and Governor Tailor and that Bosco-
| bel man would like to have had them
fit, they wouldn't now be maxim so
much noise about them bounties un.
less their blood is like Abel's. / will
| give my vote at our next convention
| for a Vulcan rubber medal with a
hole in it TO the Boscobel man for
protectin our Governor by splatterin
mud off'n his record onto that Carter.
If he'd only keep splatterin the mud
that way onto Carter | think by cleo
ton day the Republicans would for
get we'd nominated the great farm
err. For the Lords sake let him
splatter.
Its always best to keep the best
side out. Mr.. Virgin wears his stock
ms wrong side out generally. Gen
eral Calls and Jared Warner always
has one of theirn wrong side out
Their aunt Dina down in Virginny
told them it was sign of good luck.
Mr.. Virgin has had his'n both ways
several times. He wore one side till
it got to lookin nifty durty. Then he
turned the other and it looked purity
clean. After which the sur6s soil be-
comes transferred to his flesh and he
turns the other side again; so, if you
don't get too close, he always looks
purity clean. He has turned them so
much tho that I'm afraid if you'd take
his shoes off you'd find nothing but legs
to his socks-the foundation all wore
away. Before the war he wore the
Republican side out That got so
durty that he found Republicans could
not get near him, and he turned the
| Democratic side out. He has since
exhibited them at an agricultural fair
where they took the premium as the
strongest socks there, and the com.
mittee tied the red ribbons around the
ankles. This he calls the Reform
side. They're the same old stockens,
and you cant tell what sweetness
there is in them till he gets by the
warm fire in the capitol. If you'd
save their fragrance from wastin in
the dezert air you must jine our re-
| formation.
This reminds me that in some
points our noble Governor and our
reform Senator are much alike. But
| have not time now to make the COM
parsons. Reformin is to restore, as
| told you before. That is, its to get
all that's owen to you. There was
Jacob Jenny, soldier shat had been
attendin to the erruns about the Cows
office for nine years before our Gov
ernor come in. His excellency says
to him, says he: 81 have man here
who owes me s3o8. l want you to
show him how to attend to your
duties and then | want to put him in
your place till he earns enough mummy
to pay me. cant get my mummy out of
him emmy other way" The new man