Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-09
Nasty.
He and Issaker Gavitt Go to Indiana on n
MfssfOn-The Mistakes that They made,
and the Dire Result.
From the Toledo Blade.

| CoNFEDERu x ROADS, which is in the
State. OF Kentucky, Jooly Is, 1876
Man is NV but few days and full NV
trouble. [ can't understand why life
shood be SIGH conundrum; I can un
derstand why things shoodent 20 on
with more perfect loosenis and an
easier gait. lin short, why shouldn t
everybody, except the black Republic
cans, precisely wat they want with
out all this trouble and perplexity to
git it? '14dial to1i .ae.
Feelin it to be my dooty to do suthin
in the interest of Tilden and Re-
| form" conclooded to spend porshen
Nv the money that John Morrissey left
with me to infooence voters in lower
county in Injeeany; and to do it effec-
locally, l made perfect preparashen be-.
forehand and made SIGH arrangements
ez wood result in proper demonstra-
shen NV the sooperiority NV "Tilden
and Reform y over Hayes and Wheeler.
Ez he'd to do the speekin, intendid
it to be effective. I wantid that my.
work shood count for the COZ, and be
seed that shood result in glorious har-
vest in November. aa ea 1oa
/ hev alluz notised' that eff o speaker
kin be interrupted at the rite time, and
ef the Teller wat interrupts happens to
ask question on ,wich the speaker is
perfeckly postid, his prompt anser al
luz put the questioner, or interrupter,
to fite, and wins for the speaker the
sympathy of the people. I perposed to
-interdoose new lice in stumpin, by
takin with me my own interrupter, SO
that Good be sure that the queries he
shood put wood be SIGH that I Good
properly anser. and anser them tn
effect. sao y tsbrlj fs5st s.
selected ez the questions I wantid
asked me, these: ''-Ra@a
Wat is the amount Nv the nashnel
debt? SIT, lIf 7I
Eff Linkin he'd bin detected, wood
that debt hey bin incurred .
Wuz not the incirrin Nv the debt
blessin, pertikerly ez it was incurred to
give freedom to 100000 niggers2
Is it not the wisest thing we kin do TO
git down to gold basis to wunst?
Hadent the Western farmer ought to
SWEET and scald to pay the debt to the
Eastern capitalist B. 81 a. .aaaaaf
I wilt these questions all down, and
arranged for the answers. You see
they give me chance, eff I Good hev
EN- asked in order, to give the Repub-
likins SIGH hidin ez they never he'd.
It give me an opportoonity to show that
the debt was made in the interest NV
Ablishnism; that, of the Republican
he'd never succeeded, there never wood
hax 1oh ho{ <vs%L In nj 10
gold wood room everybody; and that
the Eastern bondholder wanted the
Western farmer to pay the debt any.
way. Y - 60.
[ decided to take Issaker Gavitt with
me to act ez Republican interrupter, and
[ he'd to git him up ez a Republican.
1t wuz hard job--the hardest I ever
undertook. To metamorphose Cross
Roads Democrat into a Republican is
task that requires genius, but / under
took it, and succeeded to some extent
[ powdered his nose, he'd him shaved,
and l put on him a clean shirt. made
him black his boots, hevin first
furnished him with pair, and
then [ put on him decent SCOT
of close, and made him wear EN- about
the corners while till he got yoosed
to EN-, and Good appear easy In EN-.
Then [ looked at him and coached i'm
in the questions wanted him to ask.
he'd him repeat EN- over and over agin
till he had EN- by heart, and told him
exactly there in my speech I wantid
him to git In with each Nv EN-. I re-
peated my speech to him a dozen times,
and he'd him interrupt me, with his
questions, or rather the questions I he'd
prepared for him, and then made the
ansers, and ins.ructid him in all the
minutia, even to his blushin when he
sot down discomfitid, 4 - 7lop aiD 2
II j got him so we'll Instructed that q I
Efattered myself I shood go through
with a wet sheet and flowing sale, and
shood accomplish a big work
for the party. laIi I LATED to
|. to thank vat a good thinglit would be
to hay Issaker dressed up yez Repub-
lickin, with his nose powdered. and to
have him ask me SIGH questions ez I
could answer asking 'em ez a Repub.-
likin, and me putting him to utter
shame. @ . a ~ "91t42 81 goibnsdg 3,
The fust mite I spoke 7 he'd it all ar
ranged Issaker wos to set in the aw-
jence, and at the proper time, in all Nv
wich be WIZ instructed, he wnz to COM
mence. It wuza big tneetin the Iskool :
house wuz full. and ] hoped for great
things. ie - ~ II e7 II t..,.a,
Alars for human expectashuns [
had bin so bizzy drummin up the meet
in thro the day that I didn'twatch
Issaker, and knew nothin Nv wat he wuz
dom till saw him in his place lin the
liawjence I commenced my speech,
and mt got decently into the intro
duchsen-I think [ wuz dwellin onto
the horrors Nv missegenashen -when up
he got. = Great Heavens He swuz
drunk az a, billed OWL and hedn't any
kmores idee, Nv wat he. was. dom than a
500 Tnjun. Tsisin TO bis feet, he swayed
around unsteady, and remarked that he
he'd question to ask. In agony, oforaI
coodent help myself, I sed, "'Ask it,
"Ez Republican" sed he -;
The awjence all LATED, for they
knewed by his nose that he wuz no Re
publikin. ia.l W9l o5t aa q
!" Ez Republican want to know
whether debt which wux incurred to
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