The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-10-05

South wood git that Justis that wuz doc
her. lie felt convinsed Nv this or he
wood not hev taken the nominashen at
all. lie wuz ready to reserve statements
from the citizens
Deekln Pogram wuz the fust to speak.
The old saint remarkt that various peeple
had various idees of wat reform rely ment
The Bible sed, "Many men NV MANY
minds, and he he'd his mind ez to reform
In Moo York the reforners wautid the
custom houses and the postofisis wich
wuz well enuf Here we want the Yoo-
nited States Government to pay US the
losses we incurred at thar hands dooring
an unholy and a fratricidle war. That
wuz his noshen Nv reform, and without
that it wuz all sounding brass and tinklin
cymbles. Payment Of losses to the suf-
ferin South wuz his noshen Nv reform.
He was hart and sole in this conflict, and
that he shood tite for Tilden and Hendrix
with all the arder that seventy years of
trouble had left into him. His bill agin
the Government wuz not large one, but
he felt it shood be paid all the same.
When the Fedrels okkepied this seckshun,
party of pickits okkepied his farm one
mite, and burnt up seckshun of fence,
for fire, and confscated a parcel Nv
sweet potatoes. He didn't expect pay for
the niggers, Linkin had unconstooshen-
nelly robbed him NV, but he shood say for
that fence and them potatoes he ought to
receive soy 5000.
The members sejested that he he'd bet
ter make out the bill for $4,000. In the
reform Congris wich he hoped wood be
electid, with reform President at its
he'd, ther wood hev to be a good deel of
divvying. He (the member) wood hev
to yoose money literally ia the depart
ments to git the bills thro, and ther wood
be sich lobby ez Washington never saw,
to be bought up. By maxim the bill
$4,000, the good Deekin wood probably
git his 5000. He thought the remainin
400 wood be enuff for reform Con
girls.
And akkordinly the Deekin made his
bill over agin for $4,000.
Captain McPelter presentid his bill for
$8,OOO While he wuz servin his country
in the Confedrit army, the Federals ok
kepied his distillery and materially inferred
the mashenery, besides ieedin to ther
hossess lot Nv corn wich he he'd left.
Understandin ez he did the necessities Nv
reform Congris, he wood be satisfied ef
he received $l,OOO-The balance mite go
to be divided ez ther representative shood
deem necessary.
Issaker Gavitt wantid $500 for lot
Nv wood burnt by the Federel pikkits,
and shood therefore put in his claim for
$4,000. He bleeved that a reform Con-
girls wuz not only entitled to its whack,
but he bleeved in maxim it liberal.
The member remarked that he wuz
glad to see the sperit Nv iberality that
prevailed the people of the Corners. 1t
mite look ez tho $1,000 to the claimant,
and $4,000 for gettin it, wuz rather large,
but they must remember that the Reform
party had bitter fight on EN-, and that
EN- wich wuz spendin the money wood
hev to be reimbursed out ov our fund.
Our noble reform standard bearer, Tilden,
wuz pourln out money like water, but he
coodent be expected to pay out Nv his
own pokkit for carryin so many States.
There waz Injeany and Ohio, Moo York
and Pennsylvany, Name and Moo Hamp-
sheer, all Nv these wood require barrels
apeece, and it he'd bin decided that the
expense must be made good out Nv the
Southern claims. This must be taken
into account.
Bascom put in claim Nv sevral thou
sand Nv dollars fur injoory done to his
bar-room by the Federals comm within
two miles Nv the Corners, wich indoost
every citizen to git out Nv the naberhood,
and stay out fur four days; and Squire
M'Grath put in his claim for dozen
hosses seezed by John Morgan, wich wuz
cleerly cozed by the Fedral invashen.
Seein suthin in the claim biznis l put
in mine.
"For wat IL yeor claim, may l ask2 "
wuz the reply Nv the member.
"Sir, wux my anser, II hevn't made
up my mind yet wat | shel put in claim
fur, but put it down fur $4,000. 1 may
put it in fur lasserated feelin at the tri-
umph of the Fedrals, or sumbody may
remind me Nv some property Nv mine that
wuz burned, tho 1 hev no recolleckshun
Nv ever havin any. I shel fill out the
partikelers hereafter; it is not necessary
now. The reform party is goin into
power-it hezn't been in power for q
great many years-it will come in, eff it
comes in at all, by Southern votes, and
they amt goin to scrootinize the claim
Nv man very closely eff they know he IL
Southern and a troo reformer, partik-
elerly ez for every dollar they vote they
bag seventy-fve cents themselves. The
Democratic Congress last winter made
some savins out Nv the mails and 80 on,
that they mite hev more money to divide
up in the impoverished South, and I am
a goin to hev my sheer, Shoor. | hev
promised every one Nv these people that
their claims shell be paid eff Tilden is
electid and we git the Congris, and that IL
the condishun on wich we support him
and l amt afrade Nv his goin back ento
it. So long ez we kin depend onto hevin
a claim to pay, so long kin we be dependid
on to support Dimocrisy, and wunst in a
majority everything will be ez serene ez a
May mornin The Dimocratic party alluz
wuz owned by the South afore the war,
and the South hez chattle mortgage onto
it yit. Tilden IL jist ez much our man e2
he wuz doorin the fratrisidle trouble, and
euy Congris wich supports him we kin
bet our bottom dollar on
The moment it got noised abroad wat
we wuz consideriu, the entire reform
poperlashun Nv the Corners came rushiu
in with claims Every man who lost d
hill Nv potaters, or fence rail, or a chick.
en- door in the unholy struggle put in his
bill, anl for couple Nv days it wu1
lively. Ez | had to make out the bills
owing to the inability of the reiormer,
to write, jest charged them half dollar
apiece. wood have made good thing
NV it ef the rcformers, groanin under thu
evils Nv taxashun and an irredeemablt
currency, he'd happened to have he'd hall
dollars, wich they didn't.
| The loosenis with wich they made ou
ther claims astonished even me. Mer
who he'd never owned even mule put in
claims for a dozen horses each, and claim:
wuz fled for enuff potatoes and chickens
to hev fed Ireland and the Yoonited
States for for years The Corners anG
vacinity will reserve, eff the Reform party
succeeds, nearly million Nv dollars, wict
will put us on our feet agin, pertickerlerly
an .uo Aont ,,nu O dollar NV iho t.xa. e.,