Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-09-14

> Cidliu iOT TJ,VoU. ne DeIicFcu 1nstt
e a reform Congris wuz not only enti-
: tied to Its whack, but he believed in
t maxim it liberal.
t The member remarked that he wnz
= glad to see the spirit Of liberality that
t pervadid the people NV the Corners.
1 1t mite look ez tho 81, 900 to the
5 claimant, and $4,000 for getting it,
wuz rather large, but they must re-
) member that the Reform party he'd
bitter fight on 'em, and that them
wich wuz spending the money wood
hev to be reimbursed out of this
: fund. Our noble reform standard
bearer, Tilden, wuz pourin out
: money like water, but he coodn't be
expected to pay out of his own pock-
it for carrying so many States.
There was Injeanny and Ohio, Moo
York and Pennsylvany, Maine and
Moo Hampsheer, all NV these wood
require barrels apeece, and it he'd bin
decided that the expense must be
made good out of the Southern
Claims. This must be taken into
akkount.
Bascom put in a claim nv sevral
thousand NV dollars for injoory done
to his bar-room by the Fedrels COM
in within two miles Nv the Corners,
wich indoosed every citizen to get
out of the naberhood and stay out for
four days; and Squire McGrath put
in his claim for dozen hosses seezed
by John Morgan, wieh was clearly
cozed by the Fedrel invashen.
Seein suthin in the claim bisnis
put in mine.
"For wat is yoor claim, may l
ask~ wuz the reply nv the member.
'Sir," wuz my anser, 81 hevn't
made up my mind, yet, wat l shel
put in claim for, but put it down
for $4,000. may put it in for las
serated feelings at the triumph of the
Fedrels, or somebody may remind
me nv some property NV mine that
wuz burned, tho hev no recolleck- |
shun NV ever hevin any. l shell fill
out the partikelers hereafter; it is
not necessary now. The reform par
ty is goin into power-it hezn't bin
in power for great many years-it
will come in, If it comes in at all, by
Southern votes, and they amt goin
to scrootinize the claim Nv man
very closely, eff they know he is
Southern, and a troo reformer, per-
tikelery ez for every dollar they vote
they bag seventy-five cents their
selves. The Democratic Congris last
winter made some savins out NV the
mails and so on, that they mite hev
more money to divide up in the i'm
poverished South, and | am a goin to
hev my sheer, shoor. | hev promis-
ed every one of these people that
their claims shell be paid eff Tilden
is electid and we git the Congris, and
that is the condishn on wich we sup
port him, and | amt afrade nv his
goin back onto it. So long ez we
kin depend onto heyin claim to pay,
so long kin we be dependld on to sup
port Dimocrisy, and wunst in ma
jority everything will be ez serene ez
a May mornin. The Dimocratic par
ty alluz. was owned by the South I
afore the war, and the South hez a /
chattel mortgage onto it yit. Tilden {
is jest ez much our man eZ he wuz ,
doorin the fratrisidle trouble, and I
eny Congris witch supports him we t
kin bet our bottom dollar on. t
The moment it got noised abroad t
wat we wuz a considerin, the entire !
reform population NV the Corners ,
come rushin in with claims. Every
man who lost hill Nv potatoes, or |
fence rail, or chicken, doorin the I
unholy struggle, put in his bill, and s
for a couple of days it was lively. t
Ez I had to make out the bills OWN t
to the inability NV the reformers to
write, l charged EN- half dollar
apiece. / wood have made a good
thing uvit eff the reformers, groanin =
under the evils of taxashen and an
currency, he'd happen
ed to hev he'd half dollars, witch they
didn't.
The loosenis with wich they made
out ther claims astonished even me. I
Men who he'd never he'd owned even
q mule put in claims for dozen hos d
ses each, and claims wuz filed for Ii
enuff potatoes and chickens to hev e
fed Ireland and the Yoonited States /
for forty years. I
The Corners and vicinity will re- n
ceeve, eff the reform party succeeds, Il
nearly million Of dollars, wich will L
put us on our feet agin, pertikerler- U
ly ez we don't pay a dollar NV the n
taxes for it. n
Now that this is ashoored the Cor .
ners will do good work for Tilden n
and reform. Ez Kentucky is certin Il
10 go right, anyhow, over hundred u
Of our staunchest reformers hev vol IL
anteered to go oyer into Inieany to @
vote in October, for the moral effect Il
Of a aweepin triumph in that State, y
that is eff the money is forthcomin to IL
pay their expenses. The Corners r.
will go anywhere eff the expenses is II
paid. u
Antissipatin the eleckshun nv Til K
len, and the payment nv the South u
,rn war claims, Bascom has exten- e.
lid our line NV credit at his bar. "
Thus some good comes out Nv the 4
hev suthin tangible. 81
Heven help on the coz NV reform. n
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, 8;
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