Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-07-09
The Guvner's Election.


ROCKY RIDGE, July a, 1879.
Mr.. Et}itor FL don't deal much in politics,
as m one of them kind what makes his lvin'
| by workin' for it, and don't want no olIise to
do nothin' and git paid for it.
When it's gittin' near lection time find 5
ont who's runnin' for ofIise, and then makes
up my mind TO vote for who | please; and
that's just what I've done now and I N goin'
| to vote for Carroll, too. / thought, when
made up my mind TO vote for him, that il
want goin' TO be nobboddy's business but my
own, but there's darn site of people what
has made it their business, and says I'm a
canal ring" man. Now, just want 10
show them people that know what they re
doin', and that they can't fool me like they
fool some people what's beer listenn' to them
| When Hamilton come out for Governor, ev-
eryboddy thought because Hamilton had been
| in the Senate. that he want goin 10 have no
! trouble, but was goin' TO walk right down to
Annapolis and set right down in the Cover
nor's chair. Well, some people, what likes to
get all the oflises and everything else what's
| got money in it, and what is give away by
the Governor, thought they'd beat every
| boldly else and come out first for Hamilton.
Well they did come out first for Hamilton,
and now they re got darn sick of it, for they
see he ain t goin' to be The Governor so much
as they thought and they wont be the donkeys
| what will be fed in the State stable. When
| they seen that Carroll, man what's ms good
rs Hamilton and what's liked as much by the
people, was eoin' to run, they begun 10 think
that Hamilton's chances was gittin' slim, and
they then Matched up mean trick to beat
Carroll, but it amt goin TO work. And that
trick put me in mind ola thing that my poor
old daddy, Solomon Plowman, used to tell
me when | was was little, tipsy boy. lie
said he used TO have two mules what he fed on
corn and oats, and what worked well on his
farm, but at last he got money enulf 10 buy
horse, too but after he got the horse, ms he
was poor, he had to take some of the corn and
oats away from the mules and give ii to the
horse. Well the mules got mad because their
vittals was cut down, and begun to think how
they could git rid Of the horse. While they
was talkin' over the thing and cussin the
horse one of them says to the other 81 We
got the very thing now what'll make the boss
sell that horse. Well git Bill, the stable boy
what likes us better than the horse, TO git a
chestnut burr and put it under the collar when
he hooks him to.the pow and he'll run away
and kick and the boss will sell him. They
told Bill about it and he was right in for it,
because there was fun in the thing, and sure
ennf Bill did lit and the horse run away and
broke the pillow all up. Dad was as mad rs
thunder with the horse and swore he was
gon' to sell him just as soon as he caught
him. When he caught him and was takin'
the harness off, the chestnut-burr dropped
down, and when dad saw ii he knowed what
was the matter and knowed Bill put it there.
He called Bill to him and told him he'd have
to git off that farm, that he want goin' to have
no such mean, dirty scoundrel as that about
him. Bill begin cryin' and told dad how the
mules had put him up to it and begged him
not to send him away, but 'twant no use; he
had TO git and then dad sold the mules be-
cause they had put him up to it. That's just
the way with them Hamilton men; when they
seen Carroll was goin to beat him, they put a
chestnut under the collar, and then tried
to make the people believe he was a "cana-
ring horse what had bad tricks and would
run away and break the State all to smash
But it won't work the people sees the chest
nut-burr and they know stable polilisnuns
put it there, and CarrolPs goin' to beat Ham
lton so bad he'll turn round at the half
mile pole and walk back home, not caring a
Continental who's goin' to be Governor
And then these stable poliiishnns, what made
up of fellows what wants oflise and cabbage
head editors, will come erwin aud sayin they
was put up TO it by the leadin' mules and ask
not TO be driven away. But wen tell 'em we
can't do nothin' for EN-. When they begun
workin' in their garden before anybody else,
aud they find ont they were anticholles they'll |
have to eat 'em if they choke to death, because |
we don't want TO have nothin' to do with peo- |
pie who could do such mean trick as to put |
a chesinut-burr under the collar TO make per-
sons think we was tryin to fool EN- with a
bad horse. EPHRAIM PLowMAN