The Portland daily press., 1875-09-07
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty Goes 70 Ohio 70 Assist in Organ
izing a County for Allen and Cary-The
Misfortune that Befel Him.


OHIO, Aug. 5, 1875. Their hez been heap NV
trouble crowded into the 20 years that I hev
lived onto this earth-probably more than hez
fallen to the lot nv any one man now livin.
Them ez hez seen'ez much trouble ez bev, all
died under it. live becoz nv mind that laffs
at misforchoon, and defies fate. And besides
hev suthn to live for. So long ez there's a
Sarl Nv whiskey attsinable and Dimekratic
party, 1 propose to exist. When they 90 out I
shell probably succum.
I am hevin my regler amount NV trouble
now. Jest ez soon ez the day come for the
Dimekatic convenshun at Columbus, 1 went
over to Pettuses Corners, in Ohio to assist in
organizer that county for the ensooin eleck-
shun, for 1 realized the fact that ez Ohio goes
this fall SO the next presidential eleckshun
goes, and that the party calls upon evry Dime
krat to do the whole dooty. For me success
next year is necessity. That post offs at the
Corners must be mine then if ever. Failyoor
would break my heart
Pettuses Corner is the most Dimekratic nv
all the villages in southern Ohio. 1t has o
population Nv say 500, which supports six pros
porous groceries, two good bars at taverns, and
a small skool house, which has never been
finished, and IN wich the Methodlsts hold their
meetins 1t is very small skool house. but 1t is
large enough for the meetins on Sunday. The
inhabitants mostly devote themselves to politics
and the groceries. The county ofishcis pay
for the liker of the rest of the ctisens, wich
makes it soft thing all around.
Nv course every Dimekrat IN the county is
born with the expectashion NV some day holdin
a county offs. To be infrmary director is
glory-to be county treasurer is the summit of
earthly grandyer. Them ez is successful start
10 as iufirmary, director, then they git to be
county commissioner, Ihen the legislstur, then
sheriff. At this point most of them goes
hence with the delIrium tremens. Occasion
ally one whose stumick is glass and backt up
with fire brick, goes on to the auditor and
treasurer, but them is exceptions. To 90 on
the whole string q tremenjas const itntshun is
necessary.
There amt no money in holdin offs ther, and
il costs the entire salary the first yeer TO se-
koor the elecs hun, and the en- tire salary and
mortgage on yeur farm every yeer thereafter to
keep it, but then an otf1shel can't treat vo-
ter without drnkin likewise, so he hez a good
time eff he does room hisself.
Naturally, however, some Nv them make
theirseves good by an occasional defalcashen,
and by spekelatn in county improvements;
but oppertoonities is limited in the county, and
it won't do eZ a reliance.
| arrived at Pettuses the mite NV the day Nv
the convenshun, and was welcomed with open
arms. / got the Dmokrisy together to ratify
the nomnashens, that we might go into the
eampane with that enthoosasm gich is neoes-
sary to success. We waited for the Domina-
sbens impatiently, and finally they came:
For governor-Willyum Allen.
For lieutenant gOvernor-SamyO0el +. Cary.
Three cheert," sung out, For Allen and
Caryr'
The cheers wus given with will. The Di-
nokrisy Nv Pettuses Corners are excellent at
cheering.
The platform adopted by the conyenshun
hadn't come to hand, but didn't care. l pro-
ceeded to draft a resolushen or two, Tor i
knOwd the candidates so well-I wuz so well
posted ez to their antecedents and utterances-
that felt perfectly certain wat the platform
wuz on which they wuz placed, and wrote the
resolushens accordin. The follerin wuz the
first:
Resolved, That it is the yoonanmous ex-
preshun Nv the Dmokrisy Nv Pettusses Cor
ners, that in nomiDatin fur governor William
Allen the elokent champion Nv hard money,
the Dimikratic State coDvenshun merits the
gratitood not only Nv the Dimokrsy nv the
Yoonited States, but Nv every honest man.
That his ringin dsnunshiashen nv dirty rag
money, and his upholdip nv the Dimokratic
idea NV hard money, will, in the future ez in
the past, be potent fur the pur:eckshun NV
long sufferin and opprest people.
MY friends" sed |, DRAWN myself mp so ez
to resemble Danl Webster ez much ez possi-
shen, hev word to say. Willyum Allen,
Ole Bill Allen, honest Ole Bill Allen, is EN-.
fatikallS the peoples friend. He is the nat
eral enemy NV m )nopolists, NV banks and
bankers, and the most inveterate, vindictive,
deadly enemy Nv this flood Nv rotten paper
money which hez so long afflicted the country
aud blited its prosperity. Honest Ole Bill
Allen hez from his infancy denouust paper
money ez the insidious foe nv the farmer, and
he oppressive weapon NV the bloated arjsto-
fpat In The Spnit and N tho I'm hv
aud pen, honest, true Ole Bill Allen hez de-
manded that gold, hard, honest gold ouly
shoo1 be considered money, and that tue dirty,
filthy rag money ishood by black Republican
Congrls be stampt out. That demand be re-
noos today-that demand Dimekratic State
convenshun hez made by nomnatin him, and
let u.s. the Demokrisy of Pettuses Corners,
nailin our kulors, III ard money forever to the
mast, pass this resolooshen.
The speech fecht em and the resoooshen
wuz passed with sch emphasis ez l never seed.
Then three rousiu cheers wuz given for Honest
Ole Bill Allen, the friend NV the people and
the hope Nv the countrywide undsunted, I'M
purchasabl lie friend Nv hard money and the de-
nouncer nv rag money in whatever shape IL
cones.
So far, so good They passed this resoloo-
shen easily, for ez none NV em ever ned any
mouey they never wuz perticler ez 10 wat
pertikeler kind they endorsed, put tne next
step wuz RELY delikit one. l he'd knowd
Sam Cary for yeers, and knowd him ez the
very he'd and front Nv the temperance party
nv the state 1 knowd be wuz a son nv tenn
perance and the most intoersble prohibish-
inst.the state he'd ever been Gust with. he'd
myself heerd him denounce the likker seller ez
only fiji to be hung, and it he'd bin my pleesn
dooty to help rotten-egg him on several occa-
shuns wen he wuz maxim rabid temperance
speeches. Hence L coodent quite understand
why he wuz put upon the ticket But per-
soomed that our leaders had determined on o
bold stroke to ketch the emperance vote, re-
lynn on the known caracter Nv the party to
n0ld the whiskey vote. So to give Samyooel
send off interdoost this resoooshen:
Resolved, That the Demokrisy Nv Petusses
corners endorse the nomination Nv Samyooei
Cary, heartily and likewise the principles ne
hez so long and ably advocated. That the llk,
ker traffic is a evil which should be mitigated
and finally eradcatd.
There was some murmuTin at this, out tolo
'em il wus no yoose TO murmur; that we he'd to
ca The State. and that The end luSllheQ tne