Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-21
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasty on the Letter.
HIS LITTLE ARRANGEMENT WITH Nix. BAscoM
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,

HIS LITTLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MIR. BAscoM.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, )
WICH IS IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY,
August 9TH, 1876. \
There wuz wunst doctor witch he'd a bark
wich wood either physic or puke, accordin ez he
stript off the tree up or down.
Like to this doctor is Tilden and Hendrix.
Reed Their letters up and they are hard money
physic-reed EN- down and they are soft money
vomic
The day got back from the St. Loois Conven-
shun, commenst preparin for stumpin toor for
our gallant standaid-barers. | borrowed an extra
shirt, so that Good hev one | borrowed vase
to kerry 1t in when wuzn't speakin, and also to
give me standin at SIGH hotels the Committee
didn't become responsible for my board and Bas-
com completed my travelin outfit by contributin a
quart bottle NV the newest, to be kerrid in the
valise to be yoosed when in localities where the
nessaries NV life wu2 hard to come at
III coodent go out instructor NV the people till
l knowed wat my candidates bleeved in, decided
to wait till got their letter of acceptance Did
that likker stay in the vsliseI Not any. 1t wuz
all gone the fust day, and went to Bascom with
the empty bottle the next mornin.
"Fill it up, q. W., sed l. Il can't go till hev
seen them letters"
when will they come y askt he
"To-day or to morrow" scd |.
"9ou shood hev kept what you he'd till the let.
tiers come" said he.
"Bascom," wuz the response, "lkker like yoors
cannot be kept"
And then, seein trouble ahead, contpyood -
"Promise me that 700 will keep this bottle filled
till them letters come 1t will be but little while,
and rembember, Bascom, 700 got the 800 that
Iilden, the Refolmer, paid for my vote at st.
Loois.'
81 PROMISE" lie groaned.
And likewise, until hev read EN- and under
stood EN-, so that shell not go ont and spout false
dimocrisy"
II promise = he groaned agin.
Day after day passed, but no letters came. But
promptly, every mornin, l wuz at Bascoms with
that bottle, which he groaningly filled. On the
thirtleth day he refoosed pint-blank
&c. W., sed |, sternly, remember yoor prom
Use. | may be called any mint. 1t wuz the fool
ish virgins wat he'd no lie IN their lamp for may
be called to mite
And he filled it becoz he he'd promised.
But every mornin he would lift up his voice ez
/ come in, and howl, "Grashus hevins amt them
letters never comm to relieve me NV this incum-
bus :"
AT last, one mornin, the letters come, in the
Louisville papers, and Bascom come over to me
happy, ez though great wait had bin lifted off
him.
~ fill the bottle for the last time" sed he gaily,
"for 10! here be the letters"
took the papers and red the letters, and, the
next mornip, wuz promptly at hiz bar with the
bottle.
"Fill t." remakt calmly.
"Not any" sed he. "Yoo hev the letters"
Use wuz to keep this bottla filled not only till he'd
red tie letters, But TILL UNDERSTOOD EN-.
hey bin arplyin my ntellek to EN- for ten hours,
and eff l know from them letters whether am to
talk Hard money or Soft, Inmejite Resumpshen
or Perpetooal Postponement, hope never to be
Postmaster"
What did that perfjus wretch do? lie tele-
graphed that very day to both Tilden and Hen
dirk, ez follers -
"shel Nasty, on the stump, advocate Hard
money or Soft; Answerto wunst. Important, TO
save an innosent dimocrat from room"
And the anser came prompt
FROM TILDEN.
lizard money, Nv course, but soften it good
deal in the West. Strike boldly, however, for re-
form, and agin the Corrupshen NV the republican
party. llLDEN.
FROM HENDRIX.
"Soft money, course, bat harden it a good
deal in the East. Strike boldly, however. for re-
form, and agin the Corrupshen of the republican
party. HENDRIX.
And So hevin my instrukshens, he'd TO go.
Shell however, before l speek, get instrukshens
from John Morrissey and Fernandy Wood, ez to
the best methods NV bringin about Reform, and
NV ightn corrupshen in governmental matters.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(Which wants to be Postmaster.)