Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-30
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
AN EXPLOITATION TO REFORM.
BLOOMING Town, WesConsin,)
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September the 26thI
DEAR SINNER ~ GU do not understand the
| signs of tho times. Our sign is Reform If
you look at your Websterian Dictionary you
| will find that to reform means to change from
worse to better, to restore. If you didn't
have such a little calybur you would know
that when we call ourselves reform party we
mean that we are lgoin to change from worse
to better. We are agoin to restore. Whatif
his excelency Governor Taylor did steal a
few soldiers bountes eleven years ago
Can't he reform. and would he be in the re-
form party if he wasn't agoin to reform If
that blarsted one-horse Carter said he did, is
not he Reformer and will not he restore
it? Of course he will. A man one time
took three sheep out Of his neighbours pasture
and sold the skins and mutton, and with the
money got nominated to an Office in Kentucky,
and was elected He made money enough
then and he reformed and paid the poor man
for his sheep. That was when he was a-dyin.
lit always OIhiCh tlN ci1elil tlli bliCIs
could tell other cases, too Now, sir, don't you
know that if MAJ never did anything bad he
could not reform If he never stole or lied
or sworc or adultered how could he reform?
How could we be reform party if some of US
hadn't been rascals? There's the great IIorus
Greeley who said all horse theevs was demo
Gratis, and he sacrificed hisself to get them all
to go into reform party They went in and
they are staying in ard that's the only way
you can keep up reform party. There's some
Of us who didn't do that kind Of stealing was
wons in your party We got all the grabs and
bouuties and frauds and defaults we could get
adwindlin down we want to reform, aud we
don't like to hear you castin up to Taylor and
Calbins about their stealins Because they
used to steal doesn't prove they'll steal now.
They're in the Reform party, and that means
that they've reformed. If you was in our
reform party like Gen Calls, Noah II. Virgin,
il Ohm NJ Cannon, A. w. Emery, George
Greer, Jacob Lutchens, George Whtcher, and
lnOHldS Henry IlODCEl5Ou-@l say II you WAS III
the Reform party like they are you wouldn't
cast up them old things. Its wicked and let
me, who was once a Republican sinner too
plead with you to quit your sinful ways and
come over like them and be in the reformation
They was all in the reform convention and we
have lots more old sinners relormin like them.
The only way you can be saved is to reform
and go for Taylor, DOYLE and Slone and as
they are a,savm five hundred dollars day
may be they would divide it with you. Gov
ernor Taylor saved fifty dollars off each
soldiers bounty and literally divided with
Col Farr, and believe he would be as liberal
with you.
Don't put this letter in the HERALD I'm
only exhortin you to be a reformer | see all
the reform papers are adenyin that TAYLOR
took any Cottage Grove bounty money /
don't think that's the best way, because there's
the records to show that Taylor got two
hundred dollars for each soldier, and there's five
soldiers to swear they only got one hundred
and fifty each. Gov Taylor shoots off purity
loud but | don't think them Changers can hear
his voice against six men and the Cottage
Grove records. | think they ought TO admit
it and then say that Coy. Taylor has reformed
and therefore wont DO it any more Repent-
cnce is the first step and strong evidence of
reform. If Gov. Taylor would 90 around the
circle singing the good old hymn
"Sinee my souI is formed for woe
Repentance does like rivers flow
From both nay streamin eyes"
and at each town have reformcrs like Calls,
Whtcher, Cannon, Lutchens, Virgin and his
friend Thomas Henry Robertson stand up be-
hind him in row and join in the chorus,
think it wolld have very meltin effect upon
the people, ana they might ell become re-
formers
Yours hopin you'll join US,
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