Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-23
Nasty Again.

Among the notes of the coming
campaign, is letter from the philos-
opher of Confederate Cross Roads,
Petroleum V. Nasty. He says:
"Another campane is already onto
us, and l feel the blood bilin in my
vanes. Like the war-hoss turned out
to grass-wich literally I hev bin
sence the Dustin of the Unlimited
Trust and Confidence Company
heer the blarc Nv the trumpet, and l
prick up my ears and tale, and cry
ha! ha! to the carnage. | smell the
smoke NV the conflict, and l smell,
likewise, the plumber underneath that
smoke. I see in the distance sue.
cess, and behint that success Post
Offs! Post Offs! Post Offs! Delite.
full words! what Democrat is thar
that woodent git enthusiastic over
that prospeck? l shall go into this
campagne with my sleeves rolled
up"
His WathwOrdS are "I.efOrm and
Amnesty" and he says that Boss
Tweed and his exiled .Tammany
Democrats are In favor of that els
$780," for they want to get back home.
He concludes:
81 have heerd from EN- all. The
Democrisy of the Six Ward of Moo
York, whar wunst run a small gro
sery, arc to man for reform. Pen
dleton wants reform, and every man
WITCH wuz turned out of offs when
Johnson went out is clamoring for
it.
"The Southern Democrisy wants
Reform. They say in their letters to
me, Give us Reform platform, and
we'll put away our shot-guns and
keep our hands off the nlggers till
after the elections, shoor. We won't
insist on our rites to kill niggers, and
keep them from hevin anything to do
with matters until after the eleck-
shun NV Dimocratic President gives
us rite to do ez we please Their
constant remark IL, GO in heavy for
Reform, and make that the one is
hoo
"The duty NV the party is cleer.-
Give us a platform based entirely on
to Reform. We kin carry it. 1t IL
a crate many yeers sence we wuz in
power, and by this time the people
hev forgotten us and they will take us
eezy. If we do this, we kin succeed
beyond a question. The Millennium
hain't cum yit, nor hez there ben any
especial change in things. We hev
the Doggeries, the Whiskey Ring,
and all the lower elements. They
are alluz ours, and they are ez strong
ez ever. Until sin goes out NV the
world there will be q Democratic
party. Humanity IN the United States
is divided in 2 classes-them ez wear
clean shirts and sox, and-Dimocrats.
And so long ez this division IL OBJ
served we are sound,
sit IL q good time tor us. Every
thing IL in our favor. 1t hez bin q
cold spring-the farmers are behind
hand with their work. Thar hez bin
frosts in places, wich hez destroyed
the froot, and thar IL joyful pros.
peck NV short crop NV everything.
The people are dissatisfied about it,
and NV course they will charge every
thing to the Administrator. A fail
yoor ny tho potato crop IL worth
thousands NV votes to the Dimocrasy
any time. 1t IL only when things IL
jest ez bad ez they kan be that any
body ever thinks NV going to the
Dimocrasy for change.
"What we want IL a good mouth
film PLATFORM platform witch looks
we'll, and witch the people will be sat
isfied with. Troo, wat IL promised
aforc clecshun and wat happens af-
forwards IL 2 things, but let tu-mor-
row take care NV itself. Wat we
want now IL success"