Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-26
WHOLE NO. 1748.
MASSEY
Mr.. Nasty Goes to Democratic Village
in Indiana and is Much Encouraged.
From the Toledo Blade.l
BUNKKRsviLLE,
(WHICH is IN TIE STATE w INJEASrl
h-tnhar LAT 1875


BUNKRRsvILLE.
(WHICH is IN THE STATE w INJEANrl
October lst, 1876.
/ sent words nv greetin to the
Democrisy NV Ohio and the other
States. | hey bin in this village now
for week, organizin Reform forces,
and an encurridged to bleeve that
Injeany will Iced the colum NV the
State that will go for Tilden and Re
form.
The village delites me, for | know
ed ez soon ez / seed it that | WIZ in a
soil propishus to Dimocrisy and Re-
form. The houses wuz mostly I'M
painted, and them ez wuz he'd been
done CRATE many years ago, and
never sence, and ez it he'd scaled of
in spots they looked wuss than them
which he'd never bin painted at all.
| saw pig pens in front NV most NV the
houses, and gates enuff that hung by
one hinge, and clap-boards that hung
by one nail, to satisfy even me, witch
kin tell Dimecratic village ez fur ez
kin see it. And then to make
ashoorance doubly shoor, and to re-
move the last lingering dout NV the
politix NV the place, and nv the
country round about, out NV 100
houses, twenty NV 'em wuz wet
groceries, ard all ny 'em appeared TO
to be doin NV a good biznis. 1t
wuz the Cross Roads over agin, and
my hart warmed ez l got into it.
"Here," thot /, "cood, methinks,
dwell forever. Give post-offis here
and let it be in that little bildin be-
sides that biggest grosery, so ez to be
carried into my offs at mite, conven-
lent, and life would be to me rose
tinted dream, with nary a cloud in my
horizon"
And wuz not disappointed. Where
theses bare enuff, and people enuff
witch don't do anything but leen agin
'em, 700 shell find Dimocrisy
flourishin institooshen. Hard times
is twin sister to SIGH towns, and the
people alluz needs relief by legisla-
chen.
With sech people Hard Times Is
our best holt. Eff the potato crop
fails, and the whisky supply is cut
short, they murmur exceedinly and
charge it up to administrator. Eff
the crop is short and the price Nv
likker goes up they murmur agin, and
wonder what kind Nv a government it
is that imposes sech burdens onto
them. / presoom that eff half the
people of Bunkerville he'd corns on
Their feet they wood charge it to the
administration. Ez the preyalin fash
ion, however, in this Dimocratic
locality is not to wear shoes, this
cause Nv complaint agin the powers
that be, is lost to US.
Bunkersville hez suffered from the
evils NV ablishnism probably more
than any locality in Injeany, and its
citizens stand firm in opposishun to
further encroachments, and in favor
NV Tilden. They hev bin ground
under the heel of taxashen till they
haint scasely anybody in the village
wat hez got dollar to bless their
selves with. / can't see wat they hev
ever paid taxes onto, but it isn't my
bisnis to investigate too closely. l
alluz does please barefooted man,
with their hair shown out NV the top
Nv his hat, to howl about taxes, ez
it carries a noshun that he has suthin
to pay on.
l have polled the town with the
follerin result !:
FOR TILDEN AND REFORM.
Teddy O'Shaughessy, near the
neutrality-suspicious. Good
for twenty votes, pervided he kin
git the gravel train stopped at Bunk
ersville on election day. Eff proper
can be made with the
Boss, who is also a Reformer, he kin
hev the same men vote in the after
noon, at Petus City, twenty miles
further ahead. Cost, 500, ea at
least q bari of likker will be ncssrry,
witch | furnisht him.
Brian O'Ra6erty, profession, bar.
Mr.. O'Rafferto hez bin in the count
ty three years, and it is his proud
boast that he hez votid ten times for
Dimocrisy. His whole sole is in the
coz Nv reform.
Dinnis McGinnis, profession, wet
grocery, is sturdy reforner. He
bleeves the country is goin to room
under Ablishin rooI, and in the inter-
est nv reform pledges every dhrop in
his barls-ef the committy pays for
them. / heerd them talkin in his
bar-room last mite nv the room that
ablishnism hez broot upon the count
ty, with SIGH ferver that | actilly
wept.
One Nv the reformers, O Mr..
Smithers, wuz maxim beautiful
speech, in the interest Nv reform,
shown how difficult it wuz for q
loborin nun to git on, with the taxes
and all he he'd to pay, and the terri
BILE depression the wuz in biznis, and
it would hev dohe COOK, but the eff.
feet wuz spilled by hia wife witch come
in ruther inoppertoonly, and yanked
him out, screamin suthin about his
spending all his time in the grocery,
and wat littly money he earned and
she earned at McGinnises bar, howlin
politix. This taboo rather spoiled
the effect, but thank heaven
Smithers kin vote, and Mrs. Smithers
can't.
There is the entire Court House
ofishls all for Reform to man, and
about seven hundred Dimocrats of
the country, witch expect to be Court
House ofishls, which stand sturdily
beside them. Then there is the hill
people, witch don't take moose papers,
OWN to their inibility to reed, and
witch hev'n been born Dimocrats hev
got in the place Nv religion, and witch
an ablishnist's arguments hev no
more effect upon then paper-wads
wood on a monitor They are yoon-
animous for Tilden and Reform. By
the way It's an awful waste uv
m oney to send printed dokiments to
these people.